Reading to a teddy

Hatching a dinosaur egg

This $2 Shop Dinosaur Egg created a  lot of discussion in the class...

We talked about if it was real, what it felt like, what it smelt like, what type of dinosaur will come out, how can we make it hatch and what other animals lay eggs. We talked about 'instructions' and what types of things have instructions.
Then we waited and waited and waited. The children kept checking every few minutes to see if it had changed! They were very intrigued and excited.
The next day we had a baby stegosaurus!

Hieroglyphics

We tried writing our name in Egyptian writing - hieroglyphics.

Stories about Egypt, pyramids and mummification

They took the guts out and they wrap the body.

Jordan

They cut the tummy and they put the guts in a jar.

Levi

First they wash the body then they pull the brain out the nose then they put the brain and the guts in a special box.

Lily

They put the mummy in the pyramids.

Niko

Egypt is a place where mummies are. The mummies are dead kings.  Egypt is a place where King Tut lives.

Milika

To make a mummy they wash the dead body then they cut the body and pull the guts and brain out and put special glue on and they wrap the mummy.

Milika

The mummy is dead.

Fifita

They wash the body with salt.

Siaosi

The pyramid is for the dead body. The mummy is a dead king.

First they wash they body and take the brains out. They put a mask on.

Judy

The people were holding a hook they were putting the hook into the nose to pull the brain out.

Vika

Paper Mache stories

I like the glue it was fun. We dipped the paper in the glue. It was slimy.

Jordan

I like making the pyramid because it was slimy and sticky and it was warm.

Lily

I put paper in the glue it was soft.

Dwyane

I like making the pyramid because it was sticky and gooey.

Taylor

More preparation for art expo - pyramids, boxes and mummies

We used a pyramid net to make a 3D model.

We did 2-3 layers of paper mache. First with newspaper then with white paper. Some of us enjoyed getting our hands wet with glue and feeling the sticky slimy glue. Some of us did not!

We painted our pyramids yellow

To make the mummies we wrapped wooden peg dolls using paper mache. After they were dry we glued on googly eyes.

To make the boxes for the mummies we used sparkly gel pens and yellow dye. We coloured in templates of the lid and the base. We had to cut and fold then construct the box.