Stone Age Boy

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In the warm periods between the Ice Ages, Britain became as hot as Africa is today! Elephants, hippos, rhinos and hyenas all moved north through Europe to live in Britain.

An introduction to life in Neolithic Britain through the eyes of a typical family as they attempt to hunt and farm enough food to live on. Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it on a fire . After a good day’s hunting people could feast on meat. But the next day they had to start finding food again! The Stone Age in Britain took place between around 15000BC to 2500BC . The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age.The use of ellipses throughout helps build interest and suspense which really drew the children in and made room for plenty of predictions. 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. This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about 'Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills. 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! Find out about the shelters that were used by stone age people. What materials did they use? How were they constructed? Could you make your own model?

This collection contains curriculum relevant videos, quizzes and games to help Years 3/4 and P4/5 History students with:Here is one of them. I would like to introduce you to your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great… 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.