Wednesday, March 5, 2014

EUREKA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: First-graders learn history and take the bus!



Eureka Heights Elementary School pupils in Ms. Farkas' and Ms. Schoen's first-grade class focused on the lives and accomplishments of Ruby Bridges, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks during Black History Month.

The vocabulary words that the class focused on were drawn Scholastic News issues focusing on Black History Month, books that we're read as a class and mini videos that helped the children relate to the struggles of the time through age-appropriate songs and video clips.

The class finished off the month by designing the Sharkus Bus, where all children can sit wherever they choose!  

Sayings on the bus were quotes from the pupils:
  • "Integration not Segregation"
  • "Thank you Rosa Parks for not giving up your seat!"
  • "Ruby Bridges was a hero!"

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