Reed Boats & Pyramids

Continuing with our Ancient Egyptian studies we used one of our borrowed library books (Explore Ancient Egypt!) to build reed boats. (Instructions here)

We tested them and they float! The kids have had lots of fun putting lego people and other small toys in it for a boat ride.

 We also built a lego pyramid! Well, we tried to anyway.

Cait worked on G-H-I letters this week at her PreK class. They used action words to act out these letters.

 I caught these two playing away together!

Here is what has been happening here:

Jayden built a firehouse with his legos.

Jayden swims under water now and Cait learned a new swimming technique

Library computer time

Library puzzle time

We are moving along in our history book and are now learning about Ancient Egypt. I decided to pause from our history book Story of the World because we all love Egypt and I thought we could take this chapter in our book further.

We borrowed these three books about Ancient Egypt from the library. We read Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Ancient Egypt which was a really cute and appropriately informative book.

 
 We decided to make sarcophagus' sarcophagi so we took a trip to AC Moore for supplies.

 The kids painted the coffins gold because as we learned, Egyptians loved that color.

 While we waited for them to dry the kids worked on math and reading.

 Best part: Cait read her Bob Books First book 1 all by herself!!! And no it was not from memory, because I never read the book to her! ;)

Cait is still determined to learn how to read so I found some worksheets from Walking by the Way to go with the first book in the Bob Books First! series. She had to circle all of the pictures that started with the letter on top of the page. She did worksheets for A, M, S, & T.

 

 She also did a word search for words in the first book.

I made her an "at" book. I stapled B, C, F, H, M, R, & S on the pink pages. As she flips the pages a new "at" word is made.

I found some more worksheets for the BOB books at In Lieu of Preschool. I printed out some letters to build words. Cait built mat and sat. 

Jayden is still working on his matter unit in science. Today he finished up an article and worksheet from Super Teacher Worksheets and then made a mini lapbook.

   

 

The blue circles represent atoms