Today was a fun day for the first graders because we finished our primitive art lessons. We also got our cave man wall up, and one of our totem poles up. Putting up a totem pole is a lot of work. The celebration of putting up a totem pole is called a Potlatch. The students (today also know as the Haida clan) enjoyed this celebration because we had to review everything that took place in a Potlatch. We first decided we would have storytelling and everyone would be able to talk about their mask and how it relates to themselves. Many students really liked to speak while other students were very shy.
Next in our Potlatch we did some dancing and eating some treats! The students were thrilled they got to have snacks in art class. What was special about our snacks was that they came in totem pole cups. The Haida clan would always get out special dishes when they had Potlatch to impress other tribes. As a class we then had to decide how we were going to arrange out totem masks and carry our pole out to display. This is very serious because no tribe could drop their pole, that would be considered bad luck. So carefully we marched with our large pole through the school and set the pole so it was safely standing. Our tribe has now forever left its mark in the Ark Charter School. 
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