May 27, 2011 Day One-Hundred and Sixty-one

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

5 Vocabulary

1. Joseph Brant: Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (1743 – 24 November 1807) was a Mohawk military and political leader who was closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution He was perhaps the most well-known American Indian of his generation. He met many of the most significant people of the age, including George Washington and King George III

2. Marquis de Lafayette: often known as simply Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer born in Chavaniac, in the province of Auvergne in south central France. Lafayette was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde Nationale during the French Revolution

3. George Rogers Clark: was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Kentucky (then part of Virginia) militia throughout much of the war

4. Henry Hamilton: was an Irish-born soldier and official of the British Empire. He was captured during the American War of Independence while serving as the Lieutenant Governor at the British post of Fort Detroit

5. Baron Von Stueben: was a Russian-born military officer who served as inspector general and Major general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is credited with being one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drills, tactics, and disciplines

5 Sentences

1. During the American Revolutionary War, Brant led Mohawk and colonial Loyalists against American revolutionaries in a bitter partisan war on the New York frontier. During the war, he was accused by the Americans of committing atrocities, charges that were later shown to be false. After the war, he relocated to Canada, where he remained a prominent leader.

2. Marquis de Lafayette was a close friend of George Washington and well liked by everyone.

3. Clark proposed to Genêt that, with French financial support, he could lead an expedition to drive the Spanish out of the Mississippi Valley. Genêt appointed Clark "Major General" in the Armies of France and Commander-in-chief of the French Revolutionary Legion on the Mississippi River.

4. Henry Hamilton was nicknamed the "Hair Buyer;" he gave a bounty for each American scalp.

5. Baron Von Stueben wrote the Revolutionary War Drill Manual for the soldiers to read and practice.

5 Facts & Details

1. Betsy Ross sewed the American Flag in a different way than George Washington wanted

2. The militiamen's weapons had a range accurate to 250 to 3000 yards!

3. Often, soldiers were given orders to hold fire until you could see the British Buttons on their jacket's, or the more famous one, "whites of their eyes"

4. One Molly Pitcher named Bess Moore, carried a secret message to an American soldier

5. Bess Moore rowed a boat right past British soldiers without them suspecting a thing

5 Questions

1. Summarize the "Troubles on the Frontier" in Revolutionary War for Kids, page 72 (5 sentences please). *counts for 2*
   

   George Rogers Clark vowed to bring an end to Indian Raids and the British presence in the northwest. Hair Buyer Hamilton traveled with hundreds of redcoats and Indian warriors to stop George Rogers Clark from taking away the Indians rightful land. Hamilton recaptured Vincennes, where Clark was, but decided to wait until spring until he would attack Clark at Kaskaskia. Then Clark went back to Vincennes to fight again. This time Clark won, but George Washington sent John Sullivan to stop the Indian raids and guide Clark back safely.
   

 

3. What was Henry Hamilton's nickname and why? A: Hair Buyer, because he gave a bounty for every American Scalp.

4. What is a "Brown Bess" (be specific)? A: A 4 ½ foot, smoothbore musket that fired ¾ inch balls.

5. Why was the Continental Army's nickname "Homespun"? A: women worked in the Homespun Movement. Instead of wearing or purchasing clothing made of imported British materials

5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill 24: Equivalent Fractions and Decimals

1. 3.2 = 3 2/10

2. .04 = 4/10

3. 5.89 = 5 89/100

4. 64.8 = 64 8/10

5. .005 = 5/100

Ben Franklin Mad Lib—for Almanac

 

Ben _______________ invented the _____________ of the _________________ ______________.

    Noun                noun            adjective        noun

This ____________ was made with a ___________ rod and a _____________ _______________ down

    Noun                noun            noun        verb-ing

it. This ____________ takes place in a _________________ ______________ storm. Ben was an

    noun                adverb            adjective

_____________ _______________ member of the ______________ Congress. He _____________ of

Adjective        noun                noun                verb-ed

Independence. He _______________ on _____________ day, a ______________ holiday in _________.

            Verb-ed         noun            adjective            noun

He was in _______________ for a fraction of the ________________ War. Ben was ______________ to

        Noun                    adjective            verb-ing

get a ___________ treaty from the King of ______________ and didn't get it until ______________.

    Adjective                noun                    noun

So that means he stayed in ________________ for ______________ years. Ben ______________ was a

                Noun            number            noun

_______________ person.

Adjective

Chemistry Chapter Report for Amazing Kitchen Chemistry Projects You Can Build Yourself

by Cynthia Light Brown

Chapter Name: Liquids

1. List any glossary words and definitions.
   

   Pascal's principle: when a liquid or gas is pushed by a force, it transmits the force to all parts of the fluid
   

   Density: the amount of matter in a given space or mass divided by volume
   

Volume: the amount of space occupied by something

Displace: to move or take the place of

Mass: the amount of matter or "stuff" in something is very close to its weight

 

1. List 5 facts/details you learned from the chapter.
   
   1. When a liquid is pushed on by a force, the pressure from that force is the same throughout the liquid. This law is called Pascal's Principle, and it also applies to gases
      
   2. Eureka, means I've found it!
      

      
       

   3. "blood is thicker than water" means that family is important but its true because blood is a thicker substance than water
      

   
    

   1. Liquids change color when you mix different substances in the liquid: learned during experiment
      

   
    

   1. Oil is less dense than water and floats on top
      

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

   1. Summarize the chapter in at least 5 sentences.
      

   
    

This chapter is all about liquids and teaches about the density of the solids and floating and more! Ben Franklin experimented with oil and found out that it is less dense than water. Pascal experimented with liquids and found out that the force in a liquid or gas transmits the force into all parts of the liquid. There are four different experiments about liquids in this chapter. But we did the root beer experiment which I will write about later.

 

 

 

 

1. What did you learn?
   

 

I learned more about Ben Franklin and Pascal and Archimedes. They were all inventor's that discovered something about liquids. I also learned about the density and how it has to do with liquids. As we all know the heavier and more dense an object is it floats to the bottom and I learned why.

 

 

 

 

1. Summarize the lab or project for chapter and make any notes for preparation and list the materials needed.
   

NA

 

 

May 26, 2011 Day One-Hundred and Sixty

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

John Adams

5 Vocabulary

1. John Adams: A delegate of the Continental Congress from Massachusetts, later becoming the second president of the United States

2. lawyer: a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law  or to ad vise or act for clients in other legal matters

3. ambassador: a diplomatic official of the highest rank sent by a government to represent it on a temporary mission, as for negotiating a treaty.

4. separation of power: a part of the constitution featured in the 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd article; which separates each branch of government from full power

5. Federalist: the principle or a system of federal union, of the Federalist Party

5 Sentences

1. John Adams was a person who spoke his mind.

2. John was a well respected lawyer, that's one of the reasons he got elected as president.

3. Benjamin Franklin was sent to Paris as an ambassador.

4. The Separation of Power was John Adam's idea.

5. John Adams, along with James Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton wrote a series of essays in support of the Federalist Party, which are now called The Federalist Paper.

