FOR FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS
Washington State History Notebook
City Report Due February 27, 2014
Your job is to create a unique newspaper article about your town’s history. Using the internet for research along with books, find the following pieces of your city’s history puzzle. Cities and towns always grow around resources, industries, or opportunities. They may boom suddenly, they may change from sleepy small village to popular city over years, or they may stay about the same from their beginnings.
1. Read carefully to build a picture of how your town began. Include information such as early settlers, pioneers, Native American tribes, and when it officially became a town. (Many cities have a date of incorporation. Yours may not, and that’s okay, too. Just look for important dates.) Look for information such as why your city has its name, why it grew where it did, names of original leaders, or any important events which occurred there.
2. Then build an article of about 250 words. It must have complete sentences, good grammar, and correct spelling.
3. Write it neatly and in your very own words. Do not copy from the text you are reading.
4. Then create a picture that completely fills the small illustration box.
5. Create a caption for your picture.
6. Create a title for your article that reflects its history or has a catchy sound- an example might be “Lovely Lacey!”
7. You are done. You may color your illustration neatly with colored pencil, but do not use markers or paint.
FOR THIRD GRADE STUDENTS
Pioneer Report 3rd Grade Due March 6, 2014
My pioneer’s name is _______________________________________________.
This person lived in Washington about ____________years ago. He or she came here from
_________________________________________________________________________ .
__________________________ came here with __________________________________ .
The reason ________________ came to our area was ______________________________
(name)
__________________________________________________________________________.
One of the reasons we know about this pioneer today is ______________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________ .
Something else I learned about them was _________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________ .
I think this person was very ___________________________________________________.
Something difficult _______________________ had to overcome was _________________
(name)
_________________________________________________________________________ .
(Use blank space to draw or include a picture of your pioneer.)
