Egyptian Daily Life.

Courtney has been working all week to teach the family about Daily Life in Ancient Egypt.

She made notes in a little notebook, and is using a favourite book to read many inserts, and tell us about life.

She told us about how the families would allow the children to spend their first years playing, so they will grow up healthy and strong. Then they would start to help their parents work. Kids also did not need to wear clothing, some boys actually went to school naked, and were not required to wear clothing until they were apprentice scribes.


She talked about how the father teaches his son math with real problem. Things like: 2,300,000 blocks of stone will be needed to build a pyramid, each boat brings 100 block of stones, and travels 1000 miles from Awan to Giza and back.

She had hoped that we would spend some time building and making some crafts together, but it was late, so we will have to try that another time.

She did show us some sticks that have hieroglyphics on them, that were part of a game that she made. She make the entire board, and the pieces, and sticks that are needed to play. We will make a point to play it with her tomorrow!

Then she showed us a music instrument that a young girl would learn to play if she was planing on becoming a Priestess in the temples.

It was a great glimpse as to everyday life.

It was a great presentation Courtney! Keep up all the learning and teaching!