Native Americans & Other Stuff

This week we learned about Native Americans.   We are having fun learning our Native American names...mine is Chief Big Foot!  We will call each other by our names for the month of November.  The students are earning feathers just like some Native Americans.  We learned how to play Stick Dice, a Native American game.

 

 The students are learning to work together and take turns.

We worked on our critical thinking skills with this math activity.  The students had to figure out how many triangles, squares, trapezoids, and hexagons they could make using a certain number of popsicle sticks.

Native American Fun!

 Here are some pictures of students weaving mats.

The finished product!  We will use these mats for our Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Feast.

Here are the mats displayed for the November Quilt.

Dream Catcher

We turned our Chicka Chicka tree into a totem pole!

We made growing symmetrical pattern necklaces and  headbands with patterns, too.  Each student is earning feathers like some Native American tribes.

Here are our pinch pots!  We'll add some symbols after they dry.

We painted shirts and will wear them at our feast.

We are learning how to play Stick Dice, a Native American game.

Each student chose a Native American name.  We will call each other by our Native American names until Thanksgiving.  Mine is Chief Big Foot and I am the leader of the Froggy Friends Tribe.