Year 4 and The Pharaohs

Year 4 have just come to the end of their Cornerstones Pharaohs topic. Here are some of their blogs:-

This term we have been learning about Egyptians which was fun Tutukamen died at 19 after he became king.
Egyptians belived that if your heart weighed less than a feather you would go to the after life and if
your heart weighed more than a feather you would go to the under world and have your heart eaten by a crocodile. LG
Mummification
First, tickle the person to see if he or she is dead.
Second, wash the body with the water from the Nile.
Next,make a slit on the side and take the intestines, stomach, liver and lungs out.
After, get a red hot hook and take the brain out.
When you have done that, put the organs in canopic jars.
Then, stuff the body with linen to make it look real again.
After that, cover the body in a salt called natron and leave it for 40 days.
Cover the body in oil. Then cover the body in linen.
Next, cover the body with the second layer with amulets.

The Big Dig
 We made a 9 squared grid and went outside to The forest school area.We put the grid where Mr. Crees put sticks in the ground. I dug around the side of the grid. Then I took off the grid and started to dig in the inside.We found lots of Egyptian stuff like pieces of potery and shabtis. VR

When we did the big dig we had to look for things in Egyptian
times like coins and jars and other stuff . We had to use a template to dig out it was great fun because I got really messy. But as well it was FREEZING! MO

THE BIG DIG was great fun and it was not warm. I had to do it in my forest school kit. My group found a brick and a bit of corckery and some metal.It was great fun! RC
In our topic we did a dig we found loads of stuff like glass ,toys and other stuff it was brillo. Our topics are really good I loved this topic. AM

The Visitor
 For our project there was a special funny visiteor proffessor McGinty. I know he was funny but we learnt a lot of stuff. I hat to dress up as a pharaoh boy, it was so fun. AM