Sunday, December 16, 2018

5B Classroom: Week of December 10th:

A note from Mrs. Burke:
Students have been working hard to get ready for the Colonial Trade Fair coming up on Monday.  I hope you can join us in the cafeteria on Monday, December 17th from 1:45 - 2:30.  The students are very excited to share what they have learned about their trade.

This week the students learned about Heifer Project International.  This "is a charity organization working to end hunger and poverty around the world by providing livestock and training to struggling communities."  We read the book Beatrice's Goat to help students understand how giving just one animal can help an entire community. They are raising money until December 21st so they can buy one or more animals for a family in need.  They are eager to choose an animal to make a difference in a community. They are learning how important the gift of giving can be, especially during this holiday season.Thank you for your support as students raise money for this very special project.

Take a look at what our student reporters wrote about this week.


Heifer Project:  Beatrice’s Goat










What is the Heifer project and why is the 5th grade raising money for the Heifer Project?

The fifth grade is raising money to give an animal to a family who needs it.
-Lyndsey

How does the book Beatrice’s Goat relate to the Heifer Project?

That the goat was in the movie on the tv and a boy got a water buffalo and he had to pick up the dung and put it on the wall and put it into the fire for a fire starter.  
-Owen

The Heifer project is a program where students (or just regular people) can donate money to Heifer for them to buy something for the poor, or people in need of goats, cows, chickens, pigs, or water buffalo. Some help get them clothes or education. The 5th grade wanted to help raise money to help get an animal. We are hoping we can appreciate, and be appreciated for those who are in need. A lot of the students in 5B want to help. I do, too, but I wasn’t able to raise money. The Heifer project is open to anyone. Please help people like Beatrice, who was a child that wasn’t able to go to school and get the nutrients her family needed. Until the Heifer project gave her a goat. One goat changed her life and allowed her to go to school. The goat also had children which caused it to last them a while! We hope this gets you interested in the Heifer project!
-Braelyn

Beatrice’s gets a goat for a gift and the goat had two babies and they gave milk and they sell it for money for school and they happened to get enough money for school.
-Taylor  

We are raising money so we can get animals for kids who don’t have money. After we raise enough, we are getting animals like water buffalos and trees. Then they will get milk and they can sell it. After that they should be able to go to school. Then the animal should have a baby then they can sell one of the babies to another person in their village so then there can be more kids who can go to school.
-Aubree



Social Studies:  Colonial America:  Writing about a colonial trade

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What is your colonial trade, and what are a couple of details you have included in the colonial trade essay you have been writing this week?

What is your colonial trade, and what are some interesting facts you have included in the colonial trade brochure you made this week?

My colonial trade is the homemaker. Some interesting facts about the homemaker is they provide food, make items for the homes, do the dishes, clean the house, and give the children an education.
-Madylyn

My colonial trade is the hatter. Some interesting facts I have included in my colonial trade brochure that I made this week are:
  • Colonial hatters weren’t actually “mad.” they just had mercury poisoning. Many hatters suffered from mercury poisoning.
  • Hatters have many tools. One of them is the bow. The bow is six feet long and resembles a violin bow. The bow string is vibrated by the bowpin. The bow and bowpin mixes fur.   

-Flynn

I like the brochure because we get show parents and other kids. It’s awesome
.-Zachary

We have been working on brochures to get ready for the colonial fair. Then later we will be working on our signs for the fair.
-Aubree




Reading Groups:  Books about the American Revolution

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What have you learned about the American Revolution in the book  Woods Runner or I Survived the American Revolution, 1776?

This week in Woods Runner Samuel and Annie run into a very friendly Peddler (my colonial trade job!!) who saves them from British soldiers.
-Abigail

What I have learned is that Germans helped during the American Revolution and they were called “Hessians”.   
-Maximus

That the British has a new canon ball.
-Jack

In Woods Runner Samuel is trying to find his family. Then he finds Annie and now she thinks Samuel's parents are heroes because her parents were killed by the Hessians.
-Aubree

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