Egyptian Day

Barnett’s 6th Grade Gift of the Nile Egyptian Day activities. Each year students create Egyptian collars of a specific color to represent their class during their rotations. This year alongside the collars they created Egyptian cartouches, necklaces that have their initials carved in clay using hieroglyphics, to represent each person. Students rotated to each of the 6th mummies. In Mrs. Laudato’s rotation they mummified apples in which they are anxiously waiting to open at the end of the month. In Mrs. Spencer’s class students created a sarcophagus box and placed a curse for their mummy apple within it. All students were given a golden pyramid to write two things they have learned in their Egyptian unit. These were collected and pieced together to form a larger pyramid outside of the sixth grade classroom. Students enjoyed all the festivities and the opportunity to learn about the past through the fine arts. The sixth grade celebrated the culmination of their Egypt and Mesopotamia units with the grade classrooms. In Mrs. Peterson’s class the students drew.