This week the Grade 5’s spent an amazing day outside at Crawford Lake. We learned all about the Iroquoian village that existed there over 600 years ago, and experienced the local First Nations history. We touched a grinding stone, played lacrosse, and even made fire using birch bark and dried milkweed. From listening to Turtle Island creation stories inside a longhouse to learning that the aboriginal people used hemlock as a cure for scurvy because it has three times the vitamin C of oranges, the day was full of hands on learning that brought our Social Studies unit to life.
