P.E

Physical Education
In Physical Education also know as PE to the kids in my school is very tiring yet one of the most loved specials in school. We have PE on Tuesday and Thursday. Our PE teacher Mrs. Amendalia says “Think of it as the two T’s.” One rule of hers is “if you don’t have sneakers then you don’t participate in Physical Education”. A few games we play in PE are The Legend of Joshua Eaton, coconut cove and more. Some thing I wouldn’t say is a game is passer which is when we run from one side of the gym to another and we see how many times we can do it for. One game every one loves doing is when we try and knock each other’s pins down there are no teams its every man or women for them self. This is what we do in gym class defiantly one of the school’s favorite subjects.

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ART

In art we create a lot of beautiful pieces. The project we are working on now is dot paintings. A dot painting is a painting modeled after an animal, you use dots to fill in the background or inside of the animal’s body. These animal’s come from the Aboriginal people. The Aboriginal people come from Australia. They design patterns to represent their people and beliefs. They also use bright colors to represent the earth and the sun. These are the steps you would need to follow:
Pick an animal, then sketch it on paper to plan out your drawing, next draw it again on a new piece of paper, lastly start painting(with bright colors) and when your background is fully painted, your finished and you can hang it up!

By: Meghan D. and Julia J.

Math
This week we worked on a project called “skittle project”. This is how it worked. We were pared up with a partner. Then each group got 10 skittles. Then we put all the oranges skittles in a group, all the greens skittles in a group, all the purples in a group, all the reds in a group, and all the yellows in a group. Then we put the numbers in a data table. We put them first in fractions then we put them in percents. Example: 40% of green skittles or 4/10. Then we put the data into a pie graph. Then we put the pie graph on the white board. Then it was the end of class. So we got to eat half of the skittles which was 5 each. Then on the way out the door Mr. Heath gave us a couple more skittles before we went to are homeroom.

Stas S.
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Joey K.

Social Studies
By: Regan L

In Social Studies this month we’ve turned all of our focus to land wars, (particularly the King Phillip’s War.) The King Phillip’s war started over, you guessed it, land. Strange settlers started coming overseas and settling right on the Native American’s land. The Native Americans coped with this change for a while. They traded what they had for the rental of the land the Europeans had settled on. But, the only problem was that the Native Americans and the Europeans didn’t speak the same language. So, what the Natives thought was trading, to the Europeans was selling. These differences in prospective broke out into war. To be precise, one of the bloodiest war EVER fought in North America. So for our RAFT (Role-Audience-Format-Topic) projects we’re reenacting or providing information on land wars. Some things we could do for the RAFT project are power points about the King Phillip’s war, a letter from Chief Massasoit to King Phillip about a warning for the future, or a Eulogy about King Phillip’s death. These are all wonderful ways of providing knowledge to others and getting more knowledge ourselves about the past.

Art Class

Our art teachers name is Ms. Hurley. She teaches us new things every Monday. We recently finished a wire sculpting project. You have to use wire to make your face. You had to include every little detail on your face. It was a lot of fun, but it took some time to get it perfect.
After we finish we go over the new things that will be involved in our next project. Now, we are working on a new project that is called aboriginal dot paintings. Aboriginal dot painting is a painting of an animal that comes from an aboriginals tribe. You first paint the animal however you’d like it. Then you use your creative designs to fill the inside of the animal. We filled our animals with dots, lines, shapes, and stripes. This takes a whole lot of effort and patience to get the job done right. We have a lot of fun in art, thanks to Ms. Hurley!







Written by: Erika M

Reading

This month in reading we are on our 5th MCBA book, MCBA stands for Massachusetts Children Book Awards. After we read each MCBA book we do a project on it. For our first book we did a “world’s shortest book report”. Then we did a book review for our second book. For our third book we did an animoto video. For our fourth project we did a book bag where we put things in a brown bag that symbolized the book. Now we are doing a book cover where we design our own covers for the books that we read and write a summary about the book that we read. My favorites out of all the books that I have read are Paint the Wind, and The Lemonade War. The book that I am reading now is How to Steal a Dog. It is about a homeless girl and her plan to steal a dog and get five-hundred dollars to get her family an apartment. It’s not my favorite one, but I still really enjoy it.

by Hannah and Jessica

Reading

Right Now in Reading we are reading a book called Parvana’s Journey. It sets in Afghanistan while a war is going on. In the prequel The Breadwinner Taliban took over Kabul, Afghanistan where the main character Parvana lived. After Parvana’s sister Nooria went to get married in Mazar, Afghanistan the Taliban took over there too. In Parvana’s Journey, Parvana is trying to find her family. Find out if Parvana finds her family and becomes happy again. Also, this year we have to read five MCBA books. MCBA stands for Massachusetts Children’s book award. Some titles include Found, The Green Glass Sea, Swindle, My Haunted House and The Lemonade War. Also the kids of Massachusetts vote for the best MCBA book in February. The book that gets the most votes wins the Award. Lastly, in guided reading this session we are reading books that are about people who are different in some way and make a difference. The books are Schooled, The Liberation of Gabriel King and Loser. We finish up our books this week. That’s it for today!