Bringing it all together
Wendy and Sara’s group wrapped up our Theme exploration of ancient Egypt recently with an event to bring together many facets of our learning about this time and place. We chose some projects to celebrate aspects of this civilization that captured the children’s imagination, and invited our friends from the 5/6 groups to visit. They had the chance to share in typical foods, watch some skits about inventions and discoveries of the time, to sample our versions of such Egyptian discoveries as beeswax perfume and mineral inks, and play games our kids invented using inventions on a timeline and the dimensions of step pyramids. Here are a few images of a day which all the kids enjoyed:
Making beeswax perfume
Ancient Egyptian foods – honey cakes, dates, lentils, and more
Timeline game – can you put these discoveries in order from 4000 BCE to 300 BCE?
Pyramid game
Performing skits – How might that have been invented?