SREL -- Blogmeister

This graph is about animals/humans and how long they can hold their breath underwater!

Joe Flood came to our school to talk to us about what alcohol and drugs can do to you. He said that if you try or do alcohol and drugs your brain will crave it and want more. Joe gave us homework where we have to take our favorite thing to eat or drink, take a bite or sip of it then put it down, and try to go over an hour with out having anymore.
I used iced tea because it is my favorite thing to drink. I took one sip while watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and it was so hard to not have another sip. My brain was craving it so badly. I think I went about ten minuets before having more. It didn’t help with the movie I was watching because the chocolate waterfall looked like iced tea. After I finished off the glass I went to get more. It was so hard for the ten minute that I went. My brain wouldn’t let me go a minute more.
It was fun listening to Joe and I learned a lot. My favorite thing that Joe talked about was the six lights that control your brain when you drink alcohol. The first light is thinking. The second light is motor skills. The third light is safety nerd. The fourth light is pass out. The fifth light is over dose. And finally the sixth light is dead. Joe Flood knows a lot on how to keep yourself safe and I am glad I got to listen to him speak!

Ms. Ellwood has been in Antarctica since October, but on November 13 she got to see an Adelie penguin colony! She went with her friend Jean Pennycook (who works with the Adelie Penguin Project) to Cape Royds Penguin Colony. Ms. Ellwood got to watch the Adelie penguins make nests out of pebbles, flapping their wings to mark territory and sitting on eggs. She says that it was very fascinating and could have watched for days. Before she went to the colony Ms. Ellwood visited the cape Royds Hut. That was where Earnest Shackleton left from in order to be the first to climb Mt. Erebus. Ms. Ellwood thought that the day couldn’t get any better but on the way back to McMurdo they stopped at an ice cave! Ms. Ellwood sure had a fun day. When Ms. Ellwood returns I would love to find out if she ever would want to study penguins instead of ice. After seeing the penguin colony it would be inspiring to research them. If Ms. Ellwood did want to study penguins which type would she study and why?

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pictures taken by Ms. Ellwood

Inner Planets

The closest planet to the sun is Mercury and the second one is Venus, they are the inner planets. Mercury is the second smallest planet with cliffs as high as 3km. Mercury has no atmosphere. With Mercury’s lack of atmosphere and having it be so close to the sun, the planet’s surface temperature can be as high as 800 Degrees f and as low as -350 Degrees f. Venus is known as Earths Twin because they are very close in size. The high temperature of Venus is 891 degrees f. and the low temperature is 837 degrees f. Venus is 67 million miles from the sun when Mercury is only 36 million miles.