Our first History lesson this term really had the wow factor as we welcomed back Catherine Hammond for a workshop about Ancient Egypt. What did you learn about the Ancient Egytians today?
Our first History lesson this term really had the wow factor as we welcomed back Catherine Hammond for a workshop about Ancient Egypt. What did you learn about the Ancient Egytians today?
ANCIENT EGYPT WORKSHOP SUMMARY
Today, 4R had an interesting Ancient Egypt Workshop run by a very knowledgeable lady named Catherine! At first, Catherine told us a little bit about the Egyptians and then handed out some replicas of things Egyptians had buried with them in their tombs. My partner Jack and I got handed a comb and we knew it was a comb instantly. Once we had carefully observed it, Catherine handed everyone a piece of laminated paper with information about our object on it. When everybody had read their piece of paper, Catherine called us up three groups at a time. Once our group had been called, we went up to the front and told the rest of the class about our object. Catherine drew a chart on the whiteboard. On the top above each column she wrote either man, woman, boy or girl. On the side she wrote the name of each treasure. Then when somebody had shown their object, she ticked the boxes of those that the treasures would have been used by. The only column that had all ticks in was the woman. That then showed that the person buried in that tomb was a lady!!!
I learnt:
• That The Egyptians used things for different reasons to what we use them for.
• That they used things that we don’t use.
• That they believed in a lot of different things to us.
• That both sexes used make up and used hair curlers.
• That they had their hair shaved of at a certain point of their life and used wigs.
By Henry
Ancient Egyptian Workshop
Today we had a visit from Catherine Hammond to introduce our new History topic this term ‘The Ancient Egyptians’.
First Catherine asked us questions about the Egyptians. She asked us how big we thought the pyramids were. We found out that the larger the pyramid, the more important the person was that was buried there. We found out that the biggest pyramid built is much larger than Lochinver House School!
I told Catherine that I had read about the process of mummification. When a person died their organs which included their brain, lungs and kidneys were removed and placed into canopic jars. The heart however, remained in the body which was then wrapped in bandages and placed into a coffin with a jewelled mask placed over their head.
Catherine then handed out different objects to us in pairs. Jaiveer and I were handed a ‘Ushabti’ which was a figurine that was placed in an ancient Egyptian tomb to act as a servant in the afterlife. The figurines were carved into gods and goddesses. We took it in turns to stand up and explain to the class what our item was, and who was buried with it. We came to the conclusion that an ‘ushabti’ could be buried with a man, woman, boy or girl. We also found out that all the objects could have been buried with a woman.
Some of the different objects Catherine handed out included a comb, make- up knife, haircurler, canopic jars, ushabti, scarab beetles , Anubis-jackal and a necklace.
I thoroughly enjoyed our Egyptian workshop. Thank you
I really liked the Egyptian work shop on Friday. I learnt a lot of stuff including that boys have make up knives and I didn’t know that boys even wore make up in those days! What I found interesting was that there were tomb robbers as important and very rich Egyptians were buried with lots of jewellery and precious ornaments. This was to help and guide the dead person to the afterlife which is in the sky.
When someone died, their brains were removed from their body and thrown away. Did you know the brain was taken out by sticking a long hook up the nose and dragging the brain out? The liver and other organs were taken out of the body and put into blue pots which had an important persons head carved into the lid. The heart was removed, wrapped up and put back into the body.
Another interesting fact I found out was that beetles rolled in dung and laid their eggs in dung as it was warm.
It has been a great start to the term and I am looking forward to learn more about the Egyptians.
I learnt more than I thought I would! It was so much fun and interesting. It was like I was there in Egypt and first we had an object and had a guess what it was. I was partners with Beltran and our object was a make-up knife. Ancient Egyptians would mix the make-up and then they would scoop some of the make-up onto their make-up knife and brush it on their eyebrows and face. Afterwards the tour guide asked us who was in the pyramid she made herself. It could have been a boy, girl, man or a woman. Through a chart the guide asked us to fill out, we figured out it was a woman. Before lunch the tour guide asked if we had any questions and then we had lunch. It was a great learning experience!
Yesterday we attended an Egyptian workshop. It was great fun and I learnt a lot! The most interesting thing I discovered was that the first object I was given to look at was a make-up knife with a point at one end and a spoon like thing at the other end. It was used for mixing and applying make-up. Both women and men would wear make-up to look good and protect them from the sun. Another interesting thing I found out was that scarabs (dung beetles) were used as lucky charms for protection. If you X-ray a mummy you can see scarab beetles all over the body. We were asked to decide if a mummy was a man, woman, boy or girl just from these two things and a further 8 objects we were given. After analysing these objects we decided the mummy was probably a woman as all the objects corresponded to items used by a woman.
