Civil Rights and Segregation: Separate but Equal

We have begun studying part of our state’s history, the Civil Rights Movement. One main idea that we need to understand is the concept of segregation. Segregation is when two groups are separated because they are different. In the South the races were segregated. Race means the color of your skin. We learned about this idea yesterday, when we discussed Ruby Bridge, the first black girl to attend an all white school in New Orleans.

Below, is a Slide Share with pictures of the South during segregation. The law was called, Separate but Equal. But, as you can see in the pictures, things were not equal between black and white citizens.

Cesar’s Narrative Story

Cesar, from Miss Dietly’s class, has written a very descriptive short story! Check out his engaging lead, his details, and the lesson he learned that day! Click on the picture below to visit Miss Dietly’s blog and leave a comment for Cesar!

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Cesar’s writing is so descriptive because of his use of adjectives. Adjectives helps us describe nouns.

Role Models: Ruby Bridges

This week, we are beginning to work on a new Social Studies standard- Explain key historical events that occurred in the local community and regions over time. A region is a large area, and we live in the Southern region of the United States of America. 

The South of the United States has an interesting history. One major topic in our region’s history is the Civil Rights movement. To begin our study on Civil Rights we are going to start by learning about one of the movement’s tiniest heroines, her name is Ruby Bridges, and she became a Civil Rights hero when she was in first grade! Ruby lived in the Southern state of Louisiana, in the city of New Orleans. Ruby’s story was in the newspapers and on television. Her bravery inspired this painting by Norman Rockwell.

Such a Beautiful…Beautiful World!

Today, we discovered there is a StoryBots Earth video with cameo appearances by the Sun (he’s so hot) and the Moon (it’s his time to shine!) This video is perfect because it shows lakes, rivers, and waterfalls- like we studied last week and mountains, valleys, islands, and volcanoes- like we’re studying this week!

 

Weekend Math Challenge!

In the mood to get ahead of the whole class? Watch this video to learn how to solve two step problems by using parenthesis. (What are parenthesis? They are the pink marks around these two sentences!) Leave a formal comment if you try the video.

Formal comment reminders:
Dear Class,
Leave your message with capital letters and periods.
Use a closing,
Include your first name!

Solve a Word Problem by Visualizing!

We have been successfully tackling two step word problems with week using the CUBES strategy! Today, we want to think about visualizing the problem by drawing pictures like Francisco did yesterday with this problem:
Most apples contain 5 seed packets called carpels. Each carpel contains 2 apple seeds. How many seeds would be in 10 apples.
Francisco drew out one apple with five carpels in it. Then he put two seeds in each carpel. He skip counted by twos and determined there are 10 seeds in each apple. Next, he reread the problem and realized he needed to multiply 10 x 10 to get the number of apple seeds. His answer was: There are 100 apple seeds in 10 apples.
This lesson explains what Francisco did yesterday!

Complete that Sentence with a Subject and Predicate!

If you want your reader to understand your story, then you have to write in compete sentences. Complete sentences contain a subject (noun) and a predicate (verb-what the subject is doing.)

Which of these sentences are complete?

The dog barked at the cat.
Each boy had a doughnut.
That man.

That man, what? What did the man do? To complete the sentence, tell the reader what the man did.