Slavery Study

We have been studying about slavery the last couple of weeks.

This is CS coloring his picture that illustrates the sentence we will use in our soon to be released movie.

Once the coloring was complete, we scanned each picture.

Unfortunately we had technical difficulties and weren't able to complete the movie yet.

But we will be diligent and keep trying. Hopefully we will be successful on Monday and then share it with you here on the blog.

We also invented a "slave" game today.

I secretly told these students (below) that they would be the conductors in the game.

The rest of the students played the roll of a slave or a master.

Students spent about an hour and a half observing and visiting with

each other, while working, to see if they could find someone that would help them escape

to freedom. The goal of the game was to learn how hard it was to find a way to freedom and that they had to be careful with who they could approach for help. The kids seem to enjoy it and I think it helped us understand a little more about what it must have been like.

Next week we are celebrating our classified staff here at McKay.

We are making a poster for Mrs. Dennis. She helps us with our reading.

The class wanted to make her a mug with cute kids on it.

The boys here are working on the words to go with it.

We are also making signs to put up for Susan our custodian.

We thought for her we would us the Harry Potter theme.

We are going to put brooms all over with nice notes on them.

This group took their Mount Rushmore study on the road today.

They explained why these famous people were selected for the monument.

LW wrote a really good story and then shared it with us today.

It was a busy day. We also make BB his birthday book.

Happy 8th birthday!

At 1:30 we went to our all school Patriotic Assembly.

Here is a short video of our second song.