For social studies the students will be making a penny timeline in class. In order to get ready for this project there has to be some preparation done at home.
- The students need to collect a penny for each year they have been alive. For example if your child was born in 2002, then they would need a penny for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. So every child will need to go on a penny scavenger hunt, which should be FUN!!
- Each student needs to fill out the attached sheet with an event that happened each year of their life. So the first box would be the year they were born (I will still use the example above), so if your child was born in 2002, what happened at 0 years of age, probably they were born. Then in 2003 at 1 year of age they walked. Next in 2004 at the age of 2 they were talking. And this would continue. The more details the better. They cannot put I turned 2, I turned 3. That will not be accepted.
- Then in class we will be putting together our time lines using art work, pennies and all the exciting things that have happened in their lives.
- The pennies are due Friday, October 8, 2010. The pennies coming to school on time is part of the grade. The pennies need to be in an envelope or plastic bag with the students name on it.
- If you have extra pennies from the years of 2000-2010 and would like to contribute them to the class for any students who might need them, please feel free to send them.
Thanks,
Jamie Sawyer
jbronste@houstonisd.org
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