For Jewish Studies remote learning we read a book about a girl in the holocaust who does a lot to help send her Jewish friend to Sweden I am going to answer some questions about the book.

What is the most important lesson to learn from Number the Stars?                                                                 The most important lesson to learn from Number the Stars, is that you would/should do anything for your friends. I think this, because in the book, Annemarie Johansen (the main character: a 10 year old girl who has to save her best friend, Ellen from the Nazis) helps Ellen, even though she is scared, and could get caught.

Do you think that Number the Stars has anything to teach us about the protests going on right now?      I think that it teaches us, that if we fight for what is right, then, even if it takes a while, then things can and will change. I know this because World War 2 ended, and even though it was terrible for the Jews, and many others, it ended.

If you had advice for someone reading Number the Stars next year, what would it be?                                   I would tell them to think about how brave Annemarie was and how lucky we are, to not have to be worried about Nazis.

For upper school tefilah, we had a choice of which tefilah we did for the semester. I chose to do musical tefilah. In musical tefilah, we took a part of the Amidah and make our own tune, showing some Kavana (the meaning and how you think about the prayer). We used the main part of the Amidah for our tune. I liked doing this though it was hard to do. It made me think that you don’t always have to do the original songs and tunes during Tefilah. I hope that I can try this again another time so that I can learn more.

In Social Studies, we are working on making and revising our plans for mummifying chickens. We have been working on this for a while now and we are finishing up our group/final plans. First we did research. Next we made our own plans and then our partner plans and finally our group plans. I think that if we did not do all of this that we would not be very prepared. I think that going through making all those plans helped us know other people’s ideas and helped us have a clearer idea of what to do when mummifying. I am glad that we are working with a group because otherwise I would be doing literally EVERYTHING wrong. I am really excited to start this project on Monday.

In Social Studies we are working on our plan for mummifying chickens. My plan has what materials I need and the order of how I am planning to do it. This is how it looks.

Step 1: How can you use the information you found in your research to help you during the mummification process? 

You can use it because you can find the materials and stuff from your research, for your plan. 

Step 2: Individual Plan! What is your step by step plan for mummifying the chicken? Be specific, and take your time.

When I get my group I will modify my plan.

This week in ETC, we did a challenge called The Golf Ball Challenge. We had to build a container that would catch a golf ball, dropped down from 7-ish feet. Our materials were 12 straws and 18 inches of tape. In our group, at the beginning we were a little off task. In the end we made something but it didn’t work. Today we did that challenge again so that we would get another try. We were on task the whole time. We made something that worked. It was a structure that was just some straws on the ground made into a weird looking shape. The ball dropped into the shape and stayed. We found out that if you make lots of space for the ball to drop, it will stay inside the shape/ container. If I were to do it again, I would want more straws to make the shape/container larger.

In out video we got out final answer wrong. If you watched it, you might know that. What I would do differently if we make a new video is:

I would change the improper fraction to the mixed number differently and I would want to talk more. I think that my partner talked almost the whole time and I only spoke for a minute and I did not get to say what I wanted to say.

I think that we will do another one soon.

In ETC  I think that I have grown by sometimes letting my friends lead instead of me because I like to lead but sometimes others do too. In the catapult challenge I let a friend lead instead of me because she had a good idea and was good at leading.

In Social Studies this week we worked on making our own timelines for our lives.                                                                       My timeline started with when I was born and then ended with me being in my first musical. I really liked making a timeline for my own life because it helped me learn more about timelines like how to space them and how to decide what to put in them and that pictures make them more exciting and fun for people to make and look at.                               I now have looked at others projects and made my own. I really did not know much about timelines before I did this project but now I know what other people’s look like like and how to make my own.