5 Facts & Details

1. John Quincy Adams was John Adams son.

2. John Adams and Benjamin Franklin were good friends.

3. All John cared about was Independence.

4. Sam Adams was John's cousin; he also signed the Declaration of Independence.

5. John Adams was a lawyer for the British at the beginning of the war.

5 Questions

1. Which state was John Adams a delegate from? A: Massachusetts

2. Who did Adams nominate for Commander in Chief? A: George Washington

3. What other Revolutionary hero was John Adam's second cousin? A: Sam Adams

4. Who was his son and what did he do to be remembered in history? A: John Quincy Adams, he was the 5^th president of the United States

*Bonus: Who was his wife and what did she do to be remembered in history? A: Abigail Adams, sent John letters saying where British troops were

5. What were the Alien and Sedition Acts? A: The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. They were signed into law by President John Adams

5 Math from Fraction Stories Ratios cont.

1. In simplest form, *from word problem: 3 to 2

2. 1:2

3. 3/4

4. 20

5. 80,000

Chemistry Lab Report for Amazing Kitchen Chemistry

Date:

Chapter Name: Solar Prints

Lab or Project Name:

Materials Needed:

Flat leaves or petals from outside

Solar papers

A pan with water

A paper frame: provided with solar papers in kit

 

 

Preparation Notes for Lab:

You need a sunny warm spot

and a dark cool spot

We did this lab in the garage and our brick path, on a sunny day.

 

 

 

 

Step or Stage 1: What did you do? What do you notice?

Arrange flowers and leaves in dark spot on another piece of paper* Do not arrange on frame

 

 

Step or Stage 2: What did you do? What do you notice?

Take solar paper out an arrange same design on it. Set timer for three minutes or so

 

 

 

Step or Stage 3: What did you do? What do you notice?

Take out in sun and begin timer for 3 minutes. Leave until paper gets almost white. The print of the leaves is pressed on the paper. A temperature chemical reaction has happened. When we moved paper in to sun the change in temperature left prints on paper

 

 

Step or Stage 4: What did you do? What do you notice?

When paper is almost white rinse in pan of water and leave out to dry

 

 

 

Step or Stage 5: What did you do? What do you notice?

The paper is blue! After drying the papers they turned blue and we used them in a card for Emma!

 

 

 

Copy and Paste any pictures or illustrations of Lab.

 

 

May 25, 2011 Day One-Hundred and fifty-nine

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

Thomas Jefferson

5 Vocabulary

1. Thomas Jefferson: Thomas, 1743–1826, U.S. statesman, diplomat, architect, and author

2. polymath: a person of great learning in several fields of study

3. preamble: an introductory statement

4. Republic: a form of government in which the people or their elected representatives possess the supreme power

5. judicious: having or proceeding from good judgment  

5 Sentences

1. Thomas Jefferson became the third president of the United States.

2. Jefferson was a polymath who spoke five languages and could read two others.

3. Thomas did not write the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.

4. The Second Continental Congress was a republic government.

5. John Adams was very judicious.

5 Facts & Details

1. A lead statue of King George that stood in New York was torn down by the Sons of Liberty.

2. Melted down, it provided 4,000 pounds of lead, enough to make 42,228 musket balls for the Continental troops.

3. John Paul Johns named his ship "The Bonhomme Richard" after Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac.

4. Most of the Oneida tribe of Native Americans fought with the Continental Army.

5. Slaves that fought with the British were forced back in to slavery after Yorktown.

5 Questions

1. When and where was Thomas Jefferson born and what did his family do? A: 1743, planter, and Virginia

2. Which number President was Jefferson? A: the 3^rd

*Bonus: who succeeded him in the office? A: James Madison

3. Where did Jefferson spend the years following the Revolution and what was he doing there? A: He went back home and became the governor of Virginia

4. What is the name of Jefferson's Virginian home? A: Monticello

5. What other later significant event did Jefferson broker for America? A: The Louisiana Purchase

5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill 23 cont.

1. Write ratio in colon and simplest form: 2: 1

2. Write ratio in your choice and simplest form: 4: 3

3. from word problem A: 3 to 2

4. 1:2

5. 3/4

Revolution & Ben Franklin Quiz

 

Quiz:

1. Who created the idea of electricity?
   

   A. John Adams
   

   B. George Washington
   

   C. Benjamin Franklin
   

   D. Albert Einstein
   

   A: C
   

   
    

2. Who wrote Poor Richards Almanack in 1739?
   

   A. Benjamin Franklin
   

   B. Richard Henry Lee
   

   C. Thomas Jefferson
   

   D. George Washington
   

   A: A
   

   
    

3. Who was the oldest member of the Second Continental Congress?
   

   A: Caesar Rodney
   B: Steven Hopkins
   C: Roger Sherman
   D: Benjamin Franklin
   A: D
   

   
    

4. Two of the following men were elected for delegates of the Congress from Pennsylvania, who are they?
   

   A: John Dickinson
   B: Caesar Rodney
   C: Edward Buldbridge
   D: Benjamin Franklin
   A: A and D
   

   
    

5. What is a glass harmonica like?
   

   A: A glass violin
   B: A glass piano
   C: A glass harmonica
   D: none of the above
   A: B a glass piano
   

   
    

6. Which of the following men from Pennsylvania did not fight in the army?
   

   A: John Dickinson
   B: Ben Franklin
   C: Alexander Hamilton
   D: Dunlap Broadside
   A: B and D
   

   
    

7. Which country did Ben Franklin go to for half of the Revolution?
   

   A: England
   B: Italy
   C: France
   D: Spain
   A: C France
   

   
    

8. What religion did Ben Franklin practice?
   

   
    

   A: Church of England
   B: Puritan
   C: Israelite
   D: Quaker
   

   A: D
   

   
    

9. Which of these famous revolution quotes is Ben Franklin's?
   

   A: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately"
   B: "Give me liberty, or give me death"
   C: "I only regret, that I have but one life to lose for my country"
   D: "Don't tread on me"
   A: A
   

   
    

10. Who succeeded Ben Franklin as ambassador to France?
    

    A: John Hancock
    B: George Washington and James Madison
    C: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
    D: Roger Sherman
    A: C
    

 

 

 

4 Rebus Poems

George he

 

Yancame

riding on in his and it

 

 

 

 

4 Helpful Natural Cleaning Hints

 

Use white vinegar diluted in water to clean and remove strong farm odors like manure and pigs.

 

Fresh lemon juice is great for cleaning up after greasy messes in the kitchen.

 

Baking Soda paste can be used as toothpaste- add fresh mint from garden for fresh breath!

 

Elbow grease is the best cleaning tool for any farm job!

 

May 24, 2011 Day One-Hundred and Fifty-eight

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

Declaration of Independence

5 Vocabulary

1. Declaration of Independence: the public act by which the Second Continental Congress, on July 4, 1776, declared the Colonies to be free and independent of England

2. Democracy: Government by the people or their elected representatives

3. unalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the unalienable rights in the declaration of independence; A variant of inalienable not able to be transferred to another

4. broadside: The first published copies of the Declaration of Independence; A newspaper printed on a large piece of paper, like a poster

5. ratified: to confirm by expressing consent * or, what's an easier word? A: Agree

5 Sentences

1. Jefferson was picked to write the Declaration of Independence because he was a Virginian, a southerner.

2. Democracy means that the delegates or representatives came to the congress to speak for the people, not themselves.

3. Pennsylvania did not agree with the Declaration of Independence, but they did agree with the unalienable rights.

4. Dunlap Broadside was the man who published the Declaration of Independence.

5. Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence; But Jefferson did not like the changes.

