Northeast Notes

Ms. Leom's class continues to study the Northeast unit in Social Studies. Mr. Greninger's class is scheduled to start their Social Studies learning on October 6th. With the schedule in place, fourth graders will take the Northeast States and Capitals Test (no notes) and the Northeast Unit Test (may use Information Packet, Questions Packet, and Notes Packet) on Thursday October 2. Remember, there is no school on Friday October 3 due to a teacher workshop.

Today, Ms. Leom introduced Northeast notes. We talked about getting organized. We put all of our other materials on our name tags and laying the NE Information Packet and NE Notes side-by-side. We labeled our NE Notes, "NE Notes". Then, she helped clarify the terms.

Then she modeled how to take notes (the heading is the main idea and the information is the supporting details).

Students find three supporting details for each main idea. In the box, students illustrate and color the most interesting fact to them. While we worked on this together, Ms. Leom walked around the room and helped students underline the information and record it on our notes. In our next class, students will work with a new partner (than their NE Questions partner).