Hunting Lodge Experience

On November 7, Students from Elma Primary
 and Marilla Primary had the fabulous experience of
working with Earth Spirit to learn about the Iroquois.
Students moved through three different stations learning about Iroquois artifacts, folklore and game and building an authentic hunting lodge.
Students from Mrs. Harvey's class wrote captions to commemorate their experience...

Look at all the Iroquois artifacts!

Mr. Scott chooses volunteers to be the Iroquois tribes.
Avery was chosen as the clan mother for the Cayuga Eagles.

We even got to feel some different artifacts.
Ty and Dylan are feeling the moose skin.

Oh No!  A "leaf-a-lanche!"
Sam, Kiarah and Emma are going in the Hunting Lodge that we have finished.

Jacob is carrying wood for the lodge.

Emma was cold, but cool!

Kaidence and Jenna are piling leaves to cover for  the Hunting Lodge.

Kiarah is working hard on the hut, and working hard
at not getting dirty.

Did someone order a pound of leaves?
Owen did a great job collecting leaves for the lodge.

Pick me!

Listen up and start building!

This is the hunting lodge like the Native Americans made.
Four fourth grade classes worked on it.  We built this out of wood and leaves.  

The new and improved hunting lodge!
Our Hunting Lodge has been finished...first the wood then the leaves now all our hard work payed off. We all worked together to build one big hunting lodge.   Always believe.

Mrs.Harvey,Isabelle and Shannon are in the Lodge that we built out of  logs, sticks and leaves.
Isabell says, "I could sleep in here, but not by myself!"

Inside the lodge, it is dark from all the leaves and sticks covering us.
Isabelle was tired and dirty, so she took a break inside.

Looking at the Iroquois artifacts with Mr. Scott...this weapon was called the belly ripper.

We shook it up with these Iroquois maracas!
Isabelle and Shannon were having a lot of fun singing with  Scott.  Shannon was shaking
the rattle as hard as she could.

We learned lots of different games.
All the students learned how to play double ball.
The Iroquois girls played double ball but the  boys played lacrosse.
Playing double ball was really hard.

We are anxious to use Native American instruments.  

Playing games outside was a lot of fun.

Target practice!

We are lining up to shoot corn through a hoop!
We are getting ready to play a game where you have to throw a piece of hard corn through a moving hoop.

Ready?  Set.  Corn!
We tried to shoot a corn dart through a hoop.  It was really hard.

You need good accuracy for this game!

Jenna was chosen to be a clan mother.