Social Studies Through Storytelling!

Funded May 5, 2022

Thank you so much for your donation towards buying picture books, textbooks, a TeachersPayTeachers(TPT) gift card, and state and capital flashcards to teach Social Studies. At the end of last school year, after receiving the donation, I noticed that the students had become much more engaged towards certain topics due to the topics being introduced with a picture book. To further aide students in their social studies learning, I used the TPT gift card to buy project based resources to finish up the units. The pictures I will be attaching are the projects I bought from TPT that 3rd and 4th grade students created as a result of these two units. The 3rd grade unit focused on how students can make a change in their community. I used the books, "She Persisted" and some of the National Geographic books to talk about other famous people. The 4th grade project was a government brochure and I introduced this topic by reading "I Dissent" and introducing them to the judicial branch. Again, I would like to reiterate how engaged all of the students were in their learning and thank you for your donation to my classroom.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Simonson