The reason i chose tot do my antarctic flag the way it is because of Antarctica has penguins and many of the colors i used. I chose the penguins well obviously because there is a ton of penguins but the colors i chose represented the things in Antarctica. The turquoise represents the alga at the bottom of the oceans and the lakes. The three blue colors represent the water. The yellow represents the sun.

Hello, this month in art we made a thing called “hiding in the art room”. What that is, is we took a picture of our self upload it and cut it and paste it on a picture of anywhere in the class room and paste it.

 Recently, we had the Moon Rocks in class.

The Rock Cycle

The rock cycle is made up of 3 types of rocks Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic.

I starts out as an  igneous rocks. Than I form into  magma that gets  hot from the earth temperatures that it pushes me up through the magma chamber and when I comes out I turn into lava. When I comes out I lose heat and crystallizes and turns into an igneous rock. Some of the ways I can cool is when it rains or when under the oceans.  Another way l can cool is an eruption from a volcano. The reason that would happen is that it’s from the earth’s crust.   There are two ways they classify igneous rocks.

One way is call Extrusive Igneous Rock.  Extrusive rocks are igneous rocks are magma that reaches the surface and cools down to create a rock like this. Some rocks that were created like this are basalt, rhyolite, and andesite

The other way of classifying igneous rocks is the intrusive igneous rock.  What the intrusive igneous rock is different from an extrusive igneous rock because they both cool down, but this rock cools down slowly underground.

Any rock Igneous or Metamorphic Rocks can become a Sedimentary rock. When I reaches the center of the earth.   Rain, Snow, Wind and Ice can all break me down. I  wash  away when exposed to the surface.  I finally settle down and turn back to solid rock.  I give us information about the early Earth. They (geologists) can also recover fossils that also tell us about plants and animal. The temperatures take affect on gas, oil and drinking water.   A long time ago and even now the earth is being eroded by wind and rain. I have little parts of earth that wash down stream turn into Sedimentary rocks. Many layers of earth are set on top of each other; these layers are pressured until it slowly turns into new rock forms.  

Sedimentary rocks can be classified in two ways to.  One of the ways it can be classified is Clastic Sedimentary rocks and Not Clastic Sedimentary rocks.

Clastic Sedimentary rocks form from rocks breaking down into pebbles, clay or sand; this is called the weathering process.  The reason these rocks break down are wind, ice and water.  Some of the rocks that form from this process are Sandstone, Shale Breccia and Conglomerate.

The Not Clastic Sedimentary rocks form under water due to chemical reactions.  Some of the rocks that are in this group are Limestone, Rock salt, Chert and Rock gypsum.

                  Any rock if it’s igneous, sedimentary it can turn into metamorphic rock.

How I am made to a metamorphic rocks are I am stuck way underneath the earth surface, but it doesn’t melt. The reason is I have textures and minerals. Metamorphic actually means Changing Form.

There are two ways to classify metamorphic rocks.

One way is Foliated Metamorphic Rocks and the other is Non Foliated Metamorphic rocks.

Non Foliated Metamorphic rocks are formed under the earth under really high temperatures. Some or the rocks included Slate, Phyllite, Schist and Gneiss.  

Non Foliated Metamorphic rocks are formed similar to igneous rocks. Some of the rocks included in are Quartz and Marble.

When the Summer Solstice is in the Northern Hemisphere and the Winter Solstice is in the Southern Hemisphere the sun is lined up with the Tropic of Cancer. When the Summer Solstice is in the Southern Hemisphere the Winter Solstice is in the Northern Hemisphere and the sun is lined with the Tropic of Capricorn .

When the Vernal Equinox is in the Northern Hemisphere and the Autumnal Equinox is in the Southern Hemisphere the sun is lined up with the equator and each Hemisphere gets the same amount of day and night. This means there are 12 daylight hours and 12 night hours. When The Autumnal Equinox is in the Northern Hemisphere and the Vernal Equinox is in the Southern Hemisphere the sun is lined up with the equator. That means that each Hemisphere gets the same amount of daylight and darkness.

Language Arts: We wrote A folk tale on an African story we made. My folktale is about two cheetahs one named Dumas and the other Kayaked. And there is a big race and it’s a battle to the end.

Science: We African poster on the leaf nosed vine snake. We had to take notes and make a glossary, a scientific classification and type to paragraphs.

Social Studies: We had a given country and we had to pick 1 or 2 countries and we had to take note facts and a make a brochure. We had to make notes on the big five in geography Place, Movement, Human Environmental Interaction, Location and Region.

Math: We did African patterns with African colors. We used translation rotations and reflections and when you look at it, it looks like it really translating, making reflection and rotations.

Music: We're making African instruments and listening to African music. We are studying all kinds of groups in Africa that sing all different kinds of songs.

Technology Education: we are making finger pianos from Africa. They are actually are called m'bira. The originated in Africa and moved over all around the world. Art: we are making African wises and were taking the patterns from math and paint it on. We took are patterns form Math and painted them on