Today Year 3 visited Manor Lodge in Sheffield for an interactive fun packed day learning about life in the Stone Age. We started off by creating a human time line of history with the children to give them an insight in to how long ago the Stone Age actually was- almost 4 million years ago!
It was then time to put our teamwork skills to the test! We worked in small groups and were given just 4 objects to try and make a fire. It was much harder than we thought!
Then it was time to go outside and build our shelters. We used sticks, rope and animal fur and worked in small teams to see who could build the most successful shelter. We were surprised at how many of us could fit in each one!
We had lots of fun learning more about cave paintings. We had the chance to create our very own cave paintings by candlelight. Painting in the pitch black with just a small candle was really tricky!
After lunch it was time to learn about how people in the Stone Age hunted and gathered their food. We made our own spears before going out hunting in the wilderness and trying them out on a bow and arrow.
Finally we learnt about the famous Stonehenge structure! Children carried ‘stones’ up the path towards the fields before taking part in a fun race to finish off the day. They weren’t allowed to touch the red parts of the stones and could only use the rolling sticks at the bottom to push it along the floor. This really tested the children’s teamwork skills as they had to work together and communicate to reach the finish line.
