2nd Exhibit Night

Survivor: Ancient Egypt (1st Grade)

Here is what Katie said she liked about being on the Tyet team:
I loved being on the Tyet team because my friends were on this team with me. Survivor was fun. (Which shows that she is a girl, and more important than anything else to her is still her friends!)

Each 1st grader made a sarcophagus that represented themselves. These were life-size and made out of some kind of plywood, I think. They painted them in art class. Katie's label said:

"My sarcophagus represents me. It has gold balls on it. It has lots of red because my favorite color is close to red. My sarcophagus will help me go to the afterlife because it has a beautiful life on it."

And here is her sarcophagus: (Anyone have a good idea of what to do with it when it comes home?)

They also studied the social class structure of ancient Egypt. To demonstrate this, they made drawings of people in the different classes and created this pyramid:

On Exhibit Night, the students came and dressed as an Egyptian (some were mummies, one was a pharoah, some like Katie, were regular Ancient Egyptians)

The class also painted pictures showing what Egyptian life was like. Here are Katie and some of her mummy friends standing in front of it. Katie's part of the painting is in the bottom righthand corner, and she explained that it showed 2 Egyptian people praying to an Egyptian jackal.

Here was another project they did showing Egyptian life:

In this part of the Exhibit, the students brought in a favorite item of theirs to be in their photograph. Here you can also see their Travel Journals:

They studied mummification and the steps involved with it (which, by the way, had Katie scared to go to bed every night this quarter...) and in art made canopic jars. Here's Katie's:

And leading up to their classroom was the Nile River, with quotes from the students about the Nile. Katie's said: The Nile is important to the Ancient Egyptians because every year it flooded, so they built a ditch. When the Nile flooded, the water would go in the ditches so they could have planting land.

And here is Katie's map that she made a few weeks ago...

4th Grade: Going West!

If you are still reading this, :) 4th grade was studying westward expansion. We did a play, which was a week before Exhibit Night, but our Exhibit showed everything that was involved with the play:

In writing, we were doing Tall Tales...

Here is the covered wagon that a grandfather built for us to use in the play. This board had a picture of each student dressed in character and with a statement about why they were going west.

Here is a little collage with some fun pictures from the play: (I don't know why it didn't rotate...)

We also spent a lot of time creating a mural which showed the regions that Lewis and Clark traveled through on their search for the Pacific Ocean. Here, the Plains:

the Rocky Mountains:
and the Columbia River leading to the Ocean...
In science lab, we also built a real (not to scale) sod house....
And here were the backdrops for the play. The students made these (they are 18 feet tall canvasses) and they were hanging on thestage for the play, and we moved them upstairs to our hall and stood on HUGE ladders to staple-gun them to the wall and ceiling...
Are you still reading this? :) If you are, thanks for hanging in there! You won't see another post like this til the next Exhibit Night in March!