This week…

English: This week we are continuing to use our class reader for our work.  We will be looking at the behaviour of one character in particular and the boys will be preparing interview questions trying to find reasons for his actions.  They will then be looking at potential answers that this character will give.  In sentence and grammar work we will be continuing to work on paragraphs and this links in to tonight’s homework.  Spellings will be looking at ‘ie’ words.

Maths:  My maths group will be taking a break from fractions and moving on to some angles work.  We will be looking at how to calculate angles in a straight line (without protractors) and possibly triangles and quadrilaterals too.

This week…

Maths:  My group are continuing their work on fractions.  This week we will be looking at adding and subtracting fractions as well as revising and consolidating work on changing improper fractions t mixed numbers (and vice versa).

English:  The homework that the boys produced on Tim Peakes was fantastic!  This work will be displayed throughout the school.  We are linking in the beginning of the week with some descriptive writing related to the journey into space and walking in space.  For the 2nd half of the week we are continuing Krindlekrax and looking at the theme of friendship which runs  through the book.  We will be looking at paragraphs as part of sentence and grammar lessons and our spelling pattern this week will be ‘ie/ei’.

Egyptian workshop

Luca:

Egyptian workshop

The quiz was fun! Who was in the pyramid? We had to look at the objects in front of us and guess what they were, what they used for and who was in the pyramid. The objects included the statue of the cat goddess Bastet, the statue of jackal who represented the God of death Unuibs, wooden toys for the afterlife and the Egyptian neckless. Neckless see were worn by men and women.
There was a make up knife, which was used to put a make up on so they look wealthy and to protect their eyes . The
We found out what the objects were used for by looking at the charts. We worked out that it was a woman in the pyramid by these objects because they were used mostly by Egyptian women.

 

Aarav:

On Thursday morning year 4 took part in a Egyptian workshop. It was run by a lady named Catherine. Catherine had a lot of knowledge about the Egyptians as she worked in a museum.

Catherine bought is a little pyramid filled with ancient possessions like an old make up knife and a comb. The make up brush was used in Egyptian times for applying eye liner and the comb was used for clipping head lice from hair.

After everyone spent some time examining their artefacts, Catherine drew a chart to identify whether each of the objects were used by a girl, boy, man or woman. We were all given information about our objects and asked to explain it to the whole class.

In a bink of an eye the workshop was over! I really enjoyed learning about the Egyptians.

 

Kaya:

On Thursday 7th September we had an Egyptian workshop in our class. A lady called Katherine who has visited us before from a museum, came to teach us about the Egyptians.

She taught us about the Egyptian make -up knifes which they use to spread make-up on their faces, also that they put make-up under their eyes to block the sun out.

We also learnt about canopic jars which are jars that they used to store all their organs in except the heart and brain. 

They also had hair curlers and it took a very long time to curl their hair because the hair curlers were very small and they had quite a lot of hair.

The ancient Egyptian writing was called hieroglyphs 

I really enjoyed the Egyptian workshop and found it really interesting.

Charles:

Catherine came to visit us on Thursday our first day back after the Christmas holiday’s, she came to show us some Ancient Egyptian objects.

She brought with her a huge paper pyramid which was upside down and contained a replica Scarab beetle, a Bastet Cat, a comb for your hair, a make up knife with an antelope handle and a toy doll with beads as its hair.

Catherine explained that when the Ancient Egyptians died they would put their toy dolls in their tomb with them because they believed in the after life and that they would come back as a child so would want their toys to play with!

The Goddess Bastet cat’s role was used to ward off all evil spirits, thieves and snakes also to protect mothers.

The scarab beetle was used as a lucky charm for the ancient egyptians because they would roll up camel dung and they would see this as a new beginning.

It was an interesting workshop from Catherine, she makes it a lot of fun and I really enjoyed the talk!!!!

