Would you like to live in ancient Egypt?

Madison

            I would not like to live in ancient Egypt.  One reason is I would not like to shave my head.  Another reason is I would not like to swim naked.  A third reason is I would not like to get married at age 13 or 14.  In conclusion, I would never go to ancient Egypt ever.

Asa

            I would like to live in ancient Egypt.  One reason is because I would like to farm animals.  Another reason is because I’ve never seen a camel.  A third reason is I would like to eat sweets like bread and honey.  Furthermore I like the gods and the afterlife (only if I don’t get eaten by Ammit).  In conclusion I would like to live in ancient Egypt.

Anthony

            I would not like to live in ancient Egypt.  One reason is because if you wanted to take a bath you have to take one in the Nile River.  That doesn’t sound bad but it is because there are crocodiles.  Yikes!  Another reason is because you don’t get to choose who you marry.  Crazy!  Right?  Furthermore, in ancient Egypt it was hot and kids’ only choice was to shave their heads.  In conclusion, I will never go to ancient Egypt.  Ever!

Ancient Egypt

We have just begun to study ancient Egypt.  We made maps out of salt dough to learn about Egypt's geography and we are researching by looking at artifacts on the British Museum website.

Magnetic Magazine Articles

We wrote articles about magnets for a science magazine.  We researched by doing some hands-on investigations, reading a book, and watching a film about magnets.  We worked on writing, revising, editing, and formatting.  Here are the finished articles:

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Making Paper Bridges

Mystery Forces

We've learned so much about different forces that it was time to become force detectives and determine which invisible force was responsible for a series of different phenomena.  Look closely and you can see that our suspects were:

• gravity
• magnetic force
• electrostatic force

Magnets: Materials Testing to Prepare for an Engineering Task

We needed to design a magnetometer to find magnetic fields on the surface of Mars.  So, we had to learn a little more about magnets.  We had learned that magnets attract certain types of metals.  But we needed to learn which objects get pulled the most easily towards a magnet.  Here we are testing how close the magnet has to be in order to pull the object towards it.

Revising our writing with a partner

Did you know that 40% of writing time should be spent revising?  Only 20% of your time should be writing the first draft, and 40% should be spent at the beginning planning and gathering information.  Because revising is such an important part of the writing process, we spent a long time doing that last week.  Students had a checklist and a partner to work with.  Once they went through the checklist, they picked a couple things to add in order to improve their writing.  We're working on writing an article about magnets for a scientific magazine geared towards kids in grades k-3.