Students in Mrs. Burns’ second grade class have been studying Native Americans

                of the Far Arctic Region – the Inuit. They wrote brief reports to tell about what they

                had learned.

The Inuit

By Rebekah

The Inuit people lived in Alaska. It was cold. The Inuit wore warm clothing. They ate seal, whale, and fish, such as needlefish and salmon, caribou, and walrus. The woman’s job was to cook the food. The man’s job was to hunt. Their homes were made of chunks of ice. They believed that the Spirits were watching over them.

The Inuit

By Chris

                        The Inuit played games at festivals such as blanket toss, funny face, stick-in-the-hole and pick-up stick. The men hunted. They started to hunt at 10. The women made clothing and scraped fur and cooked the food. When they were done hunting they thanked the animal for its life. All their houses were called igloos. In the winter it was freezing. In the summer it was only cool and sunny. They ate whale, walrus, seal, caribou, polar  bear and fish.

The Inuit

By Jordan

The Inuit lived in the Arctic. The games they played were tug-of-war, funny face, stick-in-the-hole, pick up stick and blanket toss. The food they would eat was fish, salmon, whale, seal, needlefish, walrus and caribou. They usually lived in snow houses, animal skin houses and sod houses. The men’s job was to hunt and teach their son how to hunt. The woman’s job was to cook the food. They would chew the skin to make it soft.

The Inuit

By Abbie

The Inuit lived in a very cold place. The men hunted for food to eat. The children played games. One of the games was the funny face game. The women cooked food for their families. The men taught the boys how to hunt for food for the women to cook. The type of food the Inuit ate was fishsalmon, needlefish, and seal.

The Inuit

By Jeff

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic. The homes of the Inuit were the igloo, the sod house and the land tent. The Inuit played games at the festivals such as Funny face contest and they would toss a person in the air on walrus skin. In the Arctic area, it was very cold. The Inuit ate seal, salmon, needlefish, caribou, walrus, and whale. The Inuit had special ceremonies when they caught a whale. The jobs of the Inuit men were to hunt. The Inuit wore parkas and mukluks made out of animal skins

The Inuit

By Daniel

The Inuit tribe lived in the Arctic. It was very cold and icy there. The Inuit lived in snow igloos, land tents and sod houses. The Inuit ate walrus, whale, seal, fish and caribou. After they had a whale or big animal they would thank the animal for its life. They would also throw some bones back into the water and they would think it would make the animal come back from the dead. The men’s jobs were to go out and hunt and also to teach their sons. The women’s jobs were to cook the food, take off the fur of animals and teach their daughters. The Inuit games were stick-in-the-hole, stick-pick-up and funny face. There crafts were sewing with walrus tusk and making mask. Now I told you about the Inuit tribe.

The Inuit

By Elizabeth

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic. They ate whales, fish, needlefish, salmon, seal, walrus and the caribou. The women made clothes. They scraped the fur off of a animal. The men hunted for walrus, whale, fish, seal, needlefish, salmon and caribou.

The Inuit

By William

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic. Their climate was cold. They wore parkas and mukluks. They hoped to catch whale, seals, salmon, and needlefish. They lived in an ice home and sod home. They played a game called pick-up stick.

The Inuit

By Lexi

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic region. The climate was very icy, cold, and freezing. Some of the food they ate was whale, caribou, and salmon. Their clothes were parkas and mukluks. Some of their homes were a sod house, a snow igloo, and a land tent. The ceremonies were very important to the Inuit because the spirits would help them hunt. Some of the games were funny face and pick up stick game.

The Inuit

By Alyya

The Inuit lived in cold weather. It was icy, snowy, cold, and freezing. In spring, it was warmer. They lived in sod houses, snow igloos and animal skin igloos. The spirits helped them hunt and they thanked the animals for it’s life. The woman’s job was to cook the food. The crafts or games were making masks. One of the games was playing the blanket toss. One of the foods they ate was whale. Their clothing was parkas, mukluks and animal skin.

The Inuit

By Maverick

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic. It was really cold, icy, snowy and freezing. They ate these kinds of foods: whale, fish, seal, salmon and needlefish. They wore a parka, mukluks, animal skins and polar bear fur. The Inuit kids liked to play games. They played stick-in-the hole, funny faces, blanket toss and pick up stick. The men’s job was hunting food. The women’s job was to cook the food. The Inuit thanked the animal for giving up their life for their life. In the winter the Inuit house was called an igloo. They made it out of ice.

