Art Work!

My Art!

Over the past few weeks as I mentioned in my last blog post; our topic for school has been Ancient Egyptian. You can read that post below; it was the last post I posted on my blog. As well as learning about Ancient Egyptian in our reading groups, we also did some art about Ancient Egypt. Above here I was trying to replicate an old Egyptian papyrus with hieroglyphics on it. I dyed the symbols and drawings on the artwork. I first drew these symbols and drawings with a pencil. After that, I went over the pencil marks with a black sharpie. It’s really that simple. I really like this art because it really stands out and I like the hieroglyphics I drew on it. By the way the Hieroglyphics are real hieroglyphics. Thanks for reading. Here are the questions…
 

What was your favourite artwork recently?

Why don’t you start your own Egyptian-themed master piece?

Ancient Egyptians

A few weeks back we started doing our school history topic. The topic ended up being Ancient Egypt because they did Ancient Rome last time. I think this topic was interesting, because I don't know much about Ancient Egyptians, aside from them inventing the calendar.

 I think I  have learnt a lot from it over the past weeks. A week ago we had to do a double page spread in a A3 piece of paper; based on a Egyptian topic we liked. I did tombs because I found it interesting.

An Egyptian Tomb.

I learnt I lot about Egypt over the past few weeks mainly in reading groups and doing the A3 double page spreads mentioned above. But perhaps the coolest and most fun activity for the Egyptian topic was building structures based on buildings in the Ancient Egyptian times; from the world the Rm11 and Rm12 teachers made for us to play in.

I think I know a lot more from tombs then I previously did at the start of Term 2. I really did learn a lot from this topic. This has been another blog post by James. If you enjoyed this blog post remember to comment and comment on others. Goodbye blog readers. Come back soon...

Cool Fact:

Did you know that Tutankhamun's burial mask weighs over 10 kilograms! It is made from a mixture of solid gold, lapis lazuli, coloured glass, precious stones and obsidian + quartz for the eyes. If you tell me, I wouldn't mind having a death mask like that!

Tutankhamen or Tutankhamun?

A few blog posts ago I did a thing on the difference between a parallelogram and a rhombus. If you want to know the difference scroll down a few blog posts and read it. I think that it is Tutankhamun, but blogger says its wrong. Although I tried a lot of websites that say its Tutankhamun. I found a few websites that say it is Tutankhamen. Some websites say it can be spelled both ways. If it is spelled Tutankhamun, blogger should fix this spelling error, because its annoying. Do you agree? Do you think Tutankhamun is spelled like this? Or like Tutankhamen. Let me know in the comments below. This has been another blog post by James. Goodbye, blog readers.


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Gymnastics Review.

Every Thursday, for the past 5 weeks we have done gymnastics at Nairnville Recreation Centre. Nairnville Recreation Centre is an indoor sports field. For Term 2 we have been going to Nairnville to learn some sports. Last year we did a different sport each week or sometimes we did the same sport or activity for a few weeks. Now we are doing gymnastics each week, this year.

This is bad because we don’t get to try new sports and learn new things. But in a way gymnastics is good because if you different gymnastic activities will improve a different muscle in your body and make you really flexible. Another reason why gymnastics is good is if you keep on practicing on the same activity over and over again you will get better at it.

I think that I have got better at doing forward rolls, candle-sticks and balance-beam related activities. For gymnastic sessions each week it is split into 3 stages. One stage is told by our teacher what we have to do and the rest by two or more Nairnville staff .My favourite stage is the teacher’s because it isn’t as hard out as the instructor’s courses they set out, by letting us doing forward rolls and bridges.

Before we come to Nairnville the Nairnville staff set gymnastics’ course for our class. They then split the course into three parts. This gives us 11 minutes on each part. A new obstacle they put in the gymnastics course this year is the bouncy air-mat which is pretty fun.

Nairnville Recreation Centre.

As well as doing gymnastics at Nairnville Recreation Centre we play a ton of games and activities such as Snakes, Octopus, and Ship-to-Shore before and after Gymnastics. I really don’t know why we do these games because they don’t tie in with the theme gymnastics. Most have listening in them which I don’t like. The only game I really like is Snakes but we rarely do that game.                          

What I learnt? (Maths)

This week in maths we did a geometry maths test. I learnt was that this shape (below) is a parallelogram not a rhombus; which I thought was a rhombus but apparently a rhombus is a diamond-like shape, which is annoying because they look exactly the same. I learnt that this was a parallelogram because at maths we had to mark this geometry test and I got that question wrong so I paid super attention to what my teacher said about why this was a parallelogram and I now know that this shape is a parallelogram not a rhombus. But could you or someone else tell the difference between the rhombus and parallelogram, because it is confusing. By the way, did you get this question wrong in the test because I know that a lot of people would probably get this wrong as well. This has been another awesome blog post from James. Please write in the comments if you got this question wrong in geometry test or if you have a easy explantion about the difference between the parallelogram and rhombus? Bye guys see you in my next blog post.

James.    

The difference between a parallelogram and rhombus, apparently.