Brilliant Biographies

For the last month, we have been reading about amazing people in our reading groups and literacy centers. We had the inquiry question, "What can we learn from amazing people?" Through our biography reading, we have learned about amazing people like Amelia Earhart, Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, Wright Brothers, Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, Lewis and Clark, John F. Kennedy, and more. The students loved to share their biographies with other classmates and their reading made them even more curious about amazing people in history.  

Our literacy centers were filled with fluency readings about famous people, inquiry boxes with primary sources and replica artifacts, information scavenger hunts through SeeSaw, and tons of reading and writing.  Our literature discussion groups were all different biographies of famous people.  Many of our discussions started with the SeeSaw questions from independent reading.  Check out your child's SeeSaw learning journal to see his/her biography research.

We have two great resources available to Eagle Cliffs students.  We used these "kid friendly" and reliable sources to do much of our biography research.  You can access these sites from home as well.  On the top button bar of this blog, there is a tab for Pebble Go and World Book Online.  By clicking on the tabs, it will give you a link and the username and password for our students.  Please take advantage of these great sources for research.



When the children finished their reading group books, they wrote biography poems about their historical figure.  Here are just a couple of examples.  



Third graders will continue with their research.  We are planning a living museum with biography presentations in early May.  I will keep you posted as plans are finalized.