Team Cialis (Yr 4)

Welcome back to Term 4! This term will be exciting with lots of activities planned for the children.

Our PE days will be Monday when we have Outdoor PE.

In Topic, we will be studying Food for Thought. This is a really intersesting topic about the food we eat, how we digest it, and all about our teeth and the teeth of animals.

If you have any questions about this term please do get in touch by email.

Last Friday, we had great fun on Number Day! We went around each class completing lots of number investigations. We unlocked treasure by decoding number facts, we made Tasia Puzzles, we even found the positions of an imaginary staff football team.

In 1799, French soldiers found the Rosetta Stone in the Nile Delta. It was found that the Rosetta Stone contains writing in 3 languages: Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Decoptic, and Ancient Greek. Scholars used the Ancient Greek translation to decipher the Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Therefore, the Rosetta Stone allowed us to decipher hieroglyphs on other artefacts so we could learn more about Ancient Egyptian life.

The Rosetta Stone contained some names, names were contained in cartouche. The children had the opportunity to try and decipher the names using magnifying glasses and a hieroglyphic alphabet.

On Wednesday 7th February, Year 4 will have a history day focussing on Ancient Egypt. Your children will need to come to school dressed in Ancient Egyptian costumes. Please don't spend lots of money or time on these costumes! Last year a lot of children made their costumes at home.

During the day, the children will be learning history study skills and taking part in a historical investigation. The children will then present their finds to the class.

Today, year 4 mummified tomatoes. We did this to find out the best method of preservation for an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh. We mummified 5 tomatoes in total: one with salt, one with sugar, one with oil, one with all the preservatives together, and we also mummified a tomato without any preservatives as a control.

This term's Art to Start was Ancient Egyptian Cartouche. Team Cialis made cartouche out of clay engraving these with their own initials in hieroglyphs. The children then painted their cartouche carefully with golds, whites, reds, or green.