Pyramid Activities

 

Pyramids are a testament to the ingenuity of humankind. In fact, the pyramids at Giza are the last standing of the wonders of the ancient world. Egypt has the most pyramids in the world, and they were all built as great tombs for the pharaohs who ruled over the Old and Middle Kingdoms of ancient Egypt. - Ancient History
 

 

The Lego Pyramid activity was on the "to-do" list.

We did it.

They thought it was silly. 

 

Apparently, it was not climatic enough.

So,  we did the "yummy" pyramid activity of sugar cubes and cake icing!

 

 

 

 

 Over 780 small sugar cubes,

one can of white cake icing,

4 out of the 5 Children hyped up from licking their fingers for hours...

We finally called it QUITS!

 

 

Way more fun!

Ancient Clay Activity

 

Cuneiform writing was invented by the ancient Sumerians around 3500 B.C. Hieroglyphic writing was invented by the ancient Egyptians around 3200 B.C.  - Wiki 

  

The Little Ones learned that the Egyptian wrote in Hieroglyphics and from the Sumarians came the Cuneiforns writing.  We did a simple activity with clay where they did little messages while drawing the representation of those writing in clay. This was done in connection to the Ancient people writing on stone, clay and then eventually papryus.

 

 

 

Ancient History: Our Egypt Text

"Why do Mummy's tell no secrets?  Because they keep things under wraps."  Mummy Joke

We are doing Ancient Egypt for several weeks. The Little Lady did Ancient History (with Ancient Egypt) last year. She read through Story of the World Ancient Times. However, we never did any projects, oral narrations, or a "Ancient Times" notebook. So, she gets to go back with us and do them with the Little Man. She enjoys doing projects and making her own book so she is happy about it.

Our "secular" text will be portions of the book "Story of the World" by Susan Wise and the "Veritas Press Cards" (aka: Classical Conversation Cards) that focuses on Ancient Egypt.  These two books along with a book called "The Ancient World" by Christina Miller (which is Chrisitan)  I suppose you can say are my spine to keep me moving through Ancient History. I am blending these two curriculum together because I found this site  http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/sotw1vp.htm  It did all the work for me in regards to telling me when and how to blend these two core books together.  The site HERE also shows several other corresponding curriculum that can be blended with the Story of the World book. (I had both curriculum already. I did not go out and purchase them just for this.)

 

Below are the secular books that I am using as well. They will read certain portions of the books. Most of the information in these books are just repeated in other books but every now and then there is something that is just a little different that is good to show them.  I don't believe they should have to read about other god's and mummies over, over and over again. Once they can narrate back to me those things that are important to know about the civilization and they can speak of the god's by correlating it through a Biblical lens -- we just move on. (By saying we move on, I don't mean that they get it in a mediocrity way, we just don't dwell on it.)

 

These books are our books we are using from a Christian Perspective.

 

The books focus on a wide range of Ancient Egypt History.

Abraham, Joseph, and Moses.

 

"The Navigating Egypt"  dvd is from Western Conservatory. Here

Revealing God's Treasure dvd is from Ron Wyatts archeolgy exploration. Here

We will look at the "Red Sea Exploration" in the dvd of Revealing God's Treasure.

You call also find this section on youtube.

 

 

Because we are talking about the "sun god" and worshiping 'animals"

I am making sure they understand that we do not bow down to idols.

So, we will just have a quick reminder of that with two stories.

Ancient History: Beginning and Flood

 

 

" In the beginning, God created...."  - Genesis

 

 

The Little Man is doing Ancient History and because sister didn't do any projects when she did it last year, she is going to be included in our History.

 

I am using three curriculum actually for Ancient History as my spine curriculum.

1. Story of the World by Susan Wise

2. Veritas Press Cards (aka: Classical Conversation cards)

3. The Story of the Ancient World by Christina Miller

 

 

To begin the kick off of Ancient History.

We focused on the Six Days of Creation and also Noah's flood.

 

We also used the "Creation Museums" DVDs.

Two of which were "Six Days" and the "Flood Geology".

 

 

Due to people always asking how the dinosaurs fit into the Creation Story,

We used the Creation Museum books that described these events.

1. The Great Dinosaur Mystery

2. Dinosaur for Kids.

3. Dragons Deep

4.  Uncovering the mystery of  Wolly Mammoth

5. Life in the Great Ice Age

 

 

"Revealing God's Treasure" was used to reveal where Noah's Ark has been found in Turkey.

We discussed the Noah's Ark National Park in Turkey

 

The sweet fictional story by Jan Brett called "On Noah's Ark". 

And, the "Grand Canyon: A Different View" will be used in connection with Noah's flood.

 

Story of the World Lapbook/Video and Blog

"Any person can make History but it takes a genius to write it." ~ Oscar Wilde
The Little Lady is still doing her Story of the World book and workbook. She always picks the most interesting places to read and listen to the CD-- a pink tent in the living room!

If you look below you will see what we will be doing once she has finishes the book. (We do lapbooks for review not as we go)




Now, if you are a Classical Homeschooler than you know Susan Wise Bauer. She wrote the "Well Trained Mind", "The Well Educated Mind" and the "Story of the World" History books.

This youtube video is of Susan Wise Bauer the Author of the "Story of the World" books. She is showing a lapbook that was sent to her by a Homeschool student that used her book. (Susan Wise Bauer is at www.susanwisebauer.com) To hear the video you will need to turn off the music on my blog at the bottom of the site. Also, if you are interested in looking at the History book you can hear snippets on youtube as well.http://runofthemillfamily.blogspot.com/




The Homeschool Mother and Student who made the book are from this blog.

She has all the info on doing the Story of the World Book 1 in PDF form for free. They are also doing the Story of the World Book 2 as well and you can see that being documented.

I just thought I would share this homeschool secret with you! Feel free to pass the information along. Enjoy!