Fun Day!

School-Wide Cookout

Gem Mining

Book Clubs

For the past week, we have had 4 book clubs going in our classroom. This has been an amazing experience for the children. They have loved every minute! All the books have a unique storyline with one commonality, helping them change their perspective and make them more compassionate about a topic.

King Cotton

Room 303 has hopped in a time machine and is exploring what life was like from the perspective of two children, one a plantation owner's daughter and a slave.

We started our lesson by identifying the meaning of 'perspective' which means how a character thinks or feels about a particular topic. Next, the students had the opportunity to observe a cotton boll and record their observations. Many students described the cotton as soft and fluffy. After the students recorded their observations, we read the first 2 pages of Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. We learned that Clara was a child slave in the cotton field.

The students learned more about slaves in the cotton fields in our stations.

The students analyzed pictures at "Table Top Twitter".

They read diary entries from Sarah, the daughter of a plantation owner....

and a conversation between two slaves.

The students listened to recordings of voices of real slaves during the time of the Civil War on Ed Puzzle.

After each students has visited all the stations, we will observe the cotton again to see if they feel something different this time.

We know reading can not only make us smarter, but also more compassionate on topics that we do not know a lot about.

Stay tuned to read if these stations changed how we think and feel about a topic.