Week beginning 1st February 2015
This week we have had a very busy week learning about the Egyptian writing system called hieroglyphics. We got a letter from our Egyptian friend Mahu who wrote his letter in hieroglyphics. We had to break the code and find out what he said. We had different activities on hieroglyphics; our favourite was writing our names to make a necklace. We designed mummy cases and had a competition to display them outside our door and in our role play area- Emma and Evie were our winners.
We also this week chose group names for our tables we are;
The Snakes, The Egyptians, The River Nile, The Pyramids and the Glowing Necklace. We have to work as a team and if we do we can win table of the day. Table of the day get to win a prize and get to use special pens.
We have been learning to put words in alphabetical order. We played activity, where we had to put our names in alphabetical order. It was really fun but was a little tricky when we had names starting with the same letter like Emma, Eva, Evan and Evie.

Week beginning 8th February 2015
We have been learning about Egyptian Gods this week. We went on the computer and looked up Egyptian Gods. It was very exciting and tricky using the laptops. When we were researching the Egyptian Gods and Goddesses and we fact files with lots of interesting facts. One interesting we learned was the ancient Egyptian’s thought that Geb the God’s laughter was an earthquake.
We wrote a story about a pyramid adventure. Some of our stories had people getting stuck in the pyramid or finding someone in the pyramid. We are looking forward to finishing our exciting story next week.
In music we have been learning ‘The Three wee Grumphies’ in Scots. We found out grumphies are pigs and have been acting the story. We are going to do it on the stage next week, we feel a little bit nervous but we can’t wait.

Week beginning 15th February 2015
This week we have been learning about Egyptian Gods. We found out the Gods names and their powers. Our favourite God was Ra. He was the God of the sun. The Ancient Egyptians believed he was the most important God. After we found out about the Gods, we created our own and gave them special powers.
We also designed the inside of our pyramid in the role play area. We used chalk on the walls of our pyramid and drew on different symbols using hieroglyphics. With a partner, we drew pictures of the Egyptian Gods which would be found inside the pyramid.
In maths this week we have been exploring measurement. We measured different objects round the class and compared them. We found out Evan was the tallest in the class and we compared our heights.

Bye for now,
P3b