We concluded our Native American Unit last week with a Tribe Sharing Day. Each of the first grade classes did a presentation on their tribe and each class did an activity with the teacher who taught that tribe. It was a fun-filled day in which the students made dream catchers, made tools from dough, made Inuit dolls, made paint from berries, painted cave walls, and did some Native American Writing. Our tribe, the Chumash, were cave painters and oral story tellers. So in my classroom the students made patin from berries, listened to a legend about the origin of butterflies, and did some cave painting while enjoying the warmth of "the fire." Check out the play our class put on about the Chumash Tribe below.
