Thursday, February 26, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
2/24/2015: Storewide Teachers Pay Teachers Sale- Teachers are Heroes!
Additionally, I am having a 20% off everything sale Feb. 25 and Feb. 26!!!
Monday, February 23, 2015
2/23/2015: Happy Birthday W.E.B. Dubois!
Today, February 23rd, iss the birthday of the great Civil Rights activist, scholar, and author William Edward Burghardt, better-known as W.E.B. Du Bois. W.E.B. DuBois was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, he went on to become a professor at Atlanta University and a well-known author and intellectual. He is probably best known as a co-founder of the NAACP and champion of civil rights.
My original reader W.E.B. DuBois - Standing Up for Civil Rights is a great story for his birthday week, and for the last week of Black History Month! This second- grade level M reader is one of the ten books included in the collection called Famous African-Americans in U.S. History: Leveled Books for Grades 1 – 3.
Monday, February 9, 2015
2/9/2015: Happy Black History Month 2015!
We are now well into the month of February. I hope that you were able to enjoy some fun Groundhog’s Day activities in your classroom.
Of course February also means Black History Month. This past week has been particularly important as we celebrate the great contributions of African Americans in the history of our country. On February 4th, civil rights activitst Rosa Parks was born as Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1955 she famously refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus.
My leveled books Famous African-Americans in U.S. History are a great way to bring more Black History into your classroom this month, or as part of other social studies or language arts units. Each book highlights specific grade-level concepts and vocabulary. The series is for grades 1-3 and features ten African-Americans and their contributions:
Martin Luther King, Jr. - preacher; civil rights leader (level D)
Garrett Morgan - inventor (level F)
Richard Allen - builder and legislator (level H)
Sojourner Truth - women's rights; freedom activist (level L)
W.E.B. DuBois - educator; founder of NAACP (level M)
George Washington Carver - farmer and scientist (level M)
Thurgood Marshall - lawyer; Supreme Court Justice (level M)
Ruby Bridges - six-year-old student (level P)
Benjamin Banneker - architect of Capitol (level P)
Harriet Tubman - freedom fighter (level P)
Older students will enjoy learning more about the Tuskegee Airmen. This level U reader is aimed at students at the fifth-grade level. Specific concepts, skills, and vocabulary targeted in the story listed on the first page of the reader. You can try out my work with this free Black History month download George Washington Carver: Farmer and Scientist and see my Black History Month board on Pintrest for more ways to celebrate in your classroom!
Happy Black History month!
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