Co-op in Review: August 14, 2014

This was the second of our three weeks of studying ancient Egypt at co-op.  This week, we focused our studies on mummies and pyramids!  The kids loved (or were grossed out by) learning about the process of mummification and they were fascinated to learn how and why pyramids were built.  The Dialectic kids finished their Egyptian mummy burial masks--and they look awesome!  The Upper Grammar class painted sarcophaguses--which are the boxes that entomb mummies!  The Lower Grammar class decorated and constructed pyramids.  And, the Five in a Row class read the book, "The Rag Coat."  It's the story of a little girl whose mother makes her a coat of rags--and she learns to  be proud of the stories that her coat can tell.  The kids then made their first initial letter--decorated with little scraps of rags!