G5 Life

Student Council Representatives

 

Last Friday and Monday, students got a chance to hear speeches from their classmates, persuading them to elect them to the Cherry Crest Student Council.  Participation was awesome!  19 students gave speeches during the 2 day session.  Congratulations to Ellie and Jake for being selected to represent their class.  Dvir was elected as the class alternate.  Thanks to everyone who took a risk and presented.

Colonial Boston Story Path Update

In social studies, students have been assuming the roles of colonists in Boston 1765.  They have been learning about the key events that lead to tensions between the colonists and Britain.  This includes the French Indian War, The Proclamation of 1763, The Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts.    During their story path, the students participated in a role play that had them in colonial families. Each family had a specific job and had to order essential supplies from Britain to keep their business running.  During the activity, the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts passed which taxed the colonist on items imported from Britain.  We used "Skittles" to simulate the money that was being taxed and I collected their money until they were down to a few Skittles.  This was meant to get the students to experience how the colonists felt when they were taxed.  At a town meeting, the students responded to the unfair taxes with anger and talked about how it was unfair .  They decided to protest by making signs and voicing their outrage when Governor Thomas Huntchinson (Loyal to Britain) visited their town hall meeting.  It was not a pretty sight... :)

Bonus Content:  "Colonial Shake"

 

Weekly Brief

• Middle school ‘Math Placement Test’ will be Friday during your child’s math block. Do not expect to hear from the district unless your child qualified for IMT 2 (7th grade math). The results will come out at the end of March.
• Field trip permission form for our Olympia field trip will be coming home tomorrow with your child. Please return it next week. We will be gone all day (Tuesday, 4/2) and your child will need a lunch. PLEASE LET ME KNOW by Friday, March 8th if you need the school to pack a lunch for your child!
• Odle and Highland registration forms are due! Please send them back ASAP with your child. The counselors will return on Tuesday of next week to collect all paperwork.
• Our ‘Human Growth and Development’ health unit will begin after Spring Break. If you want to withdraw your child from this unit, you are required by Washington state law to let myself or our school nurse, Chris Houden ([email protected]), know and you are required to view the curriculum your child will be missing (this is because of the HIV/AIDS curriculum). Please let me know if you have any questions.
• May MSP dates will be: Monday, 5/6, Monday, 5/13 and Monday, 5/20
• 5th grade graduation will be Tuesday night, June 18th at 6:30pm in the Cherry Crest multipurpose room. Please join us as we celebrate the end of a fabulous 5th grade year!

Don’t forget to Spring forward one hour this weekend! Have a great weekend everyone! Hope to see you on Saturday night at the auction!

 

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March Open Comments

Have a great March!  This months virtue is "Assertiveness".