Tag: fifth grade
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The Civil Rights Movement, a Journey through Time & Literature
This week we started our unit on the Civil Rights Movement! Here in fifth grade at UT Elementary we work backwards through history, starting with present day and then rewinding back to the causes for the way things are today. This is great for me, because we get to start out the year with incredibly…
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We Are ChangeMakers
One of the first things we talked about in social studies this year was what it means to be a peace maker. Our school says the “peace keeper’s pledge” every morning in assembly, but I challenged my students, asking them, what is the difference between a peace keeper and a peace maker? We talked about…
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A Peek into the Classroom
A peek into our fifth grade classroom after a week of learning
Ms. Green's Class 