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A few days ago we had the Day of Silence.  The Day of Silence is a day where you choose a certain period of time to be silent.  We did this for the gay and lesbian kids that are getting bullied.  When people think of bullying they usually think of kids making fun of other kids because they are not so smart or short or other reasons.  But this day is for kids getting picked on because they are gay or lesbian.  Our class chose a period of time to be silent, I chose for 9:30 to 12:00.  Us, 5D and 3A participated in this event to bring attention to the fact that gay and lesbian kids in schools and colleges get bullied because of who they are. We are going to work with 3A on a proposal to try and get this to be our whole school participating next year.

It is seven school days until IPW starts and the grade is ringing with conversation of what it is going to be like.  There were many choices this year, including Happening in Harlem which is an IPW all about Harlem.  Kids will get to explore the culture of Harlem and even eat in some of their restaurants!  Another one of the IPW choices is Black Rock Leaders.  Kids will be able to spend a week in Black Rock exploring the outdoors and the nature in the deep forests.  Those are only two of the many choices that kids might be in, all of them are going to be fun.  I can tell that this IPW year is going to be a good one!

On Friday, February 4, 5A and the rest of the 5th grade are putting on a performance.  We will have choreography, music and shadow puppetry.  We are going to base the whole concert on 4 poems, one for each class.  We are going to be playing instruments to the poem, the shadow puppetry about the poem, and the dance about the poem.  5A’s poem is “A Well Sits in a Small Yard.”  In art we have been making the shadow puppets by cutting out pieces of paper with scissors or an Exacto knife.  We are going to act out the play with the shadow puppetry.  In dance we have been choreographing our dances, we split up into mini groups to create the dance and then at the end we all mended together to make on dance.  I hope many of our families can come to the performance!