World Geography Class Projects

 Holland project and brought gouda cheese!

Ireland Project

Delicious treat from Ireland

Costa Rica Project

Presentation on Greece was Stellar!

With his Grandparents

With Mom

Research on England

With her Parents

With Mom

Bolivia Project

Presentation about Mexico

Reading to mom

Great job on Romania

Presentation on Grenland

 Project on Canada was simply Amazing!

Presentation on Cuba and brought some Conga Music!

He did great too!

Mr. Raisback helping!

Great Presentation!

We had some pizza from Italy!

With his dad.

 Presentation on Germany

Presentation on Columbia

Beautiful girl brought us Croissants from France, yummy!

These couple of weeks have been very busy for my students and I. The children did finish their Geography projects and did their oral presentations. I think that when children start doing oral presentations early they develop confidence and later on presenting in front of lots of people won't be a problem. They all were great! The third graders did research in Europe countries, the second graders did it in South America countries and the first graders did their research in North American countries. They had to come up with very interesting facts, such as the location of their country, the population, the religion, the flag, important events in history, traditions and celebrations, landmarks, plants and animals, bodies of water etc. They did an excellent job! Parents and family were invited to the presentations and many of them were very kind to bring a special treat for the class from the country they represented, it was very nice! I want to share their success with all of you! I feel very fortunate to have these beautiful children in my class and to contribute to their education.

Day of the Dead and Haloween

The Day of the Dead Celebration!

Decorated Calaveras and Symmetry Pumpkins

Papel Picado

This is the Memory Box I made to honor for my father "Ernesto.
 My Dad was the best Father I could ever asked for.  I miss him a lot!

 Memory Box

 Grandparents Memories!

"Three Generations" Memory Box

I added some sugar skulls "Calaveras"

 "Uncle Tony" Memory Box

honoring  Grandpa with this cute  baby picture!

Pink Memory Box

A beautiful one to honor her Grandpa!

       r "Abueltito Octavio"

Time definitely flies! I can't believe its already January!! I apologize for abandoning my blog. You have no idea, but with all of these HISD and TEA requirements.... I'm going nuts! I've been so busy lately at school that I hadn't get a chance to post for a while. I took some pictures of the kiddos working on a project for The Day of the Dead back in November and I want to share them with you all. The Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos in Spanish is a traditional celebration in Mexico and other South and Central America Countries that started hundreds of years ago to honor the deceased family members and friends. Just a few years ago this tradition crossed the border and is now celebrated here in the USA as well. It's a very fun and colorful celebration that brings out the Mexican Folklore. The children in my class stayed one afternoon after school to work on their memory box project which is something similar to a small altar. We had a lot of fun making the tissue paper flowers and the calaveras. We also made papel picado wich is like cutting shapes on very thin paper. Well too much talking..... let's see some pictures now!

Famous People Wax Museum

The Famous People Wax Museum was a real success!
Thanks to the magnificent help of our terrific parents, our wax museum had a great turn out. The wax statues costumes were absolutely awesome! We had so many famous characters, Ramses II, Albert Einstein, Amelia Earnhardt, even the royalty: Queen Elizabeth, Thomas Edison, Anne Frank, and many more. I was very impressed not only with the children outfits, but with the creativity of the projects too. They were all interesting and we learned a great deal. Obviously the kids asked me and Mr. Raisback to do somebody too, so of course I chose someone easy guess who? Maria Montessori  He he he!! and Mr. Railsback was Pontius Pilate or Pontius Pilatus (Roman name) (Thank you so much to all of you for making it happen :) Here are some pictures enjoy!
Oh! By the way Shannon Hugetz has a membership with Shutterfly, it's a great website were you cab actually buy the pictures or albums at a very affordable price check it out here: http://mstorresclasspictures.shutterfly.com/
She has taken pictures from different events such us the Wizard of OZ class play, The 2011 Fall festival, The Famous People Wax Museum and she also had the pictures from the Pancake Breakfast cooking recipe book.
Thanks everyone!