Update 5-4

Many exciting things have happened in Language Arts since the last post.   Kids have been reading lots of books and writing about them.  Also, we took our AIR state test and the kids did fabulous work!

We integrated Social Studies into Language Arts by learning about explorers and the lasting effect of Europeans.  All kids should have brought home an explorer project that we completed in class.  They were awesome!    Our most recent project was a collaborative one to learn what came from different European countries to America.  See the pictures below.  These are interactive and the kids loved designing and creating them. 

Kids then wrote speeches to convince others that their county was the most influential.  Ask you child which group they were in.   

Using the speeches, we had battles and below are the winners from each class:  Italy, England, & Germany!

Next up, we are reading Lawn Boy in class and discussing Economics to go with it . Happy May!