Looking Back - Ancient Egypt Part Five: Presentation and Field Trips

I’m doing a series called looking back, documenting learning the children and I did together prior to me blogging. To be honest it’s more for my sake than anyone else’s. Blogging is like having a scrap-book, but takes about a quarter of the time to stay up to date!

For part 1: Book list

Part 2: Mummification

Part 3: Hieroglyphs

Part 4: Egyptian Art

This is my final post on Ancient Egypt.  We did lots more, but I don’t have any fun photos, just lots and lots of notebook pages.  If anyone wants more information on everything else we covered, drop me a line in the comments section.  This post contains all the rest of the photos I took at the time, covering their presentation and the couple of field trips we took.

At the end of each study we do a presentation.  This was by far our most favourite!  In fact everything about Egypt was our most favourite – it was just so much fun!  The dress up are home made from a sheet, some woven material for T’s belt and card cut out for a collar and coloured in.  We also allowed them to wear make up!  (They are never allowed to wear make up-very exciting!!).

All dressed up and raring to go

Just so excited!

T did his presentation on mummification and in particular Tutankhamen

L did her presentation on Hieroglyphs

And C did hers on Egyptian art

We also took a trip to a pottery place to try our hand at forming clay on a wheel:

And a trip to the British Museum:

And that is the end of our Egyptian study.  We revisited Egypt in our studies last summer.  We did our own Egyptian dig; solved an Egyptian mystery; explored the morality of mummies on display in museums; delved much deeper into the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb and read Carter’s biography (Man who discovered Tutankhamen’s tomb)  Click here if you’d like to learn more about what we did!

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