Gold Rush interactive notebook
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We have spent the last week and a half on our Power Through Precision studying the 5 giants of temptation & the California Gold Rush. We spent each day reading about the giants we face in our lives doing one giant daily and studying the Gold Rush.
I decided to do the project that list vocabulary words to know and spell. We did this all at once at the end of the resource. I made a vocabulary mini-book to glue into their interactive notebook. I wrote the words on the flap and they copied the definition from the board as I looked it up in the dictionary. I used my IPad's dictionary which saved time.Going over the vocabulary words were very helpful. I asked them what the word meant then we wrote the definition. This allowed me to see if they understood the vocab words. My older student took notes as we went through the study so this was just with the elementary students. Next time I would like to have everyone do it together.
We then made a mini-book that listed the 5 giants of temptation and under the flap we wrote a verse that went with the giant.
This study was what we needed here .God is good. As we face these temptation in life whether it be from Satan or our own sinful desires we have a choice to make. They also really I think for the first time understood what lust was in scripture.
The other project we did was study the California Gold Rush because of the greed during that time in American history. I read through this book as they colored & cut. I purchased the interactive notebook which has the link above. You may be able to find some for free or make your own even better. We then glued them in our WB interactive notebook. I made some of my own mini-books and added it to the study. I am going to look for a movie or documentary on the gold rush. An idea for a read aloud would be Brighty of the Grand Canyon.
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One of the fun things we did was discuss if we had to leave and pack up a wagon to go across the country. It really made them think about was is a true needs in life verses things that are pleasures and things that can cause us to be greedy.
I am looking forward to studying bulletproof George Washington next week.
