Trip to Kelvingrove

Just before the October week, P4a enjoyed a trip to Kelvingrove Museum to visit the Ancient Egypt Gallery.
We had a very interesting workshop with Lesley, followed by a handling session where we touched artefacts that are thousands of years old! After that we had a look around the rest of the museum.

Levi, Skye and Jayden practise their mummification skills.

Reece and cameron reading about the jobs done by boys in Ancient Egypt. And you think Mrs Bartoletti gives you lots of work to do?

Lesley is telling the children all about the collection.

Aaron is dressed as a Pharoh!

 Alisha dressed as Anubis, the God of death.

Kyle is also joining in with dressing up.

Jayden is reading about what happens to the organs when a person is mummified.

 The children tried their hardest to open the stone sarcophagus but it was just too heavy!

Some of the precious objects we got to hold.

Levi showing a picture of the Pyramids of Giza.

Mummification!

Primary 4b have been replicating the mummification process used by the Ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies of their kings and queens.

Scooping out the insides

Then carefully recording the weight of their tomatoes before embalming

 Carefully filling  the tomato with a mixture of bicarbonate and salt.

This was to replicate the Natron used by the Egyptions.

Finally wrapping the bandages.We made predictions about what will happen.
We will unwrap them, weigh them and record the changes in one months time. 

Maths Week Scotland

GEOMETRIC ART CHALLENGE 

We learnt about the importance of geometry in art and learnt that many religious buildings around the world are decorated with geometric patterns. We then created our own geometric designs.

Holly carefully using her ruler

Toni-Marie outlined her finished pattern

Miley-Skye colouring her finished design

Chanel ensuring every line creates perfect symmetry

Our first challenge was to build a cube using using 8 cubes(4 different colours) Each face of the cube could only have one of each colour!

An even bigger challenge was to build a cuboid from
16 cubes with no two colours the same on each face.

The next challenge was with a cuboid-
Holly and Jamie completed it first!

Great team working!

Mummies

This week P4a have been learning how the Ancient Egyptians prepared their dead for the afterlife.
We explored this ourselves by mummifying an orange!

First, Mrs Bartoletti made a cut in the orange. Then, the children worked in pairs to scoop out the inside of the orange. Next, we filled our orange with a mixture of salt and bicarbonate of soda. After that, we used a bandage to wrap it up. Finally, we left it in a warm dry place and we will check on it in 3 weeks time. I wonder what will have happened to it?

 Aiden scooping out the insides

Teamwork from Connor and Levi

 Skye removing the insides

                                                    Emmalee and Aaron didn't like the juice squirting out the orange!

 Kyle and Skye

Jayden and Sabreena

Alisha wrapping up the mummy

Ancient Poo

Primary 4 have a great start to the new school year and we are enjoying our new topic Ancient Egypt.
The boys and girls were horrified to discover how they would investigate what the ancient Egyptians ate! At the STEM Hub we used our observation skills to examine some ancient Egyptian poo!!

One Mrs Bartoletti told them it wasn't actually real, then everyone enjoyed picking apart the poo to search for evidence.

 Brian is not convinced this is a good idea

 Everyone has their lab coats on, ready for some investigations












Aiden and Kyle get to work

Paul took his gloves off to see what the poo felt like













 Aaron found some melon seeds

Cameron Reece and Emmalee dissect the poo

 Hayden thought he found some carrots












 Connor taking a close look at the evidence

 It doesn't smell bad does it Levi?