NOVEMBER2013
E L E M E N TA R Y S C H O O L N E W S & E V E N T S
Grade 3 Explores City Hall and the Korean War Museum By Grade 3 Students
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ur grade 3 class has been studying the Korean War and the local Seoul government in Social Studies. First, we went to City Hall to see where the local government works. We saw the meeting area where the government meets and debates issues. We also saw pictures of all the past mayors of Seoul as well as the mayor’s office. We saw a picture of what the old City Hall looked like. Now it is a library! Then we went to the Korean War Museum. We learned about what Korea was like before, during, and after the war. We also saw how the Korean war happened and why it started. We learned that North Korea wanted to take over South Korea but South Korea wanted freedom. South Korea got freedom by fighting the North Koreans in 1950. Then the United Nations helped South Korea and, in 1953, the fighting ended. To show what we learned on our field trip, we took along iPads. We took pictures of important things. When we got back to school we used the pictures to make iMovies. Then we recorded our voice explaining what the pictures were about and all the things we learned. Making the iMovies was
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