Ancient Egypt

I had a plan. An educational plan. My first one ever, as it happened. We were going to finish our Geology lap book and move on to Fossils. I even made a load of salt dough fossils with the children in anticipation. After we had done that, we were going to look at Dinosaurs. I am set with books and materials and then one of the kids said, 'I can't wait until we have finished this because then we are doing Ancient Egypt, aren't we, mummy?' Ummmm, yes? I always said they could pick their topics and we would follow their interests but it hadn't occurred to me to do it in their order. I just assumed I could wander through the playground of their interests in the most logical way. It would seem I was mistaken. I ended Geology with the continents and made the link between continents and Africa and Egypt. Oh, yeah, I rock. So, we are starting Ancient Egypt. We have A3 card to make pyramid shaped lap books. We have read a couple of introductory books, I will add a book list. We watched a few bits on You tube and we did a wonderful brainstorming session. I love these. I am constantly surprised by how much my children know and how many wonderful questions they have. I started by attaching a metre-ish long sheet of wallpaper on to the wall with blu-tac and getting out the new highlighters. I do enjoy standing in front of the children with a marker. I always feel like the CEO of a major company. Sad but true. Probably should have never shared that. Anyhoo, my first question was what have do we know about the Ancient Egyptians? and my second was what would we like to know? You can see from the pictures that my kids are amazing and my handwriting is appalling. My son, unsurprisingly, came up with the weapons questions, near the end of the session. I was really pleased because wars were a part of Egyptian history and it might have got left off otherwise.