A Renewed Welcome!

I am DELIGHTED to return to my blog, VA Destinations 2, and through it, to welcome students and families back to Visitation Academy. I look forward to getting to know my new students, and their families, too! The classroom is open and ready to go...

Topics begun today include:

• Grade 8: Settling the American West--Whose Land Is It Anyway? 
  
  
  

  

  The same view of The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Wyoming, seen in a painting by Thomas Moran, 1872, and a personal photo, taken during Summer 2016

• Grade 7: Locations of Native Groups: in preparation for the study of the early colonists and their relations with the original occupants of the land, we viewed a map locating the major Indian groups (again, the essential question to ask is "Whose Land Is It Anyway?").
  

• Grade 6: Basics of Geography: Elements of the Globe, using hands-on mini globes