The lost and found in my room is overflowing with papers, books, and sweatshirts.  Please make sure to talk to your students, and if they are missing anything to please check in my room.  They may come before school or during dismissal.

Starting today you may notice a new behavior point on Classdojo under the needs improvement section.  A negative point will be added for “out of uniform”.  The most common infractions are untucked shirts, sweatshirts/hoodies that are not part of the uniform, or incorrect shoes.  Please refer to the uniform policy sent home if you have any questions on what is and is not school appropriate. Dress Code

To clarify the Remind post about Social Studies this weekend:

 

Students have been working on a project the last few days in class, where they were assigned an industrialist and had to research their life.  Their goal was to prove if their businessmen was a “Robber Baron” or “Captain of Industry”.  They will have time in class on Monday to complete the project, but it is due before they leave class on Monday.  It is up to them to know how much work they still need to do in order to hand in their best work, and come prepared to finish on Monday.

There seems to be some confusion on the new map for social studies.  Students are responsible for all countries in Central America, I put the lines on smaller countries to make sure students do not forget them.  The complete list of countries needed for this map are

 

Canada

USA

Mexico

Guatemala

Honduras

El Salvador

Belize

Costa Rica

Panama

Nicaragua

 

If you have any questions please contact me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In order to improve our geographical skills for the second half of the year, students will be taking map quizzes on the regions of the world.  Students will have approx. two weeks to fill in a blank map and study for the quiz.  The quiz will be the same blank map numbered and students will need to identify states/countries.

 

The schedule is as follows:

 

Eastern US Map 11/3                                      Quiz 11/11

Western US Map 11/16                                 Quiz 11/25

North and Central America Map12/1       Quiz 12/11

South America Map 12/14                            Quiz 12/23

Western Europe Map 1/4                             Quiz 1/15

Eastern Europe Map 1/19                             Quiz 1/29

Southwest Asia Map 2/1                               Quiz 2/12

North Africa Map 2/16                                   Quiz 2/26

South Africa Map 2/29                                   Quiz 3/11

South Asia Map 3/14                                      Quiz 3/24

Southeast Asia Map 3/29                              Quiz 4/8

Oceania Map 4/11                                           Quiz 4/22

Caribbean Map 4/25                                       Quiz 5/6

 

Some sites for students to practice their skills include sporcle.com and

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_background_noClip10s.html

 

 

Students may participate in the Where in the World every week in Individuals and Societies.  New landmarks will be picked every week with new questions for students to answer.  Students that get all 5 questions right will be entered to win a prize.  Answers are due at the end of class on Thursday, new questions up Friday morning.