*Bonus: Find copy & paste the text of the Declaration of Independence here: AND READ IT!

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Source: The Pennsylvania Packet, July 8, 1776

 

5 Facts & Details

1. The five men that were on the committee of the DOI were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman.

2. They were from Virginia, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York.

3. Jefferson was upset that slavery was edited out of the Declaration. *what about slavery? A: He said it should be stopped and embolished in all states, that's weird because he is a southerner

4. The main purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to announce the colonies' separation from England

5. The words "United States" cannot be found in the Declaration of Independence

5 Questions

1. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? A: Thomas Jefferson

2. Who were the "Committee of Five"? A: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman

3. Who wrote a controversial preamble in May of 1776? A: John Adams

4. How much of Jefferson's original draft was changed or altered by the Congress? A: The paragraph of slavery, and 400 words

*Bonus: which removed clause bothered Thomas Jefferson the most? A: the slavery one

*Bonus, bonus: why is that kinda ironic? A: Because he was a slave owner himself and a southerner!

5. What are the three unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence? A: Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

 

Extra 5 x 5

The Declaratory Acts

1. What are they? A: A declaration saying the repeal of the Stamp Act
   

1. When were they passed? A: 1766
   
2. How did the Colonists react? A: The declaration of Independence, The Boston tea Party
   
3. Find one quote about the Declaratory Acts and copy & paste here: A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully, and will share the inheritance as one of the family
   
4. Who are two key people related to the Declaratory Acts? A: Sam Adams and James Otis
   

5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill 23 Ratios

1. Write the ratio of 3 to 9 three different ways: 3 to 9, 3:9, 3/9

2. Write the ratio in its simplest form: 1/3

3. Write the ratio 9 to 3 in simplest form: 3 to 1

4. Write ratio in word form in simplest form: four to one

5. Write ratio as fraction in simplest form: 2/3

Declaration of Independence WebQuest        May 24, 2011

 

1. Follow this link to hear the Declaration of Independence read by some great actors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETroXvRFoKY&NR=1 

A. How do you feel? List 10 feeling words

Strong, Bold, Brave, Independent, Free, equal, ready to fight, unafraid, revolutionary, good

 

2. Follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7MI8NQLoo&feature=fvwrel

 
 

3. Follow this link:

http://www.congressforkids.net/Independence_declaration_1.htm

 
 

A. Read each section and click "Learn More" through "Articles of Confederation"

B. Use this site for your 5 x 5 Facts & Details

 
 

4. After finishing your 5 x 5 and this webquest, follow this link and test your knowledge: http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz824349725f8.html

 

Sophie's Blog: Write about the Broadway musical 1776!

Sophie's Blog: Hi everybody, today I watched 1776. This musical starred my relative, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. Here is blog about it: John Adams was at the top tower of the Continental Congress thinking about his beloved Abigail when his friend told him to come down. John didn't want to, he wanted independence so he screamed at the top of his lungs, so loud that Ben Franklin's cup broke, "We need a new country, A free country, one that is independent from the crown." The congress votes and John makes Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration. His loving wife comes over to Pennsylvania to see Thomas and tells John and Ben that she loves him because he can play the violin! She inspires Tom to write and the congress votes on yay's and nay's. Finally all states say yay and the Declaration of Independence is out!

Chemistry Chapter Report for Amazing Kitchen Chemistry Projects You Can Build Yourself

by Cynthia Light Brown

Chapter Name: Solids

1. List any glossary words and definitions.
   

   
    

   NA
   

   
    

   
    

2. List 5 facts/details you learned from the chapter.
   

   1. Quartz, Diamond, Sand Salt, and metal are crystalline solids
   

   2. If you leave a candle on something hot or in the sun, it will melt in to one big solid.
   

   3. Most plastics, tires, wood, fabric, and paper are solids that are both crystalline and amorphous
   

   4. Window Glass, raw rubber, volcanic glass, wax and fulgurites are amorphous solids.
   

   5. There was once a hotel made entirely of salt, but it got washed away and put more salt in to the ocean!
   

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

3. Summarize the chapter in at least 5 sentences.
   

   
    

   This chapter tells about solids and how it relates to what I'm learning in chemistry. There are two kinds of solids, crystalline, and amorphous. Crystalline solids are usually harder than amorphous solids. But they are both solids all the same. This chapter leads up to a chemistry project that makes a crystalline solid.
   

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

4. What did you learn?
   

   
    

   I learned that both amorphous and crystallines can be mixed together but they are still working on a name for that. I learned that Benjamin Franklin was working with solids as an inventor, and I learned what solids are.
   

 

May 23, 2011 Day One-hundred and fifty-seven

Sophie's LONG Blog: PBS series "Liberty Kids"

Hi everyone! I just finished watching all of Liberty Kids. I fell in love with this PBS series from the minute I started watching it. The first episode was the Boston Tea Party and it traveled along the exciting, dreadful, and amazing road to freedom. All 40 episodes were inspiring, educational, and fun to watch. I learned about people and heroes of the Revolution mom didn't even know about. Like Phillis Wheatley, the slave poet, Sybil Ludington, the "Girl Paul Revere", James Armistead, the black spy that helped us win, and The Father of our country, The one and only George Washington. I learned a lot from George Washington and idolized him throughout the series. His inspiring speeches, the great plans, and how he wouldn't be king. Now here is the story line of Liberty Kids: James Hiller, an amazing journalist who becomes great friends with some of the heroes of the revolution, Sarah Phillips, also a journalist who becomes an American, Henri LaFare a little French boy always craving for food. Moses, a former slave given freedom by Dr. Benjamin Franklin and takes care of James, Sarah, and Henri especially, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, takes care of the kids and travels to France through half of the series, George Washington, General and commander of the Continental Army the one I idolized through the series, the father of our country, Benedict Arnold, Sarah's idol general, traitor to America by joining the redcoats. They are all friends who journey through the revolution together getting every detail on their piece of paper for the Pennsylvania gazette. Cool huh, makes you want to watch it huh? Here's a cool site I just found where I can do "All things Liberty Kids!" woohoo! http://www.libertyskids.com/fungames.html .
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1. Almanac HW: Write a short explanation of sustainable family farm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable living
   

   
    

   Sustainable Living is a way of living green by using less electronics. On a farm it means to re-use products such as horse or cow manure to put in the compost or feed to the chickens to make fertilizer. Sustainable living moves around in a circle, like the circle of live. (But in this case, the circle of manure!) After you feed it to the chickens it becomes fertilizer as I explained before. The fertilizer becomes veggies that we eat, and leftovers that we eat goes to the pigs or horses making a circle.
   

