Using Module 1 for History with DS!

See if you can find a book called “Once Upon A Time In Egypt” by Francis Kent Gere at your library.  It is out of print but a solid fun read about life in Ancient Egypt for 3 boys who are friends.  My kids loved it.

Have you seen the links and tips page for Mod. 1?

http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/genesis-deuteronomy-ancient-egypt/links-tips/

Visit: http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html  (from the Links and Tips Page)

There are kits that you can buy that have fun things to do from Heart and Hands.  Here is the link:

http://handsandhearts.com/handsandheartsancientegyptdiscoverykit.aspx

Something else I just found this morning and so haven’t had time to check out, but looks really cool is this:

http://shop.discoveringegypt.com/discoveringancientegypt.html  There are several different things to buy on the menu – check those out.

A heirogliphic typewriter:

http://www.eyelid.co.uk/hieroglyphic-typewriter.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FHUFI+%28Higher+Up+and+Further+In%29 

Google coloring pages…there are tons!  Check the Dover Coloring Books on Amazon for some – here is one:

http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Egypt-Coloring-Dover-History/dp/0486261301

Make a pyramid out of Legos or sugar cubes.

Use play dough to create characters and act out stories from the day.

Write a simple play with stick puppets that your son could perform for Dad or Grandparents.

Use flannel board characters to bring the Bible stories some visuals and let him re-tell the story.  Here’s an idea for some:  http://www.littlefolkvisuals.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=1&Itemid=84

Add some more fun books, too. There’s a Magic School Bus Ancient Egypt book, and my kids enjoy the Usborne Time Traveler’s section on Ancient Egypt as well.

I am having the same problem: SCM History module 1 with 7 yr old and 2 yr old. I am also learning along with them and we use the KJV of the Bible. Some of it is hard for me to understand.

I bought The Child’s Story Bible by Vos and use that for some of our readings. We really enjoy it.

I also found this great video, Unlocking the Great Pyramid, linked from one of the discussions: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/unlocking-the-great-pyramid/.

We do our map drill twice a week and after my daughter writes her countries on the map I let her pick a color to color each one in. I also print a map for my two year old and outline Egypt and another country and let her color those.

I stopped reading Letters From Egypt and we will use that next time we cycle through history. I am going to use some of the optional additional books on the links and updates page. We also do some related readings out of A Child’s History of the World and Bauer’s Story of the World.

I am doing module 1 with a 7 and 4 year old. We have used the OT days book that I saw mentioned on a different post. We had a family day where we made Bible clothes, we pretended to be nomads moving our things from place to place and ate lentil stew. it was really fun. I am hoping to make bricks. Check out the blog creekside learning. there are some great egypt projects that actually come from SOTW, but they are about Egypt. We made the nile river model from there and we plan to mummify a barbie later this year. We are reaidng a bunch of picture type books about egypt from the library. we also made the salt dough map of egypt, and got a puzzle of africa to work for geography. we’ve really enjoyed it all so far.

andream, where did you get the puzzle?

i ordered a geopuzzle from amazon. We also ordered the 10 days in africa game. haven’t played it yet though. hoping it won’t be too difficult for our 7 year old. the reveiws on it looked good.