Tag archives for history
Making Dragons to Celebrate Chinese New Year
What better way to end our unit on Ancient China than with a special Chinese New Year celebration? And because 6th graders are of an age that they love bigger ...
Students Make a Colonial Feast
Last week I told you that I would give a full report on how cooking colonial recipes with my students went. (You can read more about how this project got ...
A Tasty Lesson in History
This past Friday I took our lesson on colonial life to our taste buds by sharing some excerpts from the book Food and Recipes of the Thirteen Colonies.
'Although the colonists were ...
A Revolutionary Way to Learn History
Today was my first day back to school after the Christmas break, which went a little longer than scheduled due to the cold front and extra lake effect snow that ...
Students Perform Columbus Musical
There is nothing more exciting than wrapping up a school year with a spring vocal concert, and that is just what we did last week. Sixth grade performed In Quest ...
Silhouettes of Greek Olympic Athletes
As the year winds down having art class and using a lot of materials can be daunting. Let’s admit it, we just don’t want to drag everything out AGAIN! But ...