Teaching World War I

The students are learning so much about World War I. We had the opportunity to borrow one of the traveling trunks through the Upcountry History Museum and the kids loved it! They were able to handle actual artifacts from the War and some great lesson plan ideas. I highly recommend using the trunks in the classroom. It gives students first hand experience and they will love it!! I already have arranged for the World War II trunk. 


 http://www.upcountryhistory.org/education/traveling-trunks/

Point of View

Teaching point of view was so much fun! There were so many different activities that I was able to incorporate into our lessons to really cement their understanding of POV. Flocabulary has amazing videos and the kids loved the Point of View video, they would request all the time. 

 https://www.flocabulary.com/point-of-view/

One activity that helped the kids was a group activity that I found online. The teacher puts a picture in the middle of  an anchor chart and labels around the pictures all three different types of POV, along with the 3 types of 3rd person. The students work together (After the teachers models one) to formulate sentences to fit the picture in each person. 

The students also created a foldable that they used throughout the entire unit. I got the template for free on TpT. 

I used Point of View worksheets  from http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/point-of-view/point-of-view-worksheets/  to model and have students practice figuring out the POV. This is an amazing website that I use regularly.