Whoop! Whoop! Native American Homes Completed!!

As promised, Brave Cooper is proud to share the Native American homes completed this week!  Students from each region did their own blogging.  Mrs. Johnson just typed what they said.  The regions represented are the...

 




Pacific Northwest

First, we used popsicle sticks for building the plank house.  We couldn't decide to use a small box or big box.  So we did both. The one in the picture is the big one because the other one didn't finish. by: Nazarii
Great Basin

The name of our house is the Hogan.  I brought a bowl and we painted it green.  Then we added some bark and hot glued it on.
Next, we glued rocks around the bottom of the bowl. The blue paper is the river and the thing on it is a canoe.  And then the green paper is suppose to be a garden.  Can you see the flowers? by: Kara

 Southwest 
We built a pueblo home.  We used our materials box as the bottom.  And we collected milk cartons from lunch for two days.  Then we glued the milk cartons to the box.  Then we got 4 skewers then stuck them in the materials box.  Then we got a brown piece of paper and stuck the skewers through it so we had a roof.  We got play-dough to form land next to our house.  We had problems with the paint spilling on our land, desks, and chairs!  We had a huge mess on our desks!! by: Keira

 Plains
We built an Earth Lodge and a tee-pee.  Some people  stayed in one place so they lived in the Earth Lodge.  Some people lived in tee-pees because they were nomads, they traveled alot. We used a plastic bowl for the base of the E.L.. We put play-dough on top of it with bark.  For the tee-pee we did a circle of tiny tee-pees with a huge tee-pee in the middle.  The tee-pee in the middle was made out of a plastic cup and a cone paper cup.  Our main problem was we ran out of brown paint.  Our other problem was that we couldn't agree on the "ground" but we put brown paint on it anyway, so we had to paint it brown!
by: Sarah Reilly

 





Eastern Woodlands
So we started with the Chickee and we used sticks, cardboard, and 3 popsicle sticks and hot glue as well.   We painted the floor black and the base green because the Chickee had to be built on stilts because they lived in swamps and had to keep the alligators out.  (by: Connor)  We needed a shoebox, a rectangular piece of wood, popsicle sticks, and a hot glue gun to make the Longhouse.  We had to use the shoebox as the base and we painted it brown.  We used the two pieces of wood, overlapping it and glued it to the shoebox.  After that we used popsicle sticks to cover the piece of wood to make it look more realistic.  Our main problem was that everyone had so many ideas that we couldn't do all of them, so we split up into groups. (by: Jayden)  Me and Connor worked on the Wigwam.  We took styrofoam bowls and stacked them and covered them with strips of brown paper.  After we did that we glued small pieces of bark on top of the brown paper.  And then we painted over the white with brown paint. The main problem was making the door.  We had to use scissors at a 50 degree angle and cut through the styrofoam. (by: Chloe)

Catch of the Week for September 8th

Social Studies– Understand the major motives for early exploration to the new world (political, economic, and technological) TEST Tuesday on N.A. Regions

Reading- Continue reading the novel, Wonder, studying about character traits, story elements, and vocabulary within the text.  We will also study the 5 types of bullying. TEST Thursday on types

Language– We will finish writing our memoirs  incorporating examples of transition words and figurative language. Quotation marks will be introduced. MEMOIRS due Friday

Math-We will continue rounding numbers to nearest tens, hundreds, and thousands using the number line. FAST FACTS and ROUNDING TEST Friday

Science– we will design paper rockets and launch them introducing the terms testable question (how far will my rocket go) and manipulated variable (will the length of my rocket influence the distance).

Precept #1:  Your deeds are your monuments!

Here are the student responses that were selected for the bulletin board:

 

I think that it means that if you do good things it will pay off.  by: Sarah Reilly

 

I think that it means that whatever you do in life will affect you for as long as you live.  So, if you do good things you will be known as a good person.  But if you do bad things you will be known as a bad person. by: Olivia Ireland

 

People remember you for all the good things you do. 

by: Timothy Jackson

 

I think this precept means that your actions will define you, and you need to do good things. 

by: Chloe Moyers

 

I think this means that the deeds that you do can be what you're remembered for in life like helping someone who just needs help.  You can even be remembered by very small deeds in life.  A deed does not have to be big. 

by: Jonathan Lewis

 

 

These Kids Making a Splash!

These students already scored a 90% or better on their FAST FACTS test:

99 Club: Erika, Sarah Reilly, Donnell, Connor

90+ Club:  Keira, Chloe, Olivia, Kara, Jayden

 

Congratulations!  9 Down, 15 to Go!


 

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