 

Math: 1 page Guinness, 1 page Sylvan

Phyllis Wheatley and Slavery during American Revolution Webquest

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0fKdJzps3I&feature=related
   

   A: List 5 facts/details you learned:
   

   1. Phyllis had interest in being a Christian.
   

   2. When she was released from slavery her life was worse.
   

   3. Phyllis wrote poems about slavery.
   

   4. Phyllis was a Family Slave.
   

   5. Phyllis got brought here on the ship, "The Phyllis" that's how she got her name.
   

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPWQqMl9cEA
   

   A: Summarize the video: This video was nice and I learned a lot. It told how Phyllis' life went and how she was treated as a slave. She wrote poems about religion, war, birth, and death, and she was the first African American to publish a book, and the first to be set free by her writing. She inspired other colored people to write poetry.
   

   B: Find three images of Phyllis Wheatley and cope & paste here:
   

   
   

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsNTnd6ATuw&feature=related
   

   A: Describe the video: it was a video of a girl who read the poem, "On Virtue" by Phyllis Wheatley
   

   B: Find the poem by Phyllis Wheatley and copy & paste here:
   

O Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive
To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare
Wisdom is higher than a fool can reach.
I cease to wonder, and no more attempt
Thine height t' explore, or fathom thy profound.
But, O my soul, sink not into despair,
Virtue is near thee, and with gentle hand
Would now embrace thee, hovers o'er thine head.
Fain would the heav'n-born soul with her converse,
Then seek, then court her for her promis'd bliss.
Auspicious queen, thine heav'nly pinions spread,
And lead celestial Chastity along;
Lo! now her sacred retinue descends,
Array'd in glory from the orbs above.
Attend me, Virtue, thro' my youthful years!
O leave me not to the false joys of time!
But guide my steps to endless life and bliss.
Greatness, or Goodness, say what I shall call thee,
To give me an higher appellation still,
Teach me a better strain, a nobler lay,
O thou, enthron'd with Cherubs in the realms of day.

 

1. Question: How did Phyllis Wheatley meet George Washington?
   

   Answer: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_George_Washington_meet_phillis_wheatley
   

   A: Summarize the answer here:
   

She was a strong supporter of Independence; therefore, it would only make sense that she would meet George Washington. In fact, he invited her to meet him. After the meeting she wrote him a poem entitled... "To His Excellency General Washington."

 

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_George_Washington_meet_phillis_wheatley#ixzz1NBnRRbMV

 

 

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc1RbUxQv4E&feature=related
   

   A: What did you learn from this video? Summarize in a 5 sentence paragraph: I learned that salve Mothers and daughters were usually kept together and the Father and son were usually sold to other plantations. The well established plantations had a better chance of keeping Slave Families together. White men who supported slavery were called Abolitionists and they were usually in the North.
   

   
    

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlLzeCQ_ZdM&feature=related
   

   A: What did you think about this video? It is very nice and I love the way that it teaches you in a rhyming and sad way
   

B: Can you find the written poem on-line and copy & paste here: LISTEN, little children, all, Listen to our earnest call: You are very young, 'tis true, But there's much that you can do. Even you can plead with men That they buy not slaves again, And that those they have may be Quickly set at liberty.[

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May 20 & 21, 2011 Days One Hundred and Fifty-six and seven—Colonial American sites field trips

 

Sophie's Blog: Plymouth Plantation

It was cold. On May 16^th, we decided to go to Plymouth. There was a big storm and it looked like it was never going to stop. All through out the week were spending in Cape Cod, there is supposed to be RAIN. Nothing but rain. I really wanted to go to Plymouth so we went. We got there and it was drizzling down. But we still did it. We went inside and looked at the "Mooflower" a real life sized cow with pantaloons and a pilgrim hat with a gigantic ship for its stomach! We took a picture then moved on. It is part 2 for my video on Colonial America. Though I learned about this 4 months ago, we still haven't finished it. (That's only because I learned about this during the winter and none of these places opened until the spring but still.) We first went to the 17^th century and filmed my introduction to Plymouth Plantation… " Hello again, We are in Plymouth Plantation talking about family life. We will be visiting 4 places and taking about different topics in each one. At the fort, school and church, at a house, we will discuss family and home, In a garden, the topic is food and customs, and finally at the Wampanoag village, clothing and crafts. Family Life in colonial America was hard because the colonists were used to the cities of England and Europe, not the open wide spaces of the New World." That was my introduction speech. Then we went to visit all the pilgrims in their houses… ( we even met Pricilla Alden!) Then we went to the Wampanoag village and filmed there. Then we went to the play area where me and Lily were REAL pilgrims for an hour. Sarah, Marie, and James Abanathy. We had a whole story too: James' Father came over on the Mayflower and we were his descendants. Abanathy was his name, that's how we got our name. I was Marie and Sarah was my daughter. We were friends with the Indians and Massasoit, the Indian chief. Dad was James, my husband, Grandpa DC was Hobbamock and Grandma Gayle was Mrs. Hobbamock as we English called her. Sarah helped me in the garden and the kitchen. We had real pilgrim dress up clothes, they were very pretty. James' was a fishermen and Sarah and her brother Paul went fishing with him. We had real food and, well mom took a video so I won't tell you the rest! That's what we did at Plymouth, I hope you enjoy my video… BYE!

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May 19, 2011 Day One-Hundred and fifty-five

 

 

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

Deborah Sampson

5 Vocabulary

1. Disguise: to modify the appearance or manner in order to conceal the identity

2. Honorable discharge: a discharge from military service of a person who has fulfilled obligations efficiently

3. Independence: freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others

4. Pupil: a student who is taught by a teacher

5. Brave: having or displaying courage

5 Sentences

1. Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man to fight in the Continental Army.

2. Deborah Sampson received an honorable discharge after she fought in the Army.

3. Along with many other woman, white and black, all Deborah wanted was independence.

4. Deborah Sampson grew up not being a pupil.

5. Deborah showed Washington how brave she was while fighting in the army, and after she was discovered Washington thanked her himself.

5 Facts & Details

1. Deborah first tried to enlist as a soldier in her hometown as Timothy Blake but was discovered by the enlister because of her handwriting

2. Then Deborah traveled to Maryland and got enlisted as Robert Shurtleff.

3. Deborah taught herself how to read and write and eventually became a school teacher.

4. Deborah Sampson got put in the hospital that Ben Franklin founded.

5. The other soldiers called Deborah "blooming boy" as a nickname.

5 Questions

1. What did Deborah most wish she could do like the boys when she was a little girl? A: read, write, and go to school

2. Why was Deborah able to become a teacher once the war started? A: She taught herself

3. What name did Deborah give herself in disguise? A: Robert Shurtleff

4. What did the fortune teller say to Deborah when she visited him before enlisting in the army? A: "I see you are an honest man, I see in your future many adventures yes, but not all successful"

5. What were the soldiers who enlisted for a term of 3 years called? A: Continental Soldiers, or regulars

5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill 22 Multiplying Probabilities *Word problem, just going to provide answers, which are correct

1. 3/7

2. 1/14

3. 1 7/8

4. 20

5. 1/15

Almanac Homework

1. After Reading the following article: http://energyis.ipower.com/gardeningbythemoon.pdf
   

Write a poem about the full moon and gardening:

