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by Cara

teacher: Mr. Edwards

Gems Gems are made of particles called atoms. The atoms are mixed together to make patterns. Gems are rocks at first and then they transform into a gem with heat. Organic gems come from living things. Gems are small and normally deep because minerals are deep. Gems aren't perfect when miners find them but they cut them and polish them to look good. Most gems get cut into flat surfaces. The facets show of the gems color, pattern and allows it to sparkle. Gems are valuable because their beautiful and rare. The value is determined by the cut and color. Diamonds can cut anything including metal and stones. Hope diamonds are very famous and is an unusually color of sky blue. The quartz family is the color of the rainbow. The most valuable in the quartz is the opal. A lot of people sacrificed their life just to get a beautiful gem.

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Assignments

Museum of Science and Industry	05/02
Vocabulary Story April 2011	04/28
What's so special about Greenbriar?	04/18
Our New Life in America	04/18
Spring Break 2011	04/04
Night of the Twisters Comparison	03/25
Vocabulary Story	03/25
Night of the Twisters	03/24
What did we do this past week? (March 7-11)	03/14
Week in Review - February 17th	02/17
Ginger Zee 2011	02/11
Frindle Chapter 1-4	01/26
Frindle Chapters 12-14	01/26
Frindle Chapters 9-11	01/26
Frindle Chapter 5-8	01/26
Frindle: Summary	01/27
Lit. Circle Book	01/25
Construction worker	01/25
Stranger Danger	01/21
Week in Review - January 21st, 2011	01/21
What do you see#5	01/14
What do you see #4	01/14
Week in Review - Friday, January 14th, 2011	01/14
Holiday Writing	01/10
Winter Holiday Break	01/03
The Final Chapter of "The Witches"	12/13
Airplane	11/29
Hands	11/29
Thanksgiving Break	11/29
Gems: Determining Importance	11/08
Halloween	11/01
Book Reviews	10/08
Our First Blog Post	09/13

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5/2	science museum
4/27	My Vocab Story
4/25	Greenbriar
4/25	Our New Life in American
3/25	vocab words
3/16	Shooting the Moon
3/2	Wayside school gets a little stranger
2/17	My Week 2/17/11
2/11	Ginger Zee
2/10	frindle 12-14
2/10	Frindle 15
2/7	Frindle 9-11
1/31	Frindle 5-8
1/27	Frindle 1-4
1/24	How to Steal a Dog
1/21	My week Jan. 21, 2011
1/21	The Giant Wave
1/14	my week
1/10	holiday writing
1/4	Report to the principals office
12/13	In the Castle
11/29	My Thanksgiving
11/8	Gems
10/13	Drums, girls and dangerous pie
9/13	my first blog post
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