Hi everyone!
       This week was packed with so much fun! To start off the week, we had a science lesson on pulleys. We talked a lot about fixed pulleys and movable pulleys. On Tuesday, we had a family ed. program with Rabbi Clevenger. At the end, we all had to put on a skit about those 4 situations. On Wednesday we did a fun game of jeopardy relating to Harriet the Spy preparing for the test on Thursday. The test covered the whole book, with lots of multiple choice and some open responce.  Today, we heard from an alumni that was awarded Tikkun Olam award. This speaker told us about her non-prophet organization that is teaching kids in India about how to get medical recoures, and how to reach medical help if needed. This week was busy, but everyone in the class enjoyed it!     

                                                        From,
                                                          Livia P.

This week we did a lot of pulley work.  We learned about two kinds of pulleys. One was a fixed pulley that pulley did not move. The next pulley was a movable pulley. We started to work on are second social studies project, which is a brochure about all the wonderful things about Mesopotamia. We did a debate about if Harriet was right or wrong to write about people in her notebook, plus if her friends were right or wrong to be mad at her. In the auditorium, a veteran came to tell us what it was like in the army. Yesterday a person came from the Discovery Museum to talk with us about levers and pulleys. We also did a few activities with levers.

By Noah Berkowitz  

       This week our class had fun doing our levers experiments. by doing this we found the further you moved the load from the fulcrum the harder it is to lift the load.   We learned how to make our writing better by using transition words. To remind us of all the transition words we got a sheet which stated all of the transition words.  My favorite part of the week was when we split up into two teams and made a debate for Harriet from Harriet the spy. My team was defending Harriet's decision to write about her friends and that it was wrong for her friends to read her journal. Overall this week was a very fun week.

This week we started our Ancient Mesopotamia. This unit is very fun! So far we have learned why it is called the fertile crescent. It is called that because it is a land between to rivers so it would make the land and soil very fertile. We also started our unit in science called simple machines. Right now we are focusing in on levers and pulleys. Today we did our experiment on levers with partners. In math we did factor rainbows and prime factorization. We had a very fun and learning filled week!

             This week was awesome in 5th grade! We started Harriet The Spy reading groups.  We worked on connections and inferences.  We did our prehistory projects.  For our prehistory projects he got to choose what kind of project we wanted to do.  It was either and online poster, a choose your own adventure story,  a speech defending tools uses, or a diary/journal entry.  We took a science test on variables.  We also took a test for subject and predicates.  We started a new math unit which is divisibility.  I'm looking forward for next week.

         This week was very exciting. We did all sorts of fun stuff including, a framing your thoughts lesson. In that lesson we saw an old women, explaining to us what a subject is. We also learned different multiplication algorithms. My two favorite were lattice and russian peasant. Another cool thing we did was we started a new science lab. The lab was on lifeboats, we made our own lifeboats out of paper cups. We all tried to see how many ml. it was. Mostly we got between 50-55 ml. One of the most fun activities we did was digital citizenship. We made our own digital super heroes. We made comic strips on them.

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   One interesting thing we did was making our own precepts were we made our lines to live by. We also made a gigantic timeline that had everything important that ever happened.  We also are learning about different types of multiplication and using decimals in math. In jewish studies we are starting to read torah. We've bean learning about swingers in science.  We've also been starting to learn about about early humans and Lucy the australopithecine. In art we have been sketching mannequins. Thank you for reading this blog post and have a nice day.

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      Zev

Welcome to 5th Grade!

Welcome to 5th grade!
Each week, one of you will have the job of posting an update to our class blog. Your task will be to summarize the week's events in our classroom. What have we been doing in our subject areas? What projects have we started or special activities have we done? What big events or funny stories happened during the week? You get the idea! By the end of the year, I hope we will have a great record of all we have done in 5th grade that we can look back on with pride.