Three Little Jewells

Can you guess???

Can you guess what we’ve been studying for the last two weeks?

We’ve read piles and piles of books on Egypt- the above stack isn’t even all of them.   The kids have learned about life in Ancient Egypt, papyrus and hieroglyphics, the mummification process, the location of Egypt on the globe, where the Nile River is located in Egypt, who lived along the Nile (farmers), types of animals in the Nile, travel in Ancient Egypt,  how pyramids were built and what they were used for, we’ve looked at some pictures of Egyptian art and read about life in the desert.

As we’ve been studying Egypt, we’ve read the entire book of Exodus from the Bible outlining Moses’ difficulties with the Pharaoh and the subsequent journey out of Egypt.

We’ve mummified a potato.

We placed the potato mummy in a container and covered it with a mixture of salt and baking soda.  We changed the mixture every three days or so for two weeks.

After just three days, the mummy had turned black and shrunk up quite a bit.  Also, it smelled bad!   Every time we changed the salt & baking soda mixture, I recorded the kids observations about the mummy.

After two weeks the mummy is ready to be wrapped up.

 

We made salt dough maps of Egypt.

Mixing up the salt dough.

Using a printed outline map of Egypt, the kids formed the salt dough into the approximate shape of Egypt.  After they dried, they painted the Nile River, then the green farming land alongside the Nile and then the desert was painted Red.   The Ancient Egyptians called the desert “the Red Land”.

Sample copy that Kip & I did so that the kids would have an idea of what to do.

Nathan’s map of Egypt.

Mary’s map of Egypt.