Today Stephen began unit 3 in the Social Studies textbook. Stephen and I began by reading the story Tulip Sees America. We then read about different landforms. Today Stephen learned about hills, plains, mountain s and valleys. Stephen is making a landform flip book with the different landforms, their definitions and images of the landform. Stephen and I finished class by watching a short Brainpop video on landforms.

The Continents: Ethan traced the world continents named them and the oceans. He did a good job listing them and practicing their names. Way to go Ethan

The four Colonies: Marina read about the Four Colonies of our early settlers: She named them and read details about about each colony. Good lesson marina

Bobby Morris
November 13, 2014
Thursday 60 min
1:30-2:30
I substituted for Bobby’s regular teacher, and we worked on his social studies. The lesson plan required Bobby to decide if he wanted to create a report on Florida, the state, or on Jupiter/Tequesta, the smaller municipalities. Bobby chose Jupiter and Tequesta. There was next to nothing in his social studies textbook on these towns, so we proceeded to the Computer. We discussed why he would want to be careful using Wikipedia for information, and proceeded to the official website for Jupiter and Tequesta. We read about the history together, taking turns explaining to each other what we had read. I had him take notes on dates, and names. We then came up with the intro for a report. I wrote out some of the text, leaving spaces for him to fill in the facts. In this fashion, he completed a one-page report on the history of Jupiter and Tequesta.

Progress in the New World: The New World progressed from Settlers in Jamestown and Plymouth into todays factories, skyscrapers, space rockets to the moon, environmental conditions, and many other factors that effect our continent. Ethan enjoyed the imaginary ride we took in the time machine, showing how different it is today then when our country was originally founded. Good lesson Ethan

It was so nice having Stephen back at school today. Today in Social Studies we began by reading an article about the different continents and oceans. Stephen watched a Brainpop video on the continents and the oceans of the world. Stephen then made a mini book, that he identified the different oceans and continents and labeled them. We will will finish our book next class.

Today Stephen began class by finishing his continents and oceans mini book. I then introduced Stephen to the text series EStudies Weekly. We read and discussed how Florida is located on the continent of North America. We found where we lived on the map and where the capital of Florida in located. We also discussed how their are many people from Cuba and Puerto Rico that live in Miami. Stephen took the end of the passage quiz and was able to answer all the questions correctly.

Ben Franklin: We read about the contributions that Ben Franklin provided our country including inventions, his participation in the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States, and influence that provided major help from France. Very good lesson.

Pilgrims and Puritans: Marina and I reviewed points about Pilgrims and Settlers, where they landed in the new world, how they survived, dates, the Plymouth Rock 1620. We colored ships and people from that era, describing their clothing, conditions on the ship, how they got food, and who helped them survive when they landed. Great review Marina. Have a happy camping trip.

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