Inter-Disciplinary Learning in Grade 5 This term, Grade 5 is going to reap the benefits of inter-disciplinary learning by exploring Egypt and all things Egyptian in English, History, Geography, and Art! Team teaching is great, because it encourages your child to explore connections and think laterally. Children are also encouraged to get in to a state of Flow, where they are so focused on the activity that time and the environment cease to exist.
History
History teaches us about the grandeur of the Egyptian civilisation. It was an age of thinkers and philosophers, a time in which people were far ahead of their Western counterparts, in science, in religion, in social structures and everyday values.
Geography
We trace the journey of the Nile, from its source to its beautiful, fan-shaped Delta, learning about the silt-rich alluvial soil, and how the Egyptians planned their crops in preparation for yearly floods.
Science
We study the constellations as a part of the astronomy that would have been introduced by the Egyptians. We also discuss the impact, big and small, of stars on our lives. When we finish, the list is exhaustive, and we realise how important astronomy must have been to the ancient Egyptians.
English
We code the symbols in the Hieroglyphs to the letters of our English alphabet, and start a small journal in the persona of a Pharaoh, an accountant, a farmer, a mason, a cat… all written in that amazing pictographic form.
Art
We use paper cutters and old pencils to create styluses, to be able to reproduce the Hieroglyphics found all over the tombs and pyramids of the Egyptian civilisation. Some of us make portraits, and others, scenes from the desert and the building of the pyramids. One group is busy designing masks of the Pharaohs.
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