The curse of the mummy!

Hi, it's been a while, but we're back!!! Hurray!! Have you missed us? 

Last week, we were practising for our assembly; we performed it for the school and parents last Friday.  It was a bit nerve-racking at the start but we all really enjoyed it.  It was exhilarating!  Did you like it? 
Here are some of our favourite bits:

• SD's favorite part was when Howard Carter stroked his moustache (http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-tomb-of-tutankhamun/5183.html)
• JH's favorite part was when Seth (Adam) got angry and killed Osiris (Sonny)
• Another favourite bit was when Jacob asked the dead body if he was dead!!!
  'Are you dead?' 'Yes!'
• CO's favourite part was when EJ said the Ancient Egyptians lived around about the time when Mr Rothwell was born, and when AM (Howard Carter) stroked his mostache!!! Also I enjoyed doing the Apprentice scene to explain Carter's discovery.

On Monday, lots of us handed in our Ancient Egyptian projects. There were magnificent cardboard pyramids, Tutankhamun's death mask, information posters and lots of folders with information in. Can you believe it? We even had a cake Pyramid to eat during the day, yum yum yum!

 This is KS's death mask that he made at home, it's really cool isn't it??

Isn't that yummy. Do you want some?

 Spot the screaming boy...

This week, we did some work on newspaper reports and we practised writing quotes. It was a bit hard work, but we managed to do it really well.  You have to remember to put speech marks.  Don't forget or you will be cursed by the mummy!

On Tuesday, we started to make our death masks.  They look a bit eerie, don't they?  This is how we made them: first we painted them in shiny gold, next we did the gothic eye liner and some dark eyebrows.  Then we put some hieroglyphics and patterns onto the foreheads.  After that, we cut out the headdresses and painted them in different colours.  Ta dah!

Also, on Wednesday we all went on a Easter egg hunt in Forest School.  We had to find 16 eggs that
had question clues on them. We had a winning girls team and a winning boys team which won mini eggs - yummy!

I've found another egg!

We won!  Yippeee!!!

On Thursday, we made jewelled collars that only the very rich people could afford in Ancient Egyptian times. We painted the base colour gold, then we went on to paint pasta twirls and tubes different colours and then we stuck them on carefully. Some people stuck on beads and sequins they had brought in from home. They look pretty, don't they?

Here we are at the start of the lesson wearing our aprons.  Don't we look groovy?!!

Check out how messy we got!!!

Here are some of the finished ones.  Do you like them?

After half term, we have a week left of our Pharaohs topic.  :-(
We will be doing a funeral procession wearing our death masks and jewelled collars, as well as holding our canopic jars.  Stay tuned for the photos. 

Have a great Easter holiday break everyone.
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By JH, SD, KS, CO  (and class 4D)