Native American Headdress

This week we learnt that all Native Americans wore a feathered headdress they were 

mainly worn by Native Americans from the Plains region. They were only awarded for 

brave acts and even then they only earned one feather! Each time the chief, warrior, or 

other important tribe member committed a brave act, a feather was added.  Therefore, 

the more feathers in the headdress, the braver he was.

The most prized of all feathers to receive for an Indian headdress was the Golden Eagle 

feather. Because the Indians saw the eagle as a messenger of God, this feather could only

 be earned through hardship, loyalty, and strength.

What do you think of our headdresses? 

Fitness DVD

This week has been a lot of fun but also a lot of hard work on our muscles because Y4P have been making fitness DVDs.

We had to know a lot of exercises and specifically which muscles they worked so we could explain to our watchers what to do. Not only that, after watching Miss Prest’s fitness DVD and the energetic Mr Motivator, we knew we had to be enthusiastic throughout.

Check out our DVds here!!!!

Art using triangles!

We have been learning about different types of triangles. We drew a selection of equilateral, isosceles and scalene triangles making sure they overlapped each other and created new triangles. We then categorised these new triangles. 

Can you see how many of each triangle we have used? 

Tipi challenge

We have been learning about traditional Native American houses and today we focused on the Tipi. Tipis were easy to build and take down for the Plains tripe who had to follow the buffalo.

We were put into groups and set a challenge to build a tipi. It had to be sturdy, decorative (using only colours Native Americans would have access to), we had to work well in groups and we had to recall as many facts about tipis as possible.

The winning team was Solytha, Jing Jang, Minori and Muk! Well done.