We began with Danny’s Interactive Notebook project and addressed the differences in cooking from long ago and today. Danny wrote that long ago they used wood and fire. For today, he wrote that today we use an oven. We then read a Time for Kids news magazine and watched a Brain Pop Jr learning video about Rosa Parks. We were reminded about segregation and her fight for equal rights. We couldn’t believe that she tried to register to vote three times before she could actually vote. When Bill Clinton was President, he gave Rosa Parks an award for all she did to help our country. Next, we enjoyed chapters 3-6 of Mummies in the Morning. Jack and Annie followed the black cat into the pyramid. They headed into the burial chambers. There they found a scepter. A figure moved past them and tried to take it. Jack’s history book informed them that tomb robbers would break into the burial chambers and take treasures from the tombs. The children met a woman in a white gown who was named Queen Hutepi. This queen of the Nile was in ghost form. She needs their help to find the Book of the Dead to pass on to the next life. The children helped her read a secret message written in hieroglyphs on the wall (stairs, boat, jug, and cloth). Danny and I discuss these vocabulary words as we read the book and will explore further with internet research after completing the book.