For November we learned a lot about different Native American tribes and the First Thanksgiving. Students heard many books that told the history of the Pilgrims coming to the New World and the hard ships they faced here. They also learned that many of them died during that first year and how the Native Americans and Pilgrims were both afraid of each other at first and kept their distance from each other. Then students learned how Samoset approached the Pilgrims and then brought Squanto to them who decided to live with them and helped them. Students learned more about Squanto's life through a biography we had on him as well as Scholastic News. Squanto was kidnapped from his tribe and when he was able to get back, found his tribe had all be wiped out by a disease brought by explorers.
We also watched some videos that Scholastic has that shows a replica of the Mayflower and what life was like on the Mayflower as they traveled. We also saw what life was like at Plymouth through Plymouth Plantation, a site that re-enacts the pilgrim and Wampanoag life. We also talked a lot about how things have changed from then to now. We learned about the changes to clothing, transportation, housing, games, and communication through the years.
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Our first unit for the year was Geography. This went along well with our science unit as we talked a lot about maps. Students learned about map keys, different types of maps, and cardinal directions (north, south, east, and west). They worked towards being able to read and interpret maps. We also talked a lot about communities. Students talked about the basic needs that people have and how communities fulfill those needs. We talked about the different characteristics of our communities, the environmental or natural ones and the cultural ones. We also discussed goods and services that communities provide.
We will then move on to learning and talking about how communities have local governments and what they are for in our next unit, Civics. The start of our social science (formally known as social studies) learning is community. So far we have talked about our classroom and school community as well as our families and what makes up a neighborhood community. This will then go into Geography and tie in with our science scope about landforms and maps.
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