What religion did the Ancient Egyptians believe in?

Our question for our topic work this week is, 'What religion did the Ancient Egyptians believe in?'

Here are some websites to have a look at and you will also need these sites for Monday's lesson.


http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/interactive_fs.asp?swfpath=history/egypt/egyptiangod.sw

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html

http://www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/0egyptintro/1egypt/index.htm

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/egypt/gods.htm

Hieroglyphic Signs

As you know, we have been learning about how the Ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphs to read and write.We used what we had learnt to make hieroglyphic signs for around the school. We made signs for around our classroom as well as one for each class and other important areas like the office, hall and library.
Here are some photos of some of our signs.

Websites for literacy - Egyptian God Seth

Here are websites you can use to make notes in literacy about what happened to Seth after he killed his brother Osiris.

http://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/seth-the-egyptian-god.html

http://www.artyfactory.com/egyptian_art/egyptian_gods/seth.htm

http://www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/0egyptintro/1egypt/index.htm

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html

http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/interactive_fs.asp?swfpath=history/egypt/egyptiangod.swf

Wednesday's Website!

Dear Scarlet Macaw Base,

Here is the website for Wednesday's lesson!!! Click on it and it will take you to your work :)


http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/hglyph4.htm

From
Mrs Collin

About Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Today we found out about Egyptian hieroglyphs. Here is a little of what we found out:

• The ancient Egyptians began to develop a writing system over 5000 years ago around 3000BCE. Today we call this writng system hieroglyphs.

• This writing was uncovered by the Rosetta Stone. Hieroglyphs use small pictures which represent the sound of the object or an idea associated with the object.

• The name or noun hieroglyph means sacred carving. If we use it as an adjective the word changes to hieroglyphic as in hieroglyphic writing.

• There are over 700 signs and there are no hieroglyphs for vowels.

• Hieroglyphs can be written and read from top to bottom or from left to right or right to left, it all depends on which way the person, animal or bird is facing.

• Hieroglyphs were written on papyrus reed, which is a water or marsh plant, with tall straight hollow stems.The reeds were flattened, dried, and stuck together to make pages. The Egyptians also carved hieroglyphs onto stone and painted them on the walls of the tombs.

Can you do some hieroglyphic writing?

Egyptian Hierogylphs

What language did the Egyptians use?

This week we are going to be looking at Egyptian language. You may already know a bit about Egyptian writing - hieroglyphs - but if you would like to learn more here are a few websites to look at:


www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/home.html.
This website gives information about different types of writing and script.

http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/history/egypt/hieroglyphs.asp
More information about hieroglyphs and Egypt in general.

http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/hglyph4.htm

Welcome to the Spring Term!

Our topic this term in Incredible Egyptians and by now you will be aware of how excited the children are about this topic!

Below are some websites that you might like to look at with your child:


http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Egypt.html

http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/history/egypt/

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/ancient_egypt.htm

Have fun!