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This past Wednesday, the entire fourth grade took the subway all the way downtown to South Ferry and hopped aboard a ferry to visit Ellis Island! This perfectly complements our literacy units for both reading and writing on historical fiction. We got a brief tour from a park ranger (our second National Park visited this year!) and then we had an audio tour. We got to see all sorts of things immigrants had to go through before entering this country. What is particularly cool is that not only is this a museum with artifacts, but it is the actual place where all these things happened! Of course, it was also a gorgeous day for a little cruise. Waiting for the ferry in front of one of NYC's 5 forts built for protection during the War of 1812. Excited to see Lady Liberty! (Cameo:Ms. Greenberg's coat.) Some of us may be making ambiguous facial expressions, but trust us, we were really excited to see Ellis Island! Here our Park Ranger is about to pretend to demonstrate the dreaded "buttonhook test" on our brave volunteer. The buttonhook test has nothing to do with buttons but everything to do with eyelids. If you failed this test, you might get detained in the health center on the island or worse, sent back to your home country! Each room and most artifacts had a code you could type in and listen to a commentary. Here pictured is a sample of graffiti that immigrants drew. The piece of the wall was preserved and the graffiti was done in pencil. It was lists of people's names and where they were from. In conclusion, NYC is our playground and we love it!
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