Kindergarten, History, Week 4

Monday we read pages 25 and 26 (minus the last paragraph) from Child's History, talking about these points:

• Egypt was one of the first places where people began to write
• Their writing was with signs that looked like little pictures
• It is called hieroglyphics
• They pressed stalks of papyrus (I referenced celery so she would understand what a stalk was) until they were thin and flat and pasted them together to make a scroll -- this was their paper

Tuesday we finished page 26 through page 28 in Child's History.

• To help K. understand the Rosetta Stone I took a piece of paper and wrote, "The dog walked down the street." Then I drew a symbol above the words dog, walked, down, and street. We talked about how those symbols meant the words.
• Nile overflowed every year leaving good soil that made the plants grow well.
• Egyptians did not worship one God, but many gods.

Wednesday we looked at pages 10 - 13 in Ancient World.

• It has good pictures of farming and talks about the Nile overflowing.
• It describes how mummies were made. K. was very interested in this.
• It has a page about pyramids.

Thursday we re-read and discussed the chapter from Child's History and looked at some library books.

• The Inside Story: Pyramid by Dana Meachen Rau. This is an 'EB' book and we read it.
• Over 3,000 Years Ago In Ancient Egypt by Philip Sauvain. We just looked at and discussed the pictures relating to what we had already learned.

Friday we talked about the mummy making process again.

We also read Genesis 15 - 18 during Bible time.