Download By Mrs. Leathers` Second Grade Class

By
Mrs. Leathers’
Second Grade Class
Stony Point
November 2006
We
dedicate
this book
to
Mrs. Leathers, because she is a good teacher and
teaches us about math, weather and Egypt
Ms. Bean, because she helped us by listening to us
read, and find facts
Ms. Mary Lou because she helped us make the
Egyptian pictures and the Rosetta Stones.
This all began when the other second
grade class was studying Egypt and so we
wanted to do it. We looked at lots of books
about Egypt and many pictures.
We liked the pictures of the insides of the tombs and
the hieroglyphs and wall pictures. We each choose a picture
we liked best. We started studying them. We wrote about
them and drew them. First, we started by drawing the
outside, then the inside, face, eyes, details and then after
that we colored it with colored pencils.
We were reading about Egypt and made a list of all the
animals in Egypt. We got a research packet. It had pages
for the name of the animal we picked, a page for a web with
connections, a page for facts, sources we used and a page for
a rough draft. We then did the final draft copying it from
the rough draft. We also drew the animal.
We made Rosetta Stones. A Rosetta Stone was a huge
stone found in a town named Rosetta. It had writing from
ancient Egypt about the pharaoh and good deeds he did like
bringing the water to the Nile River. We made our own
Rosetta Stone out of clay. We put our own markings, like our
initials in hieroglyphs and good things about us.
by Christiana and Isaiah
The Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead is scrolls, maps and spells
so that a dead person could get to the Hall of
Judgment. There are demons, lakes of fire and
snakes. Osiris would greet the dead person. The
dead person would have to swear that his life had
been good. The final test was the Weighing of the
Heart. They would put the Feather of Truth on one
side of the scale and the dead person’s heart on the
other side. If the feather weighed the same as the
heart or lighter, that meant the person had been good
and he could enter the Field of Reeds and live forever.
If the heart weighed more than the feather, that
meant the person had been bad and a crocodile, the
Devourer of the Dead, would eat the dead person and
his heart.
It took more than being good to find eternal life. The
dead person needed his body to come back to. He
could go back to his body and live forever in paradise.
Tombs were made for the dead person’s body to keep
it safe from harm. Some were just holes in the
ground and some were the three great pyramids. One
of the three great pyramids was for King Tut.
King Tutankhamen’s sarcophagus
Scarab beetle charm to help King Tut get to the Hall of Judgement.
the three pyramids at Giza
King Cobra
By Caitlin Fadeley
The king cobra is not really dancing. If the
flute gets too close, it will bite you so hard, it will
hurt. If you don’t, you’ll be fine and it will not
bite you.
Wild Wild Wolves
By Sekaija Smith
Wolves are close relatives to dogs. When a
baby wolf is born, it can’t open its eyes. In two
weeks, they can open their eyes. Wolves eat a lot
of meat in one day. It’s like eating 100
hamburgers.
King Cobra
By Jonah Sam
Once upon a time there was a sea snake. It
had lots of venom. It was very strong. It was very
dangerous. It ate fish and babies. Then it turned
into a king cobra.
Tortoise
By Christiana Linebrink
Tortoises are being irritated by people building
and their families are getting smaller. They only
eat certain grasses, fruits and herbs. The
Egyptian tortoise is now one of the world’s most
endangered tortoises and is thought to be near
extinction in Egypt.
Gazelle
By Silas Beers
You can track down a gazelle. Look for slightly
curved horns or a black stripe that separates the white
belly from the darker body. You can easily tame a
gazelle if it is a baby. They can run really quick.
They are chosen as food for lots of predators. Gazelles
don’t eat other animals. They eat plants. It’s also
called a gembok. The oryx is the biggest gazelle. There
are many kinds of gazelles. One is called a balloon nose
gazelle.
Cat
By Devon Mundie
In ancient Egypt, if something happened to a
cat while in your care, whether it was an
accident or not, there would be a severe
punishment.
Lion of Egypt
By Abby Schaefer
A lion can weigh up to 277 pounds. They
scratch a tree to tell other male lions that he is
marking his territory. He leaves his own special
scent to tell other lions, that this is his territory.
Lions can eat 66 pounds of meat in one sitting.
When a female lion has babies, the male Shepard
lion celebrates by eating one of them.
Scarab of Egypt
By Joshua Sprouse
The scarab has six legs and two wings. They
have two eyes. They have hairs on their legs and
points on their legs. They eat peoples’ flesh off!
