Yeah, Its finally here.
Its Friday March 18.
You bring a book you get a book.
You bring 6 books you get 6 books.
You bring 12 books you get 12 books.
You get the idea.
So start looking for books to swap.
Archive for February 16th, 2011
THE BOOK SWAP iS COMiNG
Feb 16
THANK YOU DAVE
Feb 16
Dave, thank you for the Jolly Ranchers. It was great!
SMiLE FOR THE CAMERA
Feb 16
GEOGRAPHiA – PART TWO
Feb 16
Time for a joke: If you threw a black stone
into the Red Sea, what would happen to it?
Time for yesterday’s poem:
New York is in North Carolina,
Seattle is found in Peru,
New Mexico borders on Norway and Italy.
Boston’s near Kalamazoo
Quebec is a town in Haw3aii.
Connecticut lies in Trieste.
Those are a few of the answers I wrote
when I flunked my geography test.
This poem is by Jack Prelutsky
Time for a game: WHERE THE NAME FITS THE PLACE
- OR DOES IT?
Time for a quick review:
geographers,
historians,
political scientists,
economist,
geography, tools,
five themes
Time for a link to Part One of Geographia.
Time for some new stuff:
Remember that Geography allows us, you and I, to compare and contrast places all over the world, to look at the connections between them, and to try to make some sense of the world around us.
They help us to understand the answers to four important questions
1. Who or What?
2. Is Where?
3. Why?
4. So What?
Pearl Harbor, Ground Zero, Detroit,
Time for some new stuff:
Remember that Geography allows us, you and I, to compare and contrast places all over the world, to look at the connections between them, and to try to make some sense of the world around us.
They help us to understand the answers to four important questions
1. Who or What?
2. Is Where?
3. Why?
4. So What?
Pearl Harbor, Ground Zero, Detroit,
This post was put together using 15 years worth of notes. I do not remember many of the sources. If something here comes from an unnamed source you know about please let me know and I will give credit where credit is due. I do want to thank the Michigan Geographic Alliance and the people at National Geographic for all the support and materials given to me over the few years.
GEOGRAPHiA – PART ONE
Feb 16
Let’s start off with a quote:
Education is our passport to the future,
for tomorrow belongs to the people
who prepare for it today.
MalcolmX
And a poem
You have a magic carpet that will whiz you through the air,
To Spain or Maine or Africa, if you just tell it where,
So will you let it take you where you’ve never been before?
Or will you buy some drapes to match and use it on your floor?
Shel Silverstein
Since you liked that poem so much I have another for you.
New York is in North Carolina,
Seattle is found in Peru,
New Mexico borders on Norway and Italy.
Boston’s near Kalamazoo
Quebec is a town in Hawaii.
Connecticut lies in Trieste.
Those are a few of the answers I wrote
when I flunked my geography test.
This poem is by Jack Prelutsky
The aim of this lesson is to help you
pass your geography test
and have some fun
learning about geography.
By the way what do you call a poodle
that visits the north pole?
So Historians study…
Economists study….
Political Scientists study…
and that means Geographers study….
So What’s Geography?
I’m told the word geography was coined by a famous Greek scholar named Eratosthenes more than 200o years ago. He happened to be my fourth grade teacher.
It means “writing about the earth”
The word geography is made up of two words actually. Geo means earth and graphy is a greek word that refers to writing. So basically geography is the study of the Earth and the people and places on it.
Someone once TOLD me geography provides a framework for studying the world and the things that live on it.
And just as mechanics have tools,
teachers have tools,
cooks have tools,
geographers have tools too.
The tools are called The Five Themes of Geography
They are:
Location
Place
Movement
Region
Human Environmental Interaction
Enough for today, my brain is about to explode with stuff. And oh, by the way, why do birds fly south for the winter?
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This post was put together using 15 years worth of notes. I do not remember many of the sources. If something here comes from an unnamed source you know about please let me know and I will give credit where credit is due. I do want to thank the Michigan Geographic Alliance and the people at National Geographic for all the support and materials given to me over the few years.
a chili dog, fish and ships, its too far to walk.
HiPPO… WHAT?
Feb 16
hippo-Jordan
Pistons News-John
Feb 16
Hey it’s John with the Pistons News. The last game played was Monday and they lost. The mext game will be Friday. They are playing Indiana.
That’s all for the Pistons news.
Hey I’m Angelica and I have this song called Grenade, what song is in your head? How do you get a song out of your head? Happy Wednesday from me!
1. Tonight is Science Club and I’ve heard about it from Maria and she said it is a blast!
2. Last night was McDonald’s night and it was a sucess lots of students and staff were there.
3. Book orders are due tomorrow and I honestly don’t think my mom is ordering me a book.
4. In math we are learning about dividing decimals and if I do say so myself I’m doing very well. We have a test on it tomorrow.
5. In social studies we are making a pledge film strip. We are doing our final copies today.
6. In science we will be learning about the food chain. I can’t wait.
WHAT DO LIKE ABOUT CAKE
Feb 16
