Egyptian studies - what an Adventure!

We have been studying about Egypt for the last two weeks and it has been such fun. The highlight of our week came just after studying about scribes and their use of papyrus. We took a little walk down to the pond and looked at reeds growing on the banks. Then, we looked at photos of a family making paper out of papyrus. We finished by making our own paper from torn strips of newspaper that we boiled and then mushed up in a processor, pouring the gray globby mess into screens and patting them into thin rectangle sheets that we set out in the sun to dry. It was a lot of work, but the kids were very proud of their finished product. The next day they practiced drawing Egyptian hieroglyphs and were rewarded by a chance to add their own markings onto their handmade paper.

Grayson chose to draw a scene on his paper. It is a falucca traveling passed Papyrus reeds on the Nile. LilliAnn used hieroglyphs to describe herself and it says, "music, draw, spirit"