http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=115033 en-us 2013-05-19T00:37:05-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=644455 SCHOOL IS OUT!!!
IM GOING TO MISS PROF. MCG. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH! SHE HAS BEEN A GREAT TEACHER. I WANT TO GO ON TO MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HAVE A NEW SCHOOL AND NEW MASCOT AND BE A NEW PERSON IN GENERAL BUT INSIDE I STILL WANT TO BE A DRAGON. THIS HAS BEEN A FANTASTIC YEAR AND IL NEVER FORGET THE MOMENT WHEN PROF. MCG. SHOWED ME THE GETTOBLASTER!!(She said that a gettoblaster is a cd player)

IL NEVER FORGET THE GREAT MOMENTS THAT I HAD IN OUR CLASS. I COULDN'T HAVE WANTED MORE FOR FIFTH GRADE.
IL NEVER FORGET MY SCHOOL, MY FRIENDS AND I WOULDN'T EVER BE ABLE TO EVER FORGET MY TEACHER, NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED. THANK YOU ALL FOR MAKING MY LAST YEAR AS A DRAGON REALLY COUNT.:)

Truley yours,
Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=644455 2008-06-20T22:11:55-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=638007 A system is a group of small things that work together to get something big done.
An example of a system is the water on earth. It starts, things happen it make it start it again.
I know that if one species went extinct, then it could change anther speicies way of life. For example if a speacies of deer became extinct, then the animals living on that deer would become hungry. They would have to move to where there is more food or even hunt other animals. Other animals would have to adapt to each others habits so then the system starts over again.]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=638007 2008-06-06T11:35:33-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=633357 I did the 75 meter dash and I made the FINALS!!!
I ended up getting 4th out of 8!

Since i'm in fifth grade and you can't do many sports through school, this was my first ever track meet. It was one of the things that I will remember from fifth grade.
Waiting for my event was like torture but I guess Professor McG. would love that. (She's the master of torture:) I watched to of my guy friends get first places for the 50 meter in two different heats. Then I watched my friend Goldilocks do amazing in the shot put. Then another friend Violet went to do the 200 meter and got 2nd place. I waited until finally, it was time for my event, the 75 meter. I was running it with my friend Taryn adn my friend from another class, Mariah. I was in the very last heat and I got 2nd place with a time of 12.35. Just hearing my friends yell my name, telling me that I could win gave me confidence. I was in the first lane but it didn't matter cause it was in a strait line. Then I saw the starter of the race put his finger on the trigger and BOOM! I started running and adrenaline pumped through my body. All I concentrated on the finnish line. Everything else seemed of unimportance. Before I knew it, I ran through the finnish line and got 2nd.
I waited after the 400 meter and the 800 meter until finally, the speaker's voice boomed through the stadiom. It said "Here are the finalists for the 75 meter dash..." I couldn't belive it when they called my name. I couldn't even hear anything else but the chearing and yelling. I went down to the track and waited. Professor McG. would be proud fo me for being so tortured at the starting line cause I had to wait five minuets until I got to race. I couldn't hear anything but the boom from the starting line and finally I raced across the finnish line. I got 4th with a time of 12.12. I felt great when people kept coming up to congratulate me. Finally it was time for one of my favorite races even thought I wasn't racing. The Relay Race. The girls realy did amazing and got 3rd place. Then something else amazed me. I was the boys relay team come out and they got...1st!!!! I couldn't belive it! We were all disapointed when we had to leave, but hey we can do it again through school in 6th grade...]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=633357 2008-05-30T15:44:04-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=630251 For the long weekend, I had a BBQ and helped my mom plant some flowers in my garden. I also went to the Ski to Sea parade. It was so much fun!Then since I live right on the lake, I got to go tubing and water skiing on the freezing cold lake. I guess if you're in the water and it's raining it doesn't really matter. It was raining when I went. I got to play my WII and play Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It was a really fun weekend.]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=630251 2008-05-27T13:11:13-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=627397
No Taxation Without Representation!
Colonists live under the rule of the King
By Sabrina

