Our Big Community Activist Projects

Dear families,

We just watched "Beatrice's Goat," the movie of the book that we told you about, which Emily got out of the library and brought to school. We saw the real Beatrice!

We have been working on our community activist projects. We studied these four people: Cesar Chavez, Dan West, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. We read books about them. They're all community activists. Community activists can change things. If they see a problem they get people together to try to fix it. They can change the world!!!

We made these posters. They're really big!

We cut out real pictures of the people, and wrote facts about them. Like, did you know that people protested with a sit-in because some restaurants only used to let white people sit down at the counter and not brown people? After a lot of protests and marches and speeches and reports on TV the laws got changed.

We also made some block projects.

And posters about stuff we found out.

It was hard work doing this, but it was fun!

Adios, families! Hasta manana!

The First Graders

Harvesting & Heifers

Dear families,

Today we went to Tompkins Square Park to do writing and reading.

Today we even harvested lettuce too! This is the lettuce we planted from seeds, when we did drama with Kelli. We left a little bit still growing to see what happens.

We've been studying community activists in social studies. Here's a picture of the first activist we studied.

It's Dan West and he started Heifer International. It's called Heifer because a heifer is a young cow who didn't have babies yet, and heifers were the first animals that the program gave to people. They were sent to families in Puerto Rico who had never even tasted milk before! Dan West started Heifer International because he was working in the Spanish War to give cups of milk to children. But as soon as the kids touched the milk it was gone, and they were still hungry. So he thought "these people don't need a cup, they need a cow."

Families, just wait, we're going to raise money for Heifer International and we'll tell you how next week!

See you soon!

The First Graders