We constructed our own pyramids out of sugar cubes as part of our History curriculum this year. We are working on the Ancient world this semester and currently focusing on Egypt. We also tried to make a model of Egypt itself. Making the water was tricky, but we used plaster of paris. We put one of the pyramids in upper Egypt. It wasn't long before the ants discovered the pyramids. Hunter was really excited to have ants as an addition to our model. He said, "Those are the people!"
We came out one morning and the pyramid was completely gone. At first I assumed that Michael threw it away, but when questioned about it he didn't know anything about it. I'm guessing some small animal discovered the yummy treat and made off with it before someone else did. For science we are working on Astronomy. The boys write down some facts in their notebooks, draw a picture and then we'll have a hands on project. Hunter usually gets done before Ethan so he started working on his salt dough model of Mercury complete with lots and lots of craters (due to the extremely thin atmosphere).
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