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Ross created a wigwam made of willow
branches and reeds. He
spent at least four hours working on his wigwam.
In a different picture he’s next to his wigwam holding
a flap for the door open. |
| KAM made a model of a Chippewa
Indians village. They
make birch bark wigwams. They
also make birch bark canoes. |
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Elliot gave his Native American/Early Settler
presentation on
the book The Sign of the Beaver.
As part of his project he made a Survival Kit that
included some of the items Matt (one of the main characters in
the book) could have used to survive. |
| BIPS did his project on pioneers. He made a model
of the little house in the northern Wisconsin woods (Pepin area)
to go with his book by Laura Ingalls Wilder. |
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Ian showed the difference between a modern kitchen
and an old one. He
also brought in Indian hashed browns for us! |
| Hannah created an Oneida Indian project.
She made an Oneida poster and Oneida longhouse for her
Wisconsin History project. |
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Forrest
found and organized Native American tools he and friends of his
have found. He told
us about the tools and made a key so we could tell which tool
was which! |
| Emily read the book The Cabin Faced West by
Jean Fritz. She
also made a model of the home the book is about.
The best part of the book was when George Washington came
for dinner. |
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Colin created a
timeline for his Wisconsin History project. He thought it was
fun BUT his mom didn’t think so.
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| Brianna presented her Native American project on
Native American Effigy Mounds. The poster on her left shows some areas in Wisconsin where
effigy mounds can be found.
Behind her is a poster showing some of the effigy mound
figures. Also, there is a paper about some Native American tribes.
She had a very fun time learning about all of this. |
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Andrew told
about logging in the late 1800’s.
He made a model of
a logging camp out of cardboard.
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| Adam read Calico Captive.
He brought in egg soup to share.
He is showing a model of a scene he made from the book. |
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Hannah
created an Oneida Indian project.
She made an Oneida poster |
| Erin chose to do her project where you make an
Indian food to bring into class. She made popcorn balls.
It was fun!! She
did like the Algonqin Indians did and caught the popcorn as it
popped! She also used 100%
maple syrup. YUM!!!
(There was a BIG mess after
her so called “Algonqin” experience!!!!!) |
Danny
read the book Caddie Woodlawn.
He wrote a poem about the book he read. |
| Josie brought in an acorn squash and a model she
made of a wigwam on a cardboard platform.
(She also has a log cabin on the right side of the
cardboard platform.) |
Joseph wrote a story called The Story of Black
Hawk. He drew a
picture of the War of 1812.
He also wrote about the Black Hawk War.
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Sean wrote a
poem for his Native American/Settler project. He also drew a
nice picture on the back although he didn’t color it.
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Aaron read Little House in the Big Woods
and he made a popcorn ball treat for the class. |
| Alex made popcorn balls.
They were quite delicious however, several people
commented that they were a little too sticky. |
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