Mrs. Esterhuizen's 5th Grade Jedi Masters

We covered a lot this week! We worked on summarizing nonfiction texts and showed what we learned by drawing comics! How do comics show what we learned? The task was to take a nonfiction book (we chose history nonfiction, to go with our history objectives) and summarize it through images in a comic strip format. I had students write an outline of a summary as a first draft and use that to create their designs! Here is a glimpse of what we created this week! 

We also learned about the 8 geographic regions of North America and created a foldable to help us study! Here's what it looks like: