I think that Seedfolks is ok. I find the format a little weird. I feel like you just start getting what their explaining and then it’s a new person.  I think this book is about people who are making gardens in one big plot. A little girl started the whole garden with just a couple seeds. The character that I dislike is Wendell.  I dislike him because he just seems lazy and kind of boring. This week I found the activities very fun.  One of my favorite ones was planting the tomatoes. I can’t wait to see which one grows faster. I also thought making the flowers were fun! These were my favorites because they were more hands on. Even though these were my favorite I enjoyed them all.

For my humanities project I am doing the Temple of Artemis. Finding my research went very smooth. There was a lot more to the temple of Artemis than I thought! My final project is coming along great! For my 3D project I am doing a Papier Mache temple. I’m almost ready for May 1^st. At first I thought it would be too much to handle but it has been going good so far! I can’t wait to see other people’s projects.

This week two of my favorite sports started, I started softball and volleyball this week. We had tryouts a few weeks ago and I got my team. We are the Patriots!  We got our uniforms already and I’m #6. I’m playing against one of my friends but, we’ll have fun.  I like my new coach, he is very nice. I just can’t wait till we start games. I also started volleyball. My coach is so nice. Her sister is on the team, and we work together good. I like the rest of my team too. I can’t wait till my next practices!

I wish

    I was a lion

    King of the jungle

    With my loud roar

    No one would dare

    Push me around

I wish

    I was a fish

    Carefree swimming in the water

    With little fins

    That push me forward

    Through the ocean

I wish

    I was an eagle

    Soaring through the air

    Going from sea to sea

    High in the air

    With no one to stop me

In this science unit we have been learning about cells and their functions. My favorite part in this unit was when we looked at cells under the microscope. I found it very cool seeing such small organisms move under the microscope but not seeing them with your plain eye. I also found it interesting about how things change over time. We did an experiment and we kept track of how much bigger or smaller it grew. Lastly the worst part of this is the test. I’m ok at science but there is a lot of vocabulary in this unit. Over all we have a lot of experiments and we used microscopes.

Through the brown door,

At my cool, huge school,

Above nothing,

Below nothing,

Beside the noisy blue band hallway,

Across from the noisy drama room,

Near the smelly lunch room,

With the fun gym teachers,

During the day,

With many kids,

Of green, purple and smelly clothes,

Until the very end,

Of the day,

With all the kids,

Between the walls.

Right now I am reading a book called The Yanti by: Christopher Pike.  I am enjoying this book; it is one in the many books of the series. The character’s name is Ali and she has two best friends Steve and Cindy. In this book Ali is learning this about herself that she never knew. Some things are beyond her wildest imagination.  During this book Ali find out that people in another dimension are plotting to kill the people on earth. Ali and her friends have to save it.  To make it even harder, the person on the bad side is her very own sister.

There are many cool sports in the world. What is your favorite? My favorite sport is softball. I have been playing it for so long. Before I played softball, I played baseball. I play pitcher and first base. I started pitching fast pitch about five years ago. I did not like pitching as much until I learned how to and now it’s really fun! I play first base mostly because I’m left handed. I have played first for baseball and softball. I have a lot of sports I like but softball would have to be my favorite.

 “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran. I think it means that if you give yourself you are giving happiness to someone in need but you also are giving help when you give yourself. When you give a gift you give a little but someone would rather have a friend than a present.  I could apply it in my own life by helping out at charity events or helping people in need. Helping could make a positive change in someone’s attitude because helping out you could feed them or help give shelter and they would be happier. This could impact the world by people could be happier or there could be more things done for the needy. People could also become happier. 

                     I came up with a few 2012 goals. My first goal is to do better on my fitness testing. I want to improve my scores from last year. I improved my mile run by 30 seconds about and want to improve it more. I also want to get good scores on the rest of my tests and try to beat them at the end of the year. Another one of my goals is to become a better reader and writer. I can become a better reader just by reading more books. I also can become a better writer by writing more than I do now. My last goal is to do get the gold medal at the end of the year. I already did two quarters with 4.0 and I want to do the second half of the year just as strong.

I think that the wiki went good.  We got all the requirements done.  Each person in my group contributed to it.  It was a little hard working in a group this way because when people who not go on it would get frustrating. I think that our communication worked great because we all answered and got our parts done. I think that our wiki page went the best. We got our information and pictures of Lord Alfred Tennyson very quickly.  We could have had better communication on our video. Something that you could change for next year would be to let us pick our authors. I think it would be more fun if we learned about someone we wanted to.  

There are a few things that I learned about Greece. One is that in ancient times there was no country Greece, there was communities scattered across land near the Mediterranean Sea. The Greeks also defeated the greatest empire in the world. The Greeks also were influenced by the Minoans. One last thing that I learned is my city-state Corinth was one of the richest in Greece.

Right now we are doing a simulation. We were broken up into city-states. My city-state is Corinth. So far we have made a logo, chant and a handshake. The people in my group are Kade, Ella, Devin and me.  We keep track of points. The biggest part of our points is our fates. You can be great through the class but if your fates choose something bad to happen you can’t help it.  The scores go up and down through every class.

