Columbus Day Fun!

I do a lot with

Christopher Columbus over the few days following Columbus Day. I think it is important for my First Graders to know about exploring and not giving up on a dream. We watch a really appropriate video on Columbus on Unitedstreaming.com, an Animated Heroes Classic movie. While the students are watching the movie, they write down over three facts in their Fact Books. We then chose three of their top facts relating to Columbus and transfer to a writing paper, which is made into a class book. We also make a cut-out of Columbus in a ship to put on our desks for the next few days. I took some pictures of just the Columbus project, before the ships were made to add to this post.