They dig in the dirt. Scarabs live in Egypt in the
sandy deserts near the palaces and sometimes on
farms. Did you know that scarabs live in the red
land, black land and all over Egypt?
King Cobra
By Rodney Moore
He is a sneaky snake. He is poisonous. The
poison is called venom. The venom comes from a
little hole in his mouth under his tongue. He eats
mice, rats and eggs. He loves blood to drink. He is
not the most dangerous snake. He is a king cobra.
Falcon
By Natalie Smith
There are 61 species of falcons. The smallest
falcon is the African pygmy falcon and is about
five inches tall. The largest falcon is the
gyrfalcon and is about twenty-four inches tall.
They eat other birds, insects, lizards, snakes and
small mammals.
ASP/Cobra
By Sophie Heny
The ASP is also known as the Egyptian
Cobra. They live in the desert. They are fast and
most are short, but some are long. They have very,
very bad poison. Their teeth are small. They keep
poison in sacks in their teeth. Some are black and
some are yellow. The Egyptians worship them.
They love and hate them. The ASP represents
“the fiery eye of Re.”
Crocodile
By Steven Ni
Crocodiles are dangerous. They can scratch
your window and they swim in cool water. Also,
their eyes are above their mouth. If a tooth
breaks, they can replace it with a new sharp
tooth. Their eyes, hands and feet are big.
King Cobra
By Nick Mitchell
The King Cobra is almost the toughest snake in the
world and almost the fastest. They have round things
on their neck that look like crowns to make them look
bigger. They spit out poison. They are hard to see when
they are running fast. They eat meat. They can eat
almost anything bigger than their head, even though
their mouth is little.
Wolves
By Aaron Selig
Wolves eat the sick and weak. When a wolf
holds its ears close to its head that means it is
happy. When a wolf wags only the tip of its tail
that means it is ready to attack. A wolf can eat
up to 100 pieces of meat a day.
Dogs
by Navaya Spruill
In ancient Egypt, dogs stood for death.
Greyhounds and Salukis are from ancient Egypt.
Egyptian Dog
by Amir Harris
Man’s best friend was a dog. They made mummies
of dogs. Some dogs were rough.
Snakes
By Isaiah Williams
Snakes sometimes fight off attackers by biting
them. Like people attack snakes, snakes try to attack
them!! Boa constrictors squeeze the life out of their
prey and they have a big mouth. Snakes eat a lot of
eggs. Sand snakes live in Egypt. They have a lot of
venom!!! They never run out of venom!!!
Jackal
By Rebecca Wiseman
The jackal has sharp teeth that rip and tear
meat. It can blend in with nature. The jackal
also has curved teeth. It is really sneaky and
black. It lived in ancient Egypt.
The Cat
By Kierra Johnson-Gault
Cats love mice. They love fish, too. Pharaohs
in Egypt used the cats to kill the mice and the
rats. When they wrapped mummies in Egypt,
they would wrap the cat’s tail inside. They had
lots of cats in Egypt.
Nile River, pyramids and temples
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/s
chool/school.php?sectionid=2171 (portaportal)
a real picture of a tomb wall
Egyptian Numerals
As early as 3500 BC, the Egyptians had extended their use of numbers to
include hundreds of thousands and millions. One of the earliest examples of
Egyptian writing were the hieroglyphs on Narmer or Menes, the first king of
upper and lower Egypt (3000 BC). The numerals on the hieroglyphs cited the
existance of thousands of heads of cattle and thousands of prisoners. This
numerals used indicates that numerals and hieroglyphs already had a long
history.
The Egyptians had a decimal system using seven different symbols.
1 is shown by a single stroke.
10 is shown by a drawing of a hobble for cattle.
100 is represented by a coil of rope.
1,000 is a drawing of a lotus plant.
10,000 is represented by a finger.
100,000 by a tadpole or frog
1,000,000 is the figure of a god with arms raised above his head.
The conventions for reading and writing numbers is quite simple; the higher
number is always written in front of the lower number and where there is more
than one row of numbers the reader should start at the top.
= 12,425 birds
Scarab beetle charm to help King Tut get to the Hall of Judgement.
The Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone was a text written by a
group of priests in ancient Egypt to honor the
Egyptian pharaoh.
It was carved in 196 BC using hieroglyphics and
found in a town named Rosetta.
It lists all of the things that the pharaoh did
that were good for the people of Egypt.
We made our own Rosetta Stones out of clay
and wrote symbols for the good we have done.