Publisher: Aleyna and Melanie
Writers:: Aleyna , Keana, Melanie, Brooke, and Lelia
Editor: Keana
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5/25– FLASH
teaching begins in
5th Grade
Teacher Notes
The sun has broken out to shine full
on, as has the students’ attitude. They
have worked tirelessly in groups to
create jeopardy games for reviewing
all that they know about the American
Revolution. As the year winds down, we
are going to wind up. Our final project
will be a Poetry Café where students
will serve food, read poems, and turn
the room into a
café, with walls
on famous poets,
types of poetry,
and student work.
Parent Notes
Please make sure to review
F.L.A.S.H. materials with your
child. It is a time for them to
ask additional questions, share
with you what they learned, and
a time to have discussions.
6/16– Moving Up
Ceremony @ 9:30
am
6/18– last day of
school; ends 11:45
There are not many days left
before school is out. However,
my expectations remain high,
and students are expected to
turn work in on time, and give it
their best.
This will be my last year at
Grand Ridge. Next year, your
child might have me for math at
PCMS.
Math By Aleyna
For a couple weeks now, we’ve been learning algebra through scale models.
We learned sometimes that you have to substitute items to make both sides equal. We have
also been creating graphs using in and out boxes
with formulas. And then, we have had to plot and
graph our coordinates, as well as interpret premade graphs. We are learning that some formulas lead to linear equations.
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Social Studies by Melanie
Are you a Patriot or a Loyalist? Or are you a Neutralist? Or are you someone who’s confused by
what I’m asking? Let me explain. From the 1760s to the early 1780s, there was tension (and war)
between the Loyalists and Patriots. Many people say that the Revolutionary War was between the
British and the Americans. You have to understand that both sides were British, but one side
wanted the colonies to not be ruled by Britain, and the other side wanted Britain to continue ruling the colonies. The people who wanted Britain to continue ruling the colonies, were called Loyalists. This was because they were loyal to the British king. “Loyal” = Loyalists. The people who didn’t want Britain to continue ruling the colonies were called Patriots. This word came from a
French word that meant someone who fights for their rights. Patriots and Loyalists could live in
both America and Britain, so technically “the Americans against the British” is incorrect. Also
there were people who didn’t want to pick sides, or picked/changed sides depending on the event.
These people were called Neutralists. There were many reasons for the Patriots and Loyalists to
fight each other (this was called the Revolutionary War). Let’s go back to what Mr. Nichols said:
“Geography plays a huge roll in history”. In this case he is right. For instance, if Ohio Valley hadn’t been so rich and fertile, Britain might not have fought the French for it, and there wouldn’t
have been the Proclamation of 1763, The Stamp Act, The Quartering Act – which were all acts
that angered the Patriots very much –, and if those acts hadn’t happened, there might not be the
Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, or the Intolerable Acts. In fact, there might not even
be the Revolutionary War! So that one piece of land affected the future of America. Well,
there’s a test coming up on the Revolutionary War, so study, study, study!
Literacy By Keana
Writing: “I walked my dog past a fence, unaware that there was dog poo on my shoe, smearing
brown mush everywhere I stepped …” this may be the middle sentence of P5’s new unit in writing,
memoirs. Mr. Nichols had us brainstorm first to show him how much we know about memoirs:
things like it being a memory, a bio of your life, and possibly that a memoir was like a narrative
were all put down onto the class list. Our minds completely welcomed a new thought of memoirs
when we read an example of one called “Car Trip”. We used conversation stems to explain that a
memoir is a memory of yours, but is not a full biography of your life. A memoir also apparently
was/can be a writing piece like an opinion paper. After we explained our ideas, we read a second
example called, “What’s so Funny Mr. Skeiskza?“ and realized that the short story we had read a
while back, “Last Kiss” was also a memoir. P5 read a couple more examples of memoirs and were
sent home to plan our own beginnings and ideas for our memoirs.
Reading: For reading in May, we read a short story called “No Guitar Blues”. The class talked and
wrote about how in this story a boy named Fausto finds himself wanting a guitar. Through beginning middle and end, the class was asked to create the list of events, and a story pyramid of the
book. We thought about foreshadowing and how the author led us from beginning to middle, and
middle to end of the story. “Be careful what you wish for.” and “Good things come to those who
wait,” were things you could write in the part of the pyramid that was the author’s message.
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