Kaylan:

On 7th January we had an Egyptian workshop. A lady called Catherine came in and she was holding a cardboard pyramid. Catherine put the pyramid on a desk and talked about the Egyptians, she talked about the climate, what their houses were made from, and what was in the pyramids. Catherine opened the pyramid and there were lots of Egyptian artefacts, she gave us 2 or 3 artefacts in a pair, mine was called the ushabiti. The ushabiti is when you die and if you were wealthy you would put this in your tomb and the Egyptians believed it turns into a slave in the afterlife. There was also a cat called Bastet she is the protector of motherhood. Catherine gave us all an Egyptian booklet of our artefact we then found out that ushabiti means answer. While we were looking at our object Catherine drew a graph so we could decide who was buried in the pyramid. We all came up in front of the class and talked about our objects, at the end of our talk we had to write on the graph who we think would have used the object at home. When everyone had finished we put the graph together and the mothers won as they would have used all of the objects. At the end Catherine let us ask her some questions.   I didn’t ask any questions because during the talk she had answered all the questions I had. It was a fun start to the term.

 

Noah:

The Egyptian workshop was really fun. Firstly, we were taught some things about the Ancient Egyptians. Then we got shown a built pyramid and things that the Egyptians would have had. After we examined the objects we were given one. We had to guess what the object was used for. Then we were given a sheet of paper and that sheet of paper told us what the object was. The first one I got was a comb and the other object I got was a makeup knife. It was very odd how the Ancient Egyptians used some sort of a knife to do their make up. Finally after we read the paper about what it was then we had to make a speech to the class about our object. The comb I got was mainly for girls to either take the curls out of the hair or they would keep in their hair to lift up the hair. The makeup knife was a goat standing up. Its horn was for lines on the face and at the bottom there was a pad to mix the makeup.

Overall I learnt a lot of things about the Ancient Egyptians.

Anthony – Egyptian workshop

 

Rafi

Last Thursday we had an Egyptian workshop.  The person running the workshop produced a quiz about the Pyramids and who was buried in them. We were given different objects such as; dolls for the afterlife, Bastet – the God of Motherhood, Anubis – the God of the afterlife and death, a necklace with a menat which both men and women wore, a makeup knife (to put make up to make the Egyptians look wealthy). The quiz master also showed a scarab beetle charm which were very lucky and all the Egyptians wanted them to bring them luck.

I really enjoyed this workshop because it was fun, interesting and you got to look at different Egyptian objects and who wore some of them.

 

Alex

On the first day back of the second term of school in year 4 we had an ancient Egyptian workshop.  In the Egyptian workshop we looked at things in a cardboard pyramid. Josh and I got a hair curler. At first we thought it was a carving knife. We also had to decide if a boy, girl, woman or man had are object. After a bit of discussion, we decided a boy would have had the item. Then when Katherine (the director) had heard what we thought our objects were and if we thought a boy, girl, woman or man owned the object, she told us if are object was right (mine was), then about the girl, boy, woman or man thing, she said we had all fallen into the trap she had told us about in the beginning of the workshop, and explained that things in the time of the ancient Egyptians was very different to our time. Then everyone got a sheet about their object and read them. Then the class made a big table and we found out a woman had been buried the pyramid.

 

William
On Thursday 7th January we had a talk by a lady called Catherine from a museum in London on the Ancient Egyptians. She started the workshop by handing out a large pyramid and inside were numerous different objects. We were handed an object in pairs and had to find out who they belonged to i.e a boy or a girl/ man or woman. Peter and I were handed part of a necklace which we had to connect to the other half which Charles and Teni had.
Sam and Elvis were given a scarab beetle. We learned that these were put over the heart of the mummified deceased to help take you to the afterlife.
Kaylan and Anthony were given a miniature mummy tomb. They believed that if the mummy took it with them when they died it would turn into a slave.
We all had to make a little speech about our object and the boys had to try and guess who the object belonged to. Josh and Alex were given a hair comb, Rafi had a cat god known as Bastet. This was the goddess of protection and love. The sacred cat is the animal incarnation. Leo was given a jackal god known as Anubis. Anubis was the god of mummification. Priests often wore a mask of Anubis during mummification ceremonies.

This week…

Maths:  We are completing a little bit of work on probability today and then moving onto looking at fractions.  The initial lessons will be a general assessment on what they can remember about fractions and then we will be looking at fractions of amounts.

Literacy:  We are starting our new class reader ‘Krindlekrax’ so this week we will be exploring the characters and themes (such as ‘heroes’).  Our spelling pattern on Friday will be looking at the ‘shun’ sound and related spellings.