Just a reminder that our last regional states and capitals quiz will be on Monday, April 30th! Students will begin to put their History of Things project together and will be presenting them the following week. Our 50 States and Capitals assessment will be on May 7th! Our year is quickly coming to an end, please encourage your student to finish strong!

Class Pictures are Tuesday, May 1st!

We will be wrapping up our study of the Civil War this week as we discuss and learn about Reconstruction. Students will also get the final set of states and capitals and begin putting together a map of the region. The quiz for this last set will be April 30th. Students are also working on a History of Things project over a topic that they chose, be on the look out for their final projects which will be posted to their blogs in the next few weeks. In honor of Earth Day we will be learning about the history of the High Line, if you would like to know more about this amazing place check out this link  http://www.thehighline.org/

Students received a new set of states and capitals this past week, the Midwestern states. We will complete the map for these states during the week and the quiz will be Friday, April 13th. We will be wrapping up our study of the Industrial Revolution and begin our study of the Civil War. Just a reminder that our STAAR Math and Reading assessments will be next week on April 10th and 11th.