January 29

Papyrus Imitation

To launch our new unit on Ancient Egypt, grade 4 students in French Extended watched videos on how ancient Egyptians used the stem of the papyrus plant grown along the Nile River to make papyrus. Since the process of making real papyrus is quite labor intensive, students learned to make an imitation before trying their hand at writing their names using a simple version of hieroglyphics. The results are quite impressive. Please scroll down to the end.