Ancestors!

As a result of our What am I? pictures and the revelation that the Maori were still alive and that some of the children in our class had Maori ancestors, the class has begun asking questions of their parents about their own ancestors. We have put a world map on our window and are showing where children’s ancestors come from as they bring their information into the class. So far our class has ancestors from

England
Scotland
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Lithuania
Germany
Spain
France
Lebanon
Wales
along with Maori Ancestors

We are learning that some of our ancestors did interesting things like Claire’s ancestors were the first people to bring Clydesdales to New Zealand all the way from Scotland. There are other stories to come as the children continue to bring their family stories in.