Year 4 - Back to the Stone Age

 Today, Year 4 was introduced to their new IPC topic: Scavengers and Settlers. Over the next few weeks, we'll be exploring the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. To start us off, our students were encouraged to come dressed in themed clothes for the day. 

The day's activities were focused on key inventions through prehistoric ages from the first stone tools to the invention of money and writing. We took part in a number of different activities that replicated how our ancestors may have created the same items. We tried carving our own Stone Age sculptures, and creating our own cave painting. Then we tried our hands at weaving and creating clay coil pots. Finally we found out about the first known writing (cuneiform) and tried writing our initials on mini tablets and looked at the first coins made in Turkey and tried our hand at making some. 

"I want to learn more about the Iron Age and Bronze Age." Tylor

"I really enjoyed making the clay pots" Evangelin

"I found out that the Stone and Bronze Age made pottery." 

"Some of the tasks started off hard, but got easier so learned that I should never stop trying." -Elodie.