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Archive for June 19th, 2012

Country of the Week: Egypt

This week’s featured country is Egypt. To get started, I asked the kids to list everything they could about Egypt. They came up with:

Egyptian gods
Cleopatra
Roman Empire
King Tut
pyramids
couscous (that was mine)
sacred cats
Africa
Nile River
sahlab (drink)
Sahara desert
camels
hieroglyphs
The Prince of Egypt (movie)
Nefertiti
Sphinx

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