Electricity

We have been learning about electricity and other types of energy. The students viewed a variety of videos about electricity and wrote the very important points about electricity.

• Insulators prevent the flow of electricity
• Conductors allow electricity to flow through them
• Electricity powers lights, T.V., radio, and lots of different things
• Everything is made up of atoms
• A rush of electrons is called a static discharge
• People can make electricity
• Electricity can kill you
• Never touch electric wires with wet hands because you could get electrocuted

Track & Field Day

Pen Pals

We had a great time visiting our pen pals today!! We ate lunch with them, played some games, and just had a fun time together!!

Vocabulary Examples

Times/situations when you would be in peril

• tornado/storm
• shipwreck
• flood
• fire
• a psycho chasing you

Things that aggravate you

• neighbors
• cat getting into my food
• parents
• chewing in your ear
• tapping pencils

Things that could be appalling

• nobody celebrating your birthday
• a pet dying
• a sad ending of a movie or book
• getting out of school at 5:00 instead of 3:00

Cesar Chavez

As we have been learning about becoming a leader and leaders who have made a difference, we read the book Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez. We learned how Chavez made a difference for workers in California through marches and other peaceful protests. The students identified his character traits and provided evidence from the text for each character trait.

helpful

• he helped people get job rights

brave

• he led the march even when his feet started bleeding
• he led the people to Sacramento

persistent

• he never gave up
• he walked until he got other peoples' rights
• he walked until he got what he wanted

hard-working

• he worked hard for very little pay

peaceful

• he didn't fight

caring

• he cared enough to lead the people and get them their rights

persuasive

• he convinced them to march with him for rights
• he convinced the owners to improve working conditions for workers
• he persuaded people to follow him

Measurement

We have been working on capacity in math. We learned that capacity means "how much something can hold". We used various size containers to determine how much each would hold as well as how many it would take to fill a bucket. We have learned about cups, pints, quarts, and gallons and the equivalencies of each. The students have made a goal this week of being able to correctly identify the equivalencies of each capacity.

1 gallon=4 quarts=8 pints=16 cups

2 cups=1 pint

2 pints=1 quart

4 cups=1 quart

Vocabulary Words

As we have been reading the On the Run series of books by Gordon Korman, we have focused on learning many vocabulary words. The focus words this week are obnoxious, humiliated, accustom, impulsive, eliminate, and eluded. The students came up with multiple examples/situations of these vocabulary words.

Things that would be obnoxious

• burping or farting without saying "excuse me"
• someone blurting out
• someone chewing in your ear
• someone coughing on you

Things that should be eliminated

• murderers
• wars
• wrong answers
• garbage
• Math :)

Things/Situations when you would need to accustom yourself

• moving to a different state, city, or country
• going to a new school
• moving into a new house
• a new baby in the house

Things that would make you or someone else feel humiliated

• having your 2-year old brother beat you in a spelling bee
• a boy going into the girls' bathroom on accident
• having your secret told to others