Welcome back!
Monday - today was a great day.....First, we completed a contact form to ensure communication between home and school. HW - students who did not finish completing the contact form and required the assistance from parent(s) need to have it finished as HW. We participated in a "getting to know you bingo activity," and students were instructed on daily procedures.
Tuesday - Students will participate in a geography "pretest," books will be issued and a scavenger hunt will be completed. If student does not complete the scavenger hunt he/she will complete it as homework. Class syllabus will be issued an reviewed, parent signature will be required.
Wednesday - We will continue with the agenda planned for Tuesday. The test took longer than anticipated. Today we will receive the textbook (they must get covered). Then we will review the class syllabus and the HW assigned will be to have parent sign. We will orally review map skills and then begin a memory map activity.
Thursday - We will begin class with a map activity, students will label all continents, bodies of water, hemispheres, equator, tropic of Cancer and Capricorn, artic circle and draw a compass rose, all w/o support. Then they will be given the opportunity to examine their maps with an correctly labelled map to locate and correct mistakes. Homework will be to re-label and color a map correctly and neatly (for a grade).
Today we finished our week reviewing our continent, bodies of water and map skill. I announced a quiz for Tuesday, August 21, 2007. The student will need to be able to label his/her map with continents, bodies of water, all four hemispheres, equator, Tropic of Capricorn & Cancer, the Artic Circle and Antartica Circle.
