Progress reports are coming home today. Please take time to discuss your students grades with them this weekend. Progress envelopes are due back at school signed by early next week.
7ht grade SS is nearing the end of their first unit. A test will be scheduled for either the first or second week in November. More details to come.
6th grade SS is finalizing the 5 Themes of Geography with a group act-it-out on the 5 themes. This project and video taping will be done on Monday.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Week of October 13th
Homecoming week was a fun time with the kids. Many students look great in their spiritwear!
6th grade SS classes are reviewing the 5 themes of Geography, taking notes on the perspectives of social scientists, and describing how social scientists help us understand our world. Students will be taking their first vocabulary quiz on Friday.
7th Grade SS classes are utilizing tools and studying ways historians organize and analyze time and the past.
They will have an introduction to historical eras and utilize timelines as a way of organizing chronological information.
Students will also complete lesson vocab.
Monday, October 6, 2014
Spirit Week At SMS!
SPIRIT WEEK DAILY THEMES:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6TH: COLLEGE WEAR (SHIRTS OR
SWEATSHIRTS)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7TH: FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM
APPAREL
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8TH: SOUVENIR SHIRT/CLOTHES
FROM A PLACE YOU’VE BEEN OR WOULD LIKE TO GO (NO HATS,
PLEASE)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9TH: MISMATCH DAY
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10TH: BLUE AND WHITE DAY
*SCHOOL DRESS CODE STILL APPLIES DURING SPIRIT WEEK*
7th Grade SS classes are finishing their lessons on determining what is historically most important or significant. They will continue studying how historians investigate the past by framing porblems to study, selecting and analyzing available evidence, organizing their information and creating an historical account. Studies also inlude understanding the tools historians use to organize information, including significance, social institutions, time and space.
6th Grade SS classes are learning that geographers use a variety of tools and technologies to acquire geographic information. They are learning about the use of some of these tools, including: maps, areial photos, satellite images, globes, Geographic Information Systems, and Global Positioning Systems.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6TH: COLLEGE WEAR (SHIRTS OR
SWEATSHIRTS)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7TH: FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM
APPAREL
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8TH: SOUVENIR SHIRT/CLOTHES
FROM A PLACE YOU’VE BEEN OR WOULD LIKE TO GO (NO HATS,
PLEASE)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9TH: MISMATCH DAY
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10TH: BLUE AND WHITE DAY
*SCHOOL DRESS CODE STILL APPLIES DURING SPIRIT WEEK*
7th Grade SS classes are finishing their lessons on determining what is historically most important or significant. They will continue studying how historians investigate the past by framing porblems to study, selecting and analyzing available evidence, organizing their information and creating an historical account. Studies also inlude understanding the tools historians use to organize information, including significance, social institutions, time and space.
6th Grade SS classes are learning that geographers use a variety of tools and technologies to acquire geographic information. They are learning about the use of some of these tools, including: maps, areial photos, satellite images, globes, Geographic Information Systems, and Global Positioning Systems.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Link for 6th Grade SS
Copy and paste the following link in a new tab to open National Geographic Mapmaker
http://mapmaker.education.nationalgeographic.com/?ar_a=1&b=1&ls=000000000000#/
http://mapmaker.education.nationalgeographic.com/?ar_a=1&b=1&ls=000000000000#/
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