We have been busy this week learning even more about Egypt. We learned about the Weighing of the Heart Ceremony and we acted it out in small groups. We used the netbooks to research about the Egyptian afterlife. We used google as a search engine and typed in keywords to help us find out more. We find the ceremony very interesting. Ancient Egyptians believed that when someone died they had to speak to the Gods and tell them how they had been good. Anubis (the God of Mummification) would take the person to the Hall of Maat where he would weigh their heart on the scales. If their heart was heavy, because they had been bad, Ammut would appear and eat them up. If they had a light heart, because they had been good, they would be taken by Horus and Osiris to the afterlife. Karys found out that the feather was called the “Feather of Truth”.

This week we have also been learning about weight. We used balance scales to weigh different objects. We weighed them using a non-standard unit such as cubes. Next week we are going to learn about kilograms and we are going to find out more about Anubis and the mummifcation process.