Pyramid Building

Chapter 4 of Story of the World vol. 1 Ancient Times, The Old Kingdom of Egypt, contains some of the most recognizable and most fun subjects for our study of ancient Egypt.  Here we introduced pyramids, the Sphinx, and mummies.  Our mummy projects are waiting for a few weeks to keep up from trying to do too much at once, so this week we concentrated on building pyramids.

We watched a documentary focusing on how the pyramids were developed over time.  Hulk and Athena were really fascinated and got pretty fixated on the Red Pyramid for a week or so.

Along with some fun mazes, info pages, and coloring sheets,  I printed out a page from education.com to build a small paper model of the Great Pyramid. The kiddoes had a lot of fun with that one.  I printed them out on cardstock so they would be a little sturdier.  Then the kids cut them out, folded them up, and glued them together (with a little help).

 

We got a lot of goofy photos of the kiddoes fooling around with their paper pyramids.  Since they don't have a bottom, they were easy to balance anywhere.

Then it was time for Goblin's favorite part of the lesson: legos!  At first they all wanted to work on one big pyramid together, but that quickly turned into an argument, so I split them all up.

Athena and Goblin both picked small bases and started working on smaller versions for their pyramids, but Hulk still wanted to work on the BIG base.  He didn't end up finishing his model, but he had a very good time working on it.

And since we were already into funny photo mode for the day, we continued taking goofy pictures with our lego creations in progress as well.

Goblin kept working on his for a long time after the rest of us had finished, so I never got a picture of his finished product (he soon after made it into a flying boat; he gets the coolest ideas).

Legos are definitely one of our homeschooling must-haves.  Whenever we use them, they really bring the subject to life for the kiddoes. 

--Little Miss Crazy