Welcome to History at Mighty Oaks Enrichment Center!
First
of all, I want you to know that I love teaching! Second of all, I love teaching HISTORY!!
We
will be learning from Story of the
World Book 3. Last year
we covered the information in chapters 1-23.
This year we will finish Book 3 and cover the material in chapters
24-42.
The
first week we will spend some time reviewing chapters 1-23, but this will be
just a general review. If you have a
copy of the book, it would be very beneficial to read these chapters if your
student is new to MOEC. This is not
required, but would help your student.
On
Mondays we will read the stories from
the current chapter. We stop throughout
the stories and mark our class world map, we discuss what is really happening
and try to make connections from previous chapters, and make a class outline for
each chapter. Believe it or not, this
takes our entire time! Second grade will
also complete a coloring sheet.
On
Wednesdays we will complete various
hands-on activities that deal with the information covered in the chapter. Sometimes we will be cooking, sometimes we
might sew, and we will also work with clay and several other art mediums. We will cover some math, science, and
language arts as well. They are fun
activities that help us understand what was going on during that time in
history. There will be some times that
students will be bringing projects home, sometimes I will want to hold on to
them for the open house, and a lot of the time the projects will be done in
groups and not able to come home.
On
testing weeks, Mondays will be a review,
usually in some form of a game. There
should be a review sheet to help them study on their own coming home that
day. On Wednesdays of testing weeks,
the students will take a test. I will
grade and return the tests on the following Monday. Look for these
to come home in their History folder.
Students will be rewarded for bringing back their folders to the NEXT
class session. I will hold onto folders
between tests.
At
the end of the semester, there will be an end of semester review and test. Again, there will be a study guide and time in
class where we will have reviewed the information covered. Your students should be very prepared!
I
am very excited about all that we are covering this year in History. It was such an amazing time in history. We are going to have a great time and I prayerfully
hope your kids will leave having a lifelong love for History!
Lori Barry- History Teacher
@ Mighty Oaks Enrichment Center
