Tuesday

Jordan leads our meetings this week. Today’s greeting was, “Hit the Floor!” and the game was Wink. We had a busy half day of school today with no Physical Education class. Instead we finished watching the video about Egypt. It was a great video. Here are some of the many facts we learned:
Some kids have jobs
Camels can drink 20 gallons of water
Camels can go without eating for a week.
Camels store their fat in their hump.
96% of Egypt is desert
Egyptians read from right to left.
They write from right to left.
Their books are backwards to ours.
Bread is really important and has different names. They eat it at every meal.
They speak Arabic.
Egyptians used to believe in many gods, then there were many Christians, and now most Egyptians are muslim.
Transportation is varied: people use animals and motorized vehicles for transportation.
Some kids save money for hobbies.
The Nile River and the Red Sea are visible from space. That means they are big. The Nile flows north.
Sometimes they wear costumes.
There are restaurants in Egypt.
Egypt used to be a country of farmers.
There are lots of temples.
Pyramids are tombs for gods, kings and queens.
the Sarcofogus it he woden part around a mummy. Sometimes animals are carved in them.
People eat on lower tables.
Soccer is called football and it is a favorite sport.
Some pyramids are over 700 feet tall.
Papyrus was the first paper and it was from Egypt.
Hieroglypics are carved in pyramids.
Pharoahs are buried with valuable items.
Many races live in Egypt. Most people on the video had dark skin and hair.
They draw in the sand to give directions.
After the video we worked on a way to practice our spelling words: Read it, Say it, Spell it, Write it. We did this using grid paper so that in the end we could outline our words. Visualization is an important part of spelling, in addition to learning the sound symbol correlations and patterns.