Confessions of a Teacher Nerd

We're back to integrating Language Arts and Socials Studies.  In theory, it seems like a wonderful idea.  Informational text as well as literary texts can be found for many social studies concepts.  Expect for our lovely little county.  It feels like we are reinventing the wheel everyday.  It would be a little easier if we had the reading resources we needed, but you make do with what you got!

So to make timeline of our little farm county more interesting….we created timeline flip books!  FUN!!!!  The kiddos were never more pumped to make a timeline before in their lives.  I complied the information they would need for their timelines into a short reading.  For my highfliers I took the dates off the dates and had them find the order from the reading.  For my lower little buddies, I kept the dates allowing them to simply match them up.

This was my example copy, and thanks to the help of a parent volunteer, I was able to have 50 more (minus the writing) for our lesson.

After labeling the pages of our flip books, we cut and organized our dates, then glued and illustrated each important date.  A bit of trivia: Carroll County grew wormseed which was processed to make medicines used to get rid of ring worm…..oh the interesting things in Carroll County!

The kids were pumped about timelines, we all learned something new about Carroll County, a great time in Social Studies!!!  Now, on to the next Social Studies lesson, migration and jobs in the past…  Any ideas bloggers?