Monthly Archives: June 2009

Today we learned about Egyptian inventions. You know you can’t talk about Egypt and not have a discussion on mummies. My kids especially like to hear how they got the brain out. Mummies usually lead us to the pyramids. We made paper pyramids and then built a human pyramids!

This week we are learning about inventions for our stay-at-home summer school. Today we talked about Roman inventions. Did you know the Romans invented glass blowing, sewers, drains and socks? It was new to me! Since the Romans built so many amazing buildings, we spent some time building with Ello. Pretty fun!

To finish off China week, we read a story about the Chinese Zodiac. Do you know why the rat is the symbol of the first Chinese year? We looked at a picture of a Chinese statue called the “Flying Horse”. We also learned a little about how Buddha came to be, what he taught, and how his teachings were spread. Finally we tried our hand at origami. It was fun, but I am not precise enough to do it well. I think I’ll stick to scrapbooking!