Fantastic Find for Egypt
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 7:36AM 
The Thursday link up theme at The Homeschool Village in February is "Fantastic Finds". Yesterday when we got home from a big trip to Sam's (not my favorite thing to do, but it had to be done!), the kids sat down at the dining room table and worked on a puzzle we had gotten last week at a local bookstore.
When my daughter picked out the puzzle I let her get it because both she and my son were so excited about seeing everything they were learning about in The Story of The World in the puzzle. It was just a hands-on review in a little tin - I loved it! While they worked on the puzzle I could hear them talking about Osiris, King Tut, Hierogylphics, Sarcaphagus (my little guy loves that word!) etc... and I took the opportunity to pepper them with questions as well.
If you're learning about Ancient Egypt I would really recommend this little puzzle - 100 pieces, so it's very achievable for the younger set. I think we'll put some puzzle glue on it and frame it for our school room, to remind us of our journey to Egypt!
* I did a search and found the puzzle on Amazon and several other sites -- Amazon is the cheapest. It was, however, a fantastic little find in a local shop - which is why I love it so much!
Hop over to the Homeschool Village today and see what other fantastic finds homeschoolers are talking about! 
Reader Comments (10)
My daughter loved studying Egypt last year! I took her to a local museum with a great Egyptian collection and she was in heaven. I offered to take to her to NYC to the Met but she told me our museum was "all the coolness" she needed! Looks like a great puzzle! Great find!!
Fantastic! We're studying ancient Egypt now and I never thought about incorporating a puzzle, great idea. Thanks for linking up at the HSV.
Don't you just love it when you realize you found something that just perfectly fits what you're doing in school!! I love that! Looks like a fun puzzle. We'll be doing ancient Egypt in our co-op next year...I'll have to file this one away for future reference! Thanks!
I'm linked http://joysandrewards.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/fantastic-finds-helping-kids-with-math-and-science/" rel="nofollow">HERE.
Have a GREAT day!
Wow, studying ancient Egypt right now with everything that is going on in the news.
Thanks for sharing your find. Dropping in from HSV.
My seven-year-old has just recently discovered the joys of jigsaw puzzles, and my five-year-old is working on them (simpler ones) too! This is a great find, especially since it fits in with your current studies!
Thanks for sharing!
~Jennifer
We love puzzles around here. That one would definitely be a hit!
What a great find! We use Story of the World, too and my girls LOVED studying Egypt. History is one of our favorite subjects!
I LOVE unit studies! And Egypt is always fun to study. That puzzle would be a perfect addition. Thanks for sharing your great find!
Deb @ LivingMontessoriNow.com
that is great! we found a 100 piece puzzle of the US with capitols at the dollar store and we have used it alot already! your puzzle looks like a fantastic find as well!
Neat puzzle! And I LOVE bargain finds - most of my homeschooling stuff has been found that way. Now if I just had a good way to store it all... :)