Finding the Mass of Objects

The Vernal Pool

Our class visited the vernal pool at Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center yesterday.

A Visit to the Stream

Our class visited the stream last Thursday.

We collected one salamander and also lots of aquatic insects.  We took these insects back to the classroom to draw.

Taking Notes on the Adaptations of Aquatic Organisms

How do aquatic invertebrates (animals without backbones that live in the water) survive?  We took notes to find out.

Chicks

Egypt Movies

Our class studied the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians.  One thing we learned was that they thought they would go to paradise after death, but only after their soul traveled through the dangerous underworld and had their heart weighed to find out if they'd been good.  After learning all of this, each student wrote a story about this journey and then turned a section of that story into a movie.  It was tons of work but we all really enjoyed doing it.  Our movies about the journey to the afterlife are finally here!

The Gods of Ancient Egypt

Nut was one of the most important goddesses in ancient Egypt. Nut is the goddesses of the sky. She is a woman with stars on her clothes held up by her father Shu. Nut is the twin and wife of Geb the Earth god. She has four children. At night she swallows the sun god Ra and gives birth to him in the morning. Nuts fingers and toes touch the four directions. When a pharaoh dies he is said to enter her body. Nut had lots of responsibilities in ancient Egypt.
        by Ava

Anubis is a god of ancient Egypt. Anubis is the the god of embalming. He carried an ankh which represented life. Anubis is related to Ra, Horus, Horakhty, Amun, Tawaret, Sekhemt, Atum, Khepri, Sobek, and Baset and many others. Anubis guards dead people and their tombs and he washes their organs. Anubis is a important god in ancient Egypt.
      by Liam

Horus is one of the gods of Egypt.  Horus is a man with the head of a hawk.  The eye of Horus cures diseases.  Horus is the falcon-headed sky god.  Horus is related to Isis and Osiris.  I really think that Horus is very impressive.
     by Calvin

Sekhmet, not to be confused with Nekhbet, was the goddess of war in ancient Egypt.  She appeared as a woman with a lioness head.  It is said she could spread diseases out but Sekhmet was also the goddess of healing.  Ra sent her to kill mortals plotting against him.  However, she liked her job so much she slew almost all humanity.  The other gods tricked her into drinking so much beer that Sekhmet slept instead of killing the innocent.  Sekhmet was a very interesting goddess.
     by Anna