Thursday, September 15, 2011

Behold....The Nile River!

We are studying Ancient History...Ancient Egypt specifically.  The Nile was so important to those ancient peoples.  So what better way to learn that to build our own mighty Nile River.


Creating the river bed

Planting grass seed

Construction crew

Filling the river

After the banks have overflowed

The idea is that early farmers depended on the river to flood each year to water their crops and deposit fertile soil on the banks.  So, every few days we will "flood" our Nile to water the grass seeds.  Soon we should have lush, green grass.  Next week....we begin pyramid construction!

I am grateful for fun learning projects.

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