Showing posts with label Social Studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Studies. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Map Skills

We have been working on map skills. We watched a Discovery Streaming video on maps and drew a map of our classroom. For homework, we drew maps of our bedrooms. We worked together to make a floor map of our school. We learned about how to make a map, what maps are for, and about map symbols. We also made cookie maps- the green is the land, the blue is the water, and the small candies are the buildings.




We used our new screen and projector to watch a Discovery Streaming video about maps and models.

We learned what models were and then we all went and found models in our classroom.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.

Last week, we learned about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his work in the civil rights movement. We read lots of books to learn about his life and we took a virtual tour of the house where he grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. We learned a new song called "Sing a Song About Martin" and we wrote a class poem about what peace means to us. We used the book "The Crayon Box That Talked" to learn that we are like a box of crayons- we are all different, but when put together we can do great things!


Sunday, December 6, 2009

A Study of Wants and Needs

This week, we learned about the needs and wants of animals. We read books about pets and animals. We watched a video on the needs of of all kinds of animals. We learned that animals need food, water, shelter, clean air, and sunshine. We also learned that animals that eat meat need sharp teeth. We have needs similar to those of animals. We ended the week by making a tree map to show we had learned the difference between the needs and wants of our pets.

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

A Week of Community Helpers

This week, we learned about community helpers. We learned about different people who help us everyday. At the end of the week, we talked about authority figures and people who are in charge. We made a bridge map to show who or what each community helper is in charge of.

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