Pack 223 Newsletter: Created by the students in room 223

How We Express Ourselves

Central Idea: Humans share many needs, wants, beliefs, and values which we

express in diverse ways.

Definitions:

Human-person

Example: relating to people

Wants -something that you want

Example: A person wants a fancy car

Needs -

If you need something,you must have it

Beliefs

A strong feeling that something is true or right.

Values-

The amount of money that something is worth.

Express-

To tell people your ideas.

We’ve learned about poetry as a way to express beliefs and values. Here are some quotes from our analysis of African American poet Maya Angelou’s poems:

Caged Bird

“I think the author wrote this poem

because she thinks that everyone

deserves to be free.”

By: Sarah Andre

Still I Rise The filing of being under someone's control sounds terrible. that's how it

was, white man over black men

By: Eduardo Vazquez

Here are some original poems written by students in our class: By Joao: Sun, a burning ball of fire… That leaks its firing light on earth. When it rises on the greatest sea, Light appears and then it awakes another day. When it sleeps There are traces of Its greatest light That fall to their father’s wife, The wonderful moon, That rules the night.

By Anon: The Sun The Sun Like a leaping fireball Keeping light in your world The sun Like a flat quilt laying by a great cabin's fireplace Sometimes keeping your world warm The sun A flaming star Surrounded by eight worlds going around me over and over The sun A magnificent sight of the bright orange sunset But stare at me too long your eyes will become stars That I see everywhere That the darkness space holds.

We’ve learned about the wants, needs, beliefs and values of Early English settlers and colonists.

The needs shared by all of these people are:

They all needed food water shelter tools to make everything else and most important each other

Many of them had similar wants, beliefs and values. Some of them were very different.

Many Early English Settlers and Colonists wanted: Freedom

Many Early English Settlers and Colonists believed: Religion

Many Early English Settlers and Colonists valued: Religion

We’ve learned about the water crisis on Earth and what we can do to help. Illustrations of our learning about water filtration:

Some facts about water on Earth: Water is something

that we need and the only place that there's water is the earth and we need

it to survive 70% of the earth's surface is water. And there is 3.5% of freshwater only 1% of that 3.5% is actually clean water that we can drink on earth.

75% of the human

brain is water

Studies shown that the atmosphere contains more

freshwater than all of the rivers on

earth put together .

On the periodic table water is

called H20.