Symbols and Stories

This week the students found two artifacts in our classroom.  One was a clay pot and the other a gourd with symbols on them.  Upon doing research we found that these symbols were also found on petroglyphs in a historic site near Peterborough, Ontario and created by First Nations people hundreds of years ago.  The students divided into groups to do some further research and uncovered what the symbols represented.

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This week students also created their own symbols to represent stories that were important to them.  These stories were based on a family tradition, celebration or ceremony. They then created artwork incorporating these symbols and a collection of family photos that they had brought in.