In the year 1667, King Charles granted a charter to the Connecticut colony allowing the colonists the right to make their own laws. (Speare 70). Assemblies elected by the colonists made laws, set taxes and raised companies of troops called militia to defend the colonies. (Charter, 8). In 1687, King James wanted the British Parliament to be able to make laws for the colonists, or in other words take away the charter. (Speare, 70).
In 1764, British Parliament could make laws for the colonists. The King needed money to pay for the militia that protected the colonies in the French and Indian war. He decided to make the colonies pay for some of the money needed. (Harcourt, 226).
The King started taxes with the Sugar Act in 1764. (Harcourt, 272). “This tariff angered the colonists but what bothered them most is that they had no part in making this new law”. The King and British Parliament all had a say in passing laws. “Unlike other British citizens, the colonists could not elect lawmakers… but parliament was quick to remind colonists they were still British subjects.” (Harcourt, 263).
The Stamp Act was another blow to the colonists’ democratic ideas. The colonists had been practicing self-government, separate from the king, for years. They collected their own taxes to pay for taxes to pay for services in the colonies. The Congress sent an appeal for peace and harmony to King George and suggested that parliament get rid of all the unconstitutional laws controlling America. (Schanzer, 27) The Stamp Act of 1765 was another attempt by the parliament to get the colonists for help pay the war dept. “The new tax law angered the people in the colonies”. (January, 6). The Stamp Act was made as a tax on everything that was paper that you could purchase. Things like newspapers had to have a special stamp on it so people know that a tax had been paid for it. Parliament added these new laws to show they could still make laws for the colonists. (Harcourt, 277). The Stamp Act congress met to discuss the new law. It was there Patriot James Otis recited the famous line “No Taxation Without Representation”. These British laws were directly against the democratic ideas the colonists had been practicing for 100 years.
The colonists did not get to elect representatives into British Parliament. They did not have any say in the laws they were being forced to live by. Parliament decided to make one last tax; the tax on tea in 1773. “Parliament canceled all the taxes except the tax on tea”. (Maestro, 7). The colonists were fed up with all the taxes and not being represented a British citizens. On one late night in December, Patriots called The Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians and raided a ship that held British tea. They split all the tea boxes and threw them into the harbor. The event came to be known as the Boston Tea Party. The so-called Boston Tea Party infuriated King George and Parliament. He blockaded Boston Harbor not allowing any ships with merchandise to come in or out as a punishment. The colonists wanted to be free of King George’s rule.
The colonists were British citizens living in America. Their rights were being trampled by all the taxes and laws they had no say in. They protested and soon the cry of “No Taxation Without Representation” could be heard all around the colonies.
In 1776, in the Revolutionary War, the Continental Army or the colonists made history in the war against Britain. They were truly free.
]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=627397 2008-05-23T00:00:00-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=627400

Reference List

Carter, Alden. The American Revolution. New York: Franklin Watts, 1992

Harcourt Brace. We the People; Early United States. Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 2000

January, Brendan. The Revolutionary War. New York. Children’s Press, 2000

Maestro, Betsy. Liberty or Death; The American Revolution 1763-1783 New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005

Schanzer, Rosalyn. George vs. George; The American Revolution as seen from Both Sides. Washington D.C.; National Geographic, 2004

Speare, Elizabeth George. The Witch of Blackbird Pond. New York: Bantom DoubleDay Dell Publishing Group, Ink, 1958


]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=627400 2008-05-22T13:39:32-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=618484 Meanwhile, Kkit is a romantic love story. Kit kinda likes John Holbrook, the preacher. She kinda likes Nat the sailor and kinka likes William the rich boy. William likes Kit and wants to marry her. Kit doesnt know if she wants to marry William or not.
Judith likes William and John, and Mercy likes John and John likes Mercy. That's most of the romance in the part of the book.]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=618484 2008-05-12T15:57:57-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=612716 Back on Barbadoes, Kit was used to living with slaves as a loyalist. Uncle Mathew adn his family are patriots who wish to be free of King James. Kit doesn't feel right untis she meets Hannah Tupper, the Which of blackbird Pond.]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=612716 2008-05-06T13:21:06-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=599733 Stop one was Mrs Connon's Blog in New York.
Our next stop was Ms. Cassidy's Blog I don't know where they are.
From there I went to Two Gems in Australia!
You should try to blog around the world. It's amazing the places you can go to just with one link.
Have fun!]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=599733 2008-04-22T15:43:43-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=593083 When we got home, we just hung out and played video games. During spring spring break, we got a WII]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=593083 2008-04-15T13:31:19-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=593061

Right now I am in room 2 in the back of the room with 3 of my friends.
I see 24 people, 3 of who are AmericanGirl, Taryn and Violet.
I see people on the computer.I also see people working on poems, like me.
I hear people talking, calling each others names.
I smell nothing but air that has been polluted by fifht graders.
I taste taco meat left over from lunch.
I can feel the wind blowing through the open door.

