Example Parent Letter for Social Studies Unit

    Here is an example of a parent letter that I wrote about the Social Studies Unit that is being planned. Take a look!




     Dear Parent/Guardian,

     I would like to introduce myself, my name is Ms Robinson and I am excited to be your child’s 6^th grade Social Studies teacher. I am very excited to have the opportunity to work with your child.

      I have high expectations for my students and in our classroom we will behave in a way that is appropriate to young social studies scholars to achieve and master the content and skills needed to complete the 6^th grade social studies curriculum.

     Let me start by explaining a portion of the Social Studies unit students will be working on this term. The curriculum expectations we will be focusing on in this unit is Strand B “People and Environments: Canada’s interactions with The Global community”.

     The Big Idea and Big Question for the unit this term is “What are the implications of Canada’s involvement in international sporting events?” Throughout this unit students will be involved in a Blended Learning environment throughout the unit. If you have any questions about how your child will be learning in a blended learning environment, what is different about it and its positive implications visit this site and it will help explain the difference between technology integration and blended learning http://bit.ly/1upOPgZ.

      This will be an integrated unit and will incorporate Science and Physical Education throughout. The culminating activity the students will be doing at the end of this unit is they will be developing a short news story answering the Big Question. Feel free to follow me on my twitter at http://bit.ly/1cWNPv9  and my Blog at http://bit.ly/15E4wLZ  to keep updated with what is happening in your child’s classroom. I really hope you take a look at them to keep updated with all the awesome things we will be doing this term!

      If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to call or send a note or drop in. You can reach me at the school phone number. I am always happy to talk to the families of my students. You are the most important people in my students’ lives! Let’s work together to make sure your child gets everything he or she needs to be successful this year!

Sincerely,

                

       Ms. Robinson     

Social Studies Parent Letter

    Here is an example of a parent letter that I wrote about the Social Studies Unit that is being planned. Take a look!




     Dear Parent/Guardian,

     I would like to introduce myself, my name is Ms Robinson and I am excited to be your child’s 6^th grade Social Studies teacher. I am very excited to have the opportunity to work with your child.

      I have high expectations for my students and in our classroom we will behave in a way that is appropriate to young social studies scholars to achieve and master the content and skills needed to complete the 6^th grade social studies curriculum.

     Let me start by explaining a portion of the Social Studies unit students will be working on this term. The curriculum expectations we will be focusing on in this unit is Strand B “People and Environments: Canada’s interactions with The Global community”.

     The Big Idea and Big Question for the unit this term is “What are the implications of Canada’s involvement in international sporting events?” Throughout this unit students will be involved in a Blended Learning environment throughout the unit. If you have any questions about how your child will be learning in a blended learning environment, what is different about it and its positive implications visit this site and it will help explain the difference between technology integration and blended learning http://bit.ly/1upOPgZ.

      This will be an integrated unit and will incorporate Science and Physical Education throughout. The culminating activity the students will be doing at the end of this unit is they will be developing a short news story answering the Big Question. Feel free to follow me on my twitter at http://bit.ly/1cWNPv9  and my Blog at http://bit.ly/15E4wLZ  to keep updated with what is happening in your child’s classroom. I really hope you take a look at them to keep updated with all the awesome things we will be doing this term!

      If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to call or send a note or drop in. You can reach me at the school phone number. I am always happy to talk to the families of my students. You are the most important people in my students’ lives! Let’s work together to make sure your child gets everything he or she needs to be successful this year!

Sincerely,

                

       Ms. Robinson                                         

Cross Curricular Integration.

Teachers can ensure enough time to teach social studies, geography and history by interdisciplinary integration. The revised social studies, history and geography curriculum allows room for subject integration within mathematics and language which is the major focus in the schools daily schedule. Ensuring time for these subjects integrating them with these subjects may help educators create and engage students with higher order questions and deeper thinking with curriculum integration. Educators can help with integration of social studies with other subjects through the use of inquiry based learning to help create deeper level thinking and ensuring there is enough time to integrate social studies, geography and history in the schools daily schedule. Educators can work with other subject teachers in creating inquiry based lessons, or to help integrate social studies, history or geography into the educator’s rotary schedule with the students. 

        Technology can be used to help create integrated lessons with the social studies curriculum, through the use of blended learning within the classroom. Integrating multiple subjects in lessons can be easily done with blended learning and the use of technology makes it a lot easier for the educator to integrate and for the students to learn. There are innovative ways to ensure that world studies can be included in all subjects, there are many opportunities and options for creativity for the educator to integrate world studies. The curriculum allows for educators to integrate social studies, history, and geography through more use of inquiry based learning if educators work together to integrate all the subjects rather than teach the subjects independently and keep them segregated. Including world studies in all subjects helps keep students informed in real world situations and be able to apply world studies and situations in all subjects helps keep students interested in how all subjects can be applied in real world situations and creates actuality. 

        The new social studies document provides opportunities for the educators to give students opportunities to critically think, and create deeper thoughtful questions. Providing students with inquiry based learning opportunities allows students to develop their own learning along with cross curricular integration happening at the same time. This link to edugains website provides an overview of the curriculum document, the review process and planning for cross curricular integration. There are videos, power-points and PDFs discussing concepts of disciplinary thinking and whats new in the curriculum documents. Just visit this link http://bit.ly/1xxcsUR

 Hustvedt, R. (2014). A tipping point for social studies? [Online Image].

       Retrieved January 16, 2014 from

       http://www.magnetsinamerica.org/category/theme-integration/

Welcome to my blog! My name is Ashley Robinson, and in this blog I will be talking about History, Geography, and Social Studies. I will be posting links and resources, hope you enjoy it!