Thank you to all of you who have reached out to me asking why I have not posted anything lately. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that anyone is really reading this blog and that people are really interested in our normal lives. So, thank you for your encouragement... I have a few new posts coming your way!
Our Social Studies weekly newspaper (which we LOVE) has had us studying California Native Americans. Each week we open up a new full-color newspaper with articles and activities (and a test at the end of each week). We have been studying specific tribes and so I took the kids to the library and got some non-fiction material (I sound like a teacher, right?) to study one tribe more in depth. The kids each read about their tribe and picked 3 adjectives to describe their tribe from a long list that I gave them:
The next day, we discussed animals that matched each adjective (you'd be surprise to learn that pigs symbolize organized, cows = swift?) So, then they chose animals to match their adjectives and therefore had their totem pole animals.
That was as far as I could take them. I knew what the finished product should look like because of an idea I had seen on Pinterest (you could lost there, right?), but I had no idea how to get there. That's where my secret weapon comes in! Fernando (Mr. Artist with a Master's Degree in Education) used his usual Wednesday art class to show the kids how to cut shapes and add detail to make these COOL totem poles.
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