]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=593061 2008-04-15T13:23:19-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=578982
River
Cold Clear
Calming Splashing Bubbling
Flowing Through Open Space
Stream

Here is a Haiku poem I wrote.

Out of the forest.
Animals live in hiding.
Listen to nature.

Here is another Cinquain poem I wrote.

Forest
Green Fresh
Refreshing Peacing Growing
Tall Trees Touch Sky
Trees


From Sierra-Alpha-Bravo-Romeo-India-November-Alpha
(Sabrina in code)
]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=578982 2008-04-02T14:26:57-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=579128 There is a door and only some things can go through it.Try to figure out what makes it so something can go through it and what can't go through. Here are some things that can and can't go through the door.
Sabrina can't.
Sunny can.
Annabeth can.
Goldilocks can't.
See if you can figure it out. ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=579128 2008-04-02T00:00:00-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=568934 We just got back from MOUNTAIN SCHOOL! It was amazing. I thought that it would be sleeping out in tents but the LODGES had bunk beds and bathrooms. The lodges even had a place like a common room just for hanging out. The three lodge names were CEDAR, PINE AND FIR lodges. Cedar was the girls lodge, pine was for the teachers and other students and fir was the boys lodge. The dining hall was one of the best buildings there I thought. They had tables carved out of fallen trees, a buffet line and a great view of the lake. The dam, Diablo Dam had a sheer drop that was 386 feet tall! At night we would gather around a camp fire and sing songs like BOOM-CHICKA-BOOM and also do skits and tell legends.
Then we went on a night hike and we ate wintergreen lifesavors and our mouthes sparked. Then I thought I saw something moving behind us and Violet started crying and Goldilocks started screaming and Tayrn did something else that she didn't want people to know about. The adaults thought that it was just snow but when it started MOVING we knew it wasn't snow it was a white deer that wasn't albino.

We did a lot of other things that were really cool like learning to track animals, learning about skat or poop and looking at bugs under microscopes.( REALLY FREAKY!)

MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=568934 2008-03-20T16:13:08-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=561447 For our trip we should go to Alaska. Why Alaska? There is cool scenery, interesting activities but most of all; I want to watch the Iditarod Race.

What is the Iditarod? The Eskimos and Inuit people were the first humans that traveled the course known as the Iditarod trail. It started back when gold was found in Nome Alaska. Later a terrible disease spread in Nome. This disease was known as Diphtheria. The only cure was a medicine known as Anit-Toxin. A team of sled dogs was sent to get the medicine from Anchorage and back to Nome. The trip was more than 1000 miles. In 1973, Joe Reddington thought that to honor the dogs that had saved Nome, there should be a race from Anchorage to Nome. The race is known as the Iditarod Race.

The weather in Alaska is really unpredictable. It could be freezing cold with blizzards or warm, which is dangerous because the ice could melt. Anything could happen on the trail.

Along the trail, mushers and dogs face many challenges together. They must work as a team. The Yukon River is one of many. On the trail there is a checkpoint on top of a mountain. That checkpoint is known as Rainy Pass. There are also many hills and rivers to complicate things. The mushers and dogs risk all to win the race.

Mushers and dogs work completely as a team. At the beginning, mushers must knit at least 1000 booties for the dogs. Booties are like shoes that dogs wear to protect their feet. A team is usually one musher and 17 to 18. Sometimes if a dog is sick of injured, then the musher leaves that dog at the next checkpoint. Over all there are usually about 70 racers. This year there were about 100. My musher is Lance Mackey. He won the 2007 Iditarod and this years Iditarod race.

Once again the reason I want to go to Alaska is to watch the Iditarod race. I would learn about sled dog racing, history and have FUN!!!!!!

