Its coming towards the end of the year. I am excited that summers here but i don’t want to leave my fifth grade teachers. I don’t want to leave them because they were really nice and made learning fun too. Like when Mrs.Brantley and Mr.O came up with us making a candy store with a partner. Also in Mrs.Mcfall’s she would have us do projects all the time like putting pictures and cool things like that on our blog. My favorite though was Mr.McBride’s which we are still doing on the last full day today, he was teaching us about the American Century. In Mrs.Lobue’s class we would read and make cool things with what we learned. I am also going to miss all my friends over the summer because i wont be able to them as often. 5th grade will definitely be one of my favorite years though.

The Abolitionist Movement was a movement that tried to end slavery.  It started in the 1830’s.  Slaves would go to the Underground Railroad or try to work for years trying to buy freedom of slavery to escape.  Many people were apart of this movement like David Walker and Harriett Tubman.  David Walker helped by writing a document that told slaves to not do what their owners said to do.  Harriett Tubman helped by helping slaves to the Underground Railroad.  Also Benjamin Franklin was the president of the Abolitionist Society.  The Abolitionist Society was an organization that try to end slavery in the United States.  When Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation all the slaves were set free.

Last week my group and I did a presentation, in computer lab, about two google search videos we watched. As we presented I thought that my group work really hard and did a fairly good job. We showed how to use the minus sign for when you are searching on google and how to use color tiles. I think we were very prepared and maybe could have practice more. But this project was very fun.

John Hancock sighned first on the Decloration of Independence

Was a leader of the Sons of  Liberty

He would smugle British  goods

Boat named Liberty

John Hancock

Govener of Massachusetts

He tried to stop taxes

A leading Patriot For the American Revolution

He was the presiding officer for the Second Continetal Congress

Have you heard last week on April 1 1931 was the biggest game of the year! The Chattanooga Lookouts were going up against the New York Yankees.  Can you guess what the Lookouts had a GIRL pitcher! Also can you guess what happened she struck out the two greatest baseball players! Babe Ruthe and Lou Gehrig. Babe Ruthe batted first, he swung and missed the first two balls the third was a ball, so the last pitch he didn’t swing but it was a strike. Next was  Lou Gehrig he swung and missed the first three pitches. Finally Tony Lazzeri was up and got out too. I guess you could say this girl has and arm. This amazing girls name is Jackie Mitchelle, the first girl to play in baseball!

Today we are learning about taxes like the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was a tax that made the colonist pay for any piece of printed paper.  Also the Tea Act was a tax too, they made the colonist buy tea from only on company, the East India Company.  The only reason they made the taxes were so they could get the money from the colonist to pay off the war depts . To the colonist it wasn’t fair so they did things they thought would stop the taxes. But it only stopped most of them.

In 2014 my favorite memory was when I hit a home run in softball. I was up to bat, the pitch was good I  swung and ran.  It went down the third base line.   The girl at third tried to throw me out but she over threw it.   So as fast as I could , I ran to second, rounding the corner. Running to third I tried to get there before the ball did.  Just when I thought I was going to get out, third basemen missed the ball!  I ran home thinking that the ball was in the out field but they had thrown it home.  Finally I crossed the plate just as the ball flew over my head.  That was an awesome day!