Hieroglyphs

Today we learnt about hieroglyphs.  This is a writing system used in Ancient Egypt.  It uses pictures for words and letters.  Here is an example of a hieroglyphic alphabet.


Then we started to make cartouches of our names.  A cartouche is a design drawn around the names of people.  Important people had cartouches made.  Drawing a cartouche around a person's name meant that the person would live forever and be protected forever.  Here we are making our cartouches.


And some of our finished examples...