Citizenship

This week in Social Studies students have been learning about citizenship. We discussed our rights and responsibilities that we have as citizens of the United States. We compared our rights and responsibilities as citzens to our rights and responsibilities in the classroom. Today we watched a video about citizenship. After the video we talked about how being a good citizen also means for citizens to stay informed about current events. We can use our knowledge to make better decisions and to take actions. I challenged all students to today to watch the local news tonight to become more informed about their community!

Mayor Trautman

On Monday afternoon Mayor Trautman from   Glasgow came to Highland Elementary to speak to our fourth grade students. Students have recently been studying about government and the three levels of government. Mayor Trautman shared with the students about her job and responsibilities as Mayor of Glasgow. The students had many questions and learned a lot! Thank you Mayor Trautman for visiting our school!



Kamron Gore and Hector Cabrera presented Mayor Trautman with a thank you card signed by all 4th grade students.



Week of March 21st- 25th

We have had a wonderful start to our new government unit so far! This past week we were able to learn about the constitution and the three levels of government. We are so lucky to have the mayor come speak to us at Highland on Monday! We will be learning about her responsibilities in our local government. This will be a very short unit! This week we will finish up our levels of government posters, learn about the three branches of government, review and will prepare for a unit test on Friday! I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather and are ready for another great week!

The Great Depression

Last week students learned about the beginning of a new century. Students learned how things were going great in the beginning of the 1900's but then in the fall of 1929 the United States and even Kentucky suffered through the Great Depression. After learning about articles, students looked at photos from the Great Depression and imagined what a newspaper article might say about the photo above. Fourth grade students then wrote their own newspaper article about this photo taken during The Great Depression.

Week of March 7th-11th

Hello! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! Just wanted to update you on this upcoming week. Tomorrow we will finish our article writing about the Great Depression and will finish up our unit on the New Century this week. By Wednesday or Thursday we will review for a test and will take a test the following day. After our test will we will begin a new unit on Kentucky government! Just a reminder, Mystery Literacy night has been changed to Thursday night, March 10th, at 5:00. As always, if you have any questions or concerns please contact me! 1-270-659-0432 or   rebecca.johnson@glasgow.kyschools.us