Native American Legends Week 4

I have lots of planning notes for this block on my website. Here was Week 4.

It was the end of our main lesson block and the end of our school year.

Monday, May 18

• recall and add "The Legend of the Canyon Walls Opening" to MLB
• look at pictures of the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon by Jason Chin



• read new legend:

  
  Turquoise Boy
  retold by Terri Cohlene
  Navajo - Southwest

Tuesday, May 19

• recall and add "Turqoise Boy" to MLB
• look at the Northwest region on the North America Continent Stencil; put a finger on this region and then see far North it is compared to the Equator using the Colored Globe of the Continents; discuss plants and animals of this biome; consider shelter building and look at Houses of wood from the Native Dwellings series by Bonnie Shemie



• read new legend:

  
  Clamshell Boy
  retold by Terri Cohlene
  Makah - Northwest

Thursday, May 21

• recall and add "Clamshell Boy" to MLB
• look at the Far North region on the North America Continent Stencil; look at the introductory card to the Polar Biome three-part cards from the Complete Set of Biome Cards for the Continents
• read Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara Joosse; look at the Mammal card (musk ox) and Bird card (rock ptarmigan) from the Biome Cards



• view video and photos from student trip to Alaska and discuss the transition between two biomes... from lush rain forest to tundra
• hear student report on the Tlingit - Northwest - Alaska
• compare variations of the legend "The Raven and the Box of Daylight"

Friday, May 22

• view remaining photos from Tlingit report (we are so lucky to have had a student experience the culture of this group first-hand!)
• recall and add "The Raven and the Box of Daylight" to MLB
• recall the Polar biome; read Houses of snow, skin and bones from the Native Dwellings series by Bonnie Shemie



• look at the Cultural card from the three-part cards (blanket toss) for the Inuit from the Complete Set of Biome Cards for the Continents

  Note: In the Waseca Biomes Complete Set of Biome Cards for the Continents, there are invertebrate, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal three-part cards for every biome on every continent. There are also cards for peoples for every biome on every continent and how they met their fundamental human needs for food, shelter, clothing, transportation, and culture. A simply wonderful resource!

• read Building an Igloo with black & white photographs by Ulli Steltzer



• scan and send to families (children may color it and add to their MLB) the "Blanket Dance" page from the Indian Dancers Coloring Book



• send families the link to this video of the "Eskimo Yo-Yo" (a colleague who is a Handwork teacher in Alaska is writing up instructions for her students to make these; I will ask her if she's willing to share them and, if so, I'll send them to families for a summer wet felting project)

For parents who are helping their children finish up the MLBs, the steps are as follows. We first number the pages. Then the adult writes the table of contents on the first blank page inside the book (the single page, before the two-page spreads begin). Then the child writes the title on the front cover and decorates it. This title would be Native American Legends. Then the child writes his/her name, age, and the school year on the back of the book. That would be 2019-2020. We also usually write what number book it is in the child's collection, but that can vary per person, and may be difficult to calculate given that you don't have the whole portfolio together yet. So I would suggest writing "May" instead, and adding the book number in June.

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