Happy Halloween Week!

7th Grade Social Studies Classes have been actively researching Ancient Egypt. Students will be required to write a paper this week about their findings. Explanation of the paper will be given on Wednesday and the paper will be due Monday Nov. 5th. I will post a rubric/guidelines by the end of the day on Wed. 8th Grade Social Studies Classes have just completed their Declaration of Independence Projects. Wow! The projects were awesome! We have also been actively learning about the political candidates (mainly Presidential)and students are looking forward to voting next week Tuesday. We are beginning Chapter 7, the American Revolution, this week. Have a Happy and Safe Halloween!

Meap Week 2

Students are Meap Testing on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. So class schedules will be adjusted on those days. 7th Grade social studies students will be studying Mesopotamia this week. 8th Grade social studies students will continue their studying of the Declaration of Independence. Students will need coloring utensils on Thursday and Friday. A Decl. of Indp. project will be assigned on Thursday and due next Monday. Students will receive a rubric and explanation to assignment/project on Thursday.

From the Sounds of The InFamous RoadRunner...."Meap-Meap"

This will be a brief post for Social Studies Classes this week. Our content schedule at school is adjusted and shortened as a result of the Meap Tests scheduled this week. Kids are off to a great start and I expect they will perform fantastically! 8th Grade Social Studies: Kids will get Chapter 5 Test scores by the end of this week. We are studying the Declaration of Independence (Chpt.6) 7th Grade Social Studies: Students received their Early Civilization Papers back so they could receive feedback and find out their score. I re-collected these papers so I can include them in their conference folders this fall. We are finishing up our Early Civilization studies and will be moving toward our Eastern Hemisphere Mapping/Geogrpahy Lab. No Homework this week:)

1st Week of October Update

Just a quick update for this week. 7th grade SS classes are working on writing a comparison and contrast paper about the Paleolithic and Neolithic time periods. This paper is due Wednesday. 8th grade SS classes will take their first test this Tuesday, Oct. 2nd. Students get extra credit if parents study with them. Next, we will study the Declaration of Independence. Have a great week!