Career Fair

If you are interested in attending Career Fair in May please contact Mrs. Tiffany Oldham at toldham@thomas.k12.ga.us

Progress Reports!

Progress Reports will go home today.

Please make sure you sign each progress report for your student.

If you wish to schedule a conference - please call 225-4394

Week of January 30, 2012

Monday - Finish up governments
Students did a great job on their government posters!!


CIA World Factbook


Tuesday - Revolutions/Cultural Center Field Trip
*Brief introduction of Revolutions - we will discuss more later in the nine weeks
PROGRESS REPORTS


Wednesday - Review
*Students will receive their study guide today.


Thursday - Review


Friday - Unit Six (Latin America Today) TEST!!
*Due to testing Friday there will no vocabulary quiz this week.

Quiz tomorrow!

All students have definitions for the following terms:

Branches
Suffrage
State
Province
Communism
Bicameral
Unicameral
Head of State
Head of Government
Revolution

They will have a fill-in-the-blank quiz tomorrow.  This grade will be on their progress report coming home Tuesday, January 31st.

Upcoming Events

Friday, January 27 - Club Day
*Please make sure your student has a signed permission slip turned in

Monday, January 30- TAA

Tuesday, January 31 - Cultural Center Field Trip/Progress Reports
*More information to come about field trip

Thursday, February 2
Friday, February 3- EXPLO field trip

Week of Jan. 23

Monday - Wrap up language comparisons, culture
              - Discuss government terms (this should be a review from 1st nine weeks)

Tuesday - Work in groups to research four countries governments
               - Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, United States

Wednesday - continue research on governments in Computer lab

Thursday - Make group poster about governments/Project grade

Friday - Government term/Vocabulary Quiz
            - QW - Compare/Contrast governments of Latin America

Hopefully:
Monday 1/30 - Revolutions
Tuesday 1/31 - Revolution
Wednesday 2/01 - Review
Thursday 2/02 - Review
Friday 2/03 - Test


Vocabulary -

Branches
Suffrage
State
Province
Communism
Bicameral
Unicameral
Head of State
Head of Government
Revolution

What will your student have to know about each country?

What type of government does (country name) have?
What is the capital?
Describe the executive branch.
Describe the legislative branch.
Describe the judicial branch.
Does (country name) have a national holiday?  What is it?
How old must a citizen be before voting?
When did (country name) gain independence?
How many political parties does (country name) have?

MAP QUIZ/VOCABULARY QUIZ TOMORROW

Homework for Thursday, January 19th

Students will have two quizzes Friday
(front and back of one sheet).

Vocabulary -

Natural Resources
Nonrenewable Resources
Renewable Resources
Absolute Location
Relative Location
Population Density
Literacy Rate
Climate
Death Rate
Birth Rate

Map -

Amazon River
Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Andes Mountains
Sierra Madre Mountains
Atacama Desert

Please help your student study!  These should be two easy 100s for the grade book!

January 16 - 20, 2012

Monday - MLK Jr. Holiday

Tuesday - Making Inferences Sheet (wrap up Location, Climate, Natural Resources)
                 Ethnic Diversity in Latin America (creating bar graphs)
                 Label physical map of Latin America/Get vocabulary

Wednesday - Culture of Latin America - Tissue Flowers and Quilts

Thursday - continue Culture of Latin America
                 Map Quiz/Vocabulary Quiz

Friday - Language Comparisons (computer lab)

Map Quiz:

Amazon River
Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Andes Mountains
Sierra Madre Mountains
Atacama Desert

Outline Map of Latin America

Vocabulary for the week:

Natural Resources
Relative Location
Absolute Location
Climate
Population Density
Literacy Rate
Death Rate
Birth Rate
Renewable Resources
Nonrenewable Resources

Pipe Cleaners

Beginning Wednesday we will need pipe cleaners.  If you have any at your home please send them with your child.  We need them for an activity about Latin American culture.  Thank you!!

Welcome to my blog!

Parents and Co-Workers,

Welcome to my new blog!  I have created this to better help us communicate with one another and for you (especially parents) to stay involved with your students assignments.  This will be a learning process for me so please be patient.  Let me know if you have any ideas or comments for this blog. 

Thank you for your continued support!

Mrs. A. West