February 24, 2017- Catch the buffalo!

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: practice multiplication facts
Field trip form due Monday
Planning form due Monday
Field trip next Tuesday

What did we do today?

• We started the day with Daily "3", and caught up on some reading and writing tasks from the week.
• We were put in groups today.  Our job was to act as surveyors and count the trees in a certain area of the Whispering Woods on a given map.  We had to count how many trees were on the Dr. Coffin property.  We counted a total of about 1 837 trees!  Ms. Jones reminded us about how Mrs. Gummo, our resident artist from last year, stated that every tree represents one buffalo that used to live on the land.
• We played a game called Sneak Up outside where two students were the buffalo and the rest of us were hunters.  If the two buffalo turned around towards the hunter, the hunters had to stop and freeze.  If the buffalo saw any movement, they would call the hunter out and they would become a rock.  One thing that we learned was that there were three different ways the Blackfoot hunted the buffalo: using a buffalo jump, a pound to corral them or they chased them on horses, once they got horses in the 1800s. We also learned that the buffalo allowed white wolves near their herds.

Questions:

1. What was the most efficient way of hunting buffalo?
2. What are some of the other techniques they used to put up the tipis?
3. What is the actual number of trees in the Whispering Woods?
4. What other animals did the buffalos allow near their herds?