After all zodiac signs are passed,

On May 28^th, start tilling the grass,

Fore planting season has begun,

So follow my steps one by one,

Plant by the moon and you shall see,

There is a reaction and it will be,

After the moon has passed all signs,

"No more cold nights" at least at this time,

Here are the quarter's from my sleeping quarter,

Plant by the moon put the quarters in order,

First quarter moons are for are for plants with seeds,

But please hold off, on plants with special needs,

They come now with the second quarter moon,

Fore plants with pods and skins you should plant around say, noon,

The third quarter moon is best for root crops,

Or plants such as carrots that only stick out their tops,

Thank you for listening to "How to plant by the moon"

It will bring you education fore the 28^th is coming soon

 

 

 

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May 18, 2011 Day One-Hundred and fifty-four

 

 

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

"Johnny has gone for a solider"

5 Vocabulary

1. Drill (military): training in formal marching or other precise military or naval movements

2. bounty: A premium or reward

3. civilian: A person who is not on active duty with a military

4. contradiction: Direct opposition between things compared: inconsistency

5. discipline: training to act in accordance with rules

5 Sentences

1. People who wanted to join the Continental Army had to perform military drills.

2. George Washington did not want a bounty for being the General.

3. People who were not in the army were called civilians.

4. George Washington and King George the third were contradictories.

5. At the last part of the war, Washington needed discipline from the soldiers.

5 Facts & Details

1. Crispus Attucks was the first men to die in the Revolution

2. Crispus was an enlisted slave

3. The hessians fought so fiercely in the revolution because they were tricked by King George and said the Americans would make them slaves if they didn't fight

4. 12 year old boys were sometimes sent to bang the drum for the army.

5. Native Americans fought on both sides

5 Questions

1. What was a typical term of enlistment? A: a time period

2. Why did General Washington ask the Continental Congress for longer enlistment terms for the army? A: Because the war seemed to last much longer than planned and George needed to teach his men discipline

3. What was the greatest number of soldiers Washington commanded at one time? A: 17,000 men

4. Approximately how many black soldiers fought in the American army? A: approximately 5,000

5. What were black slaves promised if they enlisted? A: freedom of slavery

*Bonus question: "What did Abigail Adams write about the contradiction of slavery and the Revolutionary fight for freedom? A: I wish most sincerely, there was not a slave in the province; it always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have."

5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill Review Quiz 3

1. Find ¼ of 36: 9

2. How much was Vicki paid? (2/5 of 40 million): 16 million

3. Find the product of 3/11 x 2/7: 6/77

4. How big a block did the cheese slicer cut? (7/8 of 16/21 ton): 2/5 tons

5. Find the quotient of 2/3 divided by ¾: 8/9

 

 

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May 17, 2011 Day One-Hundred and Fifty-three

 

 

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

"Molly Pitcher"

5 Vocabulary

1. legend: A nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical

2. cannon: A mounted gun for firing heavy projectiles

3. recruiter: to enlist for service in one of the armed forces

4. sacrifice: the offering of animal, plant or human life for another animal, plant, or human safety

5. courage: The quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty or danger

5 Sentences

1. The story of Molly Pitcher was a legend, it was actually made up by several different women.

2. "Molly took the cannon bravely when her husband got wounded and could not fight."

3. Molly did not recruit to fight in the army, she fought in the army because she was brave.

4. Molly sacrificed her simple life for her country, and for herself.

5. All of the Molly's had the same courage as men.

5 Facts & Details

1. The most famous "Molly" was Mary Ludwig.

2. The name "Molly Pitcher" was probably started when a soldier said, "Molly, Pitcher!"

3. Molly was a nickname for Mary.

4. Molly Pitcher believed that she can be who she wants to be, not who she was told to be.

5. Molly's husband came down with heart stroke during the battle

5 Questions

1. Explain who Molly Pitcher was and wasn't? A: Lots of brave women whose stories came in to one

2. When and where was the Battle of Monmouth fought? A: New Jersey, 1778

3. What did women do for their husbands in the army? A: bring them water when they were fighting

4. What did Molly's "pitchers" do during the battles? A: give them water also cooled the cannons between firing

5. What was Molly a nickname for? A: Mary

5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill 21 cont.

1. 7/8 divided by 1 ¾ = 1/2

2. 8 1/6 x 3 3/7 = 28

3. 5 5/9 divided by 1 7/18 = 4

4. 1 1/39 divided by 1 2/13 = 8/9

5. 1 11/25 x 1 13/27 = 2 2/15

Math: 1 page Guinness, 1 page Sylvan

 

 

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May 16, Day One-Hundred and Fifty-two

 

 

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

Sybil Luddington and Mercy Otis Warren

5 Vocabulary

1. Sybil Luddington: daughter of Colonel Henry Luddington, warned New York militia of British attack all by herself

2. cause & effect: Noting relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result if the other or others

3. muster: To assemble troops as for battle, display, inspection, orders or discharge

4. Mercy Otis Warren: A women of the 17^th century, wrote plays and poetry about the events of the Revolution

5. correspond: To be in agreement or conformity; to write letters between two people sharing ideas

5 Sentences

1. Sybil Luddington was only sixteen years old when she rode to history.

2. Sybil Luddington's cause was to gather militia to help out her father, the effect made her an important hero of the American Revolution.

3. Sybil Luddington mustered all the militia in New York and sent them to Danbury Connecticut to fight the British.

4. Mercy Otis Warren was the first American woman playwright.

5. Mercy Otis Warren later corresponded with famous American leaders such as Samuel Adams and George Washington.

5 Facts & Details

1. The people of Sybil's town thanked her for her courage by renaming the town Luddingtonville.

2. George Washington himself thanked Sybil for her courage and bravery.

3. Sybil Luddington was a lot like Paul Revere, but like Billy Dawes, doesn't have as much popularity.

4. Mercy Otis Warren taught her self to read and write.

5. Each year, people follow Sybil's route to remember her courage.

5 Questions

1. How old was Sybil when she rode to muster the troops? A: 16

2. What name is Sybil referred to now? A: "Girl Paul Revere"

3. How many men gathered for Sybil's muster? A: over 400 men

4. How did Sybil's hometown honor her heroism? A: by renaming the town Luddingtonville

5. What was Mercy Otis Warren the first American woman to do? A: write a play

5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill 21 cont.

1. 3 2/3 x 3/22 = ½

2. 5/6 divided by 10 = 1/12

3. 12 x 2 2/3= 32

4. 16 divided by 2 2/5= 6 2/3

5. 4 ¾ divided by 1 ¼ = 3 4/5

Math: Guinness 1 page, Sylvan 1 page

Reading Journal Entry

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Chapter Title or pages read:

1. What happened in the chapter?
   

   Johnny decided to go to Merchant Lyte and ask if he can stay there.
   

   
    

   
    

2. Were there any words you didn't understand? What were they and how did you learn the definition?
   

   
    

   
    

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3. How did the chapter make you feel?
   

   
    

   This chapter made me feel depressed when Isannah started to scream… "Don't ougt me with that dreaded hand."
   

