Last week our whole family took a trip to Chicago and I just haven't been able to find the time to blog. So I thought I would try to do a few summary posts highlighting a few activities we have done the past 3 weeks.
History:
Before we left for Chicago we had a history review day! The kids colored pictures from our history book and glued them onto note-cards with key words and phrases to use as a review of what we have learned so far this year.
For the review game the kids made ladders on the whiteboard and used their little magnets they got when they played baseball this summer. They call them "little Matthew" and "little Kaitlyn". I would ask a question and if they got it right they moved their piece 1 rung up the ladder. As you can see Kaitlyn won. She placed a trophy on herself in the middle of the board. Although this game is fun and my kids are highly motivated by competition I am not completely satisfied with it. It hardly seems fair to put a 3rd grader against a 1st grader. If she didn't know more than him I would be worried. ---I guess this game will be a work in progress.
We also finished painting our canopic jars!
Here is the finished product. Kaitlyn and Matthew's are the brown ones and are supposed to baboons. Samantha's are on the bottom.
The last thing we did before Chicago was to begin the process of mummifying a chicken. This was the only picture I was able to get because after that my hands were covered in chicken!
His name is King Cluck and he is now chillin out in our freezer. We will take him out periodically to see how he is doing. Although my kids were very grossed out at the idea of cleaning a dead chicken(well except Samantha) I am very glad we did this project.
If I had to teach Egypt all over again but was only allowed 1 project I would choose to mummify the chicken. You don't forget an experience like that. I hope that this is one memory they will keep with them their whole lives!
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