On Friday Catherine came back to school talk about Ancient Egypt, it was very interesting.
We looked at lots of replica items that were buried in tombs and we had to work out who had been buried in the tomb.
Me and George were given a Canopic Jar to look at. The jar was made of pottery and painted blue, there were 4 different lids for the jar each lid was a different god. First of all we thought it was a perfume jar for a woman but then learnt it wasn’t! These jars were used to store the organs of a dead person like their liver, stomach, intestines and lungs so they could use them again in the afterlife.
I thought it was very interesting that the woman was buried with toys, and found out that is because the Ancient Egyptians believed that you would be young again in the afterlife.
The other artefact I liked was the Bastet Cat, it protected women and girls in the afterlife.
On Friday we had a person over to tell use about Egypt and we had to figure out who’s toys gods and dolls tombs and necklaces. Me and the rest of my table had the gods the cat protected the women and daughter’s and men and the sons. I found out so much I fort my head would explode!!! The one who it all belonged to the woman’s stuff I fort it was the man’s stuff but it turned out I was wrong.
Ancient Egyptian workshop
On the 11th of January we had an Egyptian workshop. Egypt is located in northeast Africa. It is the 12th largest country in Africa.
A lady named Catherine from a nearby museum came to our school. She had brought replicas of ancient Egypt art effects which were in a small cardboard pyramid where the mummies were kept.
In partners we had to try and figure out what the object was and what it was used for. The object I got was ushabti which means answerer. Some of the other objects which were examined by different pairs were hair curler, necklaces and makeup a knife.
Catherine gave us an exercise to do with our partners which involved reading and analysing the paper to make a decision whether the object was used by a man, woman, boy or girl and what they used it for. The ushabti was a model servant used by wealthy Egyptians, it was buried beside the person who died so if they had servants in their real life they would have a servants in their afterlife. While we did the exercise Catherine drew a chart so we can find out if a man, woman, boy or girl was buried in the pyramid.
After, we had to do a 2 minute talk on our object. We came to conclusion that the person buried in the pyramid was a woman.
This has been an excellent workshop!!!
A big thank you to the teachers that organised it!!!
4r had an Egyptian workshop! The first thing we learnt was that the only pyramid that had jewels, gems etc. left was Tutan Carmoons pyramid. The workshop teacher showed us the replicas inside a model pyramid. After that it was the best bit, to hold them! So we got an Anubis statue and Alfie and I thought it was a tomb! But when we got sheets to see what it really is and we finally found out it was an Anubis statue then we had to tell the class al about it and guess who used it. Here are some of the things that I learnt from other people: canopic jars were used to put the organs of mummified people in, a cat protected women, or gave them good luck! I learnt from mine that Anubis was a jackal and jackals roam around graves. THANK YOU FOR THE WORKSHOP TEACHERS!
At our ancient Egypt workshop, we learnt so much. The first thing we did was looking at a model pyramid, we learnt about how ancient bodies were buried in the pyramids. Only the rich would have pyramids built and their treasures would go in to the pyramids as well because they thought it would bring them good luck in the afterlife. After that we opened the model pyramid and there were loads of treasures Catherin each gave us one treasure and we tried to guess what it was what
Me and my partner Zachery thought we had glass insect we thought that when Egyptians were mummified, they put those bugs on them. It turns out we were kind of right they were called scarab beetles they were Egyptians lucky charms, probably the luckiest of all their charms. They are also known as dung beetles because they roll and lay eggs in animal dung. They lay eggs in animal dung because when the Egyptians see the baby scarab beetles it would tell them about new life that’s why they represent restoration of life. The scarab beetles were meant to help the Egyptians in the afterlife and they were buried in the pyramid with them. Thank you Catherine for coming to our school and helping us learn so much about the Egyptians.
Today Mrs Cathrine came to tell us about Ancient Egypt, we looked inside a pyramid and we got to touch different objects and we decided if a woman, man, boy or girl was buried inside the pyramid and the final answer was a woman. I learned that the Egyptians showed that they were rich by wearing necklaces and things like that not wearing lots of clothes like the Tudors did to represent they were rich because it was really hot in Egypt and men and woman had to cut off there hair because of the heat I loved the workshop and I hope to see another one.
There was a replica pyramid that part of it could slide open. There were 11 items inside the pyramid. We were grouped into twos and given an item each. We had to guess what the item is, what they are needed for and who used them the most to find out who was buried in the pyramid. In the end we found out the person was a woman but we didn’t find out her name (I think it’s Cleopatra).
