On Monday, we went to see Professor McGinty, he taught us about Ancient Egyptian times. He made us laugh when he told us about the cow dung in Egyptian bread! Eurgh!!
He dressed up two people (FC and SB) in Egyptian clothes, then he organised a pretend marriage between them! It was so funny! They were a bit embarrassed!
'It tickled me the way he said 'would you like to marry this man?' ' SB
We made Egyptian headdresses and painted them traditional colours of blue and gold. We had a huge parade down the corridor wearing our masks. It was hilarious! Scott led the way!
On Wednesday, we made square-based pyramids out of clay.
'The clay was all cold and squishy!' NH
AM and NH used a folding method for one of their pyramids.
Today, we did an archaeological dig outside. One of the groups found some Ancient Egyptian artefacts.
'We found Egyptian statues and a black mummified cat and a death mask'. ME, KS
After lunch, the whole of Year 4 met Howard Carter, a.k.a. Mr Crees (but that's a secret), and he told us about how he became an archaeologist and how he found the tomb of Tutunkhamun. First of all, he was a painter.
We asked Howard Carter some open-ended questions, like,
'Did the waterboy find the steps first?'
'How did you feel when you saw Tutunkhamun's death mask?'
'What did you find in the antechamber?'
We all came to school dressed as Pharaohs and Ancient Egyptian people today. Some people came as mummies, very scary ones at that!! Some people came dressed as Howard Carter himself!!! Look at us all...
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looks like everyone had so much fun on the Egypt day. keep up the good work class 4D.
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