We covered Ancient Egypt way back in first grade, and now we’re revisiting it in sixth grade, using Beautiful Feet ancients as our base.
THE BOOKS
Non-fiction
- Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (Landmark Books)
- Pyramid by David Macaulay
- Ancient Egyptian Art (Art in History)
Activity/Notebooking/Lapbooking
- Remembering God’s Awesome Acts I love this book so much that I’ve already purchased the sequel. It’s in the mail.
- History Pockets: Ancient Egypt: Grades 4-6+
Fiction
Books that Bombed
Mummy (Eyewitness Books) (DK Eyewitness Books) This one gets very gruesome towards the end. Sprite didn’t like the pictures. So I put this back on the shelf.
Tales of Ancient Egypt Sprite and I both disliked this book. We read a chapter or two before I decided we had more meaningful books to read. Yuck.
Books Postponed
Mara, Daughter of the Nile This one is sure to be great. The author is one of our favorites. But since I want to wrap up this time period, I’m putting this novel on the shelf of reserve books.
THE PROJECTS
Potato Stamp Heiroglyph Cartouches
PUTTING IT TOGETHER
Sprite put all of the notebooking pages and minibooks created during this study into a bound book made from manila envelopes. She also used the Ancient Egypt pages from our art calendar to spruce up her project pages.
She spread everything out and organized it for her finished project which is a lapbooking-notebooking hybrid.
This is the first inside spread.
The best part about the bound book made from manila envelopes is that you can put notebooking pages into the pockets.
The second inside spread.
Third inside spread. We used three manila envelopes for the base.
Fourth inside spread.
This is Sprite’s monthly writing assignment. She wrote an essay on significant animals in ancient Egyptian culture.
You can see the envelope flap to the right (photo above). Inside that pocket are more notebooking pages (shown below).
Next stop is ancient Greece.
Wowww! What a great job she did! Amazing!
I just want to see what you do for Ancient Greece, we will learn about in a few months. You are always so inspiring, thanks!
That’s awesome! Thanks for all the wonderful photos!
Great post! Awesome visuals and I love that you share ancillary thoughts like the Mara book being by a favorite author. That prompted me to check out who wrote it. My daughter has read The Golden Goblet by her, but none of the others, so I’m adding her to our list of potentials for our next author study!
Neat! We didn’t like those books(Books that Bombed) either. The super secular ones fall flat with us – they lack depth. The Bethlehem books are something we plan to read soon. Thanks for this post! I am bookmarking it.
Awesome study!! I love the bound book using the envelops. So cool and much sturdier than using the construction paper pockets.
I love the scrapbook feel to your lapbook this time. Love all the art included and her journaling is getting so sophisticated.
Lovely.
Great job Sprite! Your lapbook looks cool with the envelopes they make it looks truely ancient! Can’t wait to see ancient greece. We tried adding notebook pages to our botany lapbooks this year and so far I love the mix…. we may use your ideas for our ancient egypt study next year!
Jimmie how did you sew the pockets together?
They are not sewn, Sarah. Click on the link to the tutorial for how to make the bound book with manila envelopes. There are step by step photos there.
What a wonderful array of art work, notes, pictures and minibooks – Sprite had a rich study! This manilla bound book works really well for your study – it is really functional and has an antique feel to it too! Well done.
Great job! How much time do you spend doing such a lapbook? Do you do other subjects in the meanwhile?
This study was several weeks, Eszter — over 8 weeks long. And, yes, we do all the other subjects in the meantime.
How awesome and “artsy”! I love the creativity you guys use to display the information!
Cool lapbook! Definately go back to Mara soon! We just finished a similar study. My girls loved the Golden Goblet, but Mara was by far their favorite of the the two.
Very creative artwork..there are many great history
about Egypt.. i will try this to my kids.
What size envelopes did you use to fit the notebook papers inside? I have access to 10×13, but I’m wondering if it would need to be the 12×15 size. The link that tells how to make them didn’t specify size. It only said very large manilla envelopes!