Tuesday 4 February 2014

Then and Now #4 - Life of Early Humans

hunting
starting fire
On Monday, the Water group spent group time being early humans. The group had such great imagination and creativity that it seemed like we travelled back 160,000 years. We began group time by journeying into the forest and looked for shelter, hunted for food, built fire, and made beddings out of materials from the forest. They loved being hunters but I think one early vegan did exist in the group. Lucas insisted on reviving a hen that another child hunted and he cared for it until the end of our dramatization. The group also showed great teamwork when they gathered wood for the fire. The children noticed that it takes hard work to live the life of the early humans. They have to do and make everything from scratch.
gathering wood

Showing care
our bed
In the end I asked the children if they would like to live in the times of the early humans. Molly, Theo and Lucas would not want to because there are too many things to do and Lucas does not want to hunt animals. And Allye and Alfie quite enjoyed the life of early humans and wouldn't mind living around that time.

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