This Week in the Classroom

This week, the students in the classroom I am in have been performing research methods to find out more information on the country, Italy. They are doing this because the entire school building is having a sort of "Around the World" theme this Friday, where every classroom is a different country. Other students and even parents will be able to view each classroom. Every class gets the opportunity to research information on their assigned country and display it in whatever way they want. My classroom is going to have about three or four different stations. One station will represent the Carnevale, which is a big celebration in Italy. I helped some students make a banner for it. Three girls will dance and show the spirit of Italy underneath the banner. Another station, some boys have created their own home-made boat made of poster paper and it looks awesome. It's pretty big too! They are currently working on painting it. I am not sure what the boat is actually supposed to represent, though, since I was not there in the creation of it. I have also walked around and helped some students as they wrote down some facts on the country, such as jobs, when Italian people work and when they eat their meals. This information will be presented in a PowerPoint station that will be shown at another station. Though the whole "research" aspect of this Italy theme is not all just writing numerous amounts of information for every student, they are still learning how to obtain facts and apply them to what they are trying to show others. I can't wait to see how it all turns out on Friday!