Week of August 26-30

Unit 1 Test on Thursday, September 5th.

This week in Social Studies:

Monday:  Chapter 1, Lesson 1 class notes, and Lesson 2 jigsaw notes, teach your team.  Use notes as a study guide for Unit Test.
Homework:  One assignment due on Edmodo. (Check Edmodo)

Tuesday:  Complete jigsaw activity.  Review latitude and longitude by locating coordinates.
Homework:  New Edmodo assignment due Friday.

Wednesday:  Determine the steps archaeologists take to uncover evidence from the past.  Use guided questions during reading.
Homework:  None

Thursday:  Analyze primary and secondary documents.  Partner activity to determine specific resources as primary or secondary.
Homework:  None

Have a great week and LONG Labor Day weekend:)

Exploratory:  Computer Class
This week we will focus on safety on the internet, keyboarding and specific Edmodo assignments.

Week of August 19-23

I hope everyone had a great start to this new school year!  I have enjoyed meeting each of you and look forward to getting to know you better.

This week in Social Studies:
Monday:  We began Unit 1, Geography.  We worked on our vocabulary, and we created our world maps to use in our Social Studies folders for the year.  All maps are due by the end of the day on Wednesday.
Homework:  World Maps and study vocabulary.

Tuesday:  We worked on our world maps and reviewed the vocabulary.
Homework:  World Maps

Wednesday:  We used our cell phones/tablets to take a quick quiz using socrative.com.  Students not having cell phones used paper and pencil.  We reviewed the 5 Themes of Geography.  Students will create a 5 themes foldable due on Friday.
Homework:  5 themes foldable due on Friday.

Thursday:  Create the 5 themes foldable.  Focus on different types of maps, and describe the advances made in map making features.  
Homework:  5 Themes foldable

Friday:  We will review latitude and longitude, and practice locating places using coordinates.
Homework:  None