Ancient Egypt
This year started off with a bang, as we started learning about Ancient Egypt. This has definitely been one of the class favourite topics so far! There was just SO much to learn about, and we explored different aspects of the Ancient Egyptian societies through art, science, history and drama, as well as using our chromebook time slots to do research for projects. Everyone completed their own projects, on a selection of topics they chose themselves (we made a big chart of things we were curious about) so all of the projects were unique and FABULOUS! We learned about everything from hieroglyphics and clothing, to housing and curses. These were displayed in the classroom and in the corridor, check some of them out below!
We also created lots of Ancient Egypt inspired art projects. First up, we explored various paintings and artworks from this time to create pharoah self portraits. The next few weeks complied of using clay to make tile “cartouches” which displayed names in hieroglyphics. Drawing the hieroglyphics was definitely the hard part, as not only did they have to look as accurate as possible, we all had to change the spellings of our names to their phonetic spellings to be REALLY accurate. These were really fun to make, clay is always a big hit and we managed to have barely any pieces break - woohoo!
For science, we also performed an experiment where we used salt and baking soda to mummify apple slices! We learned about the process of mummification in Ancient Egypt, then decided to try it for ourselves! Everyone got an apple quarter that they could carve a face into, and then these were placed in the cups and covered in the mixture, before being left for a week. There was also one apple slice left uncovered in a cup as a control, so we could compare the two. Check out the process of how we did it, as well as some of the results! Be careful, they’re kind of gross!
We usually tie our drama lessons into whatever topic we’re covering in SESE at the time, so we spent the last few weeks unravelling the mystery of the pharoah “Panini the Great” (the pupils chose the name!) and using clues, hieroglyphics and our imaginations to find his tomb, treasures, and avoid the “curse”!
Other projects
Other projects
As always, we have been very busy in 4th class! It really seems like there’s never a dull moment, but we have a lot of fun for sure! To start off 2022, we made these gorgeous New Year scratch art pieces. We also learned about Chinese New Year, and made this lovely garland to celebrate the year of the tiger!
As always, we have been very busy in 4th class! It really seems like there’s never a dull moment, but we have a lot of fun for sure! To start off 2022, we made these gorgeous New Year scratch art pieces. We also learned about Chinese New Year, and made this lovely garland to celebrate the year of the tiger!
Once we finished learning about ancient Egypt, we were exploring life in 18th century Ireland in History. The pods collaborated to create jamboards filled with interesting facts they learned about this time period - you can read through them below! We also took inspiration from our history topic to create Georgian inspired houses out of shoeboxes and other materials. A big thank you to everyone who sent in the HEAPS of cardboard we managed to get out hands on! This was such a cool task to see how everyone worked together to solve problems and use their creativity to create such cool houses!
Creative bits and pieces!
Once again proving that the 4th class in room 16 are super creative, we have been slowly adding to our class mascot - our avocado tree! “Pablo Jr” has wholeheartedly been adopted by the class, with pupils pitching in to keep him watered, as well as kitted out in football boots and and a mask. He is covid safe and looks fresh! Check out this fabulous portrait by Camilla, as well as the fabulous creation of “Pablo Jr Jr”, that was created by the pod “The Bedz”.
Friendship week
One of the ways we celebrated friendship week in our class was by making this cool friendship chain! Everyone wrote their name on a slip of paper, and they were passed around to everyone who wrote something nice about that person. It was lovely to see everyone’s reaction to getting theirs back! Also, I was gifted with this lovely banner that my gang made in secret, before giving it to me at the end of the day. We were all feeling the love!
One of the ways we celebrated friendship week in our class was by making this cool friendship chain! Everyone wrote their name on a slip of paper, and they were passed around to everyone who wrote something nice about that person. It was lovely to see everyone’s reaction to getting theirs back! Also, I was gifted with this lovely banner that my gang made in secret, before giving it to me at the end of the day. We were all feeling the love!
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