Here is the Fifth grade Music video.

Yom Kippur War

Ramat Eshkol

Times running out to Decide-Panyee Soccer Players

Intro:

 In 1986 on a small floating village in Thailand, Panyee, a group of boys watched many games of football (soccer) on T.V. They wanted to play because they thought that they would make a good team, and because they just wanted to play.

Can’t play sports here:

The boys did not give up on themselves and decided to become soccer champions, even when people started to make fun of them. Someone said, “You think that you can become champions here? Look at where you live.” The kids new that the person was right, just like I said they did not give up on themselves; and built their own field to play on.

The tournament:

The group of boys practiced and played a lot. Then one day one of the kids came over to the field with a flier to enter a tournament. The boys did not know if they should enter, but entered since they thought, that they were good enough. Before they went someone who was watching them, gave them new clothes to wear. Some people came to cheer them on. The first game of the tournament they won 2-0. They played so well, that they made it to the semifinals.

At the semifinals:

At the semifinals it was raining and the other team was really good; but to make it even worse the boys were getting their shoes filled with water. By halftime they were losing 2-0. Then the boys came up with an idea. They would take off their shoes. After the boys took off their shoes, they played much better and scored two goals to even the score at 2, 2-2. They lost when the other team scored last minute goal.

Conclusion:

In the end the boys came in 3^rd place. Even though they did not win the game, they were happy that they even got this far. The important thing is that they inspired others to play soccer throughout the world.

    

Trimester Reflection #3

Since the beginning of the year, I really enjoyed here at school. I really enjoyed all of the fun activities that we do. Writing narratives, prompts, making a prezi, power points, and much, much more. The reason why I enjoyed the narratives is because we get to write and share about a very fun and important part in you life. The prompt is when we write about a what happened and all the main points in a story. The prezi is really fun; you can add videos and pictures. The website is prezi.com . The power point is about the same; you can add slides, transitions and much, much more.
Sometimes math is hard for me since we start something new or I just forget something. The prompt writing was really fun, but sometimes I get stuck on something. Everything else sometimes I get stuck as well.
I can't wait for summer to come. My guess is that 6th grade is going to be great. I hope that we can do some of the same things as we did this year. Overall, I can't wait.  

Megillat Rut

By: Binyamin Katsman

                                                    6/3/14

                                                    Ruth

           Chapter 1

In the days before the kings, judges of Israel; there was a famine in BetLechem. The famine made many people go, and leave from BetLechem to somewhere else. Naomi (The mother-in-law of Orpah, and Ruth), Orpah, and Ruth went to Moab. A while before the famine, Naomi’s Orpah’s and Ruth’s husbands all died. When Naomi heard that the famine in BetLechem ended, she and Ruth went back BetLechem; and Orpah stayed in Moab.

This Famous line that Ruth said to Naomi before she went with her to BetLechem.

“For wherever you go, I will go; wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people; your G-d shall be my G-d; where you die, I will die and be buried.”

Ruth

Chapter 2

Naomi had a relative on her late husband’s side. The relatives name was Boaz. One day, Ruth said to Naomi that she was going to glean in the fields. The Torah says that when we harvest crops, we shall not pick up the stalks of whatever you planted; you have to leave the stalks that have fallen to the ground for the poor to glean. Ruth did just that. Ruth went to the fields which happened to the fields of Boaz to glean. When Boaz sees who was gleaning in his fields, he told Ruth…

“Stay gleaning in these fields. Boaz told the men not to bother Ruth. If Ruth wants a drink, she can get a drink from the men’s jars of water which they have drawn.”

Boaz makes sure that Ruth gets enough food to eat. Boaz tells his men to leave some extra stalks for Ruth to glean. When Ruth gets home, she tells Naomi all about Boaz. Naomi then says…

“Bless be he of the Lord who has not failed in his kindness to living or to the dead. For the man is related to us. He is one of our redeeming kinsman.”     

That means that Boaz could be Ruth’s late husband and provide security for Ruth.

Ruth

Chapter 3

Naomi was then struck with an idea. Naomi says to Ruth… “I must find a home for you which you will be happy there.” Naomi tells Ruth to dress up, and go to the threshing floor. When Boaz sits down Ruth shall uncover Boaz’s feet when he lies down.

Boaz told Ruth…

“There is someone else in line before you. In the morning if he redeemer, good! Let him. But if he does not, I will be a redeemer for you.”

Ruth

Chapter 4

When Boaz went to the city gate, he saw someone else who was closer related to Ruth’s late Husband. Boaz says to this relative (Ploni Almoni) about the land that belongs to the late son of Naomi’s late husband, and that Ploni Almoni has the right to refusal in purchasing the land.  

 Boaz says…“If you are willing to redeem the land, and redeem it. But if you don’t, then tell me.”

 Ploni says he will redeem the land.

Boaz says…“If you want to redeem the land, you also must marry Ruth, the widow, so that her late husband’s name will be perpetuated.”

Ploni says that he will now not redeem the land.

In the end Ruth and Boaz were married and they had a son named Obed, who was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David, who became King of Israel. 

Planet in Peril

Planet in Peril

 

Planet in Peril is a DVD were you go around the world with Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and they explain to you why climate change is happening through-out the world. They are trying to stop climate change. Ether humans are to blame or the world or animals. Which do you think?

 I think that the humans are to blame for what's happening. The reason I think this is that since humans are releasing toxic chemicals into the air. The chemicals prevent the warm air from getting out of the planet's atmosphere. This causes ice and snow to melt because of the rising temperatures.  

Fun Facts:

• The Sun is cooling but slightly over the years, not enough to say that the sun is to blame for this climate change. Over the past few years the Earth has gotten warmer.
• The way the earth moves, the Sun influences the amount of the Sun's energy. Earth's movement can cause climate change, but it would take ten hundreds of thousands of years.
• When Volcanoes erupt, they let out small amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like ashes and dust. Sometimes when Volcanoes erupt, the ashes and dust goes so high up into the atmosphere, it blocks some of the Sun's light from reaching Earth.

Some places like Lake Chad in China, people get ill and die because the water is so toxic. Madagascar is where about 90% of Earth's animal live and many animals are dying. People are trying to take the endangered animals and sell them for money or use them for medicine. Carteret Island is where some people live. The Carteret Island is being sunken by the water since the coral reefs surrounding the island die; storm water can reach the island since the reefs are supposed to stop the water from reaching land. Polar Bears are endangered animals that live in very cold snowy places. In Greenland the ice and snow is melting. More than 1 billion tons of ice/snow melts each year. Since the ice is melting new islands are born. Many different things are happening because of climate change.