Egyptian Art

Student pendants from Cave Art unit.

My sweet daughter in the cave we built for our Cave Art unit. She very graciously donated many of her toys for our good cause 🙂

One of the fifth graders wrote this on the whiteboard in the back. I love the hashtags at the bottom 🙂

The sarcophagus and display I made for this unit 🙂

This week starts our second week of Egyptian Art. I do have a few classes this week catching up on their cave art pendants, if they didn’t get to come to class because of our teacher’s workday two weeks ago, etc.

Last week the printmaking went pretty well. It was quite entertaining with some of the younger classes, but I think everyone had a lot of fun with it. I also made more “printing plates” over the weekend to use with this weeks’ classes. The B week classes always get better lessons, I’m sorry to say. And that is only because I’ve already gone through a week of teaching it and know a little bit better about what works and what doesn’t. Hopefully.

We watched a few short videos to go along with our Egyptian art, including a few seconds, well more like the first verse and chorus of The Bangles’ “Walk Like an Egyptian” – the educational version that showed Egyptian culture. We also watched “Walk, Walk Like an Egyptian” on Flocabulary, which had Osiris rapping about hieroglyphics, pyramids and such. A few classes watched a short film off of Tropic Minds (a younger children’s educational website) about Ancient Egyptian culture and mummification. A lot of interesting discussions amongst the students occurred, especially in the older classes, afterwards.

This week the B week classes will continue on in this format, and then next week (well actually, the week after Thanksgiving) A week classes will start a new project. I haven’t decided yet if we will stick with Egyptian art or go ahead and move on to a new country.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving break. 🙂

A few of the students’ prints from last week. More to come… 🙂