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Ancient Egypt Resources Page

I have now (finally!) finished putting together the Ancient Egyptian resources page. You can find it at here or under the Project section. I have pulled together all the resources I used when were were looking at Ancient Egypt – including books, games and links.

Book Review – Egyptology

We finished reading Egyptology today. This is a beautifully presented book in the form of the journal of Miss Emily Sands, who sets out to Egypt in 1926 to try to discover the whereabouts of the lost tomb of Osiris. Like a real travel journal, it contains lots of postcards, memorabilia and other surprises (in [...]

Audiobook Review – Anne of Green Gables

We seem to have been in the car a lot lately. Luckily, we have had Anne of Green Gables with us, and she has made it a pleasure. We listened to unabridged versions which I downloaded from Audible (I have listed them below) but there are several versions on itunes or free from Librivox. Anne [...]

English from the Roots Up

In our quest for all things Greek (!) I came across a program by Joegil Lundquist called English from the Roots Up. Her book and word cards teach children Latin and Greek root words as a way of understanding the system by which many English words are composed. A quote from the introduction of the book says “Why do [...]

Lapbooks

We have spent a good part of the last couple of days ‘lapbooking’!! The children wanted to know more about ‘Ancient Greece’ and ‘Ancient Egypt’ after playing Age of Mythology (there is a free trial download here) so we have spent the last few weeks on this topic using various resources. But I wanted to [...]

December Reading

A little early perhaps!! I wanted to give you time to get organised! In December we like to switch our reading to books about christmas. We have some favourites that we pull out, and I usually introduce a new book that I think we will enjoy. The Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg is [...]

Cooking up culture

I wonder if I am preaching to the converted with this post, but one of the things we have been implementing is a monthly(ish!) ‘culture cooking’ session. We choose a different country (or historical period) each session – and then try to cook and eat a meal from that place. This has been a great success [...]

Book Review – By the Great Horn Spoon

By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman was, for us, an absolutely fabulous read – and was the highlight of our mining project. Don’t be put off by the cover of this book. Sid manages to portray the harsh times of the gold rush with gentleness and humour. It is about a boy and [...]

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