Saturday, November 7, 2009

Where did the Indians go?

This week we studied about Indians. It was a lot of fun we started by reading "Who Were the First North Americans?" I really enjoy the Usborne books, they have a ton of variety and there books are really easy to understand and fun for the kids.

We read about Totem polls and then we made our own. Only instead of wood.... {we have yet to reach an age of carving} so we used marshmallows and editable markers.




We watched some videos with Indian dances. {this is a hoop dance, and it's really cool}


We talked about the houses the Indians lived in and the difference between a Tee Pee and a Wigwam.


We made headdresses and necklaces. {Tim did really good with that, his fine motor skills are really starting to sharpen and he was so focused on beading his necklace}




{James is shooting an arrow} {wow.... and that's a really fuzzy picture}


This was a fun unit to work on, and the boys had a good time learning about the Native Americans.

2 comments:

Karen M. Peterson said...

That looks like so much fun! I see stuff like this and wish I'd been homeschooled. I can totally see my mom doing cool stuff like this.

Thank you for visiting on my SITS day. You have an awesome blog!

Jennifer Juniper said...

Oh my gosh! Marshmallow totem poles!!! Brilliant!

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