Or maybe this post should be titled “Having too much fun homeschooling.” For our history curriculum we use Susan Wise Bauer’s Story of the World set. This year (the first year) we are studying ancient history. The basic curriculum is this: we listen to a chapter on the audio CD, then, in the workbook do a map page and a coloring page. On another day we read library books about that particular time period or figure in history or folktales from that country. Now, SWB’s workbook also had activities that you can do to reinforce the learning and I don’t usually do those. They tend to be crafty type things and I’m not a crafty type. But this one sounded like fun. The activity book recommended that if you have a small space in your house to recreate opening King Tut’s tomb like Howard Carter and his team. Well, we just happen to have a little cubby under our stairs. And that’s where the fun begins….
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- We discovered the “stone” stair leading to the tomb.
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- With our candle lit we headed in.
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- The “tomb” had hieroglyphics writted on it and was buried with newspaper “rocks” when they found it.
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- Opening the tomb we discovered a meal laid out for King Tut, spices, honey, a silver plate and a statue of the hippo goddess Hathor.
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- There were also a mumified alligator, 3 canopic (winnie the pooh) jars, a statue of the cat goddess Bast and a sarcophagus!
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- Our “mummy” King Tut with a carved “cobra” on his head.
As any good archeologist would do, the kids first had to make an inventory of what they saw and draw pictures. My role was the all-around local lackey who does the grunt work!
Salmagundi from Troy 