Black History Board Competition!

This month at the Hills, the 3rd grade team is in charge of the school's three main bulletin boards. We decided to have fun with this and make it into a competition for the school!

Each board covers an important figure in American History. There are QR codes for teachers, students, or visitors to the building to scan and have a mini-lesson on that specific person.  Each board also has an activity to be completed by classes. Three boards, three class winners!

** Links to download the QR codes and activities for each person are at the bottom of this post!**

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

QR Codes for Dr. King

Activity for Dr. King

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Harriet Tubman

QR Codes for Harriet Tubman

Activity for Harriet Tubman

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George Washington Carver

QR Codes for George Washington Carver

Activity for George Washington Carver

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Make sure to check back in a few weeks to watch the Harriet Tubman poem videos! I can't wait to see what each class prepares!

 

You can also follow students' progress on Twitter:

@generaldelk

#CHEScompetition

Links to download:

QR Codes

Activities

President Research Projects: Brochures

Last week we worked on completing our lapbooks on our chosen president. Now we are transferring our lapbook information into a brochure. My students are really having fun with this because they now get to add pictures.
Some of my students that went above and beyond researching the required information are now getting to share their extra information in their brochures. For example, my students who studied Lincoln are very excited to share information they found on his ghost. :)

Here are some pictures of them transferring information from their "sloppy copy" to their finished product.

I told them that they had to use rulers to make their lines for their information and their boxes for their pictures.

Here is the finished presentation! Lapbooks and brochures together!

To see previous posts on this topic, click on the links below!

President Research Projects: Research

President Research Projects: Lapbooks


They had a blast!

President Research Projects: Lapbooks

We are a little behind in writing since the south shut down last week due to snow. We made up some time this week by being able to finish our research lapbooks.

To review a little, students were allowed to choose between 3 presidents: Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. (the 3 that we had the most materials for in our school's library)

Students were then to use the library books and the Internet to research their chosen president, looking closely at these topics:

You can check out {THIS} post to look at the website that our school's librarian created for our students' research!
Students took their information and put them into mini-books, then glued them into folders to create lapbooks.
I am very impressed with how some of their lapbooks turned out! My students did a great job navigating Google and Wikipedia (not the best for college research, but just fine for our purposes!) to find their information. I told them that bonus information about the topics should be included for extra points.

Here are some of their finished products:

I used some of these websites to find mini-books for our project. Most of them were free!

Homeschool Share

A Journey Through Learning

Squidoo: Mini books

Next step in our President Projects- brochures! Taking the information from our research and lapbooks to create an informational brochure on our chosen president. It's going to be epic!

Research Projects- American Presidents

Part of our writer's workshop is having our students write informational papers, speeches, and brochures. Basically, researching topics and presenting them different ways. The 3rd grade team of teachers decided that starting with American Presidents would be the easiest way to start.

Students were given 3 choices: (as per the books we were able to find in our school's library)

George Washington 

Thomas Jefferson 

and Abraham Lincoln

 We grabbed all the books we could find, with the plan of sharing the books throughout the 3rd grade classes.

Students are to use different resources to find this information:

**BONUS**

Mrs. Kapp, our new librarian, volunteered to make us a "go-to" site for online research! Check out her AMAZING work!

**President Research Link**

We will be working on our projects over the next 3 weeks. This week we are researching and creating lapbooks on our chosen president. Most of my students chose Lincoln, and only 3 chose Jefferson. I'm looking forward to seeing what they find!

Day 122- There is a BIG difference...

... between food with food coloring, and food that has gone bad. As a class, we talked about telling the difference between safely colored food and food that has gone fuzzy.

What better book to teach this lesson, than Green Eggs and Ham?

I have a feeling that food safety was not the main reason that Dr. Seuss wrote the book, but it lent itself to a wonderful lesson! :)
The story is also a lesson in trying new things. My son could use this lesson, since he only eats chicken nuggets and pizza. Children need to learn that sometimes new things can look scary or weird (green ham???) but that doesn't mean it's bad.

After reading the story, we created a poster of the rhyming words.

Students created a 4-square and chose 4 sets of rhyming words, put them in sentences, and illustrate.

 After school I cut them up and chose the best ones. They will go outside our classroom with the poster. Come on by and check them out!

In the afternoon, we worked on our KWL on another American President, Abraham Lincoln.

 I'm not sure why they were convinced that he was the 4th President. I do find it interesting that my students are convinced that the Presidents also die in the same order that they were elected.

We didn't get very far into the Power Point I made, we kind of got side tracked on the tour of Lincoln's house in Illinois. (My soldiers were fascinated by the chamber pots under the beds! Explaining those was an adventure!) 
That's ok, tomorrow is another day! If you'd like the Power Point as well, click {HERE}.

I did make sure that my students got to spend some quality time outside in the wonderful weather. We soaked up lots of Vitamin D in preparation for tomorrow- it's supposed to storm all day.

** Parents- tomorrow students may wear their Dr. Seuss shirts and jeans, or read and white**
**Also- tomorrow is the last day for the 3rd grade schedule. next week We will be on 5th grade's schedule and will have lunch at our regular time.**

Math is going to be in a separate post