Ancient Egypt - Social Studies

Our class has been learning about Ancient Egypt.

A Sarcophagus Made for a King:  Project

For this project, your child is asked to make and decorate a sarcophagus (coffin) for an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh.  This is an example of what a sarcophagus would have looked like:

Your child will not only make and decorate their sarcophagus, but they will also need to choose ONE Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh to research.

They will find facts and choose 5 to rewrite using their own words in a paragraph format.

Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs:

Check out these websites for ideas:

http://www.discoveringegypt.com/Egyptian-Kings-and-Queens-list-of-Dynasties.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharaohs

http://www.touregypt.net/kings.htm

This project will be due back to school on 

Thursday, May 8th

Your child will be presenting it to the class.  I will be grading this assignment on accuracy, creativity, and presentation.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Cereal Box Book Reports Due 4/30

I touched base with the class about the progress they are making with their 

chapter books today.

I asked the students to provide me with one of the following:

1.  Page number they are on in their chapter book

2.  Chapter they are on in their chapter book

3.  Whether or not they are done reading their chapter book

4.  Whether or not they have started their chapter book

Most of the students seem to be on target for completing their Chapter Book by the end of the week. Please touch base with your child about where they are in their reading so you can help them complete their reading by the end of the week.

If your child is not on target please start immediately.

I explained to the class that is should be the last week of reading and next week should be creating and completing the Cereal Box.

Due 4/30

Drivers Needed for Field Trip to Thanksgiving Point

Parents we need drivers for our field trip to the Farm at

Thanksgiving Point 

on

Tuesday, April 15th

at

9:00 a.m.

If you are able to chaperone and drive please contact me at

dawn.mcniel@archesacademy.com

Thank you for all of your support!

Cereal Box Book Report Update

Chapter Book Reading should have begun on April 1st to complete the book report by April 30th.

In Writers Workshop yesterday I "checked in" with my students about what Chapter Book they chose for this project.

Here is a list of students and the title of their books:

1.  Mia - Cinderella Stays Late

2.  Ivan - Magic Treehouse Dinosaurs Before Dark

3.  Ceilidh - Fly Guy - Title ?

4.  Soli - Anna Green Gables

5.  Fynn - Oragami Yoda

6.  Jason - Magic Treehouse Pirates Past Noon

7.  Joey - Fly Guy - Title ?

8.  Aeden - Geronimo Stilton #4

9. Perrin - Cam Jansen Mystery of the Missing Dinosaur Bones

10.  Hannah - Magic Treehouse Mummies in the Morning

11.  Luke - ?

12. Natalie - ?

13. Zion - ?

14. Israel - ?

If there is a question mark next to your child's name please email me with the title of the book your child chose.

Your child should have started reading this Chapter Book on April 1st.

I explained to the class that the Chapter Book should be completed by the third week of April so the Cereal Box Book Report could be created in the 4th week of April.

Please help your child be successful with this independent project.  If your child has not started his/her Chapter Book please begin today.  There are only 2 week and 2 days left to read an entire Chapter Book at this point.

Happy Reading over Spring Break!