Hello, and welcome to 4th grade's web page! My name is Jean Ann Kujawski, and I have been teaching in Garden City for 12 years. Previously, I taught in Sterling City for 5 years and a semester in Big Spring at Marcy. I have taught both 3rd and 5th grades and I really enjoy these middle elementary grades.
My husband, Daniel, and I are the proud parents of 3 former Bearkats and former Aggies. Dustin, class of '97, Tiffany, class of '99, and Brady, class of '01 enjoyed all 13 years of education in these very halls and classrooms where a new generation resides. There's a lot of pride when you're part of a small community like we all are!
4th grade is a year of many changes! The most significant is that the students move to a new hall with different bathrooms! More UIL events are offered to the 4th graders than to the lower grade levels. And of course, we are privileged to get to write a story for the TAKS folks! 4th grade is full of challenges and goals. 4th GRADE ROCKS!! |
Explorers and Conquerors
Discovering America
1492
Christopher Columbus, Italian sailing for Spain
3 ships…Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
Reached Bahama Islands in the Caribbean Sea
Called New World…”new” to Europeans
Columbian Exchange
• The movement of food, animals, and diseases from Europe to the New World
• From Americas…potatoes, corn, peanuts, gold, parrots
• From Europe…wheat, sugarcane, horses, measles
Seeds of Change
• Potato
• Corn
• Sugar
• Horses
• Disease
Conquistador—one who takes ownership by force
Hernando Cortes
• Conquistador from Spain
• Worked w/ Dona Marina, a translator who got groups to join in fight
• Wanted more riches from Moctezuma II
• Took Moctezuma II as prisoner…later killed him
• Forced to leave…”the sad night”
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