During the Month of
March, our second grade students have been studying numerous Famous Americans
including George Washington, Rosa Parks, Benjamin Franklin and Helen Keller.
Students chose two of the subjects from the unit to research further. Thanks
to a grant from the Edgar and Eleanor and Shannon Foundation, second graders
received materials to make puppet representations of their two research
subjects. Then students wrote scripts for the puppet subjects to
interview one another. As a final step in the project, students taped
their puppet interviews. These interviews will be shared with classmates
and students in other grade levels as an interesting way to review the
contributions of the Famous Americans.
