Students learn about Ellis Island immigrants

March 2, 2019 at 1:30 a.m.

NWA Democrat-Gazette/BEN GOFF • @NWABENGOFF Hudson Roach (from left), Evan Craig and Paxton Bronner, all third-graders, portray Friday an immigrant family as Hudson's mother, Tara Roach, portrays an immigration officer during an Ellis Island simulation at Darr Elementary School in Rogers. The third-graders at the school have been learning about the history of immigration in their social studies classes over the past four weeks. The students, some in costume, learned in the simulation what immigrants experienced when they arrived at Ellis Island in New York in 1910.
NWA Democrat-Gazette/BEN GOFF • @NWABENGOFF Hudson Roach (from left), Evan Craig and Paxton Bronner, all third-graders, portray Friday an immigrant family as Hudson's mother, Tara Roach, portrays an immigration officer during an Ellis Island simulation at Darr Elementary School in Rogers. The third-graders at the school have been learning about the history of immigration in their social studies classes over the past four weeks. The students, some in costume, learned in the simulation what immigrants experienced when they arrived at Ellis Island in New York in 1910.

Saturday's photo gallery includes photos from Reading Across America activities, an Ellis Island simulation at Janie Darr Elementary in Bentonville and some other photos from around Northwest Arkansas.

To view those images and more visit our gallery.

NW News on 03/02/2019

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