Our children really enjoyed our study of Northern Canada and we combined our cultural study with our Five in a Row study of “The Very Last First Time”, by Jan Andrews, is a story about a young Inuit girl who lives in Ungava Bay, Quebec.  She journeys out for the first time to collect mussels on the sea bed.  It’s amazing because traditionally Inuit people in Ungava Bay actually wait for the tide to go out and dig through the ice, revealing a cavern below.  They enter the cavern under the ice and find a bounty of Mussels.  It was so interesting to learn about this tradition! Some of the…