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Social Studies Blog Talk

5/12/2015

We began a new unit in social studies this week called “Jobs and Money: What is the Economy?” As part of the unit, we are exploring how things are made. Students learned about assembly lines by simulating a toy factory in the classroom. Each worker was responsible for one job, and when everyone had finished their part, they had a finished product – a maze! Next came quality control to check each maze and make sure everyone did their job correctly. Afterward, we made a chart of what the class saw as pros and cons of assembly line production.

Students are excited to continue our learning with this blog talk! Please follow this link to learn more about how things are made. Please pick one video to watch (you can choose to do more than one if they want). Then, leave a comment to share your thinking about what you learn. Use the Connect-Extend-Challenge routine in your comment. Here are some sentence stems to help you get started:

Connect: This is like what we did in school because…

Extend: Something new I saw was…

Challenge: Now I am wondering…

Party With the President

5/12/2015

Have you ever been able to party with the president? We have! We didn't really see him in person, but it was still awesome! The president was almost on air. Everybody around the world was watching. We were watching it to on our SMARTboard!!! We were sooo excited! We had popcorn, popsicles, and smarties. Suddenly, it started. Everybody got the chills. It was awesome! We actually got to see the president on air! It was MINDBLOWING! President Obama was giving an interview about books and people and what he read. People asked some questions on Twitter. We asked him some questions, too, but he didn't answer them! There were SO many questions! He said that he likes books. We think he likes them as much as Mrs. Freeman does!

Story of Encouragement

5/7/2015

One fine day, Mrs. Freeman announced that we were meeting our buddies again. Isn't that cool? We thought so! We were so excited that we were meeting our buddies again. This time, we had a special plan. They were having a big test, so our plan was to cheer them up. Just so you know, they were verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry nervous. We brought them bookmarks to encourage them for the test! We wrote encouraging words on the bookmarks like "You can do it!" and "You are going to rock this test!" and "I believe in you!" We also watched an encouraging video before we left. Then we all said bye and we would miss them until next time we meet.

Social Studies Blog Talk

Party With the President

Story of Encouragement

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