Day five

This morning we started working on Totem poles!

As a group we learned that 'totems' are the symbols carved on the poles - that's why they're called "totem poles"!!!

We talked about symbolism, we use symbols to help us sometimes so we understood that Native Americans used pictures to tell stories about themselves and their families.

We used pictures printed from the Internet from this site it's a great source for pictures for work totem poles! (it saved loads of work!!)

After we had coloured the pictures we carefully cut them out and stuck them onto Brown paper poles!

We think they look great!
This is just the start of our Totem work.... watch this space!

This afternoon we split into groups for music! We did two different activities, some of us used the sports hall and played musical games and some of us talked about music and emotion and then worked in groups to compose and perform a short piece of music! At break time we swapped and did the activity we hadn't yet done!

We also had a 21st birthday to celebrate today and we ended the session by having cake and singing Happy Birthday!

It was another great day!