Stone Age Boy

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We’ve teamed up with Walker Books to bring you a range of engaging activities themed around the wonderful book ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. The last Ice Age ended around 15,000 years ago and the British climate became very similar to how it is today. Planning and resources for the Year 3 and 4 English national curriculum based around Satoshi Kitamura’s story, Stone Age Boy. 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. A boy believes he experienced going back in time and meeting a girl and her family in the stone age.

Based on the popular children’s book ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura, this comprehension pack contains four different texts for children to explore: The Stone Age, Finding Food, Working with Flint, and Inside the Dark Cave.There are lots of learning opportunities around the book due to the story following factual aspects of the Stone Age. I particularly liked the factual aspects which really helped the children to understand more about how people lived differently. The illustrations are pleasing and the text provides for great opportunities for discussions about the Stone age.

First, get children thinking about the two characters using the handy PowerPoint, before moving on to complete one or both of the activity sheets. The cyclical nature of the book is also really lovely, with the same picture repeated twice to symbolise the time travel. Evidence from elsewhere in Europe shows that people living in caves decorated their walls with pictures of animals . This amazing picture book about the Stone Age is entertaining and educational at the same time, my year 3/4 class loved it. This Stone Age Boy Characters Comparison Activity encourages children to compare the two main characters, Om and the boy.The boy falls into the Stone age and meets Om, who shows him round and teaches him about the way they lived. This is a fun time-travel tale that takes a young boy back to The Stone Age, where he learns how cave people lived.

A fantastic story linking straight into a Stone Age topic with plenty of fun, friendship and facts along the way! Didn’t find the plot as enjoyable as his other work but it was a really good introductory text to the era. This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about 'Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. Can you use these to perform a play in which the characters explain and compare what their lives are like? 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.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?