Early Civilizatons

What a week!!! Well, I almost logged another 60 hour week and on top of that got a fabulous little cold from one of my students!!!  However, I made it to Friday! The past two weeks, we have been learning about Early Civilizations.  In all honesty, I was terrified to teach Social Studies because I have never liked history and I know very little about it. But, I actually really enjoyed teaching about the first people who ever came to North America and my students seemed to be into it as well. The other reading teacher and I really try to integrate our reading and social studies so we read a story entitle "Sees Behind Trees". The story is about a boy who is nearly blind but is expected to shoot a bow and arrow in order to receive his new name to become a man. However, he uses his other senses such as hearing and smell and is able to do things that the other Native American boys are not able to do.  At the end of the story, he is blindfolded and is asked "what do you see?". Though he can not physically see, he uses his senses to accurately describe a man approaching from a great distance away. Therefore he earns the name "Sees Behind Trees".  Today, we made Native American necklaces and came up with our own names based on something we are good at. My name was "teaches while exhausted".  Below are some pictures of us with our necklaces!!! And yes, my students are normally this wild and crazy!