Egyptian sculpture

Have a look and listen here.

The art historians are talking about an original egyptian sculpture.

Don't worry if you cannot understand all of the words.

Try to answer some of these questions.

Who is the sculpture of?

What was it used for?

Does the sculpture have a false wig or beard? Why?

Is the head a normal size? Why?

Would the statue have been painted when it was made?

Getting the story started

We talked about different ways we could start our adventure stories today.

Here are some of the beginnings we came up with.

Describe the setting
The busy streets of Bangkok rushed past the windows. It was cold. The a/c was turned up too high and Seb lifted his bag so that it covered his shivering body. Cane was nearly asleep and his head rested against the window. He started snoring and Seb gave him a gentle nudge in the ribs. Cane woke up with a jump!
"Get away from me you horrible dragon!" he screamed.
"I'm not a dragon!" said Seb.
"I was having a horrible dream, and a dragon had just eaten my left foot!" said Cane.

Here's another description of setting, this time with some dialogue

Cane lifted his hand, looked with concentration and brought his hand down in the shape of a pair of scissors. Seb held out a clenched fist.
"I won, I won!" screamed Seb delightedly.

Start with some dialogue

"Stop copying what I'm doing in Rock, Paper, Scissors, " exclaimed Cane.

Which do you prefer?
Are there any other ways we could start a story?

Where is Egypt?

The earth is divided into 2 halves by the equator(Jessie and Samuel).

The earth is also divided into continents (Seb), like Asia(Melyssa) which are made up of lots of countries(Jessie).

Here are the names of the continents:

Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia (Mr Ben thought this continent had other names too), Africa, Antarctica.

Egypt is in Africa.

Here are 2 google earth pictures from the lesson today:

Here is a cool continent game to help you learn the names of the continents and where they are.

Great singing, 3W choir members!

Have you seen Punn's story?

Have you read Punn's story?

Have a look here on the class wiki.

She's written a really exciting mystery story.

Could you write your own one?

Adventure stories on the wiki?

I've just set up a page on the wiki for us to store any adventure stories you have written and edited.

Go here to go to the wiki, then log in and paste in your edited story.

I will then be able to set up a new page for you.

Then readers from the class can read and help you edit the story.

3W authors, get writing!

(Remember that this is an optional project for today)

MyMaths - multiplying

There are 2 exercises for you to do on mymaths. This will be the maths homework for next week, 15th March. You could make a start on this on Friday to get it done quickly.

Here is a video of the grid method which most of us have been learning in class: