Hello Second Grade Parents, Pack your bags, gas up your cars, and get those atlas’ handy! We’re off on a Tour of America! On our journey, students will be exposed to all of the 50 states, but they will choose one state to really delve into! Students will research their state’s history, famous individuals, physical features, resources, products, tourist attractions, and other vital information. In this unit, your child will be refining their research skills, learning to read for information, and work on becoming more proficient in communication. Many of these strategies will improve their reading and comprehension skills and build life-long connections. To document our journey each student will create a tour using Google Tour Builder. While using Google Tour Builder we will embed videos, pictures, and other historical facts to showcase our states. Each week, as students are researching their chosen state, they will add written facts, pictures, videos, etc. to their tour. This is going to be an exciting unit. I am looking forward to learning more about our great 50 states. Thanks in advance for all of your support!