Gold Rush's 3rd Grader's visit the Plains Conservation Center

Our third graders visited the Plains Conservation Center this week to help strengthen their understanding and develop an appreciation of how things change.  By studying history we can analyze how people in the past have influenced the development and interaction of communities in the present.
https://plainscenter.wordpress.com

As we entered the Plains Conservation Center we were thrown back in time to the year 1887.  Students learned the different roles of the Colorado Homesteaders.   We analyzed the equipment that farmers used to work the land.

Discovered how the pioneers constructed their sod homes from the resources that they had available to them.  Students also learned the role of the home maker and how the house was run.

 We learned regiment of the one room school house and the role of a teacher in a small rural community.  Students noticed how the expectations and discipline in school has changed through out the years.


We discovered that back in 1887 Colorado did not exist yet and that the territories of the United States were different then today.

 

Students compared the roles that they have within their family to the roles of children back then.  We began to understand how laborious and challenging it was to be a homesteader in the year 1887. 

A visit from the Harlem Ambassadors

Gold Rush had a few amazing visitors come and share their individual,

inspirational stories about how they dealt with bullying in their

lives and what they did to overcome the situation.

Mental Toughness

Patrick

Alex

Ashley

 As the three walked us through their stories and explained how they were able to move past bullying using resiliency and mental toughness, they also entertained us with their amazing basketball skills.

Digger Dash

Our 3rd grade class is officially named

"The Castro Coconuts"

Ms. Brown and Ms. Bergner get our students pumped up for the annual
 Digger Dash fund raiser.