2nd Grade Egyptian Cats & Dogs

Here are a few images from a recent 2nd grade project. If you're a long-term reader, you'll know that we've been doing this project for the last several years in 2nd grade. Students are absolutely intrigued by Ancient Egypt and really enjoy the project. 

Not too much was different this year in terms of technique for this lesson. I swapped out oil pastels for colored pencils. My students have better control with the colored pencils, but they just don't have the nice pop of color the pastels provide. I'll probably give them a choice next year. Enjoy!

Students use a rough hieroglyphic translation
 to write their name on their work.
They think that part is super cool!

 Check out my lesson plan here!

2nd Grade Egyptian Cats

2nd grade just finished a project based on Egyptian culture and design.  Each student made an Egyptian cat with many patterns.  In addition to the cat, each student wrote their names in hieroglyphics.  These projects came out very well and are currently on display in the commons.  

Egyptian Cats

Second grade students at Thomas recently finished creating Egyptian cat paintings. After learning all kinds of great facts about Egypt, students got to work on drawing and painting cats with Ancient Egyptian decoration. A favorite part of this project is that students got to write their names on their project using
Egyptian hieroglyphics.