Today's Classroom Activities :

Where Were You?

Where Were You?
Reading Ask students to bring in postcards or photographs of where they went this summer. Discuss setting. Divide the postcards and/or photos according to: country, city, beach, forest, inside, outside, etc. You can do this in large groups on a bulletin board, in small groups on poster board or in learning stations. Another day, use the same images to illustrate context clues. Can you tell what is happening by the picture?

In My Summer Vacation -- On the Internet! your students can travel and learn with Kate and her younger brother, Matt, as they explore the U.S. -- on the Internet! They will visit Web sites connected to popular attractions, and search those sites for answers to questions from Kate and Matt!

This year when you have your students write about What I Did On My Summer Vacation, take this one time boring assignment and set your students' imagination free with this new twist by having a travel motif in your classroom with travel posters, brochures, suitcases, souvenirs, pictures of summer vacations etc. (Note: if a student "didn't do anything" during the summer, use Camp or BAH - Back At Home)