Teaching using a timeline

By request I am adding this video to the blog. I have used it for several years to teach how things change over time, and how to read a timeline. I thought this would be a good time of the year to introduce it because the timeline starts around the time of Sarah Plain and Tall. I explained to the students that this shows how cars have developed and evolved since the time the book is set in.

Bread!

This year our class is reading Sarah Plain and Tall, so far we have only finished two chapters, but we have had fun along the way! One of my goals for the year is to integrate as much curriculum as much as possible. Today we meshed some social studies, science, and reading into a single lesson! In chapter 1 of Sarah Plain and Tall Anna makes bread for her family, so we made bread...from scratch!

It was fun to see how excited the kids got to see the dough rise, and of course filling the school with the smell of freshly baked bread is always a bonus! I was also surprised that they liked how plain bread tastes.