Bamboo Room

Open House

Parents,

Please come and visit us for Open House September 2, 2008 @ 6:30pm. I would love to meet you all and show you the exciting possiblities Social Studies offers this year.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Baylor

Cornell Notes

http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/cornellnotes.html

Geography Practice

Practice Maps

Here are a few new online interactive map sites that could help you study:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/africaarchive/map.html

http://www.schoolnet.na/games/map/africa.html

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/africa_map.htm

http://www.maps4.com/samples/africa_map.html 

Here are a few new online interactive map sites that could help you study:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/africaarchive/map.html

http://www.schoolnet.na/games/map/africa.html

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/africa_map.htm

http://www.maps4.com/samples/africa_map.html 

Beginning the Middle East

We began chapter 15 this week with a chapter survey. The children have been working on 2 column notes as well as labelling both the physical and political maps of the Middle East and North Africa.

If you are looking for additional reinforcement at this time, the following worksheets are related to the material that we have been studying. Also please check out the Power Points link to view what we have been learning in class.

Download CNE15AAD.PDF Download CJE15AAD.PDF

Download CJE15BAD.PDF Download CNE15BAD.PDF

Beginning the Middle East

Download SSWGEmfc.ppt

5 themes of Geography and Cultural Geography

Download cultural_geography.ppt

Download 5themes.ppt

Welcome & Social Studies Notebook

Welcome to another year. The students will be keeping up with a notebook this year to help them learn to organize and also work on their study habits. So far you should see in their binders a table of contents with the following worksheets behind it.

1. Chapter 1 Survery

2. Guided Reading Chapter 1.1Download CJA01AAD.PDF

3. Guided Reading Chapter 1.2

4. Glossary After you Read Download CJA01_AD.PDF

5. Geographically speaking