Helpful Interview on a Current Issue.

As part of our immigration unit, the students interviewed a college student who immigrated from Mexico to the United States. Miss Salazar shared her family's story of immigration.  She was born in Mexico.  Her family moved to California, when she was a baby.  Her family then moved to San Antonio where they have lived for 18 years. Her family moved to the United States for better jobs and educational opportunities. Her family still have relatives in Mexico, and they travel back to visit them. Miss Salazar described the challenges of learning a new language at an early age.  She explained she was able to speak English easily by the third grade. Miss Salazar is bilingual. Her family still celebrates some of the Mexican holidays and customs.  One is the Las Posadas, the reenactment of Mary and Joseph's journey to find shelter in Bethlehem.  Another is celebrating Easter with los casarones, eggs filled with confetti. Her interview was helpful.  This is a college student who had participated in our classroom last semester. The  third grade students had a strong rapport with Miss Salazar.  This helped the students realize that immigration is a current issue.

Amazing Cultural Heritage Projects

Wow! Colorful! Detailed! The cutural heritage display boards are creative, informative and high quality!  Thank you all so much for the time and effort and collabortion your family put into creating them.  I greatly appreciate it. We are continuing the presentations into next week due to other activities this week that we needed to complete.  Thank you again.

Star Light, Star Bright

Our next activity is to study and read legends about the constellations.  Mr. Stichter allowed Jack to demonstrate for us how to locate the constellations on an Ipad.  The students were impressed with the pictures and information about the constellations.  Thank you Mr. Stichter!!

Moon Unit

The students were very focused today.  There was much to complete today due to the two snow days.  The students have completed the Moon Unit.  They wrote about the pattern of the phases of the moon.  They also located the Apollo landing sites on a map of the moon.  The students read the book, What is the Moon Like?  The students acted out a solar and lunar eclipse.  They completed three science tests over the moon. Tomorrow the students will select an Native American poem for the lunar months to practice reading aloud to the class.