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 […]
Egyptian Art — Sculpting
It seems we keep pulling out our (affiliate link) carving tools lately. First it was potato stamp cartouches, now it’s clay sculptures. I had planned for Sprite to do some drawing in the Egyptian style, but she was more inclined to reproduce a three dimensional object. I’m flexible. Why not? She chose the famous Tutankhamen mask. […]
Ancient Egypt Hands-on and Printables
We are using Beautiful Feet’s ancients as our history base, but we’re making room for tangents too. We’ve got several more weeks left of Ancient Egypt, so I will postpone sharing Sprite’s notebooking pages, her minibooks, and the books we read. But there’s a sneak peek at Heart of the Matter with our hieroglyph potato stamp […]