Week Five Progress+Friday 13th

 Julia from mytexashomeschool:  https://www.mytexashomeschool.com/mytexashomeschoolshop/p/autumn-reading-challenge

Tuesday we used the free morning basket freebie from https://www.mytexashomeschool.com/mytexashomeschoolshop/p/free-morning-calendar-pages-englishspanish-2023

Barron finished Reading Anne Frank and began reading Martin Luther King Jr. 

He did an excellent job and it made us think of the importance of friendship. Anne and her family (Edith, Otto, and Margot)  had some good friends who helped them and the van Pels (Herman, Auguste, and son Peter) such as Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies, Jan Gies, Johan Voskuijl, and Bep Voskuijl.

If you do not own the book that Barron read  and want to explore in depth information this webpage has excellent information, these are a few screen shot examples: https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/  

The bridge was opened to traffic on 27 March 1965. The space between the main arch is 290 metres (320 yd). The bridge itself is 552.4 metres (604.1 yd) long.

The bridge is very important to the economies of both Foz do Iguaçu and Ciudad del Este.

BR-277 begins immediately after the end of the bridge in the Brazilian side, and National Route N° 7 in the Paraguayan side.

Thinking of friendships today we have friends who live near us, far away, some we have met before, others who we only are familiar with online. Friendships also exist between countries. We recently discovered a lovely bridge between Paraguay and Brazil called the Friendship Bridge. 

The second bridge between Brazil and Paraguay called Integration Bridge should be finished by November of this year. On Wednesday (Aug. 31), the presidents of both countries Jair Bolsonaro and Mário Abdo Benítez visited the construction site in Foz do Iguaçu, in the Brazilian state of Paraná. Benítez walked across the new bridge to the Brazilian side.

The construction began in 2019, in a partnership between Itaipu Binational, led by Brazil and Paraguay, and the Paraná state government. The entire investment of BRL 463 million is being funded by the energy company, and it includes work on the structure, expropriations, and the construction of a perimeter road on the Brazilian side, which will connect the bridge to the BR-277 highway in Foz do Iguaçu. The work is being carried out by Paraná Highway Department (DER-PR).

On the Paraguayan side, the bridge will reach the city of Presidente Franco. It will be 760 meters long and have a free span of 470 meters, the largest one in Latin America. There will be two single 3.6-meter-wide lanes, a three-meter-wide shoulder, and a 1.7-meter-wide sidewalk.

Brazil and Paraguay are already connected by the Friendship Bridge, between Foz do Iguaçu and Ciudad del Este, inaugurated in 1965. It is still the main logistical corridor between both countries, but it has been overloaded for years. Besides the circulation of people, the bridge concentrates the traffic of trucks. With the new connection, the Friendship Bridge will be exclusively for light vehicles and tourism buses, while the Integration Bridge will receive cargo transport, and will be managed by the government of Paraná.

A third bridge is also under construction, connecting the two countries, between Carmelo Peralta, in Paraguay, and Porto Murtinho, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. This construction is also partly financed by Itaipu Binacional and should facilitate Brazil's access to Pacific Ocean markets.

Barron began reading Martin Luther King Jr

https://thewolfepackden.com/downloads/martin-luther-king-jr-mini-book-pack/ or free on TpT: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Mini-Book-Pack-FREE-6414023

Friday the 13th is how this week finished. We purchased a lovely resource a last year and reference it on this ocassion:  https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FRIDAY-the-13TH-Poster-Activity-1760779

This year we were able to purchase a new resource from the same shop: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Friday-the-13th-and-Superstitions-Reading-Passage-6231543

This cute video by Colossol Cranium: https://youtu.be/cFzz_cfuxaY?si=_WvqKrr7NCnLC8B2 

Friday is day 6 of a war that has occurred:

Gaza has been under Israeli bombardment since Saturday when the Islamist militant group Hamas sent hundreds of fighters through frontier fences and into Israel on a bloody rampage that left more than 1,200 dead and scores held as hostages.

Israeli retaliation with thousands of air and artillery strikes has killed more than 1,350 Palestinians including hundreds of children, injured more than 6,000, and pushed more than 218,000 from their homes to shelter in U.N. schools.

With all outside supplies of food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity cut off by Israel, an existing humanitarian crisis in Gaza has hit a dangerous new level, plunging the enclave's 2.3 million people into further misery.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/reuters/israel-s-gaza-bombardment-fills-cemeteries-as-the-living-flee-homes/48884588