6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders have started reading and taking notes over Lesson 3 of Chapter 7. This lesson is over the creation of the Roman Empire and how it changed from the Roman Republic. We will be talking about Julius Caesar, gladiators and how it can be compared to the United States. Have a great weekend.

5th Grade Social Studies

Yesterday the 5th graders typed in the computer lab. Today we sre going to prep for Chapter 7, about life in the colonies. As you know they earned no homework Thursday and today so the papers and presentations that they were going to give and turn in today will now be turned in on Tuesday next week! Have a great weekend!

Way to Go Mr. Sheriff!

Mr. Sheriff earned his 200th career victory as a Girl's Varsity Basketball Coach. It is quite an achievement and be sure to tell him congrats when you see him!!

West Fork Cares!!!!

Way to go West Fork Middle School!!! The middle school has raised almost $1000 dollars for the Sasse family in the last two days. They also earned no homework on Thursday and Friday!! Way to go Guys!!!!

6th Grade Social Studies

6A and 6B will start lesson three in chapter 7 today. That will cover The Roman Republic becoming The Roman Empire. That means learning about Julius Caeser and Octavian. The kids should find that interesting, you know conspiracies, murder, and war. 6C started it yesterday. They will do more with it today.

5th Grade Social Studies

Today the 5th graders are going to be the computer labs typing their reports. We will also be in the labs tomorrow.

Devlynn Sasse

As you may already know Devlynn Sasse, a fifth grader here at West Fork, and his family lost their home to a fire this weekend. We will be doing fundraisers to help them out. Today we dressed in Red to show how much we care for Devlynn and his family. Red is the color of Caring according to Character Counts! Tomorrow the students may be able to earn a day off from homework if 75% of them bring a $1 donation. Friday if the students want to wear a hat in school, they can for a $1 donation. I also encourage you to leave a blog for the Sasse family. Please leave kind words, word of support or inspiration and we will be sure to pass it along to them.

West Fork Warhawks!!!!! Onto State!!!!!!

So we have two great varsity basketball teams this year, so i wanna know. Do you think we are going to state!? Either the Boys or the Girls, blog me and tell me what you think. Just the Boys are going, Just the Girls, Both, or do you think that neither will make it state, (shame on you!). GO WARHAWKS!!!!!!!!!

6th Grade Social Studies

6A and 6B should finish their notes over lesson 2 in class today, 6c should start reading Lesson 3.

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th graders finished up their posters and wrote down what they were each going to say during the presentation on Friday. Tomorrow and Thursday we will be in the computer lab typing.

6th Grade Social Studies

6A & 6B will be starting to put together their notes over lesson 2. 6C will go over their notes and take a quiz over lessons 1 and 2.

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th graders should be wrapping up their posters and preparing for their presentations by writing index cards for the next couple of days. We will also try to get some computer time in this week, for the paper that I would like them to type.

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6A and 6B group need to finish their questions and answers for lesson 2. If they need to they will be taking books home over the weekend. 6C is ahead and they will start to read lesson 3.

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th graders started working on the posters for their colony presentations, they will be next Friday. Also over the weekend they can find pictures on the internet for their posters/visual aid.

Super Bowl

It is the Arizona Cardinals versus the Pittsburgh Steelers and I want to know who you think is going to win. I'm going with my man Kurt warner and the Cards, because Warner went to UNI, just like me!!!!!!! Leave me a comment on who you think is going to win!!!

6th Grade Social Studies

The sixth graders finished their lesson one notes yesterday, and started their notes on lesson two. I was happy to see that they seem to see a difference in the way they used to take notes compared to the ones they just took. They also seemed to universally say that these new notes were better and easier to use.

5th Grade Social Studies

Today the 5th graders stared doing their research on their colony, they didn't like it at first, because we are not using the computers or the internet to do the research, they are using books and encyclopedias. It fun to see them actually use books, and read the info, instead of point and click.

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders will continue to break down their lesson and write notes today. Not exciting, but it is laying down a good foundation.

5th Grade Social Studies

Today the 5th graders will be checking their Chapter 6 Review and then we will break into groups to do research on the colonies. For the next few days we will be working in the library finding the research.

6th Grade Social Studies

The sixth graders have read the first two lessons in Chapter 7 on Ancient Rome, last week (what there was of it) we started to learn how to break down a lesson and read for content as well as how to take good notes from it. Today we continue this process of how to get the information from what we read. This is a skill I hope will help them in the future!

Obama!!!!!!

Along with our usual day events we also took time out today to watch the inauguaration of Barack Obama as our next, and 44th, President. It is a very historical day!

5th Grade Social Studies

Today the 5th Graders learned about the new blogs and we will wrap up the Chapter 6 Review.

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders are currently learning about Ancient Rome! We will be doing studies on The Republic, the Empire and the Fall of Rome.

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th graders are studing the colonies right now. We just introduced all 13 of the original colonies. This week we will start doing more in depth learning on the 13 colonies, and learning more about their daily life.

Welcome!

Welcome to the West Fork 5th and 6th Grade Social Studies Blog. This is a new feature for our school. I personally am very excited about this project and the possible applications for the future. Enjoy!!!