History Fun--Walk Like an Egyptian

 We are now in the Dispensation of Abraham....and that mean we're learning all about Egypt!

We spent time learning about the beginnings of Egypt, and guess what we learned that it's all in the Book of Abraham of the Pearl of Great Price.

We learned about their writings and created some ink using poke berries and wrote our names using their hieroglyphics. 

We learned about the Nile River and it's life giving properties to this desert land....We built our own Nile River and then "flooded" it to see if the grass seed would grow.  It did!

flooding the river....

this river is quite damp....that was one really big flood!

IT GREW!!!

And this one is growing too.....

 We spent time to discuss Joesph and his time in Egypt,  how he was placed where he was to bless his family during the 7 year drought.

 We learned about their clothing, furnishings, art and architecture  culture too.  Here they are making a necklace...to walk and dress like an Egyptian.

 Our timeline.....from the Creation and Fall in the Garden to the Egyptians

 We learned that the Egyptians were educated and gained great knowledge.  We  know this through their writings, buildings (Pharos Lighthouse, and the Pyramids) and the scriptures.  We know that they were well versed with astronomy, mathematics, engineering.  They had libraries and were known for the excellent schools (Acts 7:22)

At the end of our unit study of Egypt we took a trip to Roanoke's Science Museum to look an exhibit on Tutankhamen--King Tut, from the last era of ancient Egyptian history.  Plus,  we had a dinner featuring all sorts of yummy Egyptian food and personal projects presented by each of the kids.  Liam loved learning about Pharos Lighthouse and Delaney shared with us the heritage of knowledge that Egypt had.

A Walk Along Pandapas Pond

The autumn foliage is beautiful so we took the day off from the regular scene of school work and headed off to Pandapas Pond in Blackburg for a glorious day of walking and observing nature in it finest!

Who can resist taking off their shoes and walking in the water!

Literature Fun-- Little House in the Big Woods

 While using our Latter-Day Learning curriculum, we have spent a two week period reading and discussing Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  Through this wonderful story we have discussed how Laura learned--thus we learn too--how to:
---How to create strong families
---Work and wholesome recreational activities
---Importance of celebrations and traditions
---Cooperation
---A wonderful Bad Day....it's all up to us, we choose how to look at the day's events!
---Obedience
---Life Skills
---and of course, we covered various Literary Elements!

 

 To end our literature unit we had a celebration!  We made vinegar pie (and just to make sure we would have something to eat that we actually liked, we made a lemon pie too).
We also made farmers cheese, which turned out to be quite delicious!!  We served that with warm homemade bread.  To bring light to our table we made tin can lanterns using empty soup cans. We invited the Walkers over to share in our celebration!  Yea for a wonderful couple of weeks.  Our next literature fun will be with Bambi.