Tuesday in class students finished their First American projects. When they were finished they worked on their Food, Clothing and Shelter handout. For each group of First Americans students need to draw a picture representing how they got their food, clothing and shelter. Click here if you need the handout . Here is an example of what your handout should look like.

Click on the link on the left side if you need the warmups from this week.

Picture day is Wednesday!!!

The Unit 2 Test will be Thursday, October 1st. This test will cover our unit on First Americans. Students should be studying their yellow notecards and pages 1-4 in their history notebooks. Students need to know the following on our 5 groups of First Americans:

1) What type of shelter they had

2) Where they lived (location)

3) Climate/Geography of their location

Students can use the following review games to practice:
Rags to Riches
Jeopardy
First American Hangman
Vocabulary Hangman
Vocabulary Battleship

AtivVote Unit 2 Review

First American Songs written and recorded by PreAp 1st and 7th Period.

Derrik, Nathan, Justin

Rachel, Karyn, Taylor

Inuits by Ashley, Ellie and Amelia

Sioux: Ian, Caleb, Isaiah

Inuit: Brent, Kyle, Patrick

Hailiey, Abbey, Megan

Daniel, Bri, Sarah

Juli, Callie

Haley, Ross and Stephanie

Stevie and Noah

After the vocabulary quiz today students received their First Americans Notecards. They should be reviewing these every night! Below are some review activities on quia.

Rags to Riches
Review Patterns
Hangman
Jeopardy

In class on Friday students will be working on a project for the First Americans.
1st and 7th Period PreAP: will be put in groups and tasked with creating a song for one of the First American Groups.

2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th Period will be put in groups and tasked with creating a flier for one of the First American Groups.

Both activities will be completed in class and graded.

On Wednesday in class we started our notes on the First Americans and we will finish them on Thursday. In total students will have 2 sheets of notes completed by Thursday. One sheet on each of the different First Americans and another sheet on food, shelter and clothing.
I have posted the notes sheets on the classnotes page which you can access by clicking the link on the right side of the page.

We will have a vocabulary quiz on Thursday on the 8 vocabulary words from the vocabulary boxes (environment, resources, arid, arctic, inhabited, dispersed, climate, harvested).

Vocabulary Hangman

Vocabulary Matching

Vocabulary Battleship

Students will receive their First American Flashcards on Thursday after their quiz. They should be studying them nightly!

Today in class students worked on vocabulary squares worksheet for Unit 2. For each of the 8 words they need to:
1) list two things it is like
2) list two things it is not like
3) draw a picture

What was not finished in class is homework.

UNIT 2 PreTest: Click Here

Today we finished our notes for our Geography Unit. Students will be having their first Unit Test in this Friday, September 18th. The following will be on the test and should be used to review:

1. Notebook pages 1-5
2. Green Notecards (46 of them)
3. Review Games listed below

Review Games: Click below or go to the quia webpage and look in the activities folders.
Geography Jeopardy

Geography Millionaire

Unit 1 Activ Vote Review

Come to class with questions if you don't understand something!

Geographical Regions

Today in class we began learning about the 8 geographic regions of the U.S. Each class created a sentence to remember the regions and where they are located.

Students to earn extra credit on your test: post a comment to this message listing the sentence your class uses to remember the Geographical Regions across the United States AND the Geographical Regions that the sentence stands for. Please post your first name, last initial and period number as your name. (Ex. Katie S. 1st). Good luck!! :). You must post by Wednesday at 8:00 am to get a ticket.

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR GEOGRAPHY QUIZ

Mr. Bedwell Geography Quiz

GEOGRAPHY REVIEW ACTIVITIES:

Bodies of Water Review: http://www.quia.com/jg/1706856.html
Vocabulary Battleship: http://www.quia.com/ba/317653.html
Bodies of Water Matching: http://www.quia.com/quiz/1919006.html
Continents and Oceans Matching: http://www.quia.com/quiz/1918612.html
Vocabulary Flashcards: http://www.quia.com/jg/1700676.html
Geography Millionare: http://www.quia.com/rr/507616.html

I can't believe it is already the third week of school! Yesterday we finished our notes on Longitude and Latitude and today we are working on the major bodies of water in North America. Today students colored and labeled a map with major bodies of water in the United States and took notes on the back explaining why they are significant. The map should look similar to the one to the right.

Students have a quiz on Friday that will cover:

(1) Labeling the continents, oceans, bodies of water in North America

(2) Explaining the importance of the bodies of water in North America

(3) Geography vocabulary including longitude and latitude

Today we learned about Longitude and Latitude by learning a song and playing a game. In the game students had to use longitude and latitude to find points on a map. The students seemed to love the game and demonstrated that they were able to use longitude and latitude correctly. I can't believe week two is already over! It has been a great week and I hope everyone has a restful weekend! See you Tuesday.

Today in class students took their vocabulary quiz. After that they cut out their first set of notecards and made a cover sheet for their notebook. Students should be reviewing their notecards every night and they should also bring them to class everyday! Tomorrow we start longitude and latitude and will continue with it on Monday.

Vocabulary Quiz Link
Pd. 2, 4, 5, 6: click here http://www.quia.com/quiz/1910723.html

Pd. 1, 7: click here http://www.quia.com/quiz/1911390.html

Today we labeled continents and oceans and reviewed our geography vocabulary. Tomorrow we will have a quiz on the geography terms. Make sure you study your 8 words and practice on quia. You also need to finish coloring your continents and oceans map.

Today the students started their geography vocabulary. They were each given a worksheet with eight words and a definition. The students then had to come up with examples for:

• what the word is like
• what the word is not like
• a picture for the word

Students are welcome to post to the blog if they are stuck on any of the words. We shared some in class today and each class had very creative examples for the words. I can't wait to hear more of them tomorrow!

Homework is to finish the worksheet and have their computer login cards signed. We will have a vocabulary quiz on Thursday.