The United States celebrates Columbus Day because Columbus discovered America.  But, he thought he discovered Asia. He really wasn’t the first person to discover America. People shouldn’t celebrate Columbus Day because he wasn’t really nice to the native Americans.   Columbus turned the natives into slaves.  He brought some of them back to Europe so they would be slaves.  Because he traveled by ship, he brought diseases back on his ships. Christopher Columbus was mean.

   If we celebrate Columbus, we should celebrate all of the explorers.  Magellan sailed around the world.  Because of all the explorers, we have spices and different things that we trade.  The explorers found new trade routes.

  I think that Columbus shouldn’t be the only explorer we celebrate.  People get the day off from work because of him, but other explorers did things we should celebrate.

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I did my speech on Connie. She is my health aide. I like to see her after school because she's special.

I am a Roman soldier. My name is Agustus. I am twenty years old because that is how old a soldier has to be.  There are no women in the Roman army, just men.  I carry a weapon that looks like a stick, it is called a sword, it is very sharp on the end.

When I fought in battle I wore a helmet to protect my head.  To protect my body I carried a shield.

Because the Roman army was very organized, I ate with them and we sometimes slept in tents.  I get a lot of exercise by running, marching and practice-fighting.  I obey my rulers so I don’t get in trouble.

First, we picked out pictures from magazines and cut them out. Then, we glued them to the canvas with mod podge. I put a map of the United States on it. After that, we treated the canvas with gesso, and painted with acryllic paint.

Love lifts up your heart like low air pressure.

Standing on a bridge

Fog tastes like the ocean

And smells like the sea

I need a lighthouse to get me home

My picture has stars in it.  The United States is on my picture, also.  The color blue is a color I really like.  I really enjoyed doing this activity

Today we went to Strawberry Banke. We saw Mrs. Shapiro. We went into that house. And we had a tour guide named Ann. Ann took us around. We saw the hearth. And they scraped cinnamon. And I stringed green beans. And I grabbed a couple of apples. Her husband was the governor. And the governer decided something about Thanksgiving. He said we should have Thanksgiving that day of the year. Flip is a drink with beer. And they like cinnamon. And they use sugar. And I grated cinnamon. And they moved the spoon around. I'm telling you, I'm just trying to think of something. This hasn't been a good blog so far. I'm saying that. 

I made a poster about policital science. Political Science is the study of government and how it works. There are different types of government like monarcy and democracy. Some levels of goverment are local, state, and national.

My dad is an angler. He's a lobsterman. I did my project on lobstering and Rye Harbor. I made a lobster book. I saw lots of pictures of lobstermen on the internet. A long time ago they used paddles on boats, but now they use motors. They had to pull all the boats up on the beach, but now there are moorings and docks in Rye Harbor.

There is no air on the moon. Astronauts go to the moon. They have to wear suits because they can't breathe. They use an oxygen machine in the suits.

The moon looks white and grey. There are different kind of rocks on the moon. There aren't any oceans on the moon, but there are places called seas. I got to see moon rocks. They were grey. The astronauts brought them back. Someone from NASA delivered the rocks to my teacher. They were in a grey box.

I like moon rocks. They're the best thing in the world!

Dear Mom and Dad,

In math we learned about graphs. I made a bar graph on my computer. I counted how many colors of cubes I had. I had red, yellow, orange, blue and black cubes. I opened up Excel on my computer and clicked on graph, and when I put my numbers and colors in, it made a graph. I am learning subtraction, too. Subtraction is kind of hard. I am practicing with blocks, money and counting pictures of things on worksheets. I am having a hard time remembering how to figure out what the answer is in subtraction.

I am also practicing with money. I know how much pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters are worth. I know that there are five pennies in a nickel, ten in a dime, and twenty-five in a quarter. I am using the coins to practice addition and subtraction. It’s a little hard sometimes, but I’m doing my best!

Ms. S has been helping me practice my shapes. I know triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, and even more! We play a game and I have to tell her the name of all the shapes. I try to get the answer right. I make some mistakes, but I work through it.

The most important thing I have learned in math class is that it’s OK to make mistakes. I know I can fix them. When you make mistakes and fix them it’s called problem solving. I know that everyone makes mistakes, and that’s part of life. It’s all a part of learning.

Love,

JSHA