Current Events

What is a current event? This phrase is vital for each classroom across America! Current Events tie in social studies with literacy in today's classroom. Let's break it up: Current-something that is happening now  and is relevant to the age, location, and child; event- something that happened or is happening. Combined these two words are important for elementary school children to learn because it teaches about other cultures, events that happened or are currently taking place, and how it can impact a society or even themselves.

Current Events with Adjectives. 

My partner and I taught our college students about how important adjectives are on current events. We taught this lesson using a Newsela article. We started out by defining what an adjective is. We then watched a SchoolHouse Rock video on adjectives. This video was amazing to use because it was sung so it was easy to remember, had pictures, and used new adjectives. What made me really appreciate the new adjectives was that it said it, used it in a sentence, and also showed a picture. By doing the three of those, the students hopefully will learn new adjectives to use. Then we asked the students what they say in the video.


After this, we had students share examples of what adjectives were and their examples.
We then had the students read an article on Newsela. The college students were assigned to use the highlighter tool to highlight any adjective they saw. This was vital because it was more practice, and taught the students a new tool to use in the future.

We then made a simple movie about adjectives to share with our teacher peers. My partner and I decided to use the word "young" in this movie. We shared the example from the article, then we created our own example with that word. The assignment was for the students to use the website "wideo.co" and create a adjective movie too! We shared some examples from the class.

This experience was full of new experiences. My partner and I had to use that website that we never used before to create the video. Not only that, but then instruct our students to use that website and create a video. Overall, this lesson went great! I would go over the article more in the future and provide more time for the video creation, but we achieved everything we planned for and my partner and I were content with what was taught.