5th graders got a stamp on the Australia map of their passports today. In Top to Bottom Down Under, we learned about crazy looking animals like the platypus and echidna, how you lose a day when traveling there because you cross the international date line, and how the seasons are the opposite of ours since Australia is on the other side of the world. We even learned some Australian slang, such as "Holy Dooley!" (good grief) and fair dinkum (genuine). Most of us weren't big fans of the olive python, especially when we read about it swallowing another snake.
Last week we read Tutankhamen's Gift by Robert Sabuda, and learned about how King Tut went from being the youngest member of the royal family of the great Egyptian pharoah Amenhotep III to becoming pharoah himself. At the age of ten, Tutankhamen was quiet and not proficient in physical activities, but he had great respect for the beautiful temples and artifacts made in honor of the Egyptian gods. When his brother Amehhotep IV took the throne after his father's death, he was not well liked and when he mysteriosly died, the people wondered who would rule next. Could a boy of just ten years old become pharoah? An interesting look at Ancient Egypt with gorgeous illustrations.
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