Walk Like an Egyptian

                  Colin finally attended his first boy birthday party. Looks pretty fun to me.

                                                 He and Daddy also built a working robot.

This week we studied Egypt from several different books. We approached from a problem-solving perspective and discussed, based on the Nile, black land, and red land, where we would build a house. We decided what kind of house would be best considering the environment and resources. 

 Here's Hannah's house design after we compared our decisions with the historical houses.

 

 We built a pyramid with styrofoam blocks. It seemed easy at first, but Elmers glue was too slipper and after Hannah suggested an entrance I realized I didn't exactly know how to design that! No architects in this family. We later spray painted it gold and put some jewels and a mummy in there. : )

 Occasionally I forget to go back and check their work. This is from a couple of weeks ago in Hannah's scrapbook. She was supposed to write the sequence of events from the book we read. She did quite a lot of work on it and made it pretty detailed.

 

Weird way to hang out and play piano. 

 

 Halloween outfits this year were Harry Potter, Elsa (along with a million others!), good old Darth and Wonderwoman. 

                                                          Hanging out with friends.

                                                       I'll take this handsome Harry Potter : )

 Colin also went to school as a transformer called "Bumble Bee." Unfortunately he didn't wear his mask for the parade- stinker.