Young Ameri Towne is here!

 

On Wednesday, we will be attending the Young Ameri Towne field trip.  Thank you to Mrs. Lounsbury for helping us with the training of positions and helping with the staff meetings at the end of last week.  We were able to split the students into two groups and accomplish all the training that we needed to complete before the field trip. 

 

After we attend the field trip on Wednesday, we will do a follow up and complete a post assessment in our Young Ameri Towne booklet to showcase the learning that all the students acquired over the last several weeks. 

We will continue preparing for our Young AmeriTowne field Trip.  We are almost there!

 

Last week the students found out their job and created a checkbook to use on the field trip.  

 

This week we will continue practicing writing checks and get more familiar with their job in preparation for their trip to Young AmeriTowne. 

This week we will look at Philanthropy, the town preparation banking for our trip, and then on Wednesday I hope to announce the jobs that they students will be working on our trip. 

 

A special thank you to the parents that came and helped with our interviews on Friday.  It was such a great success, and the students took the interviews so serious.  We have some amazing leaders on our hands. 

We will continue working on our Young Ameri Towne curriculum this week.  

We will talk about money management, ethics and philanthropy.  At the middle of the week the students will fill out their job application and go through the interview process.  If you volunteered to help with interviews, I will be reaching out to you at the beginning of the week to give your more information of the process.  

In Social Studies, we are continue working on our Young Ameri Towne curriculum electing a Mayor and Judge.  They will create laws that we should abide by while on our field trip.  We will continue working through the curriculum in preparation for our field trip on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.  I sent out a permission slip to you on Friday, February 14 to sign as well as their opportunities for chaperone, and help with job interviews on Friday, February 28.  

 

If you have any question, about Young AmeriTowne please contact me. 

We will continue working on our Young AmeriTowne curriculum.  

 

This week we will focus on:

What is Banking?

Introduction to Checking Accounts

How to use a Debit Card.

 

Next, we will move into Government:

How government works and develops laws, voting and primary elections, campaigns, and general election. 

 

More information will be coming for our field trip to Young AmeriTowne soon. 

This week we will start preparing for our Field Trip to AmeriTowne on March 19.  

 

The students will be learning about what real life economics and civics which is connected to the 6th grade social studies curriculum.  

 

We will discuss "What is AmeriTowne?", the layout of the town, what jobs are available to apply for, and the components of having a bank account. 

Monday the students will share their Enlightenment thinker presentation where the students will do a Gallery Walk. 

 

For the rest of the week, we will be exploring the Latin American revolutions and how that brought change to different countires. 

The students will continue working on their key figure based on the Enlightenment Era and then we will have a Gallery Walk to share their findings. 

We will then move into exploring the independence revolutions for Latin American countires. 

Welcome back to you All!

 

This week in Social Studies we will review the norms for working successfully in class. 

 

We will review the four parts of Social Studies:

-History

-Economics,

-Geography

- Civics

 

We will then continue our journey of looking at the result of the Spanish conquering the Latin American culture and how it affected all of those civilizations. 

The students will finish their final project of the Native American group that they chose to research.  

 

We will then look at the independence movements in Central and South America. 

This week students will be researching a Native American group using the Universals of Culture vocabulary.  After the students have finished researching, they will pick a final project to showcase their learning and then share with the class. 

I hope that you had a great break!

 

This week in Social Studies we will be finish with the Spanish conquest and look at the Native America culture in the United States.  The students will create a flip book to get a general understanding of the Native American cultures and regions.  Then they will choose a Native American group to research where they will then create a cave drawing to showcase their learning. 

The week we will begin talking about the Conquest of the Ancient Civilizations from the Spanish and Conquistadors. 

 

Key Points:

• Key Figures: Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and their roles in the conquests of the Aztec and Inca Empires.
• Motivations for Conquest: Economic (gold and resources), political (expansion of Spanish territory), and religious (spread of Christianity).
• Consequences of Colonization: Impact on indigenous populations, including disease, cultural change, and loss of land.
• Legacy of the Spanish Empire: How the Spanish conquest shaped modern-day Latin America.