A personal essay written for college applications. Most colleges, and the Common Application, requires a length of about 250 - 650 words; most students work to be close to the maximum length.
Students engage in Units 1 and 2 of the 4th grade module "Poetry, Poets and Becoming Writers" to unpack what makes a poem a poem and explain what inspires writers to write poetry. Concurrently, students learn about the Wabanaki tribe to understand their daily life and culture.
Students used the writing process to research animals and its habitat. During the writing process, students illustrated, labeled and wrote about their animal through multiple drafts.
Highland Creek second graders created a Pollinator Book to demonstrate their learning of the process of pollination for a plant or insect they researched. Students orally presented their projects to first-grade students. At home, students created a visual to support their research book.
While students were reading and discussing Margot Shetterly's book Hidden Figures, we kept a class chart while students kept an individual chart of names, locations, terms, and ideas mentioned in the book about Civil Rights.
The expedition focused on myth understandings, which were focused on the relationship between scientific astronomical phenomena, such as day and night, eclipses, sunrises, and sunsets, and explanations of those concepts throughout history in the form of myths.