                  Many people in the world have dogs, millions. You know the saying “man’s best friend." Yes, I'm one of the millions. I own a Shetland sheepdog, a sheltie. I wondered where they really originated, and just basic facts about them. I found out that they originated on the island of Shetland. Shetland is located off the coast of Scotland. In the 18^th century Shetland sheepdog’s guarded sheep. One fact I found was Shetland sheepdog females grow for about 12-15 inches. Also sheltie’s are short dogs that have a soft, double layered coat that could have the colors black, sable, blue merel, white and tan. My dog molly is white and sable. I found this site and the information very interesting.

http://www.greatdogsite.com/breeds/details/Shetland_Sheepdog/

One thing that I am grateful for is my family. I have a family that supports and cares for me. They come for my sporting events and award ceremonies. If I did not have my family I do not know what I would do. Another thing that I am thankful for is my house that I live in. I sleep under my roof every night and it keeps me dry and warm. There are homeless people out in the world. They worried about where they will sleep at night, I am so thankful that I have a place to call home. One more thing that I am grateful for is my country. We are so grateful to have brave men and women that fight for our lives. We have freedom of speech and we have choices in our lives. I am thankful for many things and these are only some things I’m thankful for.

The best mystery that I have read would be “ The Oblong Crate”. I like this mystery because the writer kept you guessing what was in the crate. When he came up with an explanation it seemed like it could be the answer but when it wasn’t you wanted to know what it was.

My story starter: Ahhhhh! When 13 year old Julia went into her room it had been trashed.  Her computer and television was gone! Her mom walked in and then said she would call the cops. When they arrived they asked her mom a lot of questions. It did not help them any because they found out that she had an alibi, she had been at work all day with many witnesses. They did get one clue though. There was squashed mud with a perfect boot print. The person had left in hurry not to cover up their tracks. 

I think that blogging has been fun and easy. I have had a very smooth experience. I have wrote my blog and posted it easily. I would rather type my writing than to write on paper. Also when we type we have the option to use spell check and we neat writing, so it’s readable. If we had to do this as writing we would not be able to comment on other people’s work. For example the book’s blog, we would not have been able to learn about books that we should read. Lastly when we blog we can learn things about people that we never knew!

To “always remember” is very important. If you couldn’t remember it would be very different. When you remember you can learn life lessons or learn about something fun to do. Like the saying” you live and learn”. Everyone has experiences that change their life forever.

I think this is my weakest paragraph, what do you think I could fix?

I read an article about the World Series Game2. The second game was won by Texas. The first game was won by the Cardinals. This World Series is very close games. Some things that happened at the second game towards the end was the worst play for the Cardinals. The Rangers were down 1-0. There was the tying run and the go ahead runs on the bases. Pujols was a cut off and if he caught the ball he would have held the runners. Pujols is the first baseman for the Cardinals. Although he missed it and the go ahead run got on second into scoring position.Pujols is my favorite player, I think that he had a bad angle on the play, I was watching the game. I think that this World Series has been very exciting.

http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

A book that I have read recently is called Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. This book is about a girl named Tally Youngblood. In a few weeks she will turn from an ugly to a pretty. To be a pretty you get a big surgery. Tally is very excited until she meets a friend, who has the same birth date as her, her name was Shay. She met Shay in pretty town, they both snuck in. Shay thought that Tally had guts to jump off a building, with safety, and sneak into pretty town. Shay was different than other uglies though, she did not want to become a pretty. Shay told Tally a story about other friends sneaking off to never become pretties. What happens next? You would have to read the story to find out. I thought that this was a very good book.    

I have a Shetland sheepdog Molly. She is such a cutie. Molly is almost ten, November 16. Molly has brown, black, white and a little bit of red fur. She has brown eyes. I love playing ball with Molly. Molly is full of energy and likes to run. Molly has basically grown up with me; there was one other dog before we had molly when I was born. Her name was Mindy. I don’t remember her that much because I was so young. Molly has moved with us from Massachusetts to Colorado. Molly loves treats and barks at the door bell. Molly protects us. Molly will chase my volleyball and then pick it up. I love my dog Molly!

Over all on the fox run field trip I learned a lot and I had a lot of fun. and  I think that the best part of the field trip was the camouflage and seeing the pictures of animals and hunters. I learned some things and we got to play a prey and predator game. One activity that I enjoyed was the island game; we had to work together as a team to get across. We had to communicate but we also had to listen to each other. On this field trip I learned that animals have a lot of things that they need to do to survive. For example they need food, water and shelter, but they might not always get everything. I also learned that plants need to have certain things to survive other they die. I thought that the field trip was very fun. 

I think that books should not be banned. Just because some people don’t like books, doesn’t mean that they are not good books. Freedom of speech falls into this because you are free to speak, so you should be free to read books, even if someone thinks they are not good. I think that we all have the choice to choose what we read or do not read. Books should not be banned.  You should have the choice to read what you want. You have the choice if you think it is not a good book to not read it, but no one should take away the option to read it though. I think that books should not be banned!

Costello is wrong. When you multiply 7 by 4 it is 28, not 7 by 14. Costello is wrong because when dividing you can't hold a number. Also when he added 14 he counted the one's place correct but not the ten's place correct. Another set of numbers you could use it 8x15=48. You could find this out very easily.

The problem would be set up like this: XY+X=Z

X= the multiplier

Y= the ones digit

X and Y have to be one of the digits 1-9.

For Example:

X=8

Y=5

8x5+8=48

8x15=48    

My scariest thing that happened was over this past summer. I went bike riding and crashed. It was on pavement. I was going too fast and slipped. I had a helmet on but it hurt. I got scrapes on my knees and hand, and a gash on my chin. When my parents looked at the cut they knew I needed stitches. We went to an Urgent Care place and had to wait. When the doctor came he first gave me numbing medicine, and then I got stitches. This happened in June, and it just so happened I got my stitches taken out on my birthday! That was the scariest thing that happened to me.