Week in Review

Scroll through the weeks below to see what we have learned each week.

Week 1: September 8 - September 11 

We are off to a great start. This week we went over our classroom expectations and I spent some time getting to know the students.  We jumped in with a lesson about the various ways Historians learn about events from the past. The students had a chance to put their historian/detective skills into practice with a fun activity. On Friday, the 25th anniversary of the tragic events that occured on Spetember 11, 2001, we did a brief lesson about that day. Instead of focusing on the horrific details of the day, we instead focused our discussions on the selfless acts of herosim and service by our first responders and even ordinary citizens. To honor the sacrifices and service of our first responders the students were encouraged to take part in the National Day or Service and Remembrance to do a good deed/act of kindness for someone else. 

Week 2: September 14 - September 18 

5th-Grade
This was our first week together so we spent some time going over class routines and getting to know each other. Then we jumped into some Social Studies and started with some basic geography knowledge and skills. We finished the week learning about time zones and why they are necessary. 

6th-Grade
This week the students wrote mini-biographies about a fictional person. They learned facts about this person by analyzing a set of checks the man wrote out over the course of his life. They had to put their historian skills to work and draw conclusions about the man's life based on the evidence they found in the primary sources (the checks the man wrote). We finished the week discussing the imporatnce of considering perspective and point of view when analyzing sources. We listened to the story of the Three Little Pigs and then read the same story but told from the Wolf's point of view. They understood how all of the story elements were the same but the perspective of the story teller changed the entire story, They will put their point of view analysis into action next week when they rewrite their favorite stories from the perspective of another character from the story. 

Week 3: September 22 - September 25 

Coming Soon!