May 14th-18th
Tody (May 17th) the students finished reading lesson 2 of the Southwest and learned what makes the economy strong there. We also highlighted the first 3 lesson outlines of the SE and the first lesson of the SW for the test next week.
The students should additionally be working on their American of Prominence Reports. They have been given the information sheet in school but you can also access it here. You can also access the grading rubric for the project here as well as bibliography instructions which they receivedand reviewed with me in class. Please have them steer away from the easybib web sites out there so that they can learn how to do bibliographies themselves first.
The classroom wiki is located at https://sites.google.com/site/5thgradewiki/
Homework 5-17
- Lesson 3 outline (handed out to students in class)
- Work on Americans of Prominence Report
Tests
- Pop Open Book “Best of” Quiz-At the end of a lesson
- 5-22 Unit 4 and Unit 6 test (SE and SW)
- 5-24 American of Prominience Report Due
- 5-30 and 5-31 Wax Museum dates
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Also click below to visit some fun sites for Social Studies:
- http://www.flashcardmachine.com/ Flashcard Machine is a great flash card web site that allows the kids to make their flash cards and have them flash on the screen of their computers. It’s great to help study for vocabulary.
- http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
- http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-games/latitude-longitude-map-game.php
- http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm