Thursday, December 2, 2010

Pilgrims To America!

We were so proud of the students and their work with our annual production of "Pilgrims to America!" They worked so hard to memorize their lines, speak with expression and fluency, and project their voices. They worked to tell the story of the historical impact of Thanksgiving and we believe they did an outstanding job! Kudos!

Now we have the students working hard again on their next project, the "how-to" project. The students are working to read expository text and write their own version of a sequenced "how-to" presentation. We kicked off this project with a how-to workshop in the cafeteria where teachers and parents demonstrated many different skills to the students to give them a variety of ideas for their own projects. The students are excited to begin showing us what they know how to do! They will be reading, writing, and orally presenting all within this project. This will be fun!