Ancient Egypt, kid style

You just gotta love it when kids put their learning into action. Yep, it is endlessly gratifying to watch them employ newfound knowledge in a game, reinforcing their school- and home work.

Today, for example, Little Man's reader was about a magical trip to Egypt in the time of the pharoahs. The children in the book got to make a model pyramid from a special workbook and then travel back in time to see slaves, pharoahs and the Sphinx for themselves.

Now, time travel is beyond my remit, but I did happen to have a 'Build your own Pyramid' workbook right here for when homework was finished. We talked about what the pyramids were used for, how they were built and even took a quick look at hieroglyphics.

Imagine my pride when they started playing Ancient Egypt this evening.

'What's that you're doing guys?'

'Well, we wanted to make a pyramid, so we killed the pharaoh with a sword and now we can put him in!'

Well, quite.