Our Iroquois Skits: Take Three

Here's our third Iroquois skit! Scroll up and down to view more!

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Two

Here's our second Iroquois skit. Students had a few periods to rehearse their skits and study resources to make sure their presentations were accurate.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take One

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short, improvised skits that capture the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. They upload slowly, so I'll be posting them one at a time! 

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Exploring and Discovering During Family Friday!

For Family Friday today, we had a chance to read books about exploration and discovery with our family and friends. We read books, discussed our ideas with others, and used our social studies notebooks to capture our thoughts about exploration. Many of the beautiful books we read today were from www.donorschoose.org, a website that helps public school teachers get the supplies they need for their classrooms.

What did you learn about exploration and discovery today? What big ideas are you growing? What questions are you pondering? Post your ideas, questions, and comments here. Another historian might be able to help you by answering your question or providing some evidence for an idea! Be sure to read the comments so you can help out other historians!

Halloween Cookie Decorating

We celebrated Halloween on Friday by decorating sugar cookies! Thank you for all your donations of cookies, icing, sprinkles, plates, napkins and knives.

We want to especially thank Chloe's family for donating gourds for each of us to take home!

Our Reading Marathon in Pictures

Be sure to check out Michael and Elliot's story about what happened during our Reading Marathon last Wednesday. Here are some pictures so you can see the excitement for yourself!

About the Reading Marathon (By Michael and Elliot)

We waited all through science and our pictures for the one thing...the  funnest thing in the school year so far...we waited for instructions from Katie. We waited for Katie to call us table by table to change into our pj's for an awesome reading period that was 90 minutes long. Once everyone was done Katie said:

''The reading Marathon will begin in 30 seconds.'' The class couldn't wait! Everyone started reading their book while waiting for the food. There were bagels with cream cheese or butter, oranges,bananas, grapes and red delious apples. Katie called us table by table to get our delious food. The foods scent drifted into the classroom and bounced of the cold, smooth walls of the class. Everyone started eating and eating their food while reading because they couldn't take their eyes of their book. It was as if the were hypnotized to read their book. Their eyes went over and over the lines of their book. We saw many kinds of books like Bone, Star Wars, World of Warcraft and Warriors...there were also magazines. The only reason kids would get up was to get a drink or more food. Nor girl nor boy took their eyes of their book. Their eyes were stuck on their page. 

50 minutes left. Their eyes streamed against the page like lightning. the clock turned and turned. "Tick tock tick tock," went the clock. Soon all the oranges and bagels were gone. 30 minutes left then 20 then 10 then 5. The clock went ''TING''. There was no time left!

''YAWN,'' went the class. Katie called us table by table to change into our normal clothes. We packed up our blankets and stuffed animals, sleeping bags and pillows. We sat on the rug to talk about our next challenge for the next Reading marathon. The best thing in the whole school. Well.................................right now.