Fun at Open House....

Boys and girls, I had such fun meeting your parents at Open House last night! Your parents are so nice! It's always such fun for me to meet your folks and see how much you look like them! They are all so proud of you, and I know the feeling is reciprocated (definition: to show, feel or give back in return) by you! They seemed to enjoy seeing some of the pictures of you on the silly little YoYo & Hoops slideshow, and I was so impressed that they had all been on the blog and knew how it worked. Oh! Guess what? For those of you who didn't come with your parents you might like to know that your poor parents got a taste of our air conditioning problem last night! It was just as sweltering on the seventh grade hall last night as it has been for us over the last two days! They saw first hand what we have been going through! We had such a big turn out at Open House last night, too! It was great to see them all. Please let your parents know how much I enjoyed meeting them all. I certainly told them how much I was enjoying being with all of you!

I hope you have a great day today while I am away. Be good for the sub, and I hope the air is working.

**NOTE: Don't forget that the Vocabulary test on the Word Bank has been moved to next Wednesday, AND don't forget that your Map Parts scrapbook page is due on Tuesday when we return. Have a great Labor Day weekend! By the way, Here are some pictures of the town square of the small town where I am headed this morning (Carthage, MS).

Opportunities for Extra Credit!

Don't forget to take advantage of your opportunities for extra credit. You get five of these per 9 weeks. For each newspaper or magazine clipping that has anything to do with a geographrical topic, (such as: current events of foreign countries, earthquake news, geographic expeditions like mountain climbing, climate stories, world religion, maps, etc.) you will earn 20 pts. Five of these over the course of the nine weeks gives you an extra 100. The other opportunity is to bring postcards in from around the country and the world at large. Again, for each postcard you bring, you earn 20 points toward an extra 100 for the nine weeks. You may also do a combination of the two to earn the points.

Make sure that you bring your book to class tomorrow. We have some vocabulary work to do. In addition, I will give each you your first rubric for the first scrapbook page on Map Parts. You will have a hard copy for your notebook, and I have also pasted a copy at the bottom of the Homework page. Can't wait to see how these turn out!

I will be staying after school on Tuesday & Thursday till 3:30 for anyone who needs to finish up their scrapbook.

Check the syllabus! There's a vocab test on Friday.

Hope you had a good weekend and I'll see you all tomorrow.

Types of Map Samples

Physical 

Political

Contour

Climate

Additional Visual for Map Projections

Pictures of Map Projections

Mercator

Robinson

Polar

Goodes



Voki Problems

Most students' Vokis are saying incomplete. After you create your voki and publish it, you must go to the top and "approve" it. Then, and only the, can I see it, and you use it. I'm loving what I see so far!