Anthony's mummified blogg.

Thursday.

We were learning about how valuable animals were to Egypt in there everyday lives and religion. Paul, one of the staff at the British Museum gave us a talk about mummies, and how the Egyptians mummified the bodies.

We went to the Petrie Museum, part of University College London, to look at the Egyptian jewellery and anything with animals in it, for instance, amulets/statues and figures.

I made a scarab beetle amulet out of clay. Scarab's are the animal of the sun god Ra associated with live.

Friday.

We saw 2 people who were dressed up as Egyptians - one was a priest and the other was a wealthy lady. We looked at objects - a real bit of the papyrus reed, the salt used to mummifiy bodies and jewellery. The girls and some boys had there egyptian eye make-up put on. The black liner protects from the glare of the sun. Some of us dressed up as egyptians in costume.

We went into the Egyptian galleries and looked at mummies and objects. In one of the cases we saw this body which was all curled up and it was called Ginger.

After lunch we watched another video about people who were finding egyptian objects in tombs in Egypt. We then looked at objects, we had to match some writing to the objects on our table so we knew what they were

Monday

We did our scrapbooks and sketched some of the mummies and artefacts in the gallery.

We made a little book on Egypt and pyramid book. We made a papyrus scroll with a mummy in the middle and stuff that we liked around it. We rolled it up and put a pipe cleaner around it to keep it safe and so it looked like a scroll.

Tuesday

We went to the CLC (City Learning Centre) and we wrote about all the stuff we had done in this blog. We made a slide show with music and voices so we can show others what we have done.