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!