Why did people settle in Florida? Some for citrus, sugar cane, cotton or cattle farming. Others for work at seaports, limestone quarries, fishing, tourism, or solar power plants.

Jackson was absent today.

We will discuss explorers who helped establish the United States. We will study Lewis and Clark and the trail they followed. We will also study space explorers.

Jackson explored the ideas of why people move from one place to another. He talked about pull factors and push factors for why people move. He read and discussed these vocabulary words- exploration, settlement, and migration. He learned about a map that represented the migration and population patterns of Florida.

We will create a list of reasons why people move from place to place.

Jackson took a test over Chapter 6 of Social Studies Weekly Reader. He began reading and discussing Chapter 7 of Social Studies Weekly Reader.

We will finish our study of land use by discussing recreational uses of land.

We will review residential, commercial, and industrial use of land. Today we will look at agricultural use.

Jackson reviewed human features, political maps, land use, and began making a saltwater flour map.

Jackson completed some review work on Continents and Oceans. He began reading Studies Weekly-Week 6 which is about human features, political maps and land uses. He learned that human features tell us about the people who live in a particular place and their ideas, political maps show the cities and states, and that land can be used for different purposes.