Volume 1, Issue 1
P1 News
Week at a Glance
Wow, what a wild week with beautiful sunshine, snow, and rain. I don’ think the
weather can make up its mind. Students
have been giving their best effort the
past week, even though many have been
going home ill. Remember, wash those
hands well and often. I am excited for this
coming week with Rube Goldberg presentations.
Students have surprised me in wanting to
take over the publishing of our newsletter.
Please hang in there with us as we take a
week or two to
work out the
kinks! I am so
proud of them.
Events
Mar. 14
Parent Notes
Don’t forget the Camp Colman mandatory chaperone
meeting coming up this
Wednesday, from 6:30-7:30
in P1.
Students will be taking a
tour of PCMS and need to
have their green form filled
out and in to me by Thursday if they wish to attend.
Mandatory meeting
for Camp chaperones/alternates in
P1 from 6:30-7:30.
Mar. 14
Rube Goldberg parent presentations.
Mar. 19
Pacific Cascade
Middle School Visit
and Parent Info.
Night.
Sign and turn in the green
PCMS visitation permission
form by Thursday the 15th.
Math By Rishi
Holy week!!! We have changed our attitudes from negative to positive. So true, we have
finished our UNIT 7 math exam on Wednesday. This open response was THE 2ND
HARDEST OPEN RESOPNSE IN ALL OF 5TH GRADE. We have had a fun time with exponents and negative numbers. But now it is time to move onto FRACTIONS AND RATIOS. On Monday, we had some mild confusion with the order of operations. On Tuesday,
we revive our brains with some Unit 7 math. On Wednesday we surpassed THE MATH
TEST. On Thursday we started comparing fractions and refreshing our memory on them,
and lastly on Friday, we have encountered adding fractions and mixed numbers. After
this long hardworking week, we have expanded and learnt so much, that we have even
made our brain expand.
Our Focus
Keep your
face to the
sunshine and
you cannot
see the
shadow.
-Helen Keller
Science By Kaitlin and Will
Do you know what force, motion, gravity, and friction are? What about a Rube Goldberg project? Well
if you don’t, you will know by the end of this paragraph! This week in P1 we have been learning about
force, motion, gravity, and friction. Suppose you are pushing a book shelf from one end of the room to
the other, that would be an example of force and motion because you are using force to push the book
shelf, and since the book shelf is moving, it is also an example of motion. An example of friction would
be, if you were pushing a book shelf from one end of the room
to the other, but the floor would be carpet. The book shelf
would require more force because of friction. Friction is a
force that acts when two surfaces are touching. Another example would be, it’d be easier to push a book shelf on ice than on
concrete because there is less friction on ice. Also don’t forget
about gravity! Gravity is the force that is keeping you and I on
the ground, with out gravity who knows were we would be right
now? Gravity is a force that pulls objects to the center of
Earth. In addition, to all of this we have been working on Rube Goldberg projects for the last four
weeks! A Rube Goldberg project is a machine with many complicated steps to do a very simple task, for
example to water a plant or blow up a balloon. This ties into our education because we are learning
about energy, energy transfers, Newton’s Laws of motion, etc. It is extremely complicated and we are
looking forward to seeing you’re Rube Goldberg projects tomorrow and next week. That is what we
have been doing in science lately.
Social Studies By Brandon
This week in social studies we put ourselves in an African tribal leader’s shoes. To start the week, we
finished off most of our colony reports and started to break into three
groups; the first group was “No Way No How No Slaves”, the second group
was “Raid other tribes”, and the final group was “Sell your own criminals and
slaves. We are trying to imagine the dilemma West African leaders faced
when the European slave traders arrive. Throughout the week we made reasons and counter arguments for our group. Toward the end of the week, we
had our test on chapter 8 for slavery. This was our week in social studies.
Wow! What a fun of literacy we had! We had a fun time reading Kaddo’s Wall, an old story
about a rich man named Kaddo who lost everything he had because of greed. After reading it, we also did a worksheet, we had two groups with a different questions, one which is
“why did Kaddo build his wall out of flour?” and the other one which is “Why couldn’t Kaddo stop himself from eating the corn seed Sogole gave him?” We had an independent time
to answer the question, and then we sat together with our groups to share our ideas and
have a debate. This week we had a great time, I hope we can jump into to reading and
have some more fun.
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Grand Ridge Elementary
1760 25th Ave NE Issaquah,
WA 98029
1531 24th CT NE Issaquah,
Grand Ridge
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BACON AND A SUN BURNED MAN?
One is a fried food and one is
a fried dude!
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Organization
Book of the Week: Dr. Proctor’s Fart Powder By
Dominique
Who’s moving into the blue house on Cannon Road?
Is it a girl?
All these questions were asked by Lisa the day Nilly arrived. What
she didn’t know was soon SHE would be going on a wacky adventure
with Nilly and Doctor Proctor also of course the fart powder. They
will face many hardships which they must overcome.
WILL THE FART POWDER SAVE THE DAY?
This book is great if you love adventure and sequels. Though the cover
is cheesy, give it a chance after all, don’t judge a book by its cover.