From
Sabrina
]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=561447 2008-03-14T00:00:00-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=561487 2. Max Cause he is in a movie I like.
3. Emma Cause she is an actress I love.
4. Naomia cause she is a charcter in a book i love.
5.Jack. Cause he is a pirate in a movie I like.
6. Jake. Cause Jake is the name of my fav QB who plays for the WA Huskys.
7. Jennifer. Cause Jennifer was the name of one of my teachers.
8. Thorn. Cause Thorn is the name of a dragon i like.
9.Shadow. Cause he is named after my friends dog.
10.Jasmine. Cause she is the name of one of my friends.
11. Leia. Cause she is a charcter i like.
12: Lance. Cause Lance is the name of my musher.
13: Brett Cause he is the QB who plays for the Packers.
14:Goldilocks. Cause Gldilocks is my friend.
15: Violet. Cause Viloet is the name of my friend.
16: Tayrn. Cause Tayrn is my friends name too.
17 Tony . Cause Tony is the name of a b-ball player I like.
18: Snoopy. Cause Snoopy is my fav cartoon charcter.
19: MNM. Cause MNM are my friends initials.
20: Skittles: Cause I like Skttles.

]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=561487 2008-03-13T14:35:39-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=557052 So far my musher is Lance Mackey because Gary Paulson quit the race. Lance is doing so good. He only has 5 checkpoints so go by and He is in first place!
Learning about the geography, history and the dogs is so fun!]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=557052 2008-03-10T16:15:29-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=540653 Today she started us off with 38028/4(She said that the / means divided by so)

To make up a really good BIG division problem you have to think of the multiplues of the number that you are dividing by. In this case it's 4 so now you think of the basic facts of 4

The only pairs that I split the number into are
36000/4
2000/4
28/4=7
I got those because 38 can be split into 36 with 2 left over.
I got the 20 from the left over 2 from the 38 and the 0 in 38028.
Lastly I got the 28 from the last two numbers in 38028.

To figure out 36000 I started with 36 and built up.
36/4=9
360/4=90
3600/4=900
36000/4=9000
So to start out with a 9000. Now I do the same with the 2000 and 28.

I start with 20 and...
20/4=5
200/4=50
2000/4=500
...you have a 500 and a 9000=9500

Then you do the same with the 28...
28/4=7
and you have a 9000, 500 and a 7. Add them all up and you get 9507. Do you get it?
That is a really long way to division even though long division is doing all that in only a little work.]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=540653 2008-02-26T11:51:37-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=539498 Here is a link to get to the iditarod home page.
You can check out all the work my group has done. My group's name is Team Paulson.
I have Legolas in my group.He is, like me, from DragonBlogs.
Brett is from Mr. Ellis's class. He is in my group.
Naim E who is also in by group is from the school in Beriuet, ACS.
Butter is in my group but goes to school at Haultain in Canada.
On theIditrod official site there is a list of all the mushers and information on them. There is also a picture of them.
Here is a link to my musher
My musher is Gary Paulson.
I can't wait until the race startes!
]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=539498 2008-02-25T16:06:34-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=527367 Oh the Places You'll Go
]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=527367 2008-02-13T15:48:17-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=526116
Sabrina( :]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=526116 2008-02-12T18:55:32-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=519491 In choir, they sang alot of songs in different languages. It was really cool to hear.
In band, they played all sorts of different instruments. Together, it sounded AWESOME!
That field trip was one the most funnest one i've ever had! ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=519491 2008-02-06T16:15:01-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=514913 A conflict is when each person in the problem has a dirrerent side of the stort. Like if one person thinks that they should do one thing and the other person thinks another. Theat's a CONFLICT.

Bullying is always onesided. So if someone corners you and makes mean gestures and says mean things to you. ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=514913 2008-02-01T15:59:04-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=510141 There are other classes learing about this and we are going to split up my class into the other classes to each root for a different teams!
We havn't started it yet but I can't wait! It starts on March 1st of 2008!
I think you can just google Iditarod for more information.]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=510141 2008-01-29T16:00:28-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=510128 It's snowing here! I live in a lower part of city so I get less snow then most people, but I still got lots of snow! At my grandparents house, it snowed 1 foot in one day. There are hills like 9 feet of snow!!!! The grounds all white!]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=510128 2008-01-29T15:56:40-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=506760 My class is learning about the Revolutionary War, or the American Revolution. Either of those names are correct. Anyway here are two questions my teacher wanted me to answer.
Q1. Why did British Parliament decide to tax the colonists living in America?
Q2. Why did the colonists decide not to pay the taxes?
A1 The British taxed the colonies so that they would have to help pay for the war that protected them.
A1 The colonists responded by not paying the taxes because they thatouh it was unfair that they didn't have a say in this new tax law.

