Today we began with an assessment of past vs. present with a picture sort of items from each time frame. Danny scored 9/10 on this activity. We then matched up the past version with the present version of each item (candle and lamp, etc.) through discussion. We finished reading our historical nonfiction book, Mummies in the Morning by Mary Pope Osborne. We read the final five chapters to discover how the children helped the ghost queen find the Book of the Dead and get back home. We discussed vocabulary concepts such as torchlight and panting. We also analyzed that when Annie was lost and calling to Jack and her voice was getting fainter, what did that mean and what would he need to do to hear her louder. We discussed how dark a pyramid would be when the torches went out as there is no natural light coming in the pyramid. Since it was dark, we discussed why Jack was described to be “feeling the walls”. We started to work on Danny’s follow up research project and looked up the word pyramid in the children’s dictionary. Danny started to type the definition, but indicated he was just too tired today. Therefore, we transitioned our activity to his Geography textbook. We’ve just started this book and read about how geographers study the natural world and human world. We looked at two pages of pictures and Danny wrote the correct label for the items to indicate if they were “natural” or “human”. Some of the natural items included island, volcano, and cloud. Some of the human world items included a plane, a bridge, and a boat.