Sugar Cube Pyramids

To continue our Story of the World exploration, our friends and us split up to do the reading individually, but then got the girls together to extend our pyramid understanding by making our own sugar cube pyramids.
We first discussed how the Egyptian used the stars to map out where the pyramids would sit, and laid out our own grids. The girls then layered their sugar cubes using glue (while I madly manned the glue gun after realizing that the layers were in need of extra support).
When we finally reached the top, the girls announced their pyramids, and brushed cocoa powder over then to give them some enhanced colour. Then out came the gold glitter to finish off the capstone. Names like the Great Pyramid, the pyramid of Giza, and King Tut's tomb were thrown around.

The girls then worked together to answer some fill in the blank questions on sheets (pics to come) for their history binders, and we left room for some pictures of their own completed pyramids.
Tomorrow they are off to try their hand at time lines... all to be cumulated in an Egypt Day at a friends house who's family is also following the story of the world timeline.

Great things to come including making papyrus, mummifying teddy bears, making paper beads, trying their hand at hieroglyphs, and role playing with Egyptian masks.

It really is such an interesting time period with so many great books and fun activities to try... I think we will be exploring it for a while!

(Not to mention that Egypt will be our country for our home school groups annual around the world expo.)