Colleen’s Blog

              In social studies today we did our presentations on “results of growth” and “Hong Kong and Macau”. Our classmates went to the front of the room and taught us about those subjects.  We also talked about the benefits of having a factory in China.

              -pay workers less

              -sell products in both China and the U.S.A

 The “results of growth” group taught us how polluted China will become with all the factories there. Because of that, lung disease is the #1 killer in China. Chinese power comes from burning coal, and the extra dust pollutes the air. The “Hong Kong and Macau” group told us how both cities were once controlled by European countries and both cities have a “one country, two systems pledge to allow capitalism to exist.

           In math today we worked on coordinate grids. Miss V gave us a journal page to do. On the page we had tomake shapes on the grid with requierments. Then after we did that she gave us a study link to do on grids. There is a quiz on grids Friday.

In social studies today we read ,in our text books , about Turkey. Then we started our homework.The homework was questions about Turkey. Thye worksheet talked about Turkey’s culture, climate, and geography. I think Turkey will fun to study about !Here are some facts:

-the major religion is Islam

-it’s largest city is Istanbul

-Kurds (an ethnic group) make up 20% of Turkey’s population

-the capitol city is Ankara

-the Turkish Straits are made of the Bosporus,Sea of Marmara,and Dardanelles

Today in social studies we took our test on Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria.

Afterwords we did some geography questions for a mint.Here they are:

*What body of water separates France from the United Kingdoms?

*What South American country has 2 capitol cities?

*A)What mountain range splits Russia into 2 continents?

B)Name those continents.

*Name the 3 countries that share the island of Borneo.