Happy last week of school!  

We had an incredible year!

 

This week the students will be creating a "How to Survive 6th grade Social Studies" creation so that I can share with the 6th graders next year.  

 

Please come to Open House so that your child can share their Island Project with you! 

 

Have a wonderful Summer!

Students will have Monday to complete their Trifold Island projects and will be sharing with the class this week and then showcase their hard work during Open House to you.  

Create your own island project

Students will finish their trifold project which they will be showcasing at Open House.  The creativity and knowledge that students are exhibiting is outstanding.  Once the students have finished their project, they will write an essay explaining their thinking for their government, economy and geography of their map. 

The students are digging in with their creative flow by creating their island project on their trifold.

 

The students will showcase their island focusing on geography and map skills, their government for their island, focusing on civics and their business, focusing on economics. They will be sharing their project with you during Open House.  

We spent time before Spring Break looking at the Colonization of Latin America. 

 

We will spend some time reviewing at the beginning of the week, and then the students will be given questions to research the pros and cons for the colonization of Latine America so that on Thursday and Friday we can hold a Socratic Seminar to share their knowledge and thoughts about what was best for the people of Latin America. 

This week the students will focus on choose and Enlightenment Individual who had a big impact on the Latin American independence.  The students will spend time researching and getting to know the Individual that they chose and then. showcase their research by creating a poster. 

 

We will finish the week by looking at some specific wars of Latin Amerca and how those wars impacted the areas. 

We started building background knowledge of Latin America through locating the countries and physical features. 

 

This week we will focus on the Independence Movements of Latin America, the Age of Enlightenment, and the leaders of independence movements. 

 

We will do a jigsaw activity exploring the independence movements, 

have a mock debate on the Enlightenment ideas, and research leaders of independence movements. 

We are starting our next Unit of Revolutions and Post Colonization specifically focusing on Latin America area. 

 

We will start this week by Mapping out the Latin American countries and the major physical features.

 

Next, we will look at the

The students will finish working on their Native American Cave Drawings which will represent the research that they conducted for the chosen Native American tribe with their small group.  

 

I am anxious to see the creativity and findings that the students discovered. 

The students will choose a Native American region to research the elements of culture and from there they will be placed into a group to create a Native American Mural and Cave Drawing. 

Last week the students showcased their learning of the Columbian Exchange by sharing their final product if they wanted to.  Some of the students chose to debate if the Columbian Exchange was positive or negative.  After completing research each side was ready to debate.  The respectfully disagreeing among the students was phenomenal and each side was prepared, listened to the points and were able to have a just outstanding debate.  The rest of the students took notes to support their vote of either positive or negative. 

 

This week we will focus on the Native American culture by creating a flip book.  Next the students will choose a Native American region, research the elements of culture and then create a Native American Mural. 

The students last week were working on their Columbian Exchange project.  Most of the students chose a map route, timeline, compare and contrast, as well as creating a debate of the pros and cons.  I am amazing at the creativity and researching that the students are producing.  

  If the students want to present their final project, they are more than welcome.  

  For the rest of the week, we will look at text evidence and read text and answer questions supporting their answer with the text.