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

4. Was there anything in the chapter that relates to what you're learning elsewhere in the unit?
   

   
    

   
    

   Every one is starting to get mad about paying taxes to King George
   

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

5. What do you think will happen next?
   

 

I think Master Lyte will take Johnny and he will experience the Boston tea party

 

Day 151

5 x 5 for 5th Grade
Valley Forge
5 Vocabulary
1. Articles of Confederation: An article written by John Dickinson that proposed a strong central government using all the 13 states together in one confederation
2. ratified: to confirm by expressing consent, approval , or formal sanction
3. rations: a fixed allowance of provisions or food
4. frostbite: injury to any part of the body after excessive exposure to extreme cold
5. desertion (military): An act of deserting or the state of being deserted
5 Sentences
1. The Articles of Confederation influences the writers of the Constitution.
2. George the Third ratified to the French and Ben Franklin that he was ready to fight for another 10 years, so Ben answered and said America was ready to fight for 50 years in order to get a free country.
3. One of the reasons George Washington's troops had to stay in Valley Forge is because he was waiting for rations from General Greene.
4. Lots of the men experienced frostbite during this winter, the southerners were not used to it at all because the south is so warm.
5. Lots of hessian soldiers deserted the British during this winter.
5 Facts & Details
1. John Dickinson originally opposed the Revolution and refused to sign the revolution.
2. Dickinson was one of only two delegates who fought.
3. Rebus poems was a kind of game that kids entertained themselves with at the time of 1776.
4. Most people didn't trust Baron Von Stueben at Valley Forge.
5. 25-50 men is called a company in military language.
5 Questions
1. What document did John Dickerson draft in November 1777 before leaving for the war himself? A: The Articles of Confederation
2. Where is Valley Forge? A: Pennsylvania not far from Philadelphia
3. What were some the conditions the men were living with during the winter (List at least 4 examples)? A: They had no food, they had no supplies, no ammunition, and it was cold
4. What are "fire cakes"? A: Hard biscuits cooked on hot rock
5. How many Americans died during the winter at Valley Forge? A: 2,000
5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill 21 Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
1. 2/3 x ¾ = 1/2
2. 2/3 divided by 2/5 = 1 2/3
3. ¾ x 8/9 = 2/3
4. 3/5 x 2 ½ = 1 ½
5. 6 2/3 divided by 1 1/9 = 6
Math: Guinness 1 page, Sylvan 1 page
Sophie's Blog: Write about the Colonial Open competition.
HI everyone its Sophie! We are in Cape Cod on our first day of school. On Friday, though it counted as a school day I went to a skating competition in Boxborough, Massachusetts. We left around nine, and got there around noon. I did some math and reading in the car. We got there, then grandpa got there, and then Linda got there and we were still an hour early. We watched, and shopped and I got my skates on and I was in the next group and… I got nervous. After my last competition failure, I got nervous. I have never gotten nervous for a competition before, however I have never lost one until after Worchester. They called my name, I looked at Linda… THEY FINALLY SAID IT RIGHT! That might be my good luck charm because after I hit my first move… I was doing it. I was having a great time and though I fell on some jumps, I felt good about my skate. I was happy and smiling which was good. We watched my video, looked at my pictures and then. Out came the dreaded "SCORE SHEET." The one piece of paper that ripped my spirit last competition. There were 11 people in my group and I was not confident I would come in last neither in first. I decided to look after all the tears and happiness of all the other girls in my group looked. I wanted to have a comeback since my last competition, and I think I did. Now you are probably getting bored and thinking to yourself, When is she going to tell us what she got! Well here it goes, out of 11 girls, I got 7^th ! I did it, I made my comeback, I am now confident again and in the next competition, ready to show those judges what I'm made of! – Sophie Calderwood

"My Ben Opinion"

 

"He that rises late must trot all day"

 

This famous Benjamin Franklin quote has lots of differences, but here is my opinion on the meaning.

 

I think this quote means lots of different meanings, but I think the most popular definition is that you shouldn't sleep in or else you will have to work all day. If you want to fight for independence you need to wake up your mind and do it. If you're tired and want to sleep, sure just be aware about the work you will have to make up for. Those who didn't want to fight for Liberty and freedom and just stay at home and sleep, sooner or later those will have to trot all day and fight. He will have to fight longer than he who rises early. So do not sleep in!

 

May 12, 2011 Day One-hundred and fifty!!

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

Saratoga

5 Vocabulary

1. fortifications: the act of fortifying or strengthening

2. rank (military): to leave an assigned position in military formation

3. surrender: the act of surrendering or being surrendered to bail

4. detachment (military): the separation from a small unit from its main body

5. Saratoga (where is it & what does the word translate as): New York, A species of large fish in the Australian Rivers

5 Sentences

1. The British built fortifications on Bemis heights.

2. Benedict Arnold lost his rank in the Continental Army.

3. General Burgoyne surrendered his troops at Saratoga.

4. General Burgoyne's troops were a detachment from the main British Army.

5. There is a Saratoga Springs in California, and it is also a resort at Disney world.

5 Facts & Details

1. Benedict Arnold helped win Saratoga.

2. It was too bad Arnold betrayed his fellow Americans to the British later.

3. Lafayette colonized Louisiana, that's why it is very French.

4. In all other countries the revolution is known as the War of Independence.

5. Rebus was a game that children used to play.

5 Questions

1. How did Daniel Morgan communicate with his fellow riflemen hiding in the woods? A: turkey calls

2. Which two men were fighting in the American camp while the armies waited and rested? A: Arnold and Gates

3. How did Benedict Arnold respond at the start of the battle? A: he stayed in his tent

4. What song played during the victorious battle and subsequent surrender in Saratoga? A: Yankee Doodle

5. What happened with Ben Franklin in France after Burgoyne's surrender in Saratoga? A: He was finally granted an audience with King Louis

5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill 20 cont.

1. Cooking for a week shrinks a 3 ¾ pound ham to 1/10 its original size. How many pounds is this? A: 3/8

2. To dry out the ham faster, Mr. Pierre likes to divide the ham into 3/4 pound pieces before cooking. How many pieces can he make from a 3 ¾ pound ham? A: 5

3. Say Mr. Pierre cuts a 3 3/8 pound ham into 1 1/8 pieces. How many pieces does he have? A: 3

4. How many total ounces of ingredients does the recipe call for? 2 11/12

5. If the desert is divided evenly into 5 portions, how many ounces will each portion weigh? A: 7/12

* Suppose you divided the desert into portions that weigh 5/12 ounces each. How many portions would you have? A: 7

* Suppose you divided the desert into 1 equal portions. How much would each portion weigh? A: 5/24

Chemistry Chapter Report for Amazing Kitchen Chemistry Projects You Can Build Yourself

by Cynthia Light Brown

Chapter Name:

1. List any glossary words and definitions.
   

   Acid: a substance that donated hydrogen ion (H+) to another substance. Examples include vinegar and lemon juice
   

   Base: a substance that accepts a hydrogen ion (H+) from another substance. Examples include baking soda, ammonia, and oven cleaner
   

   
    

   
    

   
    

2. List 5 facts/details you learned from the chapter.
   

   1. Ant's give acid to gardens
   

   2. Hydrangea flowers grow blue and pink
   

   3. Lemon ants get their name because they have a tangy lemony taste- yum!
   

   4. Peanut Butter has the most edible ions in it.
   

   5. Pure Water has the most edible acids.
   

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

3. Summarize the chapter in at least 5 sentences.
   

   This chapter is very short and teaches people what acids aere and how many can be found in foods and materials such as oven cleaner and lemons. It also teaches you about bases. The two examples I mentioned before will be perfect. Oven Cleaner is basic and lemons are more acid. Basic substances are not edible however neutral and more acid are.
   

