Carley's Article

Gender Discrimination  

     This is an article about gender discrimination as you probably know, this is a problem and you should treat everyone fairly. They may be having a hard time going through gender discrimination you should always be a friend to everyone, no matter their gender. 

     I think that gender discrimination is still happening. It happens when people discriminate each other just because they are the other gender. You should not judge people by how they look or if they are different. Ex. You should not think a girl is weak because of her gender.

     A way to fix that is to not care what gender other people are. Gender discrimination is like judging people on their skin color, eye color, fashion choices, and body shape. Maybe those people are getting bullied and need a friend, so be a friend, and help them.

    Something the court did to try and fix this was The Equal Pay Act of 1963. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law modifying the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at eliminating wage difference based on our gender, it was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy

     To sum up my article, I think that there are many ways to stop this. If everyone just didn’t care about everyone’s genders are world would be a whole lot better, and we would have more fun without gender discrimination.    

Pie Graphs and Sexism

Our Concept Based Unit in Fourth grade had been on justice. We studied a variety of subtopics such as bullying, poverty, racism, child labor and sexism. Concurrently we are doing a unit on analyzing data, Analyze This!, for our advanced math curriculum. The two units merged in our assignment on surveying and pie graphs. The students created a 10 question survey on sexism and administered it to various students and teachers. Next we used Excel to create pie graphs. We analyzed each question and then wrote a summary. Here is Carley's summary:

I think that sexism is still a problem. People still can't help to make a joke about it. I think that sexism is not funny. People still make generalizations about things that men/women like and dislike. Everyday someone faces sexism with comments like, "But you're a girl." or "You like ponies? You're a boy." Sexism is a rude body of speech. Don't be sexist. It is very rude and hurtful. Love the genders the same.

Leadership Project

Connor studied Nikola Tesla for his leadership project. He decided to make a pop-up book to share his learning.

Leadership Project

Cole studied the forensic scientist Bill Bass for his leadership project. He came up with the wonderful idea of putting the things he learned about Bill on a skeleton.

Way to use your creativity!

We have been working on the unit "Journeys and Destinations" which focuses on the big idea of change. The students wrote Diamante poetry about change and did a good job. This group took it to a whole different level. They made a collection of their poems, illustrated them and bound them into a book. They also took some new decorative scissors and made some interesting boarders.

Way to go ladies!

Leadership Projects

The fifth graders are working on their final project for our Leadership unit. Alex finished his brochure on Jason Fried. He picked Jason because, he helped solve world problems. Alex is most proud of the information he gathered on Jason's accomplishments. Alex learned that he likes creative leaders like Jason who look for ideas that work.
Jason Fried Ted Talk

Save Our Storm Survivors

Jack has worked very hard on his website, Save Our Storm Survivors. This site hopes to help animals in need of help during natural disasters. There are two videos that Jack created, and links to help animals. saveoursurvivors.myfreesites.net