Category Archives: Announcements

Mon, last day of reg schedule: students cleaned out class binders to take home & we played Jeopardy to review history from the entire year # Tues, last day of school: 6th graders are watching a movie and the talent … Continue reading →

Mon: work time on Other Early Peoples; students wrote an outline of their presentation and began work on ppt, map and artifact drawing # Note: Friday (June 18) is the due date for the OEP project and it is the … Continue reading →

Mon: field trip to Safeco Field http://twitpic.com/1uv84k # Tues/Wed: final day to work on CBA; students must finish research and prewriting then write comparative essay (due at the end of the period) # Thurs: 1st day of work on the … Continue reading →

Tues/Wed: students read about the legacy of Greece or Rome then began work on a drawing to show how these civs relate to the modern world # Thurs: day 1 of work on the CBA. Students selected topics and began … Continue reading →

Mon: we began work on the Rise & Fall of the Roman Empire skits by reading the historical information from History Alive! # Tues/Weds: we are writing scripts and using PowerPoint to create virtual sets for our Rise and Fall … Continue reading →

Mon (4th period): we read about the Roman Republic and defined key terms, then compared it to Greek democracy # Mon (1,2,3,6): we looked at this week's complicated testing schedule, then we began reading about 4 types of Greek governments … Continue reading →

Mon: continued work on China Infographic, including a mini-lesson on analyzing graph & data to write the title that includes a fraction or % # Tues/Wed: last day to work on China Infographic; focus is on writing, adding graphics and … Continue reading →

Mon: mini-lecture on 3 Chinese philosophies (Taoism, Confucianism and Legalism) followed by more time to work on Marco Polo Journals # Tues/Wed: we are creating flow charts to show events in Modern China, including the Opium War, Communist Revolution and … Continue reading →

Mon: we examined artifacts from the Shang Dynasty in order to review the 7 characteristics of civilization. # Tues/Wed [1/2]: we read about the Shang Dynasty to decide if we made accurate inferences about the artifacts on Monday # Tues/Wed … Continue reading →