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January 06, 2005
New Year's Resolutions
We got our first grades of the new nine weeks today in vocabulary. It was a simple check of last night’s homework. Almost every single student had their homework done and earned themselves a 100! What a great way to start the new nine weeks.
We took a little time to do some goal setting and make New Year’s Resolutions today. On Channel One there was a young lady who had earned over $100,000 in scholarships to attend Xavier University. When the students found out that it cost on average $10,000 per year for tuition, books, fees, and housing for college they understood the importance of scholarship money. Many of our resolutions were geared towards working a little harder to be qualified for some of this scholarship money. I know this is many of the parent’s resolutions for the kids too.
In Social Studies we got our hands dirty today. We had an interesting review using some new overhead markers and laminated maps of the earth. We have worked on: the differences between Political Maps and Physical Maps, how we use different kinds of maps, the four Cardinal directions and the four Intermediate directions, along with the Prime Meridian and the Equator, the four Hemispheres, four Oceans, and seven Continents. The kids realized that real fast here things add up quickly in Social Studies and this is just the basics we have to understand before we can begin the major concepts.
Didn’t here any comments back yesterday? Guess everyone is still in holiday mode. I am going to giving the kids a “Done Good” coupon they can attach to any late assignment or add to any assignment for some extra credit for each blog they respond to. Maybe that will get the conversation flowing this semester. Working on improvements as fast as my fat fingers can type. Let me know what you think. And make sure you check out the Field Trip pictures in our photo gallery.
Posted by hlperson at January 6, 2005 04:05 PM
Comments
Kyle has informed me that he is really enjoying the Social Studies assignments. Thank you for keeping us informed through your web site.
Posted by: Kyle's Mom at January 6, 2005 06:25 PM
Doing this resolution paper was fun to me. I put all of the stuff that I could think of on there. Thank you for letting us do this paper Mr Person.
Posted by: Jeff Carmel at January 7, 2005 10:28 AM
Hey I saw ya'lls pics of the feild trip and they looked good. At Woodington we went the same place well I went but it was not the same without Mr. Person & Ms. Cox. I miss you all. I wish I was there I really hate this school. Norwayne was the best school I have ever been to. This school is so boring half of the kids in my class go to sleep. Not me I just listen. Well half the time lol. Well I have to go here is my email address if you want to conntact me. Sxyangle49@aol.com.
Bye
Christy
i miss you
XOXOXOXOXOXOX
Posted by: Christy Williamson at January 7, 2005 03:56 PM