This has been a crazy week for us in Colorado. Since Thursday cities all around Colorado have been suffering from some devastating flooding. My family and I are very lucky to be safe and dry where we are, but many of the surrounding areas have been evacuated and are experiencing serious flood damage. We can’t really go anywhere because of all the road closures around us. The rain finally stopped yesterday for some much needed blue skies but unfortunately it returned today and is supposed to continue all day long.
My teacher brain of course is already thinking about how I can turn this into a teachable moment. I have my whole Weather Is Wild Unit which I’m sure will now involve lots of conversations about flooding when get started with it in January. But for a more immediate lesson I thought we’d learn about some non-fiction text features. We will be studying newspaper articles and then write our own about the floods. This is a sample of what I will be going over with my class.
Right now our newspapers have lots of photographs that we can cut out and use for our articles and captions. I’m sharing the blank Current Event Writing Template I’ve created for this in case you would like to work on a similar writing pieces about events in your area or elsewhere. Click HERE to grab it for your class.
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Wow. That is unbelievable.
Stay dry and safe!
Stephanie- so sorry for everything going on in your state. I'm glad your family is ok and I'm thinking good thoughts for the less fortunate families in your area.
That sounds like an awesome teachable moment though. Good luck with it and thanks for sharing!
Mrs. Thompson
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We're in Monument and at a higher elevation so haven't had as much of the really bad flooding. Where are you? My own two kiddos think the schools that are closed tomorrow are lucky. If only they knew. Stay safe and dry!
In AZ we have had the same rain all week. I'm actually surprised we haven't had any flooding. I've been thinking about you to the north all week, the footage on the news has been unbelievable! Stay safe!
You have my prayers and hope for a speedy recovery from the floods!
Cindy
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