Year 4 - Introduction to Ancient Egypt
Date: 23rd Feb 2026 @ 3:52pm
This week, we spoke about what we already know about Ancient Egypt then for the rest of the lesson we looked at what we could quickly find out about them. We went on an ‘information run’ where we had to go and find a new piece of information out about Ancient Egypt and take it back to our groups and share it. We when shared all these findings together as a class and added them to our class mind map. Next, we were given a scene from Ancient Egypt and we had to find the things which were the odd one out because they didn’t exist in Ancient Egyptian times.
Here’s what we found out about during the lesson:
- They had mud houses with flat roofs.
- They had lots of gods.
- It started 5000 years ago and lasted for 3000 years.
- They used tools to make flour for bread.
- They had a calendar the same as us and it has 365 days (but it was solar).
- Their river is called the river Nile, and it will helped grow their crops.
- They wrote using hieroglyphs.
- They invented paper (Papyrus).
- Pharaohs were kings who were in charge
- Kings did not have any crowns
- They did not have Oak trees
- So many people that lived in Ancient Egypt usually lived next to the river Nile because it went from the top to the bottom and they need the water to water their crops
- The Great Pyramid took 5000 men to build
- They did not have any electronics.
- They fished with nets
