EYFS
Early Year celebrated Egypt as our chosen country for International Day.
Through pictures, stories and discussion we learned many new facts about Ancient Egypt.
The Egyptians were lucky as they lived along the River Nile. This meant that they could use the water to grow crops, to get food.
We had a go at stepping into the past and created our own pyramids. We worked together to solve the problem on how to build a pyramid.
Egyptians were great at coming up with things to heal the human body. They used mouldy bread to heal wounds quickly and to stop infection and a lot of the time, it worked! We put some bread in a dark cupboard for a few days and examined the mould. We decided that we would prefer not to try it!
The ancient Egyptians usually wore green and black make up. The green was made from copper and the black was lead! It protected their skin from the hot sun, but they also believed it had healing powers too.
We read a book about the Egyptian measurement system. We learnt how to use our fingers to measure in digits, palms, spans and cubits. We went outside and measured our height using these measures.
On Friday, Early Years were able to showcase the beautiful, elaborate headgear, bracelets and emblazoned gold collars which they had each carefully fashioned.
Other art activities included Tutankhamen’s headdress, pyramids, the scarab beetle and camels which were used for our door display.
By Mrs Ward

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