African American Artists – Ms. McNeer

4th and 5th grade students will be spending the months of February and March learning about 4 specific African American Artists.  Resources for research are listed below.

Harlem Renaissance

Jacob Lawrence

Faith Ringgold

Romare Beardon

Alma Thomas

ABC eBooks using Book Creator

For most of January and February, Students in 101, 102, 103, 104 and 6 are becoming eBook authors.  We are planning and preparing first in print.  Each students is practicing upper and lower case letters, choosing a theme for their alphabet books and then recording one word for each letter in their planning document.  Books range from garden books to Star Wars books and a whole lot of K and 1 inspiration in-between.

After students have completed their planning documents they are moving into the Book Creator App to create their eBooks.  Finished eBooks will be published on the library’s website.

Black History Month & Influential Americans

Students in rooms 4 and 217 have been working over the past 4 weeks on a mini research project about Influential Americans with a focus on Black History Month and those who have enriched out world.  Using PebbleGo and World Book Online as our sources for factual information, students took notes, wrote monologues and the recorded their work using FlipGrid.

Our FlipGrids are password protected.  Please e-mail your students’ classroom teacher or Mrs. Wynkoop  for the password.