Andy and the Lion unit study

The next couple of weeks we are reading the book Andy and the Lion for our five in a row study.
We are learning about lions and lionesses, Africa, Red Sea, and Egypt.
We will be reading in the bible about the good Samaritan, being helpful , bravery and learn about Moses.

So far they have learned that a group of lions are called a pride
lions are carnivores, they eat meat
there species name is Panthera Leo
lionesses are female
they can point out Africa on the map (and India)

Vocabulary words we learned:
investigate
braced
cautiously
fortunately
thorn

I have some more books coming from the library on lions for reading.

We are learning oz. and lbs. Dawson will be converting them in math.

Monday

We added some vocabulary words today.

monument

Giza

egyptologist

hieroglyphics

tomb

We learned about the pyramids in Egypt today. We went to the library and got some National Geographic videos, Dawson loves to learn through the t.v..

There were some videos online we watched about the Nile River, and there were some on the pyramids. I wanted to try to get them to realize how big they are. We are making a notebook/scrapbook on all the pictures we are finding online.

Wednesday

We learned about the Red Sea today.

Moses and parting the waters,

they wrote short stories on lions ( well Dawson did Dylan drew pictures)

We continued on Egypt and the Pyramids. We found out how the Egyptians preserved bodies. (yuk)

Thursday

Today we worked on maps and had a pyramid craft. We worked on the nifty 3-d pyramid pictured above which came out really good. I took banner paper and taped it to the wall and they wrote hieroglyphics on it. The above picture says "bionicle. "