Our Iroquois Skits: Take Eight

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our eighth skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Seven

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our seventh skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Six

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our sixth skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Five

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our fifth skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Four

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our fourth skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Three

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our third skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Two

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our second skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take One

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our first skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Teaching our Partners All About the Iroquois

Since we're becoming experts on the Iroquois, we know we can't just keep what we've learned to ourselves. We're learning how to effectively teach our partner what we've learned. Here are some tricks we've already picked up:

1) Use a teaching voice. You've got to sound like an expert when you talk.
2) Have one main focus. Make sure you have lots of evidence to support your focus.
3) Use visuals to support your teaching. You can use visuals that you create in your Social Studies notebook or the visuals from books.

Click play to watch two students teach the class what they've learned about the Iroquois! What did you learn from the videos? What questions do you have for the presenters?

Math Congress: Sharing our Strategies (by Will and Asa)

We made posters in math that showed our thinking on the Teachers' Lounge problems. We showed our strategies on the ELMO, and we told our strategies to the class. We then let the class solve our problems the way we did it. We showed our work using math equations, and then we explained what we did. Everyone learned a lot by our presentations. We learned a new way to solve the problems, like instead of using Partial Products you could use division (Partial Quotients). We had a great time sharing!!!!! Here are some videos of us sharing our strategies.

Special Read Aloud: Realistic Fiction Leads

In place of our normal read aloud today, we had a special read aloud period. Today, instead of hearing our normal book, WE had a chance to read the leads of OUR stories aloud! We studied the pros (our mentor texts) to get ideas for leads, and we wrote leads inspired by what they had done. Watch the videos, and enjoy! Be sure to leave us a comment and let us know what we did that hooked you!

These are some of the first videos! I'll upload more later!