KHALED ABU GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of our class goals this year was for ten students to read 8 chapter books. The
first student to complete eight books this year is Khaled Abu Gosh. Congratulations!

Khaled has read more than 1000 pages this year.

So Far This Week

We have been working on good work habits, reading, and some science. Some things to remember

Matter is everything in the world except a vacuum.

Mass is how much matter something has

Weight is how hard gravity pulls you

Volume is how much space something takes

Marathon

Karma

This is Karma delivering a speech she wrote about "What Makes Us Palestinian"

Iyad

The assignment was simple. You have 10 minutes to write a story. No help was given, no corrections were made.



Omar's story, Sarah's story, the Marathon and Karma's video will be up soon

Video Solved

I think I have figured out how to post video so the clips of the marathon and the tests upstairs should be done soon.

Thank you to Ghaith for working on the project with me today

Yesterday's Tests

Yesterday there was no class so our students could participate in a set of tests administered by a researcher from Stanford University. Our students were favorably compared to the other students that had been tested in Palestine and the researchers were extremely impressed with their writing skills. I will try to post video of Iyad delivering his story later today

Today

Good class today, we talked a little about our land use project, some mass, weight and matter.

Remember

Mass doesn't change. Its how much matter is in something.
Weight changes depending on the planet. It is how hard gravity pulls you

We had homework, reading about John Brown and you should be working on Spin E too.

This Week's Spin E Homework

Pages 28-37 (some pages don't have activities)

Here are some more songs for group 2

Group 1 Songs

These are songs with lyrics for some of Group 1's songs

New Singing Contest

This week we have started practicing for a singing contest. There are two teams in the class. The first team is Khaled's group, Waleed's group, and Sami's group. The second team is Anibtawi's group, Sarah's group and Sindi's group.

Group 1 is singing:
Big Mouth
California Dreaming
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Super Girl
Don't Cry
Hey Hey We're the Monkees
We're Not Gonna Take It
One Jump (from Aladddin)
A Pirate's Life
Eternal Flame

Group 2 is singing:
Enter Sandman
People Are Strange
Secret
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Not Like Me
King of the Road
We Will Rock You
November Rain
Tingalayo
Loch Lomond

This Week

We will continue with Fudge A Mania and Dear Mr. Henshaw. We will also continue with Spin E homework (I will repost the schedule)

We will continue with land use, inputs and outputs.

We will continue learning the rules to Ultimate Frisbee

The government will meet to choose a holiday

Our essays will be about the last few teachers and the trip

Progress So Far

We have started working with plants as well as fish. We are measuring the different inputs that our plants need and when we finish we will compare them with the fish and the rabbits.

This Week's Song

This week's song is very famous in America. Many different singers and bands have played it.

Its called "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" It is a song about the American Civil War. Two parts of America fought each other because one part had slaves and one part didn't think that was right.

Dixie was what some people called the South (the part of the country that had slaves). We will be doing some more reading about this and we will be learning a song fron the North side (the good side) later this month.

Here are clips of two different people singing the song. The first is a woman named Joan Baez. She is a hero for a lot of people in America because she worked so many people could be equal:



This is by the group that made the song famous. Their name is "THE BAND." The Band is one of my favorite groups

Speeches

We did not get to these last week. We will this week

This Week in 5A

We are going to focus heavily on matter and its properties. Last week the students displayed a solid understanding of how to measure things, but very weak estimating skills. We will continue to work on that.

We will be working with Chapters 10 and 11 in the Science book (probably 11 next week) and then building to a test on the properties of matter in two or three weeks, depending on how the kids do with the material.

We will be continuing our land use project and should have a new element of that as well. These are the words that we will be working with this week (many are repeats)

matter
property
pressure
element
atom
periodic table
mass
volume
density
buoyancy
input
output
calorie
measure

One Down, One To Go

Last week we finished Spin F. For the next two months we are going to be using Spin E to review. There are a few pages we will be doing together in class but mostly this will be homework.

This work should be simple for most of the students. if you don't understand something then bring it to me the next day. Periodically, I will collect and mark the Spin E books. Here is the homework schedule for this weekend and next week:

This weekend
Page 10-13

Sunday night
14-15

Monday
18

Wednesday
20-22

Thursday
23,28,29

There will be additional homework some days. The Spin work should not take longer than 45 minutes for the most difficult nights and should usually be completed in less than 30. if it is taking longer let me know.

Reading Test As

The tests were a little better this time around

A+
Sindi
Sarah
Khaled
Anibtawi

A
Sami

A-
Safa
Noor
Waleed