After studying the Ancient Egyptian people, third class discovered that people in Ancient Egypt did not use letters and words like we do today. Instead they used pictures known as hieroglyphs. A sentence was made by drawing a number of hieroglyphs in a row. Children wrote on papyrus using pens made from reeds. While we didn’t use papyrus and reeds in class we did attempt to write out the alphabet in hieroglyphs. We enjoyed it so much we decided to write our names in hieroglyphs to match our self-portraits. Try it out using our codes below and see what your name would have looked like in Egyptians times! Also check out the cool pyramid made by Cathal, Adam and James using Jenga blocks. Well done boys!
10:05 pm on January 27th, 2014
It’s good that you are learning about countries. Could you tell me what my name is in Egyptian?
4:49 pm on January 28th, 2014
Thanks Luke! I can see you are very good at commenting on the blog, good boy. Use the symbols that match the letters in your name to write you name. If you have any trouble pop up to the class and the boys would be delighted to show you.
8:32 am on January 28th, 2014
Nice work 3rd class. I hope your parents are very proud of you 🙂
4:50 pm on January 28th, 2014
Thanks Abhishek. 🙂
6:14 pm on January 30th, 2014
Nice job 3rd class!
5:34 pm on February 7th, 2014
You’re welcome Ms. Byrne 🙂