Year 6 - Chief Seattle

This week Year 6 started a unit of learning about Native Americans, the indigenous people in North America. We learnt that although Christopher Columbus is credited with 'discovering' North America, there were actually hundreds of tribes and nations of Native American people already living there. 

The children researched a tribe of their choice and created informative posters about their ways of life. Ask them to tell you something that they have learnt about Native American peoples' homes, diets, lifestyles or culture. 

In Literacy we learnt about a famous speech made by Chief Seattle to the President of the United States of America when he was offered money in exchange for some of his tribe's land. The children learnt part of the speech as a free-flow poem, and then wrote their own inspired by his words. 

We started a new topic in Science: learning about the human circulatory system. Did you know, during the average lifetime, the human heart will beat 2.5 billion times? We conducted an investigation into how exercise affects our heart rates.