Colonial Travel Videos

In Social Studies we began our unit learning about the 13 Original Colonies. For this project, in groups of 1-3 students, each group is making a Travel Video about their chosen colony. After researching and storyboarding their idea, they will be creating a 90 second video to try and persuade future settlers to move to their colony.

Today students picked their groups, chose their colonies and began to research all that makes their colony unique.

Over the next 2 weeks students will storyboard and ultimately choose the best way to complete their video. Videos will be finished on Friday, February 26th.

I've linked up a few of the documents the students are using for this project. Check them out!

Colony Groups
Research Document
Travel Video Guidelines

We will be working on this project on the following days: Wed 2/17, Fri 2/19, Mon 2/22, Wed 2/24, and Fri 2/26. Students are welcome to bring in their own device (laptop, tablet, phone) on any of these days as long as it is being used to help their group create their video. Students will also have access to class chromebooks.

Photo Site

You may have noticed a new tab at the top of our page labeled Photos... this will lead you to our new Shutterfly picture site. https://thewilcoxcrew201516.shutterfly.com/

I will update the site with pictures taken from field trips, holidays, and class activities.  I'm new to the Shutterfly site, so if you notice any problems, please let me know.  All visitors should be able to view all of the photos that have been uploaded to the various albums.

Many of you have attended these events with us and have taken lots of wonderful pictures.
If you would like to contribute to the site by adding your own photos, sign in with your Shutterfly account...

And then click on Ask to become a member in the right hand corner.

Once you've become a member you can add any photos you've taken this year. We'd love to have you contribute!

Valentines

We will be celebrating Valentines Day in class on Friday, February 12th. If you plan on exchanging valentines, please make sure you have one for every classmate. Below is a list of every student.

Hannah B.      Chris           Dennis         Evan            Austin     Hunter

Garrison         Nathan        Shrilekha     Trista           Jacob       Prithika

Handson         Tanisha      Alena            Harini         Kaden      Devin

Emron            Sameer       Stuart            Sinthu         Nolan      Sarah

Dylan             Nicholas     Jeri                Pradanya    Jackson    Meenakshi

Heejee            Emerson    Hannah Y.