Student Projects   1. Student Books Introduction: We have been working on our writing everyday with the teacher, with each other, at home and by ourselves in writing workshop. At CGS. writing workshop is the time when we use what we know about writing and work alone. We make our own books and share them with each other. We would also like it share some with you.     2. Coming To America We integrated eighteen Latino Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE) students with twenty-seven mainstream English speakers, which included bilingual families who immigrated from Syria to work on this project. This diverse group collaborated with staff from the school community, which includes people from Italy, Lebanon and Puerto Rico. The activity involves two teachers and two integrated classes in which first and second language children are paired to encourage language acquisition while students engaged in early literacy practices, purposeful use of technology, and in the social studies content area. 3. The ABC Book Project Description Student Learning Logs Student Interviews The ABC Books 4. Plimoth Plantation Recently our students visited Plimouth Plantation and published "The Plimouth Plantation Daily" Project Description We have begun our ABC project which is inquiry based and centered on our school. Students have been grouped into triads of researchers, and have generated queries they can get answered by research, observation, and interview. A number of people who were involved in the planning and opening of the school are on staff and students will interview them, as well as family members who may recall things. Mr. Raiche, our building principal has offered to open the time capsule which was placed in a tube at the building's opening. He suggested that we could first work with the students on predicting what they think might have been considered important to put in there. We'll chart our predictions, and then open the tube. As part of an introduction to the time line concept, students will create a time line of their lives. Students will then create an ABC book of the school and a ten year time line history to finish with Y2K. They will place a copy of this book into the time capsule. They may also place a disk or some electronic copy of the material as things have changed drastically along these lines in ten years. Following this students will investigate the Town of Methuen as it is part of both third and second grade curriculum. There is a lot of available material and the Methuen Historical Society is available as a resource. This will follow the ABC book and thus we will move from a study of the school to one of the Town of Methuen. There is also much opportunity here for visiting monuments and for students to create virtual field trips.   This program is supported in part by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

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