My Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics

These are my hieroglyphics

Over the past few weeks we have been learning about Ancient Egypt. As well as learning about Ancient Egypt we also did some art the linked with the topic. We did two pieces of artwork this included a picture of an Ancient Egyptian god or person done in a 2D style and a hieroglyphics/tomb drawing picture. My favourite was the hieroglyphics picture, we were allowed to make the hieroglyphics a translated message or we could copy hieroglyphics from a book or picture. I chose to make my hieroglyphics a message and I did that by using a online hieroglyphics translator.
I used dyes to colour my hieroglyphics and my tomb drawing. To make the lines stand out I used a sharpie. I liked making this because I had never done anything like it before.

Ancient Egypt

The Pyramids of Giza.

For the last few weeks at as school we have been learning about Ancient Egypt. We learnt about hieroglyphics and about tombs and buildings in Ancient Egypt. We did a few activities linked to the Ancient Egyptian subject such as building some Ancient Egyptian buildings and tombs in Minecraft and making a double page spread about an Egyptian topic of your choice.

Things we did

Some of the activities we did was a hieroglyphics styled artwork. We were meant to have an tomb drawing surrounded by hieroglyphics. The hieroglyphics could have been copied of a picture in a book or it could have been a message translated into hieroglyphics. 

One of the other things we did was a double page spread as I mentioned earlier. The topic I had to research and write about was Ancient Egyptian battles. I talked about life as an Ancient Egyptian soldier and the Hyksos invasion and so on.

The last thing we did was make an Ancient Egyptian Minecraft world with tombs and villages. I and some other people were assigned to make the tombs in the valley of the kings. Although I did not make a tomb by my self I helped build a large tomb with Matthew, Joseph and some other people.

What I Learnt

When we first started the Ancient Egyptian topic I didn't know much about Ancient Egypt. Basically all I knew was that there was three large pyramids in Giza and there was a famous Pharaoh called Tutankhamun and when an important person died he or she would be mummified. I think that this experience has helped me learn more about Ancient Egypt. Over the past few weeks I have learnt more about Ancient Egyptian tombs, houses, transport, wars, pyramids and other things to do with Ancient Egypt.

What activity did I learn from the most

I bet that the activity that I learnt from the most was the double-page spread because when I was researching my topic I also stumbled on some interesting facts. I also learnt more because I read some of my other classmates double-page spread when we were proofreading each others work.

Good-bye ! 

               

Gymnastics

In the last few weeks we have been having gymnastics at Nairnville recreation centre. I utterly hate gymnastics and I will to the day I die and even beyond that into the very end of time. In other words I hate gymnastics. I mean why can’t we please do sport? Just one day of sport? Please? Pretty please? “Hello kids were doing another day of gymnastics. It’s going to be so fun. First we have a beam thingy and this really fun ladder thingy……” Why? At least we only have one more week of gymnastics.

At gymnastics we have a warm-up game such as ship to shore or octopus. Then we do some stretches and get arranged in to three groups. Once we are in three groups each of the groups goes to a different stage in the three-stage circuit. At each circuit we do a number of activities relating to gymnastics. 

For each stage we have eleven minutes to practice the activities that are stationed there.

My favourite stage of the circuit is probably the teacher stage. I like the teacher stage because we often do a lot of things with ladders and the slide. The other two circuits usually have the rungs to do candle sticks, balance beams and the air-track.

Even though I disliked gymnastics I did improve in some of my areas of gymnastics such as forward rolls and candle sticks.   

What I learned at school last week

Last week I learned more about the inspirational man: Martin Luther King Jr. We had to write a page long biography of a person that we talked about in R.E. I chose Martin Luther King Jr. because I knew that he was a major person in the fight for black people’s rights but all I knew about him was that we said a very famous speech called I had a dream. When I did my research I was really surprised because I found out some really cool facts about him such as the fact he never really finished high school because he was so smart. I also learned that he had a wife and four children. I even learned he's start in black peoples rights protesting which was the Montgomery bus boycott. The next thing I found out was the famous I have a dream speech. Martin Luther King Jr. helped organise a march which over 250,000 people attended. This is where he spoke his I have a dream speech. A year later black people were granted rights. The only downfall about writing the biography had to write about Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. Even though he was very-well respected some people wanted to kill him for what he did and one day he was shot from his hotel balcony by James Earl Ray. Martin Luther King died believing in equal rights for all people’s rights. So that is all I learned last week when I was writing my biography.