Deck the Halls of Highland was a great success thanks to the hard work and support of our students, parents, volunteers, faculty and staff. Deck the Halls is always an exciting way to kick off the holiday season. I would like to personally thank the 5th grade elves who volunteered their time to work in the cafe, lead games, and run errands for Santa. All of you did an outstanding job and took your elf duties serious.
This week in Social Studies we continue our study of European Explorations to the New World. We are focusing our learning this week on the reasons these explorers took such a risk in order to make it to the Americas. All of the different countries in Europe had different reasons for coming. The 5 main countries who sent explorers that we are studying are Spain, England, France, Denmark, and Portugal.
We will be focusing on the interactions of the Europeans and the Native Americans. Some of these interactions will be friendly while others will bring on conflict between the two groups.
We have already learned the reason each country listed above was so interested in the Americas and now we are beginning to discuss specific first settlements such as, St. Augustine, FL. This was the first European settlement in the Americas settled by the Spanish. Then we will learn about Roanoke which was England's first attempt to build a colony, but were unsuccessful. The English try again with the settlement of Jamestown in Virginia. With the cooperation of Pocahontas, John Smith and the settlers of Jamestown barely make it through their first year.
TRIVIA??? What is the origin of the word AMERICA?
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