Other questions that YOU can answer.
Q1 Why did the colonists call the event that had happened in 1770 "The Boston Massacre"?
Q2 What kind of indians did the patriots dress up as on the night os the "Boston Tea Party"?
Just comment back.

]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=506760 2008-01-25T15:57:36-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=505391 My teacher, Professor Mcgonagall got us two new webkinz for our classroom pets!
A webkin is like an online pet. You play games to earn money to feed them, buy clothes for them and take care of them.
Our webkinz names are DragonDog and LilyLeopard. You build and create your webkinz names and rooms on the internet. It's really cool. To get there you have to first buy one(my teacher got them for a christmas present)then you just google "webkinz".

]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=505391 2008-01-24T16:14:11-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=502515 Over the Martain L. King holiday weekend, I went to my grandparents house where it had snowed like three feet! The best thing that happened was that the town that they live in, you could walk around it in 15 minuets. They dont need one of the roads that leads to the store and theater so they plow the streets and shove all the snow onto one unused street so there is alwyas a HUGE pile of snow there. Me and my family were there the whole weedend and it was awesome!]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=502515 2008-01-22T15:52:14-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=496058 Me and my class started a photostory project.We are using photostory to record our voices and turn them into where we read aloud from a picture book and add your voice to make it sound and look PROFESSIONAL.
First, we took the pictures of all the pages of the book.
Second, we cropped them and addded them to photostory.
Third, we custimized the motion the way we wanted. What I mean by that is we made it zoom in or out of a part of the picture of made it move across the picture like in movies.
Fourth, we recorded our voice and spoke the story into a microphone. It would imediatley add the voice to the story.
Last, we chose the music that you wanted for your story.
The book I read is Oh the Places You'll Go, by Dr. Seuss.
Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=496058 2008-01-15T15:59:20-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=490273 My old blog buddy was Trent from Pongakawa. I found out that instead of starting a new school year in the Fall, they start a new school year in the new year!
I start my school year in September. When do you start yours? ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=490273 2008-01-09T15:45:09-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=479720 Here is my I Am From poem

I am from being woken up at 6:00 in the morning. I am from hot waffels in the morning. I am from walking ot school every day. I am from an amazing teacher. I am from my friends. I am from my dad practically never coming home. I am from the smell of baking at home. I am fromn doing all my HOMEWORK. I am from folowing the smae rules every day. I am from giong to bed at 9:00 sharp. I am from being loved and loving back. I am from huddling up in my bed, waiting for sleep to carry me off... ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=479720 2007-12-18T13:40:42-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=473630 What are your Christams traditions?
Usually we travel somewhere, but this Christmas we are staying home. Then the day after Christmas we get up at 11:00 at night to drive to Seattle! Stinks doesn't it?!?!?!?!?!?!? The reason that we get up at 11 is because we have to go catch an airplane to Georgia then catch another plane to St John in the CARIBBEAN!!!!!
Cool huh? Are you doing anything for Christmas?
Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=473630 2007-12-11T15:58:59-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=387861 You know me, you love me, it's me SABRINA!!!!!!!!
I'm reading a book called THE GOLDEN COMPASS!!!!!!
The auther is Phillip Pullman. I am on page 84, and i'm already hooked. The main charcters are Lyra and her Daemon, Pantalaimon. They start telling you the story first without telling you anything about her, her Daemon or the setting.
Lyra has just been sent to live with a livley elegant woman named Mrs. Coulter. She says that they are going to travel north, but Pantalaimon doesn't think the same...
Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=387861 2007-12-06T16:08:45-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=384991 Here is another subtraction problem.
713-478=?
Here is how I would solve it.
713-400=313
313- 10=303
303- 3=300(Using landmark nunbers makes it esier)
300- 60=240
240- 5=235
That's how I would solve it. do you get it?
Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=384991 2007-12-04T15:59:23-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=383477 Sabrina here.
I'm here to tell you about an easy subtraction stratagie. It's called the Beastley/Easy stratagie. Don't ask me why, ask Smeagol. I DO know how to use it.
First, in a subtraction problem like 785-497 you want to break it up. The BEASTLEY number is the number that you keep the same.In this problem, the beastley number is 797. We call it the stratagie beastley/easy because you leave one number beastley and it's an easy way to slove subtraction problems. I would split 492 up as a 400. I would split the 90 up as an 80 and a 10. I would split the 7 up as a 5 and a 2.
Then I would take the 400 away from the 785 and it equals 385. Then 385-80=305, 305-5=300,
300-10=290, 290-2=288. Do you see how that works?
If so, it will make tough problems like that a lot easier.
Sabrina ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=383477 2007-12-03T16:03:32-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=378201 i'm here to talk about every thing a fifth grader should be able to do on the computer.

