| Show TODD ELEMENTARY I Fifth Grade News Barbara Knuth Dale Beardall The Social Studies we are taking a tour of the United States We are learning how to read maps and we made one out of salt flour and wa- wa water water ter It was of the United Stat Stat- States States es It included the Sierra Nev- Nev Nevada Nevada ada Mountain Range the Great Basin the Rocky Moun- Moun Mountain Mountain tain range the Great Plains Appalachian the Central Plains the Appa- Appa Mountains and the Piedmont We painted it according to the regions We used differ differ- different different ent kinds of colors to paint our yellow maps brown tan yel yel- low green and blue Now we weare weare are drawing the states We are learning about the Southeastern states they are Florida Georgia Virginia West VirginIa North Caro- Caro Carolina Carolina lina and South Carolina We divided Into committees to work on these maps There are seven students in each group We have learned a lot about the Southeastern Southeastern I states We get our information from the Our teacher helped us make a slide rule for adding and subtracting in arithmetic We are multiplying large and aud small numbers We are also dividing large and small num- num number numbers ber bers |
