CTG Weeks 9-10

We have finished weeks 9-10.  Once again, our highlights are shown below.

While learning about Egyptian Homes the kids completed a couple more projects from our Ancient Egypt History Pockets project book.  We have really enjoyed the activities in this book.

The kids made Ancient Egyptian toys out of Crayola Model Magic.  Beau made a ball, hippo and a ring.  Roo made a spotted dog, white cat, alligator and also a ring.  The rings were their 'signet rings' which they learned about in a previous lesson.

While learning about Ancient Egyptian clothing they completed another project from our History Pocket book which was male and female paper dolls.

11/11/11 - I am editing to add that these dolls are not Negroes.  My kids are only 7 and 10 and they don't have flesh colored markers.  They were giving their paper dolls a tan!  (I received a very negative comment on this.  I doubt the comment would have been negative if they would have been left 'paper white', if there would have been a comment at all.)  Also, in the other project a couple of frames up, one child chose to use markers and the other one chose to use colored pencils.  The colored pencils have a flesh color and a brown, the markers don't.  Again, the closest available colors were used.   I apologize if this was offensive to anyone.  That was not my intent.

 

We had an Ancient Egyptian feast of dried fruits, nuts, pita bread, etc.  We ate on our finest China and at our dining room table which was a treat for everyone.  I forgot to put out the cheese and I purchased blueberry yogurt instead of plain.  <blush>  The meal was still fun and, well, different.

We also watched a few movies.  We watched the Nest Entertainment DVDs Joseph in Egypt and Joseph's Reunion and we also watched Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors

 

 

We have completed our second lesson in Zoology 3.  The kids are loving it.  As a matter of fact, they have been 'wolves' ever since and they insisted we request Alpha and Omega from Netflix again.  Not one of my favorite movies but believe it or not a lot of it was actually pretty accurate as far as wolves go.

As you can see we made an actual lapbook this time instead of just a page.  I made and printed the cover myself because the kids didn't like the cover that actually comes with the lapbook program.  It is a coloring page and they thought it would look nicer if I made one with a 'real' picture.

A few years ago I purchased the Itty Bitty Kiddy Wildlife series for cheap.  Three of the DVDs in the series go well with our studies.  We watched The Puppy Dogs to finish up our lesson 2 study.

In this lesson we learned that a dog has a highly sensitive sense of smell but since it would be difficult to do an experiment with dogs, this lesson's experiment was to find out if humans are more influenced by their sense of smell or sight.

I prepared the experiment for the kids and their dad to try.  Both Jell-o's were from the same box of lemon gelatin.  The red just had food coloring added.  They were all sure that the red Jell-o was cherry flavored.  Their dad even thought the yellow was pineapple.   They were all  amazed at the results.

We finally got some results from our week 5 experiment from our Pyramids and mummies, Preservation project.  We covered one slice of bread with an antibacterial ointment, one slice we toasted (dried out) and one slice we left untouched.  The process was to show how mummification helps preserve a body.  It took about 5 weeks before our plain slice of bread started to decay but after the cat apparently stepped all over it and the project was rained on because I put it outside under the kitchen window so I wouldn't forget about it, we still got results and the experiment was a success.  GROSS!! 

Day 1

5 weeks later