The fourth grade social studies theme for the year is immigration because the United States is a country full of immigrants — people who moved here from elsewhere. As we look at different immigrant stories we will consider the following questions:
- Why do people immigrate?
- What was their journey like?
- What were their initial impressions of the new country?
- How do they assimilate yet maintain what is important from their country or place of origin?
So let’s begin with YOU! Each of you has just immigrated to Big Dalton from another school. What has that been like for each of you? No doubt you have memories, feelings, and ideas to communicate about this on your first day in your new environment. And what better way to represent these than visually — in a creative map! I want you to be imaginative and to have fun with this.
Think about how you can represent your journey from a familiar place to one that is new (the same experience all new immigrants have) visually. You can use words, pictures, lines, and all sorts of things. These maps can have keys, symbols, labels, whatever you want! (They do need to have correct spelling and such as we are going to display them in the classroom for your parents and all visitors to see — do remember that even as you have fun with this!) Here are a few to get you started thinking about how you want to do your own.
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