Egyptian Day

Blythe has been doing an Egyptian unit at school, and today was the culminating activity--Egyptian Day.  She had to do a project of her choice relating to Egypt thousands of years ago, and she chose to make a pyramid.  We used Rice Krispie Treats as they are easily moldable, cheap, and edible (to a certain degree) when the project is finished. 

Last weekend, we began making the pyramid.  I made Rice Krispies, and Blythe did molding.  It looked good.  The pyramids were whitewashed with limestone originally, and were topped with gold, so we frosted it white last night and had Justine Banks paint on edible gold paint to finish it off.  We ordered Blythe a snazzy Egyptian costume for her to wear, and today she went to school dressed like pharaoh ready to present her creation. 

Kent and I went to see all the projects and were impressed by the creativity of the kids.  They were good to answer questions and engage, and it was fun to see Blythe in her academic milieu.  She is enjoying sixth grade, and we are enjoying hearing about all the things she's learning. 

Funny things about her edible pyramid.  The unfrosted Rice Krispies were sitting out on the counter during the week that Brick, Cora, and Kal were with us.  Brick and Cora kept trying to sneak bits of the pyramid every time they walked past it.  I kept saying, "Stop eating Blythe's homework!"  Eventually we just put it up on top of a bookshelf so it wasn't so noticeably tempting.  When the pyramid came home and Egyptian Day was all finished, Cora came to me and said, "Grantie Kake, can I eat some of Blythe's homework?"  We cut it up and they choked it down.  Week old Rice Krispie is not soft.

Blythe bragged to her classmates about how all of her pyramid was edible, including the gold top, and everyone asked if they could have a bite.  At the end of the day, she broke off the top couple of layers and ate it herself.

Construction

"The gold is eatable."

Cutest Egyptian I've ever seen!

Walk Like an Egyptian

Brandt has been working on an Egyptian unit at school over the past several weeks.  He's learned about their gods, their great constructions, and their history.  The culminating event of the unit was Egyptian day, which was today.  Brandt had to select a project that was due yesterday, and then today,students could come dressed up and parents were able to come to school and see all the projects.  

Brandt chose to make a sphinx, and at Mikayla's suggestion, we made it out of Rice Krispie Treats.  Easy to mold, affordable, and we could eat any mistakes.  It was a perfect building material.  Although I made the RKTs, Brandt did the molding.  We printing off a picture of the Great Sphinx of Giza, and from that, he did his sculpting.  I helped when the building material wasn't sticking together like it should, but Brandt did the bulk of it.  After it had dried and hardened a bit, Brandt did some carving, creating the head and face (less nose), and the body and feet.  I realized that we had done the front legs and feet wrong, so we just pulled them off, and while I made another batch of RKTs, Brandt ate the badly constructed first feet.  As I said, perfect building material.  To make it look a bit more realistic, Brandt frosted it with sand colored frosting, another tasty building material.  

I had ordered Brandt a pharaoh costume, and although he didn't get the tall staff he wanted, he did like the costume and happily wore it to school today.  It was fun to see other student's costumes and projects when we went over, and the kids were well informed.  They answered questions and told us interesting tidbits about each one.  Sixth grade is proving lots of fun!

This is a picture of the sarcophagus cover Brandt and his tablemates made.

Can you guess which section is Brandt's?

I can!