This is a 5th grade project! Projects in the Cass room! We made posters and were introduced to the Civil war, the underground railroad, and also some key people involved in them. We divided into 6 groups and we were able to star some very creative posters! The students loved thinking of creative ways to show off their skills! And also get ready to share their books with the class. We did not finish but next week we will be done!
Our first project is History and to introduce the Civil War, it can be so exciting to learn and the students are so creative. They also know about war today, it is in the news every day and so we will talk about how it makes us feel today to be involved in war. That is going to be similar to those who were in the Civil war. It was fun to hear that some of the students understood the Underground railroad were paths to freedom and people that stood up to help slaves escape their slavery life.
Jan 14, 2012 We are going to make small quilts for the Underground railroad, we needed materials, we had students bring in old t-shirts, and scraps to put together. We had some parent volunteers come and help as well! We met in the morning and we ironed on wonder under and started cutting the squares. I will post the lesson plan soon!
Parent helpers are the best! They sacrifice so much so that the students can have a great opportunity of learning!
This group painted on their pictures, and thought out their border and what their story was about. They made grass out of an old green shirt and more.
This student is a great artist and decided
to hand draw the images on the poster
they are working on.
One of the students talked about how dolls were important to the slaves,
and others wanted to make a doll like the slaves did, while others
wanted to make quilts on their posters. It was overall a wonderful day
in the fifth grade class
This next poster is going to have sticks, and other fun outdoor things on it. They are making a border to go around the sides out of balsa wood.
This group wanted to make a quilt to go on their poster, one student sat for a long time sewing two squares together. They were cutting, sewing, designing and thinking about the projects and how to create them.
The poster here is going to be a 3-D sort of poster, the students are making a doll to go with their book. The other girls came over and said they wanted to make a doll to go with their posters too, one student said "You cant you don't have a doll in your story" They were protective of their art work!
This poster is written with sticks and painted and also has other
elements on it. The students are so creative and work hard together.
We finished our quilt squares today, with the help of wonderful mothers and they turned out beautiful! We will be having a show at the JKB Jessey Knight Building at Brigham Young University to display all our 5th graders hard work! We will post as it gets closer!
Here they are! They turned out great, and each one is beautiful!
Here we are already on Feb 21. I went to the school today and met with the teacher and also talked to the students about our final art show! They are so excited and we are going to have it at the JKB on March 5, 2012.
This will hang on the 5th floor and the students are way excited to see the show and have their families see it as well!
We will be meeting on Monday and we are going to work on clay beads, and talk a little about the history of clay and beads. The students love to learn and they are excited to see the finished projects and reward of their hard works!
It was wonderful that these mother came and helped to start our project in the classroom!
ReplyDeleteThe first thing we are doing in the class is reading books about the Underground railroad and also the Civil war. I will be teaching about layout of posters and what makes it a good design... Then the students in the groups of 5-8 students will work together and create a good poster as a book report! And then share them with the class. This will happen tomorrow! I will take pictures and show you the outcomes!
ReplyDeleteWhat grade is your classroom? This is a really substantial project. I look forward to seeing how it plays out.
ReplyDeleteHi Heather! Our students are 5th graders, and they are so excited to learn. They were able to express what they thought in both writing and also creating a part of history. We had parent volunteers, many and we were able to work so quickly to accomplish this goal of everyone having a small quilt of their own. Even 2 days before our show we had 4 new students, so they too created quilts of their own. With the challenges of each new day, brings the solution of creating in different ways. We can remember that we need to see every subject in an artistic way. Students love to learn when it includes art. Have a great day!
DeleteThis classroom is 5th grade, these students did a wonderful job! We also had a parents night. An opening Art exhibit with the quilts that the students made. They were so excited to show their parents what they had accomplished, and they also shared their stories that they had written on their feelings of the Civil War, and war in general. Our students did a wonderful job all 34 of them. We had well over 50 parents and family members come, and even after the rest had left more came. I think it was a great success and the students will never forget being able to experience first hand the Civil war, family thoughts and the experience of being able to create something of their own.
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