Mass
Library
Article of the Day “Cuban Immigration to the United States”
Two Readworksarticles due Friday
Reading-Vowel + |r| sound RNB p. 65 word sort; work with a partner to search for vowel + |r| words in “Quest for a Tree Kangaroo”
Band/Choir
Religion-Hall of Saints by the 3rd grade, complete scavenger hunt
Math-p. 58 #1-12
Social Studies-finished Lesson 1, notes in journal
Mayans
-scientists created calendars and studied the stars
-developed system of mathematics and form of writing-hieroglyphs
-built stone pyramids and temples, palaces, roads, ball courts
North American Civilizations
Hohokam
-grew maize, beans, squash,and cotton
-used irrigation (system of canals or waterways to carry water many miles)
-built home from adobe brick (mud and straw) partly underground to cool homes day and heat at night
Ancestral Pueblo
-lived in apartment like dwellings built in side of cliffs
-had special rooms called kivas for meeting or religious purposes
-planted maize beans and squash
-used dry farming (caught rain and melted snow in stone-lined pots)
Mound Builders
-developed in river valleys (Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys)
-built cone-shaped hills and animal shaped earthworks
-Hopewell used mounds for burial or religious ceremonies
-Mississippians used mounds for burial or to watch the movement of the sun and stars
-Cahokia studied pattern of the seasons, built circle of trees to act as a sundial
