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Ok, I registered with ePals to find a fifth grade music teacher who would like to collaborate with us on a historical ballad writing project this spring. I usually do a ballad writing project but it would be fun to share our projects with another sc…
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Musicals Involve Everyone
Our Fifth Graders are still working on America Bound! and our opening night, March 17, 2009, is coming up fast. It is amazing how much they understand about the experience of moving to a new place, especially a new country. They have been talking with their friends who have had this experience and learning from them.
Our "backstage" people are also making a huge impact. Mrs. Pappanduros and her artists are painting the sets. They are doing a street scene in New York City and a Passenger Ship. I… Continue
Our "backstage" people are also making a huge impact. Mrs. Pappanduros and her artists are painting the sets. They are doing a street scene in New York City and a Passenger Ship. I… Continue
Posted on February 16, 2009 at 2:23pm —
Immigration and America Bound!
The fifth grade teachers are building a great unit on immigration based on the musical we are presenting this year in the fifth grade called America Bound! The musical traces the journey of the O'Reilly family from Ireland to the United States in the early 1920s. It includes their experiences leaving their extended family behind, traveling steerage class into New York and seeing the Statue of Liberty as they arrive, being processed on Ellis Island and then moving into Uncle Tim's apartment in Ne… Continue
Posted on January 14, 2009 at 2:16pm —
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