Category Archives: Social Studies
4th Grade Multiplication Maps
Fourth graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about life in colonial Virginia and the Revolutionary War (VS.4,VS.5), and they’ve been learning how to multiply two digit numbers in math (SOL4.4), so today we made multiplication maps about colonial Virginia in Ms. Ficor’s class. First we discussed which major cities existed during this time (Norfolk, […] Continue reading
3rd Grade Parthenon Perimeter
Third graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about the architecture of the ancient Greeks (SOL3.1) and how to identify Greece on a map (SOL3.4). They have also been studying perimeter in math (SOL3.9d). So today students in Ms. Eller’s class found the Parthenon using Google maps and calculated the perimeter of it. First we […] Continue reading
1st Grade Goods & Services
First graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about goods and services (SOL1.7) so today students in Ms. Long’s class created Pixie drawings showing what they want to be when they grown up and telling whether they would provide goods or services. They used the brush tool to paint parts of the picture, but they […] Continue reading
2nd Grade American Indian Math
Second graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about three American Indian tribes: the Powhatan, the Lakota, and the Pueblo Indians (SOL2.2). They have also been learning how to solve and create their own addition and subtraction story problems (SOL2.21). So today students in Ms. Vest’s class created story problems about American Indians. First they […] Continue reading
3rd Grade Ancient Greece Word Problems
Third graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about the contributions and the economy of the ancient Greeks in social studies (SOL3.1, 3.7), and they’ve been learning how to solve multiplication word problems in math (SOL3.6). So today students in Ms. Ford’s class wrote their own ancient Greece multiplication word problems for their classmates to […] Continue reading
2nd Grade American Indian Problems & Solutions
Second graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about the Powhatan, Lakota, and Pueblo Indian tribes in Social Studies (SOL2.2), and they’ve been learning how to identify the problem and solution in fictional texts in Language Arts (SOL2.8f). So today students in Ms. Coyle’s and Gardner’s classes created comics about the American Indians and included […] Continue reading
3rd Grade Greece & Rome Comics
Third graders at Holladay have been studying ancient Greece & Rome in social studies (SOL3.1,3.4,3.7), and they have been learning about narrative elements such as characters, setting, problem, and solution in language arts (SOL3.5). So today students in Ms. Middleton’s class created Greece & Rome comics that included those narrative elements. First they chose whether […] Continue reading
Harriet Tubman Project
Harriet Tubman Project – Created by Ella from Ryan Stein on Vimeo. Continue reading
Egypt Project
Egypt VIDEO from Ryan Stein on Vimeo.
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Last Week of School – Best Time of Year
What I will miss the most about leaving the classroom and becoming an ITRT will be the last week of school. Those 5 days with your classroom family are simply the best and the reason why teaching is the best … Continue reading → Continue reading