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

4. What did you learn?
   

   About what acids are, I knew about bases but I learned a little bit more about them.
   

   
    

   
    

   
    

Chemistry Lab Report for Amazing Kitchen Chemistry

Date:

Chapter Name: Acids and Bases

Lab or Project Name: Naked Eggs

Materials Needed:

3 eggs with shells

bowl

vinegar

Preparation Notes for Lab:

Prep materials

Step or Stage 1: What did you do? What do you notice?

Place eggs in bowl and cover with vinegar, try to keep eggs from touching each other and place aside for a day

 

Step or Stage 2: What did you do? What do you notice?

We waited a day and it looks like frothy on top of the eggs and kinda like whipped cream and it smells really vinegary

 

Step or Stage 3: What did you do? What do you notice?

We removed the eggs from the bowl. The egg felt rubbery and you could see through it in the light—translucent.

 

Step or Stage 4: What did you do? What do you notice?

We tried dropping the eggs to see if they would bounce since they were so rubbery. They did until we dropped them from about a foot or so. It was really cool.

May 11, 2011 Day One-Hundred and forty-nine

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

Battles of Bennington, Brandywine, & Germantown

5 Vocabulary

1. Fleet: the largest organized unit of naval ships grouped for tactical or other purposes

2. Hodgepodge: a heterogeneous mixture; jumble

3. Artillery: guns, cannons, howitzers mortars, of calibre greater

4. Stealth: a furtive departure or entrance

5. Abandon: to forsake completely; desert; leave behind

5 Sentences

1. There were fleets of British ships at all the important ports.

2. A hodgepodge of materials collected is a hodgepodge.

3. The Americans ran out of artillery in a lot of battles, but when they won they stole the British artillery .

4. General Burgoyne was very stealthy.

5. Lots of hessians abandoned the war after Saratoga, they were called deserters.

5 Facts & Details

1. Ben Franklin was the first postmaster.

2. By the battle of Bennington, General Burgoyne's troops were moving at a snail's pace.

3. The Americans celebrated their victory at Germantown too soon, it was exactly like Bunker Hill.

4. Burgoyne's slow movements gave the Americans plenty of time to prepare for the battle of Germantown.

5. Daniel Morgan was a frontier men.

5 Questions

1. Where is Bennington? A: Vermont

2. How were the Americans able to overtake and win in Bennington? A: The hessians were told all of the people in the town

3. What happened to General Howe? A: he was replaced by General Clinton

4. What happened at the Battle of Brandywine? A: They fought at Philadelphia

5. Who was Daniel Morgan? A: He was a Virginian that led 500 picked riflemen to help fight Burgoyne's army.

 

5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill 20 Multiplying and Dividing Mixed Numbers

1. In all, how many ounces of ingredients are in Sad Sack salad? A: 5

2. Suppose you divided the Sad Sack salad into 4 equal parts. How many ounces would each portion contain? A: 1 1/4

3. Suppose you put 3/5 of the salad in a bowl. How many ounces of salad would be in the bowl? A: 3

4. How many 5/6 ounce servings could you get from the recipe? A: 6

5. Cooking for 2 days shrinks a 3 ¾ pound ham to 2/3 its original size. How many pounds is this? A: 2 1/2

Book Report:

Book Report

Title: The Chronicles of America: Road to Revolution!

Author: Stan Mack and Susan Champlin

1. Summarize the story:
   

Peggy and Nick are friends from Boston, it is only the road to revolution so it does not include all the battles. It starts with the Boston Tea Party and goes to The Battle of Bunker Hill. It tells how some Tories became Americans and how the Revolution starts.

 

1. List at least 3 characters with one sentence describing them:
   
2. Penelope Brown: The daughter of the owner of a local tavern, became a patriot and helped fight for freedom
   

2. Nick: An orphan on the streets of Boston, became a patriot and fought in war

3. Paul Revere: A famous men from Boston, warned militia for the battle of Lexington and Concord

1. What did you like best about this book?
   

The cartoons

 

1. Write a one sentence advertisement for the book.
   

If you're studying revolution and think it's boring, then think again Road to Revolution is educational and fun for the reader.

 

1. What did you learn from the book? What lesson does the book teach?
   

   
    

   I learned more about Bunker Hill and again how the Revolution started again. It teaches what I learned
   

   
    

   
    

 

 

May 10, 2011 Day One-Hundred and forty-eight

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

Ticonderoga

5 Vocabulary

1. Ticonderoga (the translation from the Indian language): A junction from two water ways, Mohawk Indian language

2. prong: a sharply pointed end of an instrument, such as on a fork

3. formidable: arousing or likely to inspire fear or dread

4. dandy: a man greatly concerned with smartness of dress

5. summit: the highest point or part, esp of a mountain or line of communication

5 Sentences

1. There were lots of battles at Fort Ticonderoga, the first was with Ethan Allen and the Green mountain Boys.

2. King Triton's triton has three prongs.

3. The Redcoats and Hessians were formidable armies.

4. General Burgoyne wanted to be and was a very dandy man.

5. Fort Ticonderoga was easy to defend because of its summit.

5 Facts & Details

1. The Devil's prong has three prongs, the British were like the devil with their three pronged plan!

2. One of Ben Franklin's famous quotes is, "what good shall I do this day?"

3. By the battle of Saratoga, the British took Philadelphia.

4. The first battle at Fort Ticonderoga was after Bunker Hill.

5. The Green Mountain Boys that went to Ticonderoga were from New Hampshire.

5 Questions

1. What was the British "3-pronged plan" the Summer of 1777? A: Burgoyne would bring his army south from Canada and Howe would bring his troop north from New York to meet and fight

2. When was the first battle at Fort Ticonderoga? How many times did the important fort change hands during the war? A: The first battle at Fort Ticonderoga was after Bunker Hill.

3. Who designed and made the first American flag? A: Betsy Ross

4. What are the parts of the American flag and what do they signify? A: the 13 stripes for the states and the 13 (now 50) stars for the 13, 50 states

5. Why did General Burgoyne's army move so slowly through the wilderness? A: because he had so much stuff

5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill 19: Multiplying & Dividing Mixed Numbers

1. 2 ¾ x 4/5 = 2 1/5

2. 1 13/15 x 1 4/21 = 2 2/9

3. 1 13/27 x 1 1/8 = 1 2/3

4. 6 1/8 x 1 11/21 = 9 1/3

5. 3 3/20 x 1 23/27 = 5 5/6

Math: 1 page Guinness, 1 page Sylvan

Music: singing and piano with Kat!

Farm School

Tuesday May 10/11, 2011

 

Sophie and I are on week 4 the 8 week project Midden Earth Farm Almanac based on Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richards Almanac.

• Sophie worked with Bill using Photoshop Elements program to manipulate the photographs she took on Sunday and to learn how to use the Cannon digital camera.
  
