New Date for Geography Bee

Due to a conflict with the Spelling Bee, we have moved the Geography Bee to Tuesday, January 10, 2012. This rescheduling of the Geography Bee should allow many more students to participate woithout fear of burnout from studying for both the Spelling Bee and the Geography Bee.

More Flags!

Oh my gosh! Just since yesterday's post we have three more flags on our site! I am so excited! I hope we can get more! Remember to ask friends or relatives overseas to help us collect them by viewing the blog. Perhaps you have a friend right here who knows someone they could ask to view it from another country. Oh, by the way, in case some of you don't always read the posts, a few days ago we had a really interesting one. The family of last year's National Geography Bee made a post to tell me how helpful they thought my blog was in finding new geography sites, and how much they liked it. I was so happy to hear from them. I think that was kind of cool!

New Flag Counter Gadget...

I have placed a new Flag Counter gadget at the very bottom of the sidebar. I thought it might be neat to see how many flags we could collect from other countries since we have such a diverse student population. The way a flag is placed on the world map is if someone from another country views our page on the Internet. So, if you have family, friends, email pals, etc., living in another country, contact them and ask them to view our page so we can collect a flag. Remember the address is http://younggeographer.blogspot.com and all they have to do is simply view the page. The counter will do the rest! We have one flag on the map - the flag of the United States. Let's see if we can collect some more!

Geography Bee News

The Geography Bee will take place in December, just before Christmas break. To your right, on the sidebar I have place a video from NAt Geo on the Geography Bee Challenge and underneath it, you will find a comprehensive list of online training links. These links are fantastic and could keep you busy learning from now until the end of the year! Log on to these links and start PRACTICING! We'd love a Falcon winner! Mr. Willard down in the 8th grade hall has told Mrs. Murphy that one of his kids will definitely be this year's schoolwide winner....Let's fool him and make it a 7th grade winner!! I know we've got the talent between our 7th grade teams! Go for it!

The Eroneous Page 5.....

Boys and girls, we know that I made a mistake in calling the next scrapbook page "page 5". I mistakenly thought at the time that we had completed four pages; ergo, (therefore) the next page "would" have been page 5. It is in all actuality, page 4. I thought we had cleared that up in class today, but obviously more than a few did not listen.

The larger, and more important question should be, "why are so many of you waiting until the night before it is due to complete the assignment?" You have had the assignment since last Wednesday!! Mmm-mmm-mmm.....Procrastination leads to problems completing and creating "quality" work.

By the way, you all have a new Study Island Assessment waiting for you - It is the Tennessee Test for Study Island.

* Note* - Remember parents, the homework assignments are listed each day on the Homework page, and all Scrapbook assignments are listed under the scrapbook button on the blog home page.