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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.