I returned the students’ tests today. If your child made less than a 70, please have them make their corrections and turn them in on Friday.

Today, we had a scavenger hunt around the room to find all 50 states, and to label them on a worksheet. Some states in the room area spelled out completely, and some are just abbreviations. We will be learning all 50 states, their capitals, and their abbreviations in the next few days. The kids had fun listening to patriotic music while we hunted, and they sang along to the songs!

All,
Please review the 10 terms over landforms and geography for a quiz on Wednesday. You can also go to my blooket site and do the review on blooket:

https://dashboard.blooket.com/set/64e607d098ebc0f6aa177385

Our assistant principal, Mr. Scott, sent this out to staff and parents and I wanted to post it on my blog as well, because it’s crucial to your child’s education:

Hi all,
WOISD encountered some technological issues that caused us to put off MAP baseline testing until Thursday and Friday of last week. We will finish testing with the math MAP testing on Monday, and then we will review our landform and geography information on Tuesday, and test on Wednesday. On Thursday, we will begin working on our map making skills, by identifying some of the largest cities in the US and by finding and labeling all 50 states and their capitals.

We will continue talking about basic geography terms today, and we will also watch this video to reinforce our learning. Here is the link to the video:

We will review our week’s learning tomorrow, Thursday, using Blooket, for a quiz on Friday-another opportunity to succeed!

Hey everybody-
My name is Scott Toliver and I am the US history teacher for 5th grade. I will putting updates on my blog as needed throughout the year to help you stay up to date on what we are doing in US history this year.

We will be starting this week with some basic geography terms:
region – an area of land that is unified by a common characteristic, such as political unity, language unity, or common climate patterns
Landform– a natural physical feature on the earth’s surface
geographic factors – physical and human conditions that impact the environments of places and regions
Settlement patterns – the physical arrangement observed by looking at where people live

This week will be a bit of start and stop, as we are also conducting MAP testing this week Tuesday-Thursday, to get baseline scores for math, science, and english language arts.

The next terms we will be learning are:
Mountain-land that is significantly higher in elevation than the area around it.
Hill-land that is slightly higher in elevation than the area around it.
Valley-a low area of land between hills or mountains.
Desert- land that is very dry with few plants in it.
Plains-A large are of flat land with few trees.
Plateaus-area of high mostly flat land.

Until next time!