RHBR -- Blogmeister

In LA class we did a project on researching the history of Rye. My subject was the history of the kinds of foods available and what kinds of dishes they made. Some of the ingredients that I found repetitively were eggs, sugar, butter, baking soda, water, nutmeg, milk or cream, cinnamon, lemons, corn starch, and flour. Most of these ingredients are pretty common to New England, because back in the 1700's-1800's, they didn't have the most advanced shipping. Also, the use of lemons is common because back then something like that seemed exotic, and lots of people wanted to be eating that. And as time passed, a wider variety of foods was available and thus a much wider range of dishes were common—even though they may have been there before.

Dear 7^th grade team,

During the year so far I have noticed a few things. One of the most significant is the new library—it's a big improvement from last year and I can't wait to see what happens with it. But that brings me to my next topic. It might be just because the library is still new and we're still adjusting to it, but it seems like we aren't using it as much as we should be. The only big thing I've heard of is the My Side of the Mountain project that the 6^th graders are doing, and all they're doing is getting their books. I think that there are solutions to this problem. The first would focus on the problem that there is not enough time in the schedule for us to use the library enough. It's easy, at least for the 7^th graders. On Tuesdays and Fridays we have 1 hour classes. You'd think that more class time would help us get further ahead, but I think any 7^th grader and most 7^th grade teachers you ask will agree that we are much more tired at the end of the day than on a normal day, and we only get 10 more minutes anyway. So, to replace those collective 40 minutes, there could be a study hall taking place in the library. Also, it could help kids get their homework done, especially kids that have been sick or are behind in their work.

Another solution would be a designated library time for all grades, or maybe for different UA classes so it doesn't get crowded (but not as a UA). A designated time would keep the schedule from getting crowded or confusing, and it could be used for study hall or research, and then someone could come in anytime to check out a book or CD.

Either one of these solutions would also solve the problem of the boxes and other things that haven't been put away yet, and we could get going sooner. Also, it would teach everyone about the resources besides books, like the CD's, especially the 6^th graders, who don't know about it. Another use it would have is incorporating the grades together more, which would be a really good thing because we're one school but we don't get to see other grades that much, and some of us have friends in other grades. So think of all of the things that would be fixed and the new opportunities of having more library time designated into our day.

Myoats picture our science class did

Dear Dad,
Hi Dad! It's Rhbr! I'm at school right now writing this letter for a math project. The idea is to write about everything we've learned about this year so far in math class with Mrs. Harte. We kind of did a lot of reviewing at first, but it was pretty useful because I didn't remember a lot of it. It was also nice because that way we got to sort of start of the year a little easy at first. One of the first things we kicked off the year with was analyzing bar, point and line graphs. A lot of times we would look at why a bar graph is a bar graph and not a line graph and vice versa, based on the information the graphs displayed. After we did that for a while we worked a lot on frequency tables, which was something new. We did pattens, sequences, and algebraic equations to figure out the rule, which we displayed in the table. We also did a lot of exponents-- squaring area and cubing volume, as well as a little bit of binary numbers, which was confusing at first but then it got simpler. The practice for exponents was useful, too. But I think they're really annoying and tricky. Another interesting thing we worked on was number tricks. There was one where you punch in your phone number on a calculator and you perform a lot of tricks and because you multiply it by a fraction, it shrinks when you multiply and grows when you divide, but it took a while for us to realize that. Another part of the number tricks was that we would get a worksheet with different number tricks on it and we would solve them with 2 different base numbers, and then use a system of blocks (representing your base number) and circles (representing 1) and solve it. Later, we started using algebraic equations to solve them. The algebra made more sense to me. After that we moved onto probability, which was another review. We worked with experimental versus theoretical probability in most of what we did. We did some experiments with the color of blocks or names in a bag, and there was a website that we looked at with spinners and what colors appeared more depending on how many trials there were. We also did a partner project on theoretical versus experimental probability, which in my case was about the colors of M&M's vs. Skittles, which was fun. And right now we're finishing up a unit on order of operations, which was kind of interesting because I learned about brackets and fractions in it.
SYS
(That's texting talk for Sincerely, Your Son.)

It's a beautiful sunny day
I'm not cold in my itchy, scratchy clothes
In the summer I would be sweating with the heat
But now I have cold hands and feet
100 years from now I might be bundled up
With heated seats and not a bump
On a nice smooth road
But now I'm bouncing like a toad
On this stupid bumpy old dirt road
In a boring carriage drawn by horse
I don't know what would be worse
Looking down this long long road at the slowly approaching town of Rye
Or taking the way with my stupid, cold and tired feet
Either way, I wish I'd die
No music or games to make the time fly
The best I can do is to fall asleep...
But no, not on this road
This old stupid bumpy road
Did I mention the smell of the horse?
I can't describe anything that would be worse
Too bad we had to come all this way for Christmas pictures.

When we were learning about our solar system in science class, I was surprised to learn that our solar system isn't shaped like the 3-D models you typically see. If the sun is about 3 inches wide, you can barely see any of the planets smaller than Neptune, and even Jupiter is just a little dot. On top of that, while the first 4 planets are densely placed (by universal terms) the rest are much farther apart. Also, the closer a planet is to the sun, the faster it has to orbit because it needs to balance centrifugal force with the sun's gravitational pull, or else it either gets sucked in or flung out of the solar system. There is also an asteroid belt where a planet should be, so there are theories that say a planet blew up, creating the asteroids.

My Space Address Planet: Earth Solar System: Sol Galaxy: Milky Way Cluster: Local Supercluster:local