Lots of exploration with road maps today! download here:  Road Maps worksheet

Bunnicula graphic organizers: the dirt has the background info of the story, the stem has the initial conflict, each leaf has the problem of a single chapter and an explanation of how it relates to the initial conflict, and the white tomato at the top has a summary of how the conflit was resolved.  We [...]

We’re wrapping up our Rolla history unit this week.   For an end-of-unit assessment, the kids are creating a time line of 10 or more events in Rolla’s history.  Here is a student organizing her information on notebook paper: And another one completing her timeline with a few pictures:

We had a great time on our field trip around town on Friday!  We visited City Hall, where we heard from the city administrator, saw the mayor’s office, and talked to some people about mapping the town. Next we went to the police station, where we watched the dispatchers work for a few minutes, tried [...]

  Sometimes two brains are better than one!  We’ve spent some time the past couple of days filling out study guides together for the upcoming Social Studies test.  It’s interesting to see the different ways the kids decide to share the workload – some of the pairs look everything up together and discuss the answers, [...]