Native American Village

We went on our annual field trip to a local Native American village.  It rained...and rained...and rained.. and then it rained some more!  Our first section of the field trip, was touring the houses.

We spent more time inside where we were dry. 

 

 Benjamin and Emerson, my grandsons, came along for the field trip since they were up visiting. 

 William, my newest grandson, also came along. He wasn't quite as interested as Benjamin and Emerson.

 Brady and Anthony were so good about watching after the boys, making sure they kept their umbrella over their heads..  (Thank you again, boys!)

 Our second section of the field trip, was taking a hike through the forest.  Mrs. B., 'my sister', lead the tour...in the rain.

 Finally, it was lunch!  We sat under a covering and inhaled our lunches. 

 Our third and last part was making dentillium nccklaces.  We each could use 14 shells and also some beads.  Each student was able to select a piece of abalone for their necklace, too.

 Emerson and Benjamin were happy to take a picture with their 'new friends', all wearing their necklaces.

 Jullian showed me her necklace... and now she tells me she's moving to Oregon!  We're going to miss her!!!!

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Watercolor with Mrs. O

 

We've just spent 8 weeks doing art with Mrs. O...

Last week, we drew a still life of flowers...

 

and today, we painted them with watercolor...

They were all so different, and so beautiful!

Some had dark backgrounds...

Some had no backgrounds...

and, like I said, they were all beautiful!

 

Ethan liked a dark background...

 so did Haley...

 Travis' background was pale...

 not so with Jullian...

 Anna put a lot of work into her vase and the flowers...

 

Aaron loves to paint...

 so does Alexis...

 Kasey was really taking her time...

 Phoebe was trying to decide what to do next

Anthony was having fun painting his...

Dakota was really concentrating on his painting...

 
so was Nathaniel...
 
and then there's Kyrie.  "Don't look!" she said as she covered up her painting!

Art with Mrs. O...we'll miss that time!

Tribes

We've been studying about some of the California tribes....

learning that they lived like they did because of the resources available to them...

After reading and studying about them, we divided the class into tribes.  Each tribe had certain topics they had to research.  They took notes...wrote those notes into their own paragraphs...drew an illustration for each topic... then organized their posters.

The last part of the project was presenting their posters to the class.

That's what these photos are about.  I'm not sure why I took a lot of the Yokut tribe, but only one of the others... 

The Yuroks!

The Pomo!

The Chumash!

The Mojave!

The posters are hanging up in our room...be sure and check them out when you're at school.