On Friday the 11th of January a lady came in are class to talk about ancient Egyptians . We were given different object ,my object was a comb. We had a mini piramid. years ago the ancient tradition would be to bury the ancient Egyptian kings in a piramid . We had to find out if the mini piramid had a boy or girl in it with the objects that were given. The objects were a comb a make up knife a menut
Bastet a haircurler some dolls and toys a anumbis jacket and some canonic jars . After that we ticked if it was ment for men or if it was made for woman or if it was made for joy or girl at the end it came close but it was a girls grave because all the objects were in the piramid were made for a woman then it was the end of the ancient Egyptian workshop.
On Friday 11th of January 2019 year4 had a workshop about the Egyptians. Firstly Catherine showed us her mini pyramid she had brought from her museum in ST Albans.
Secondly she showed us the inside of the mini pyramid then she asked us why this pyramid hadn’t been robbed in the past. Catherine said it was because this person hadn’t been buried in a pyramid, he or she had been buried in the valley of the kings.
Thirdly Catherine handed out the objects she had in the pyramid, fortunately we could touch the objects because they were replicas. Then we had guesses about what the thing was and what was it’s job. We guessed our thing was a cat for luck. Then when everyone had a guess of what their object was, afterwards Cathrine handed out pieces of paper with the name of the object and some information about it, then Cathrine chose people to tell us what their object was and some information. Our one was Bastet the cat god it’s purpose was to protect woman we made a chart to figure out if it was a man,woman,boy or girl it turned out to be a woman!!!!!!!
On Friday we had a lovely lady called Catherine talk about Ancient Egyptians.
I learnt that men and women wear make up in ancient Egyptian times, blue and green were both very popular colours.
Egyptian people, are protected by lucky charms in the tombs – women were protected by cats and both were protected by the Jackal.
Catherine brought in copies of a tomb from ancient times. She handed out the replicas to boys that had paired up – I was on my own and was given a necklace. I guessed it was a necklace as it was gold with clay beads filling the gaps.
The canonic jars held kidneys, liver, lungs and the brain was thrown away.
For the preparation into after life they had all their goods placed with them in the tombs to impress the gods. If it was a King they would have buried slaves along with them to help them when they reached the after life. Sometimes they would use statues.
Occasionally, they might have toys in the tomb which included their first toy or doll.
Thank you Mrs Cronias for arranging this workshop it was great fun!
Today Catherine Hammond from Epping Forest District came to our class and told us about the Ancient Egyptians. We learnt how Egyptians lived and what they used in Egyptian times. Catherine brought a replica of a pyramid which belonged to an important person called Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun is so well known today because his tomb, containing fabulous treasures. It was found in 1922 by British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon.
Inside the replica of the pyramid, there was a black cat and it was called Bastet-Cat. Egyptians believed that a black cat protected women and girls, they also chase away mice to protect grains they used to make bread. We also saw a little object with a pointy end it was called a makeup-knife. It was used for applying makeup. Makeup was for protection of faces from the heat of the sun and they thought there was different magic for different colours of makeup. And if you mix two colours together the magic in them will disappear and men and women wear them but we are not sure about the children.
We also saw a hair curler they didn’t really used for curling hairs but used to pull hairs. Egyptians often pull their hair out with the hair curler. Because it was really hot so they pulled their hair, to stay cool. Everyone used them adults were bald and children were half bald with little pony tail at the back of their head.
Necklace, a necklace was made of clay and was very fashionable and looks expensive. Egyptians wear it around their neck and another object called menat was behind their back. Necklace was with design of a god.
Egyptian used to play with dolls and toys when they were kids. When they die toys were placed in their tomb so they can remember their childhood or they may play with it in their afterlife.
Today we did a workshop about the ancient Egyptians. I was very surprised to learn that the ancient Eygptians had sunscreen! They wore wigs as a shield from the sun! This protected their hair. They used a comb to brush their hair firmly before they put on their wig. The comb was made out of metal and had very sharp tips so they had to be careful not to scrape their scalp.
It was interesting day today as we learnt more about the ancient Egyptians. Cam and I learnt about canopic jars which had the Pharaoh’s organs inside them. We were told about Horus’ four sons with heads as the lids of the jars. Did you know that the great king Tutankhamun was one of the only kings that wasn’t grave robbed? Do you want to know why? Because he was buried rather than being in a tomb.
The ancient Egyptians believed that they had an after life so preserved all the dead bodies. They were free to choose how old they were in the after life. The bodies of pharaohs and queens were kept inside the pyramids. The Ancient Egyptians believed that wearing makeup gave you magical powers and protected you.
The Egyptians built huge pyramids some of which were bigger than school grounds. The pyramids contained valuable items such as jewellery, however many valuables were stolen from the pyramids.
Unlike the Tudors who wore lots of heavy clothing to show of their wealth the ancient Egyptians wore Jewellery to show wealth. The hot dry weather meant they would wear simple light clothing to help keep them cool. They would also shave their hair to help keep cool.