Weekly States Quiz

For 5th grade, kids are required to know where the fifty states are on a U.S. map. Therefore, in Social Studies for fourth quarter I will be giving the students a weekly states quiz every Friday, beginning this Friday, March 15. We took a pretest today in class. Your child will get their pretests back tomorrow to see which states they labeled correctly. The students will know that they got a state correct if I highlighted the name of the state. If it is not highlighted, then it is incorrect.  Each Friday they will need to know 5 new states in addition to the old ones that they already knew. For example, if they got 5 states correct on their pretest today, then for Friday they will need to know 10 (the 5 correct ones and an additional 5 new ones). Once they've achieved their goal of labeling all 50 states, they will become a member of the Fifty Nifty Club and they will then move on to learning the capitals of each state. 

Grades to come...

Meetings and meetings and meetings, oh my!  With meetings morning, noon and night, I have been delayed a few days longer than I would have liked to have been in entering a few things. I will be adding four grades for social studies here in the next few days. The kids worked on a Native American chart in class over a few weeks time span so I did not collect it as we went. I decided to have them turn it in at the end when we were finished with it. I didn't want to keep collecting it and then redistributing it every day, it just didn't fit. So keep your eyes peeled for those grades, each tribe will be worth 18 points, with a total of 4 tribes.

I will also be adding some science grades from wrap up activities that we did in class within the last week about space and their earth and space science unit test. Be looking for these as well.

1st and 2nd Period Science TEST MONDAY!!!

I was out unexpectedly on Thursday, February 28th when we played our Jeopardy review game for our science test. There were computer malfunctions with the sub so I played Jeopardy with the kids Friday, March 1 and moved 1st and 2nd periods' test to Monday, March 4. Third period took the test today because the Jeopardy review game worked during their class.