• Sophie researched and wrote out her recipe, she then typed it into the computer so it could be pasted into her almanac
  

 

Easy Quiche

Ingredients

1. Pie crust * store bought or homemade

2. ½ dozen eggs * farm fresh

3. ½ cup buttermilk

4. ¼ cup heavy cream

5. Salt and pepper * ½ teaspoon salt ¼ - ½ teaspoon pepper to taste

 

Directions

Set oven to 350 degrees, Whisk together all ingredients in one bowl until mixture is light and frothy. Prepare pie crust in pie plate, Add fresh ingredients like:

Seafood: cooked crab and shrimp meat, green onions, grape tomatoes sliced in half, one half cup Swiss cheese.

Garden Vegetable: choose any fresh in season—about a handful each—garden veggies like, spinach, roasted eggplant, red and green pepper, onions, mushrooms, asparagus, tomatoes, Cheese, cheddar, goat, Swiss.

Spinach Mushroom and Sausage: 1 ½ cup crumbles, cooked sausage—pork, chicken, or turkey—buy local meat! 1 cup fresh, uncooked spinach, ¾ cup sliced or diced mushrooms (your choice), ½ cup cream cheese, ¼ chives

You can basically makes any quiche you desire! Once basic quiche is prepared in pie plate with crust, fold in ingredients of your choice and spice according to taste.

Wrap piecrust edge with tin foil and bake in oven for 30 mins. Remove tin foil and bake an additional 8-12 mins for desired crust, consistency, and color of your quiche. Remove from oven and let rest on counter before serving at room temperature.

Serve with sour cream and homemade homefries and fresh fruit salad. Perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!

 

May 9, 2011 Day One-hundred and forty-seven

5 x 5 for 5th Grade
Battle of Trenton
5 Vocabulary
1. Hessians: Highly Qualified German Soldiers who King George is paying to come over to fight along with the British
2. Ambush: The act of waiting in a concealed position in order to launch a surprise attack
3. Enlistment: to enter or persuade into an engagement to serve in the armed forces
4. Galley: a seagoing vessel propelled mainly by oars, used in ancient and medieval times, sometimes with the aid of sails
5. bombardment: to attack with concentrated artillery fire or bombs
5 Sentences
1. The Hessians, in a lot of ways, were better soldiers than the British.
2. At Lexington and Concord there was an ambush called the Bloody Angle.
3. The American colonists enlisted in to the American army to fight for freedom.
4. Washington crossed the Delaware in a galley.
5. The British usually bombarded the Americans, Washington did surprise attacks because he had almost no ammunitions.
5 Facts & Details
1. Cornwallis was the British general at Princeton.
2. Nathan Hale was a spy for George Washington that was captured by the British.
3. Nathan Hale's famous last words were, "I only regret, that I have but one life to lose for my country."
4. The Battle of Long Island was 4 days before my birthday!
5. By this time, we were known as the United States of America.
5 Questions
1. What significant battle preceded the Battle of Trenton on Aug. 27, 1776? A: The battle of Long Island
2. Who stopped the British invasion from Canada? A: Benedict Arnold
3. On what night did General Washington cross the Delaware? A: Christmas Eve
4. What were some of the reasons General Washington's surprise attack worked at Trenton? A: It was Christmas, it was winter, the hessians were positive they wouldn't attack, and the Hessian leader didn't read the note the loyalist sent them telling him they were going to attack
5. What was General Washington's "surprise move" that won the Battle of Trenton? A: crossing the Delaware on Christmas Eve in the Winter during the middle of the night!
5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill 19: Multiplying & Dividing Mixed Numbers
1. 1 1 2/3 x 1 1/5 = 2
2. 1 ¾ x 1 1/3 = 2 1/3
3. 3 1/3 x 1 7/8 = 6 1/4
4. 1 1/6 x 9 = 10 1/2
5. 2 2/9 x 3 3/5 = 2/8
Math: 1 page Guinness, 1 page Sylvan
Reading: Chapter 4 Revolutionary War for Kids
Road to Revolution—2 chapters
Chemistry Lab:
Chemistry Lab Report for Amazing Kitchen Chemistry
Date:
Chapter Name: Mixtures
Lab or Project Name: Get your Iron
Materials Needed:
Breakfast cereal fortified with iron
bowl
masher
water
magnet
Preparation Notes for Lab:
Raisin bran cluster Fiber One cereal with 25 % iron
2 bowls ready (one for Lily) and pitcher of water
2 magnets, 1 masher


Step or Stage 1: What did you do? What do you notice?
Put one cup cereal in each bowl and mash it up with masher
Hard to mash it good dry
Step or Stage 2: What did you do? What do you notice?
Pour water in bowls until cereal is covered and mash some more
Easier to mash cereal into mush with the water making flakes soft


Step or Stage 3: What did you do? What do you notice?
Place magnet in bowl of mushy cereal and swish around, particularly on the bottom of bowl
The iron from the cereal went to the magnet. It was important to swish the magnets on the bottom because the iron is heavier and it sinks to bottom


Step or Stage 4: What did you do? What do you notice?


Step or Stage 5: What did you do? What do you notice?
Variations: 1. Dry cereal, no mashing, swish magnet = no iron particles
2. dry cereal, mashed, swish magnet = a few iron particles
3. add vinegar, mashed= more iron particles than water


Copy and Paste any pictures or illustrations of Lab.

Chemistry Lab Report for Amazing Kitchen Chemistry
Date:
Chapter Name: Reactions
Lab or Project Name: Pennies
Materials Needed:
vinegar
2 bowls
salt
10 pennies, some of which with dates before 1982
Preparation Notes for Lab:
Divide the pennies (half for Lily)
Leave one penny aside
Prepare bowls and materials on counter


Step or Stage 1: What did you do? What do you notice?
Pour vinegar to bottom on each bowl and then add one spoon salt and stir well


Step or Stage 2: What did you do? What do you notice?
Put 4 pennies in each bowl with vinegar & wait 10 mins
With penny left out, hold penny so half in vinegar for about a minute
Half of the penny was still dirty and half was shiny because of the acid from vinegar attracted the ions of oxide on the penny and cleaned it. * Lily chose a newer, shinier penny and it didn't get as clean but it was pretty shiny to start with.


Step or Stage 3: What did you do? What do you notice?
After 10 mins take pennies out of bowl. Rinse one set of pennies and leave on paper towel to dry.
With the other half of pennies, don't rinse and take right out of bowl and let them dry on paper towel
We poured water on one half of the pennies, the water stopped the chemical reaction and the pennies stayed clean. The other half of the pennies we didn't rinse off and the chemical reaction kept going. Air is another chemical and the air let the penny ions turn blue like on the Statue of Liberty.
Step or Stage 4: What did you do? What do you notice?
Variation

1. Get more dirty pennies and leave half in bowl of Coke for a couple hours
2. Get more dirty pennies and leave the other half in bowl of milk for a couple hours

We poured 5 pennies in coke and dried them after, with the coke you could see the differences between 1964 and 2000 easily.
With the milk all the pennies looked milky! They had white stains on them and rusted like the no rinse pennies
Copy and Paste any pictures or illustrations of Lab.