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Middle School Egypt Study

November 29, 2010 By Jimmie Quick 15 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: history Tagged With: ancient egypt, history, lapbook, living books, middle school, notebooking, unit study

Egyptian Art — Sculpting

November 27, 2010 By Jimmie Quick 14 Comments

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. […]

Filed Under: art, hands-on homeschool, history Tagged With: ancient egypt, art, hands-on, sculpting

Ancient Egypt Hands-on and Printables

October 14, 2010 By Jimmie Quick 9 Comments

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 […]

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