New Study Island Assessment...

Check your Study Island. A new assessment has been assigned to all classes. It is called Assessment 2 - Landforms. It is due no later than Monday, September 26 by the end of the day. This counts as a test grade, so take your time and try your best.

Test Postponed...

This is just a reminder, folks....the test will be postponed until next Wednesday or Thursday. We have too much left to cover and our flashcard fest has side-tracked us! Don't forget to email me from Gaggle tonight! That was your only homework assignment. Posting a comment on the "wall" does not suffice.

See you in the morning!

Mrs. Morton

Printing the Map Games Scores...

Shivani Patel emailed this evening and said, "Help! I can't get my scores to print!" So, I went on and played one of the river games, and when I was through my score screen popped up. Then I simply hit Ctrl P (the control button and the P button) and my print screen popped up and I clicked on print. It printed with no trouble at all. Anyone who is having trouble out in the "map ethers" tonight, try that. It works!

We Need Practice....

In order to be ready for the upcoming Study Island Assessments, I think we need some practice. I want you all to go to the following websites and play the map games:

Learn the Continents and Oceans –

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/World_GL.html

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/world_G0_Click.html

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/world_G1_drag_drop.html

 

Learn the Geographic Regions of Europe –

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europe-georegion.html

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europe-georegion-click.html

 

Learn the Rivers of Europe –

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europe-rivers.html

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europe-rivers-click.html

 

Learn the European Bodies of Water –

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europe-lakes.html

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europe-lakes-click.html

 

We're starting with Europe for practice. Print your scores from the games (or copy and paste them into a word document to print; OR, copy and paste them into an email and gmail them to me....does that about cover all the bases?) Do these until you have it downpat and could show me in class how well you can do it. We'll judge where we stand toward the end of next week.

 

 

 

Wet Your Whistle on This For Awhile...

Mrs. Murphy and I decided that we would read The Hunger Games with our classes this fall. The Honors/Optional department requires that we read two novels a year now with our classes, and this is the one we've picked since many of you have some exposure to the story already. This futuristic trilogy by Suzanne Collins is intriguing young people all over the country right now, as well as in the United Kingdom. I've put the countdown ticker to the movie on, the movie trailer, and two links to play actual games on the Hunger Games site. They're pretty cool...try them out. We also thought that we might try to make the movie in March into a field trip event for our two teams. We'll see if Mr. Page is "game" for it. Get the book by October, and in the meantime, have fun with the game links.