1:A fifth grader should know how to type fluentley enough.

2:A fifth grader should be able to send an email without help.

3:a fifth grader should be able to save and load things onto a flash drive.

Sabrina
]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=378201 2007-11-29T00:00:00-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=373847 How was your Thanksgiving?
This is wanted to tell you:My hobbit Name is Mara Sackville-Bracegirdle. Funny isn't it?!?!?!?
you can find yours at:
www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit
(or> just google "hobbit name")
Sabrina



]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=373847 2007-11-25T21:18:02-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=370985 What are you doing for Thanksgiving?
I'm having some of my family over. They are coming over today and staying for four days. I can't wait because they live on the other side of Washington so I don't get to see them much. Me and my mom did so much cooking and we still have a lot. We don't get to do anything after school excpet clean, clean, clean, But it's worth it.
Sabrina
]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=370985 2007-11-20T12:45:55-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=370960 I just finnished reading Children of the Lamp The Akhenaten Adventure. It was an AWESOME book I highley recomend it!
Now i'm reading a book called Double Identity. I am on page 60 and It's great so far.
Sabrina ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=370960 2007-11-20T12:41:11-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=364069 I just read an artcile in Mrs Browns classroom that said they celebrate a special holiday on November 11th. They call it Rememberance day. Do you think that it's the same as , what we celebrate, Vetrans Day? I do. I think that everywhere people are celebrating something special no matter what they call it. People are honohing Vertans.
Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=364069 2007-11-14T13:53:15-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=359894 Me and my class just had a lesson on bats.We learned a lot, but we mostly learned about ECOLOCATION. I learned that the bats make clicking sounds to high pitched for human ears to hear. They make clicking sounds so that if the sounds bounce back to the bat, there is an object in front of them and they know to avoid it.
The lesson was an amazing way to learn and have fun.
Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=359894 2007-11-09T17:09:41-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=358477 It's me Sabrina!
Me and my class just finnished an experiment with catapults.
We wanted to do a controlled experiment so first we changed the size of the thing we are flinging. First we started out with a big foil ball and we saw how HIGH it would go. We did the same with the medium, small and tiny balls. We recorded the results to see it there was a pattern in the answers. We did the same with all of the balls but, to see how FAR we could fling them.
The variable that made the most difference for HEIGHT, was the tension on the catapult.
The vairable that made the most difference for LENGHT, was how far the catapult was sticking out of the launcher.
A controlled experiment is an experiment that is controlled. You would test your experiment, and to try to make a difference, change a variable on the next time you do the experiment. Then, you would do the next test but, change a diffenert variable and so on.
Sabrina
]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=358477 2007-11-08T19:11:55-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=350609 I'm reading a book called Gregor the Overlander.
It's about a boy and his sister who fall in to a laundry grate and tumbble into the underland. there they learn that an overland "warrior" is to come and fufill a prophacy. The underlanders think that Gregor is that warrior...
I love this book.
Sabrina
]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=350609 2007-11-01T12:24:34-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=344927 Here are some of my favorate movies.
1:Harry Potter
2:Star Wars
3:The Pacifire
4:Spider Man
5:The Matrix
There are some of my favorate movies.
Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=344927 2007-10-26T15:56:22-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=344926 I here to talk about my top five favorate books.
1:Gregor the Overlander
2:Harry Potter
3:Series of Unfortunate Events
4:The Sisters Grimm
5:Eragon]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=344926 2007-10-26T15:54:36-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=336439 Here are some random things about me.
1:I am a black belt in karate.
2:I love all sports.
3:I was born in China.
4:I have no pets.
5:I love the Winter time.
6:My favorate holiday is Hallloween.
7:My favorate place in the world is right here.
]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=336439 2007-10-19T15:55:44-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=331986 I'm here to talk about blogging. I like blogging because it's a cool way to communicate with your friends, and a cool way to communicate with the world.I love lookign at what our classroom and what other fifth graders are learning about,thinking and reading. I alos can get on at home so I can talk to my friends there too.I think it's a great way to think.
Sabrina
