Students in Grade 2 journeyed back through time to see the art of the ancient people of the Lascaux caves in this video: Lascaux Cave: Virtual Tour
They created their own art with coloured chalk and guessed why the cave people made art with their hands and painted animals. This is what they thought...
Cave people made art to...
- to tell a story.
- to have fun! Maybe they got bored of catching animals so they made art.
- so people would remember who they were and that they lived there.
- to share feelings.
- because they respected animals.
- to show where they've been.
- to show how much they've hunted and eaten.
- to explain what they did and how was their life.
- to communicate to others.
- so we can see how they lived in the past.
- to show what animals lived there.
- to collaborate and be friends.
- to communicate
- to show the number of people who stayed in the cave.
- They used colours to express their feelings.
- to respect others feelings.
- because drawing makes you feel happy.
- maybe they threw real arrows at the animals to pretend to hunt them.
- maybe they think that when they die, their paintings will come to life.
