Ancient Egypt Homeschool Unit

 We just wrapped up about a month spent on Ancient Egypt. We definitely didn't go too deep or intense, because he's still early elementary, but I think he really enjoyed the unit! Here's what we did.

Books:

As always, we read tons of books! Most books I just let him read, but I did have a few notes/graphic organizers for him. Since he is 6 and hates writing, I often wrote his answers.

Top 10 Worst Things About Ancient Egypt You Wouldn't Want to Know!

Pharaohs and Pyramids

You Wouldn't Want to Be a Pyramid Builder!

You Wouldn't Want to Be Cursed by King Tut!

You Wouldn't Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy!

The Mystery of the Golden Crocodile: An Egyptian Maze Adventure

Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Ancient Egypt

See Inside Ancient Egypt

Ten Little Mummies

Look Inside Mummies and Pyramids

Minibooks from Royal Baloo

Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx

Smithsonian History

When on Earth Atlas

Reading Questions

For read aloud, we read Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective. Archer enjoyed it so much he asked me to order the next one in the series.

Activities

We played a few games of Hâpy Families, a card game based on some of the Egyptican gods.

While he doesn't actually play the whole game (probably in a couple of years), he does love to run the dice and camels for Camel Up!

I found this neat hieroglyphs stamp set and he practiced writing with them.

For his solo logic game one week he played Temple Trap

I found a Live Worksheet on hieroglyphs, a search and find and a worksheet about the Nile from education.com. We also watched some YouTube videos, but nothing remarkable.