Ancient Egypt
By
Ms. Shellenberger’s Second Graders
Stony Point School
October 2007
We dedicate this book
to
the people of Ancient Egypt
and
the historians
that provided us with information
so we could learn
about this great
civilization
and
the people who want
to learn more
about
Ancient Egypt.
Process for Mummification
First we bought a chicken, then we named it Chicken
Tut. We poured salt on the chicken and inside of the
chicken. It smelled a lot. Then we wrote the date.
After that, we wrote the weight and the circumference
of the mummy. Every Monday, we changed the salt and
weighed it and measured its circumference. It took
about 7 weeks to dry out. When it is dried, we will clean
the body and rub salt and spices all over the body. Then,
we will wrap it in linen and place it in the sarcophagus for
the after life with a few things with it.
We kept Chicken Tut in this box in the basement.
Process for Sarcophagus
First, two of us taped up some cardboard. We made
paper mache. We took old newspaper scraps, dipped it in
and put it on the sarcophagus. We let it dry and then we
put on more paper mache. We built up the face and we
punched holes for the eyes. And then we painted it to
look like solid gold.
When Ms. Shellenberger told us that we could study
ancient Egypt, we started a brainstorm list of all the
things we knew about Egypt and all the things we wanted
to know.
Egypt
Water clock
Bowel-shaped clock
Appearing early 4000 B.C.
Time keeper operated by water
Oldest time measuring instrument found in Egypt
By Lauren Haggard
Isis
Great magician
Goddess of Egypt
Famous for her magic
Woman with vulture head-dress
Solar disk between pair of horns
By Haylee Hutchins
Bastet
Cat goddess
Daughter of Re
Goddess of fire cats
Home of the pregnant women
Woman with head of domestic cat
By Gracyn Goldstein
Crook
And flail
Signified as royalty
Held across king’s chest
Used at some ceremonial occasions
Carried at reigning pharaoh’s coronation
By Reece White
Hippo
Nile River
Goddess of childbirth
Protected expected mothers
Ammut part hippo people feared
Most popular goddess of the household
By Shep Burris
Sekhmet
Powerful one
Goddess of war
Head of great lion
Sister and wife of Petah
Created by fire of Re’s eye
By Eriq Carter
Sphinx
Mythical creature
Guards Khafre’s tomb
Body of recumbent lion
Head of ram, falcon, person
Invented by the Ancient Egyptians
By Camille Blaine
Lotus
Religious flower
Adored by Egyptians
Egyptians sung for lotus
Observed as a national plant
Belonging to the waters of Nun
By Simran Shah
Thoth
Unusual god
God of learning
Man with ibis head
Worshipped widely throughout all Egypt
Created himself through power of language
By Madelyn White
Eye
of Horus
Lost by Horus
Battle to avenge father
Most powerful symbol in Egypt
Called the wadjet or “healthy eye”
By Caleb Cassell
Cleopatra
Very smart
Queen of Egypt
She was not beautiful
18 when she became queen
Her face was on ancient coins
By Chamiqua Chambers
Ibis
Long neck
Long-legged bird
Connected with God Thoth
God of writing and mathematics
The scribe of the gods and moon
By Jillian Corwin
Nef
Snake god
Lived on Earth
Shed skin and poisonous
Represented many gods and goddess
Known for creation, regeneration and protection
By Lucian Talyor
Necropolis
Ancient cemetery
Egyptian burial place
Place of ancient civilizations
Cemeteries outside of large towns
Necropolis built for many reasons
By Parker DeVillier
Scarab
Dung Beetle
Depicted the sun
Rolled balls of dung
Rolled sun across the sky
Beetle in several Egyptian art work
By Jazmen Fitch
Ancient
Step pyramid
Six separate layers
Several layers of stone
Contained a 90 foot shaft
Led to underground chambers and passageways
By Duncan Miller
Sobek
Large crown
Crocodile headed man
Bodyguard to the gods
Has strength of the pharaoh
Protected the pharaoh from evil magic
By Danny Talbert
Egyptian
Funeral boat
Made by hand
Used chisels for boat
Buried in the pharaoh’s tomb
Rowed boat along the Nile River
By Blake Lilley
ankh
Sun rising
Symbol of life
Cross with a loop
Known as the Egyptian cross
Gods carry or hold across chest
By Nan Myers
Gold
Cobra Statue
Feared and respected
Had dangerous magical powers
Egyptian gods are seen wearing
Re gave gift of possible destruction
By Grant Beretz
Anubis
Jackal head
God of mummification
Path through the underworld
Carved on most ancient tombs
Hunted
at edge of the desert
By Sukhmai Kapur
Sound
or
Letter
short
A
Example
cat, bar
long make, air,
Hieroglyph
Sound
or
Letter
long
O
Example
rose, sew, mow, boat
A
way, hey
OO
food, blue
B
baby
OO
book, push
soft
C
nice, circus
hard camel, sick,
C
Christmas
P
QU
pet
Q+U sounds like K+W, so
combine the K and W
hieroglyphics
Hieroglyph
CH
D
short
E
cheese, catch,
picture
dog, delta
earn, pet
long be, bleach,
R
soft S sit, nice, rats
sharp
S
E
Mary, radio
SH
F
fish, phone,
tough
T
soft gorgeous,
G
hard
G
H
short
I
gym, judge
girl, ghost
how, who
hid, bit
rain
dogs, fission, measure
ship, sugar, mission,
friction, machine
tiger
TH
Egyptians had no sound
for TH. D is probably the
closest match.
TH
They also didn't have a
sound for the TH in thing.
Closest match is probably
T.
short
U
long
U
cut, about, ugly
rude, food, blue
long I hide, byte
J
jungle, judge
K
pick, kid,
technology,
clique
L
lead, bell
M
mummy
N
Nile
short
O
dog, all, shawl
V
viper
W
wind, what, cow
X
X sounds like K+soft S,
so combine the K and soft
S hieroglyphs
hard
Y
you, rayon
vowel use hieroglyph for long E
Y
in words like ready and
Mary
vowel use hieroglyph for short
Y
and long I in words like
gym and byte
Z
zebra, dogs, fission,
Xerox
We loved making our names in hieroglyphics. We used a gold
pen because there was a lot of gold there.