Cave paintings, ploughing and digging.

Thank you for all of the home learning about the Stone Age. We found out that English Heritage look after some important old places, including Stonehenge. We had some great pictures of the sunrise at Stonehenge.

We have started to think about different eras in time. We have started to build a timeline. The first labels that we have put on the timeline are; dinosaurs, ice age, old stone age and new stone age. We will continue adding to this throughout the week.

After break we went out to the roundhouse and found out some more information about the stone age.

We used our knowledge that we learnt from dancing with Kate and Corwen to tell Antony about hunter gatherers and tools which were used in the stone age.

We then split into groups and either went and ploughed using an Ard with Mr Farrington, or we started to make a stone circle and finally one group started cave painting with Antony.

Mr Farringtons group used their determination and muscles to pull the plough through the grass! Later on in the week we will be sewing some seeds.

The children in the roundhouse had to grind ochre down to make a powder. Oil was then added to the powder to make paint. The children used the paint to colour a cow and have also started some hand prints using paint brushes to flick the paint.

This afternoon the children got to watch a theatre companys take on The Wizard of Oz.