The Inuit

By Faith

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic. It was a very cold place. To keep themselves warm, they wore a kind of coat called a parka. To keep their feet warm, they wore a kind of boots called mukluks. Some of the food they ate were, walrus, whale, needlefish, salmon and caribou. The Inuit children played many games such as the funny face contest, the pickup stick game, the blanket toss and tug of war. The Inuit lived in houses called snow houses and sod houses. A thin piece of ice would make a window for a snow house. In summer the Inuit lived in sod houses and they lived in snow houses in winter. The men’s job was to be hunters. The woman’s jobs were cooking food, scraping fur and making clothes. The women chewed skins of animals to make them softer.

The Inuit

By Jonathan

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic. In the Arctic it is very cold and snowy. In the summer they lived in a house called a sod house. In the winter they made a house called an igloo. They ate seal. The men’s job was to hunt for seal. The women’s job was to make clothing and blankets. To make the blankets soft, they chewed the skins.

The Inuit

By John B.

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic. The Arctic was very cold. They hunted whale, walrus, seal, caribou, polar bear, needlefish, and salmon. The men hunted. Their clothes that they wore were parkas, mukluks, and animal skins like wolf skins, seal skins, walrus skins, caribou skins, and polar bear skins. Their games that they played were stick in the hole, funny faces, tug of war, blanket toss, and pick up sticks. Their weather was very icy, very cold, and very snowy, and freezing. Their weather in the summer was usually above freezing, and the snow melted.

The Inuit

By Dwight

The Inuit lived in igloos. The Inuit ate whale, fish, and salmon. The Inuit women cooked food and the Inuit men were hunters. The Inuit kids played pick up the stick and funny face. The clothing was made of animal skins. The Inuit thanked the animal for its life. In Alaska it was cold.

The Inuit

By Claire

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic. Some of the food they ate was walrus, whale, needle fish, salmon, seal, and caribou. The homes they had were snow igloos, sod houses, and land tents. The snow igloos had a thin sheet of ice for a window. It was made of snow blocks. They wore parkas and mukluks. The clothes were made of the skins of polar bear’s, caribou, seal, walrus, and wolf. The man’s job was hunting. The woman’s jobs were cooking, making clothes, and scraping fur. The climate was snowy, icy, and cold. In the summer it was cool, but above freezing, and the snow would melt. Their games were stick-in-the-hole, funny face, pick up stick, blanket toss, and tug-of-war. After they hunted they would thank the animal’s spirit for its life.

The Inuit

By Tyler

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic. They ate whale, walrus, fish, and needlefish. Women cooked food. The men were hunters. They thanked the animal for its life. They had their houses called igloos. They were made out of snow. Their weather was cold.

The Inuit

By Isabella

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic. The Inuit ate foods like walrus, whales, fish, needlefish, salmon, seal, and caribou. The clothing that the Inuit wore was parkas, skin, mukluks, wolf skin, walrus skin, sealskin, caribou skin, and polar bear skin. The games that they played were tug of war, blanket toss, pick up the stick, funny face, and stick in a hole. They carved ivory as a craft. There were many jobs for the Inuit. The Inuit had many different homes during the different seasons. Where the Inuit lived, it was very snowy and cold. The Inuit would have ceremonies to thank the animals for giving up their lives.

The Inuit

By Cristina

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic in Alaska. It was very cold. They used jackets called parkas that kept them warm. The children played stick in the hole. They wore boots called mukluks. They were made out of sealskin. There wasn’t just winter. There was summer, too. It was in the 40’s.In the winter they had houses called igloos. In the summer they had houses called sod houses. It had grass for the roof. In the In the winter, outside of the igloo, it was cold.

The Inuit

By Catherine

The Inuit lived in an icy, snowy, cold, and sometimes freezing place. They wore animal skin coats called parkas and boots called mukluks. Their food was fish, caribou, wolf, whale, walrus and polar bear. They lived in igloos of all kinds. The woman’s job was teaching daughters. The man’s job was teaching sons. They thanked the animal for giving it’s life for them. They made masks. The kids played games like tug-of-war.

The Inuit

By John T.

The Inuit lived in the Arctic. It was icy, snowy, cold and freezing. In the summer it was warmer. The men were hunters. The women cooked food. They ate walrus, whale, fish, needlefish, salmon, seal, and caribou. Their clothing was parkas, mukluks, animal skins, wolf, polar bear, caribou, seal and walrus. Their homes were sod houses and land tent in the summer. In the winter they lived in igloos.

The Inuit

By Sierra

The Inuit lived in the far Arctic in Alaska. In the winter they made snow houses that were called igloos. They also played games that were called tug-of-war and stick in the hole. They hunted for whale, seal, walrus, and caribou.

 

The Inuit

By Gillian

The Inuit lived in the far North in the far Arctic. They wore parkas and mukluks that kept them warm. They had 7 kinds of food. They had some games like funny face. Their snow igloo took about 3 hours to make. The men hunuted for food. Where the Inuit lived, it was icy. The woman's job was to take care of the house.