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I teach at a magnet school. (if you are unsure about what a magnet is, here is some background) Because of this, my classroom (as is the entire school) is filled with a great deal of diversity. Many of my students are the sons or daughters of immigrants to the United States. Some are immigrants themselves. So when we came upon our unit discussing Heritage, they each had quite a bit to bring to the table. During this unit, we did many different projects to get the students thinking about where they came from and their own family roots. I thought I would take this post to share some of those projects with you. To begin, we talked about what an immigrant was in general. The students wrote paragraphs about them after we read several articles on the subject. Now, this was before Common Core so now I can see that we totally could have tied in the close reading idea and pulled in actual evidence from the articles, instead of the basic retelling of the ideas in their own words that the kids did. But, eh, these were good for the time :) Another little project we did to introduce this unit were our heritage dolls. The students researched the country they felt most connected to as "where they were from." (some of the students had one parent from, say, Guatemala and another from Mexico. I asked them to pick just one of those countries for the purposes of this project.) They researched the traditional dress of the people who lived there and created little dolls representing the dress. I also took a picture of the kids as if they were holding the doll. The speech bubbles described the dress that they learned from their research. To learn a little more about the other students in class, the kids conducted surveys about where people came from. They each made up their own questions dealing with a person's background. The questions could have been about preferred language, country of origin, favorite foods, or whatever they thought would have to do with the background of the people in our class. They then disaggregated the data, finding percentages, fractions, etc...of the data. Finally, the students used Create-A-Graph and made both a bar graph and circle graph of the information. (for more info on how I use this in my classroom, see this post) There was a major at home project that they students did involving their family over the course of this unit as well. First, they choose one family member who actually immigrated to the United States and interviewed him/her. Every one of my students had a direct relative that they could interview, however if no one was available, I did allow them to speak to a neighbor or teacher or friend who was an immigrant for the purposes of this project. Next, they chose a country they felt most connected to a "where they were from" (could be the same as the one with the doll or the other country.) They then wrote a research report following all of the conventions of a traditional research report. Finally, the students created a "float" representing that country that was researched. We then had a "float parade" where the entire school came out as we paraded down the hallway with the floats! The kids had a blast with that one!! You can get the entire project here. Those are just a few of the many projects and lesson we did during this unit. Have you ever done a unit on the students' heritage? What are some things you have done?
Children carry jellyfish decorations as they make their way through the city streets as part of the Moomba Parade held in Melbourne, 12 March 2007. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets to...
Founded in 1936, the annual Corso Zundert parade is a celebration of the Netherlands’ most iconic exports: flowers. The event is held every year in the small town of Zundert where 20 teams of volunteers from different hamlets compete for the best designed parade float. More than being covered almost completely in vibrant dahlia flowers, the float designs often incorporate moving elements and are accompanied by marching bands and other performers along the parade route. More
Miniature parade float based on architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s house in Vienna, Austria, and paraded in the Great Small Works Toy Theatre Festival Parade in Brooklyn, New York, in 20…
If you've not yet heard of Corso Zundert, it's a legendary parade of giant floats, adorned with thousands of dahlia flowers, that makes its way through the streets of Zundert, Netherlands. This y...
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Today on armistice day, 11/11/17 was also the annual Lord Mayors show for the City of London. With full on pomp & pageantry, carnival floats and even donkeys and dogs, the City of London came a…
It’s the biggest time of year for the small town of Zundert in the Netherlands. Twenty gigantic floats were paraded through the city as part of Corso Zundert (previously), an annual flower parade that sees teams of designers and artisans compete to build the most original sculpture covered almost completely with dahlia flowers. Several floats appearing in Corso Zundert this year contained moving parts, including the winner, Crazy Gold, that had some 53 moving components. More
Project to review the provinces of Canada. Could be modified to be the regions of Canada or regions of Alberta.
Satirical floats depict political leaders at carnival parades across Europe.
