In recognition of the upcoming Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, my fifth graders wrote “poems in two voices” about civil rights leaders. Our inspiration was the book, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, by Paul Fleischman. A few student pairs and one trio performed them our our entire school assembly. It was wonderful to see and hear [...]
It’s so much fun to hear that your students’ work is being featured in the news. That’s exactly what happened over our Winter Break. The organization H2O for Life was being featured on ABC News and several schools, including our Little Longhorn fifth graders, are now included in their Be the Change: Save a Life [...]
Teaching about the colonization of America the 2 weeks before the holidays included having my students experience making colonial-style crafts. The challenge is always finding a balance between getting the information about colonies and still having time for the kids to create authentic crafts related to those colonies. We started by reading a sweet historical fiction picturebook called The Scarlet [...]