Stone Age Boy

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One day whilst out walking, a young boy trips and falls… into The Stone Age. He meets a Stone Age girl and her tribe. They teach him all about their way of life. He watches them hunt, fish, cook, celebrate, and make clothes, tools and weapons. He wakes up in the modern day, but was it all a dream? Use the first two sentences of the book as the starting point for your own story. What happens when you trip and fall ‘down, down, down’?

Create some puppets of modern and stone age people. Can you use these to perform a play in which the characters explain and compare what their lives are like? Support your class learning about Stone Age Boy with our fantastic collection of resources all based around the stone age and the book Stone Age Boy. Have your class learning and loving it with our great collection. Save yourself time with our fantastic resources Well, there we go, hundreds of thousands of years in a matter of minutes. Did you enjoy that? Fantastic! Me too.I love how the main character was influenced by his Stone Age friend into becoming an archaeologist as an adult! He learned along with the reader which made the story feel like a much more personal and relatable experience. a DT/textiles unit of work where children learn and experiment with different stitches to design, create and evaluate a tabard-style Stone Age tunic. Pupils could be asked to make a list of the ways life in the New Stone Age was different to life in the Mesolithic period: did it change a little or a lot? Use the information in the book to write a set of instructions, teaching people how to carry out one of the tasks that Stone Age people had to do (e.g. making fire, making tools).

No cave paintings have been found in Britain, but Stone Age Britons probably painted scenes like the ones found at Lascaux in France . The Lascaux cave paintings were created around 14,000 years ago . They show animals as well as some human hunters. This amazing picture book about the Stone Age is entertaining and educational at the same time, my year 3/4 class loved it. Stone age people used spears to catch animals. Could you have a javelin throwing competition and see who can throw the javelin the furthest… or closest to a target? Then it was warm. Then hot. Then cold again. Once that was out of the way humans discovered farming and began to settle down in villages. This all happened during the… during the Stone Age… excuse me… stop! Evidence from elsewhere in Europe shows that people living in caves decorated their walls with pictures of animals . Carvings found on cave walls show giant bulls, stags, horses, bison and birds.Satoshi Kitamura was born in 1956. After dropping out of school to pursue art, Kitamura decided not to attempt a 10-year apprenticeship as a potter and instead worked as a graphic artist. He was not trained as an artist, but at the age of 19 began to do commercial work as an illustrator for adverts and magazines. He moved from Tokyo to London in 1979 where he worked mainly at designing greeting cards. Satoshi Kitamura's Stone Age Boy is something of a modern classic of children's literature. With its gently unfolding storyline, vivid language and lovely supporting illustrations, it is the perfect thing for engaging the interest of your KS2 class in a variety of topics including but not limited to English and History. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic people were hunter-gatherers. They got their food by hunting animals and gathering plants and berries. Save 20% on these complete units of work for teaching the Stone Age in KS2! This bundle currently comprises of: Find out what archaeologists do. Could you write a job description for an archaeologist? What skills would you need to have?

a literacy/English unit of work with planning and resources based on Satoshi Kitamura's book, Stone Age Boy. The Stone Age is split into three parts; Palaeolithic (old Stone Age), Mesolithic (middle Stone Age) and the Neolithic (new Stone Age). Planning and resources for the Year 3 and 4 English national curriculum based around Satoshi Kitamura’s story, Stone Age Boy. Eight literacy sessions are planned for children to plan, draft and write, evaluate and edit their own adventure story using the structure, vocabulary and grammar of the Stone Age Boy story as a ‘master’ example. Education Shed Ltd, Severn House, Severn Bridge, Riverside North, Bewdley, Worcestershire, UK, DY12 1AB Alongside this Stone Age Boy Reading Comprehension, we have a wealth of other resources to support reading this exciting story by Satoshi Kitamura. Created in partnership with Walker Books, our activities are perfect to use with your learners in class or your own little ones at home.It’s called the Bronze Age because people discovered how to use metals like bronze for the first time.

The use of ellipses throughout helps build interest and suspense which really drew the children in and made room for plenty of predictions. The ending was my absolute favourite with the picture and a simple sentence as it had so much impact and drove home the idea that cave paintings were discovered by historians many years later and can be used as evidence. It was also just so bittersweet and lovely as it reminded us that Om really did exist! Around 6,500 years ago, a change took place in the way people lived: hunter-gatherers settled in one place and kept animals and grew crops, although they still hunted wild animals when the chance presented itself.Here is one of them. I would like to introduce you to your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great… Don’t worry about that, he’s just saying pleased to meet you. These early Britons were hunter-gatherers. They used flint tools to hunt animals, like deer and mammoths. Stone age people didn’t have plastic or metal. Can you make a list of modern objects that are made using plastic / metal? How would life be different without them? Great resource! Will definitely be using, thank you! If you have any more plans for Stone Age Boy, I would love to use them. Look at the illustrations of the animals on the inside covers. Use these (and other images if you can find them) to create your own pictures.