Students sharpened those logic/critical thinking skills as the solved Word Wings today!!
They also watched BOLT for their behavior reward.
Those not having the points on their behavior card this nine weeks, worked on setting goals to be more successful in 7th grade next year.
Don’t forget that tomorrow is Renaissance Reward Day!!
Students enjoyed viewing the Panama Canal documentary today!!
2 more days!!
Today, students learned about political leaders throughout the world as they read biographic sketches, took notes, and answered questions about their leader. As they finished learning about their leader, students began sharing what they learned with other groups/individuals. We will finish these by Friday.
As students worked on political leaders, I conferenced individually with each student..showing them their final ACSS grade posted on i-parent. Anyone who owes makeup work, must have it turned in by tomorrow morning in homeroom!!
Students wrote Friday’s schedule changes and events in their agenda. Tomorrow, we will view a movie about the building of the Panama Canal. On Thursday we’ll have our behavior party, empty out lockers, and pass out yearbooks. Friday is our Renaissance Carnival and signing of yearbooks.
!!3 more days!!
Please check i-parent!!
All grades have been posted.
Students will be given papers back tomorrow and we’ll discuss any issues.
To anyone who was absent last week and have not turned in your maps yet, please do so by Wednesday morning if you want credit!! Come see me in homeroom tomorrow!
I’m missing Middle East/Asia maps from 3 students!
Students participated in a government scavenger hunt today and took a pop quiz on material covered about the Middle East on Friday. Then we continued with a look at the early history of the region of Persia/Iran.
4 more days!!
{Attention parents: The Renaissance carnival will be held on Friday, May 22. If you can volunteer at any of the following times, please contact Kristal Goelz @ kristal.goelz@cobbk12.org. Carnival times are as follows:
6th grade – 12:50-2:20
7th grade – 11:45-1:15
8th grade – 2:15-3:45}
Today we viewed video slides of maps of the middle east and discussed cultural geography as we viewed various pictures of different groups of people from various regions of Iran. We also compared a theocratic republic to a democratic republic.
Have a wonderful weekend…..5 more mornings to wake up early!!!
Due to a 6th grade Soc. Studies activity next Wednesday, we critiqued our video taped business presentations today. Students discussed ways to make each presentations better… such as rehearsing more, adding better props (which relate to the business), giving more detail to capital goods, human capital, and targeted market/customer, use of maps, etc. As students compared the different presentations, they discussed how successful each would be in real life.
I hope to have all presentation scores up by tomorrow, end of day.
I collected maps today; our latitude/longitude quiz will be tomorrow…no more delays!!
Maps should have been pretty much completed by the end of class today. All latitude and longitude readings should have been checked, corrections made, tutoring given if needed, and errors rechecked.
Homework is to finish labeling and coloring them before class tomorrow!! Also, continue to practice reading latitude and longitude lines for your quiz, which has been moved to tomorrow!!
Students continued learning the location of the countries of the Middle East/Asia region as they worked on reading latitude/longitude skills. As they finished each section, we checked them in class.
We will finish writing the #, countries, & capitals on the map tomorrow in class. Don’t forget to draw lines &/or make keys for countries which are too close together to write on them.
***We will have a quiz on latitude/longitude tomorrow, so do study if you cannot locate a country/capital using only latitude/longitude lines.
As we worked with reading latitude and longitude map skills, students worked with a map of Asia. This is an intro to 7th grade studies of the Middle East/Asia region of the world.
This week I’ll share my travel adventures to the Middle East and give a preview to the governments and economics of a few of the countries in the Middle East, as I work with Mrs. Fenton to prepare students for next year. Remember to pay close attention over the summer to what is happening in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa!!
Also, if you become “bored” over the summer, begin working on Sheppard Software & Ilike2learn.com as you become familiar with countries and physical features of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa!!