Category Archives: Social Studies
Global Climate Strike
Global climate change is something we discuss regularly with students. Fortunately, our world currently has a young hero and activist Greta Thunberg. She is a true inspiration for our students to recognize they too have a voice and they can … Continue reading
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Student Created Medieval Times Festival
After weeks of research, dreaming and design, our students created a Medieval Times Festival for the entire school to attend. During a whole day event, various students and teachers at our K-12 school stopped by the festival to be transported … Continue reading
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Nonfiction: Natural Disaster Magazines
After a four week process of studying nonfiction text features and conducting research, our students completed their Natural Disaster Magazines and shared with 1st grade students. The first steps were to fully understand the various nonfiction text features. These concepts … Continue reading
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Rainforest Performance
Our students were outstanding on stage together. We are so proud of all the 4th grade students who performed. The play, based on the picture book The Great Kapok Tree was a success. The other elementary students in the audience … Continue reading
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Building a “Kapok Tree”
Our students have been busy designing and building a “Kapok Tree” for the performance in a few weeks. Reclaimed wood was used for the foundation of the tree. Students even used their recess time to work in our MakerSpace to … Continue reading
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History in Present Day 2017
On Friday, our 4th grade students had the unique opportunity to not only visit the History Colorado Center but they also went on a Historic Walking Tour of Downtown Denver. Â As our tour guide took us to various locations students … Continue reading
Amazing day at Young Ameritowne
Our fourth grade students had the best day ever at Young Ameritowne in Lakewood, Colorado. Â For the past two months our students have been preparing and learning which includes: job applications, Â job interviews, money management skills, business sense, government, economics … Continue reading
A Day to Celebrate Reading!
Today was a day to celebrate reading, on March 2nd, the birthday of Dr. Seuss.  Our students started the day with a literacy assembly in the Auditorium.  Shortly after the assembly Senator Michael Johnston visited our classroom to visit and read … Continue reading
Ameritowne Election Day
Today we enjoyed a wonderful Ameritowne Election Day! Â Our ceremony in the Auditorium was extra exciting as an active district judge joined as a guest speaker. Â We had both Ed Clark, the former mayor of Greeley, as well as Judge … Continue reading
A Monumental Day of Learning
Our class had a great time touring our state capitol. Â The visit was very exciting as most students have never set foot inside an official governmental establishment of that magnitude. We began our day in the attic and learned some … Continue reading