Final Blog Post

Welcome to my final blog post! To recap and review, me and my partner Angela will be creating a lesson plan on how to teach second or third graders the importance of immigration. We will do this by using the book, All The Way To America by Dan Yaccarino. Our goal is that we hope other educators can also learn from this and grasp new ideas for their students as well. While researching this topic, Angela and I have come across things ourselves about immigration that we didn’t know were so important. We learned new things about it as our … Continue reading Final Blog Post

My Third Blog Post

Welcome to my 3rd blog post!  My partner and I are planning on using the book All the Way to America by Dan Yaccarino to teach a second or third grade class. We will portray this lesson through a lesson plan to teach our students about immigration. After reading this book the objective is that students will get the idea that all ancestors were not born in America. It would also be important for them to understand the severity and struggle that comes with immigrating from one country to another. I think that imigration is a great lesson to educate … Continue reading My Third Blog Post

Second Blog Post

My name is Margaret DeRaffele and welcome to my second teaching blog post. My main execution is guided towards teaching second and third graders about the importance of immigration to and from other countries. My partner and I have chosen a book that can help children have greater understanding of immigration and its exact meaning. This book is called All the Way to America by Dan Yaccarino. As I stated in my last post this story is about one shovel that has been pasted down from generation to generation in a large Italian family. By creating a lesson from this … Continue reading Second Blog Post

Teaching Immigration

My name is Margaret DeRaffele and welcome to my first blog post! I’ve been researching different topics that would be appropriate to teach to younger children ages ranging from around 5-10. I realized that immigration would be the most useful and beneficial topic. When I was in elementary school I began to learn about these topics at a some what young age and to me personally I think it is important for young children to know about. As a future teacher, it is an aim of mine to be sure that my students have a clear understanding of these different … Continue reading Teaching Immigration