WEEK 45... A SUCCESS :)

Hello Again!

African masterpiece Field Trip= Great Time! Lots of learning!

The kids did such an amazing job finding facts and hunting for answers during the trip today. I am so impressed and proud of them... here's what they worked with:

African Masterpieces ”Question Hunt”

1.)       What do the ”peaceful heads” represent?

  

2.)       Why do these heads have “holes” in the back?

3.)       What are the heads made of?

4.)       What were the heads used for?

5.)       Can you find 3 examples of carvings of deformities/sicknesses etc…AND EXPLAIN WHY!

6.)       Can you find info about a celebration?

7.)       3 Holy Animals? Explain!

8.)       Can you find a Yoruba/Ife symbol?

9.)       Can you find an example of a Shaman? What do they wear? What do they do?

10.)      Holy plants? Examples?

 11.) Who are...

— Orisha-nla?________________________

— Ogun?_________________________

— Esu?___________________________

12.) Can you find where Ife is? Draw a small map!

13.) Can you find something that represents ancestors? Explain

14.) Examples of divination?

Anyway, they learned so much and were so connected to the subject matter that we, again, got a compliment from the museum attendant. Yay!

So, as per our RELIGIONS course, the Animism Unit is complete. Next on the agenda: Hinduism

There will be a small quiz, which I will go over next week, on the follwoing terms (nothing to worry about now unless you have a very ambitious kid who wants to look things up ;):

deity

divination

ancestor

animism

shaman

totemism

oral history

soul

trickster

demi-god

cosmology

Sioux Native American

Wakan Tanka

Orisha

Ife

Dreamtime

Australian Aboriginal

MATH: 

Moving on to...

 ANGLES, CIRCLES, DEGREES, AREA, as part of GEOMETRY

READING/WRITING

Continuing with METAPHOR and SIMILE... analyzation of Robert Frost's "Two Roads Diverged"

HOMEWORK:

ONLY: READING LOG DUE NEXT THURSDAY (the 14th)

No other homework, as I promised to award them their "Costume Prizes"... and said that if I forgot, they'd get a week off. Hhhmmm. I forgot. Silly me.

Have a good weekend ;)

Andy