Our African Village

So much has gone on with our African Water Project! We now understand the concept of a water well, how water is cleaned through the layers of the Earth, and how to get clean water from a well. We did a science project in class to clean pond water through a sand filter, and we have done so much art, reading and writing to show all that we have learned. All of our work will be on display in the hallway!

As we have been reading books and learning about the African culture, we have really fallen in love with the colorful clothing and the jewelry that they wear! Look at our "African people" that we have made for our village!

We have been studying the houses and we see that they use hay, mud and sticks to make the houses.

We are making our own "African houses" and learning our shapes at the same time! It took us a couple of days, but we finally made a CONE shaped roof for this house.

After we made our first house, we noticed that some African mud houses are made with bricks. Trevor told us that the cement trucks come and have a "thing" to make bricks. We asked the children if these African villages look like they have cement trucks, and the answer was, "No!". So what do the people in Africa use to make their bricks?

"MUD!!!"

So we are using clay to form our bricks for our next African mud house!

We are making RECTANGLES out of the clay! After we were done, we lined up our bricks and counted how many we made. We drew the number of rectangles and wrote the number that we had. This was great practice for us!

Look at all of our "African Mud House Bricks"! Stay tuned to see the progress on our African Village!