The 124th Tournament of Roses Parade kicked off early on a chilly New Year’s Day morning in Pasadena, with much-anticipated excitement, color and life. Framework presents the best images of t…
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Another year, another Corso Zundert (previously), the legendary parade of giant floats adored with thousands of dahlia flowers that twist through the narrow streets of Zundert, Netherlands. This year 19 teams took inspiration from the work of Vincent van Gogh who was born in Zundert 162 years ago. The towering floats borrow colors, motifs, and imagery from van Gogh’s painting including several interpretations of the artist’s self-portraits. Started in 1936, the parade celebrates the region’s reputation as a global supplier of dahlia flowers, an area now covering 33 hectares (81 acres) of 600,000 dahlia bulbs in fifty different species. More
A New Heaven: float design from Krewe of Proteus 1898 parade. Theme: A trip to Wonderland. A very random selection from a vast collection (5545 items) of designs for carnival floats and costumes at…
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Founded in 1936, the annual Corso Zundert parade is a celebration of the Netherlands’ most iconic exports: flowers. The event is held every year in the small town of Zundert where 20 teams of volunteers from different hamlets compete for the best designed parade float. More than being covered almost completely in vibrant dahlia flowers, the float designs often incorporate moving elements and are accompanied by marching bands and other performers along the parade route. More
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This year's Bloemencorso Zundert, or Zundert Flower Parade, featured 19 teams who designed floats inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. The famous Post-Impressionist painter was born in Zundert, The Netherlands, 162 years ago, well before the parade was first held. Traditionally the parade is run entirely by volunteers, uses only dahlia flowers, and is the world's largest flower procession.
The 2024 Rose Parade, rolling under the theme “Celebrating a World of Music: The Universal Language,” displayed its usual array of marching bands, fabulous floral floats and equestrian troupes.
I am big on "At Home" projects. I like that the students have a chance to budget their own time (something critical for when they move on to middle school), that they get to work with their parents on a school related project, and that they will have a great project, made with materials they found at home, as an end product. Now I know there are some people who feel they can never grade something that a child did at home because they don't know how much input a parent had. Well, I honestly have never had that problem. My students are doing the work. They have *help*, but I haven't received a project that was completed solely by a parent (or if I have, it has not be evident in the least ;) ) Anyway, that is not what this post is about. Back to the subject.... Heritage is a unit that we teach through our reading series in 5th grade. The unit is jampacked with stories of different people, where they come from, and how their culture influences who they are today. As it just so happens, our ELD (English Language Development) unit is about Immigration and the reasons people would want to come to the United States. These two themes go so perfectly together that I thought I would create an at home assignment to round it all off! Click here to access the project. Since many of my students are immigrants, or second/third generation here in the United States, I had them start with an interview of someone who immigrated to the United States. Most had access to their own parents, grandparents, or other relatives that they could interview. For those few that didn't, I allowed them to interview a neighbor or even a teacher at our school who immigrated. Next, the students needed to write a report about the country of origin they most identify with. I use myself as an example. My great-grandparents on my father's side both immigrated from Russia at the turn of the 20th century. On my mother's side there is a slew of European countries that are represented. However, the Russian side of my family was the most prominent while I was growing up. Russia is the country I most identify with as having "originated" in. The students need to choose one of the countries they most identify with. The final piece of this project was to create a parade float representing the immigration journey from the "home" country to the United States. The directions I cut and pasted from Enchanted Learning, however the requirements I made specific to the project. These floats were so varied and came out so amazing! Students put pictures of their relatives, artifacts from the country they researched....so creative! We then presented the floats to the school in a "parade" (as you can see in the picture below. To keep the kids on track, I had them periodically (about once a week) turn in a "check in form" to me. This let me know what questions they had, what materials they needed, and helped me to see that they were actually doing the project. Overall, this project was successful in getting the students to think about their roots, as well as connect our literature unit with our ELD unit. They walked away from it with a greater appreciation of their own family as well, which was the ultimate goal.
A Mexican wave of drinking, dining and dancing is sweeping the capital in time for Day of the Dead. Let Frankie McCoy be your spirit guide
Tips for visiting the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. It takes some planning but the over 125 year old tradition is worth the effort.
florentijn hofman has created the 21-metre-long hippopothames, towed upriver from its build site at royal docks to its end position on the south bank, UK.
