SPECIAL REQUEST
Unsurprisingly, after the TA Flu Outbreak of 2018, we are running low on hand sanitizer at the school. Please help us replenish our stock of hand sanitizer to get us through the end of the school year. Jazakumallahu khairun!
UOI Field Trip
Fourth grade is very excited about our upcoming field trip to Ellis Island, NY! Millions of immigrants entered the United States through Ellis Island in hopes of a better life than the one they left behind. We will visit their first sights upon entering the land of their new life, and learn their stories. We will be going on Thursday, March 15. Permission slips have been sent home. Once the logistics are worked out, more details will be forthcoming.
Unit of Inquiry
During this social studies-based UOI, we will be exploring different instances of human migration in history and in current events. We will look at the migration of Europeans to the New World, what was their motivation, and how did it impact the lives of the native Americans who were already here. We will be learning immigration to the United States during the time period when Ellis Island was open. We will read stories about migration, connect to our own family histories, and develop opinions about current issues regarding immigration. As a class, we are recording our thoughts and ideas in a blog that will show how our ideas and opinions evolve throughout the UOI.
ELA
We have been learning and modeling different reading strategies with fiction books. We modeled our latest strategy, making predictions, with the read-aloud book, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt". We talked about how understanding history can help us make predictions when reading, and in turn, help us better understand the books. While we read this book, students eagerly shared what they already knew about slavery in the United States and connected it to events in the book.