]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=331986 2007-10-16T15:33:46-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=323961 Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=323961 2007-10-09T16:00:39-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=319423 I'm reading a book called Inkheart. It's a book about a girl named Meggie and her father, Mo. one night Meggie ooks out her window to see a man standing outside. Mo invites him in and calls him Dustfinger. The strange man stays through the night. Meggie wakes up to find that they are going to stay with her Aunt Elenor.
I am on page 90. I visulized the entrance to her property. The author decribes it so well I can almost see it for real.
Sabrina ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=319423 2007-10-04T14:33:20-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=311988 My class is talking about service.
I think that sevrice is doing something for one person or more. For example, one community service is picking up trash.
We, 5th graders can serve people around the neighborhood. We can do lots of things but some of them are, painting houses, walking dogs and mowing lawns.
Firefighters and police officers can help our community as a service.
All the armed forces help our country.
Sabrina ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=311988 2007-09-27T14:30:33-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=310485 Do you know why it's important to take care of our water on Earth? Because their will never be new water on Earth. That's why we need to take care of our water and not pollute. It's important to learn about the water cycle and water because if there is somethein that you're doing and you shouldn't than you will know to stop and chang the way you do things. ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=310485 2007-09-26T16:04:41-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304261 I'm talking about my typical weekend. On Saturdays I get up at 9:00, get dressed, and leave to my weapons class right away. when i get back it's usually about 11:45. I spent the rest of the day either cleaning, working outside or playing video games. Sunday is the only day of the week that I acually get to sleep in. It's just like the day befor but I don't have weapons in the morning. That's my typical weekend. what's your favoriate thing to do on the weekends?
Sabrina ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304261 2007-09-21T00:00:00-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304581 Whats your favoriate sport? Mine would be soccer. I like playing mid-fielder.
Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304581 2007-09-20T19:16:05-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304569 A compliment for our class is that we all work well with each other and we are a great group of kids. A suggestion to our class is to be quieter durring silent reading.
Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304569 2007-09-20T19:07:44-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304562 I used to think that a prime number is an even number and a composite number is an odd number. As you probably guessed, I'm talking about Prime and Composite numbers. A prime number is a number that only has 2 factors. Or in other words, a number that only has one factor pair. A composite number is a number that can be split up evenly more that once. An example of a prime number is 13 because the only factor pair is 1 times 13. An example of a composite number is 20 because it can be 2 times 10 equals 20 and 4 times 5 equals 20.
Thats what I know about prime and composite numbers.
Sabrina ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304562 2007-09-20T19:01:17-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304540 I'm here to talk about recess. It's a little boring because the field is closed. On the plus side that's the only time I get to see my friends that arn't in my class. We usually talk or play together.
Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304540 2007-09-20T18:48:56-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304534 My class is learning about pendulumes. At first I didn't even know that the word existed. Now I know that they can be used in a grandfather clock to measure the number of seconds. After we did the experiment, I changed my opinion on alot of things. First we agreeded that in a controled expermint that we would first change the lengh of the string. First we made it long. We wanted to see if the length of the string affected how many times the pendulume would swing back and forth in 15 seconds. We found out it did. We decided that the longer the string, the fewer the swings, and the shorter the string, the greater the swings. Then we changed the number of washers attached to the string. We started with only one washer then added on more after we had tested it three times. we found out that the number of washers didn't matter at all. It still swung back and forth the same amount of times in 15 econds. That's all I know about pendulumes.
Sincerely, Sabrina ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304534 2007-09-20T18:43:09-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304518 I'm reading the Sisters Grimm Books and I love them. If you like fiction books with lots fo fairy tale charctors then this is the book for you. In this book, Sabrina and Daphney start at the Ferry Port Landing school. Daphney's teacher is the famous fairy tale charctar Snow White. Sabrina is having trouble fitting in. Lots of strrange things are happening in her class...
From Sabrina ]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304518 2007-09-20T18:27:37-05:00 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304314 I'm here to talk about my nickname. I chose Sabrina because of a book I read, The Sisters Grimm Fairy Tale Detectives. it's about two girls named Sabrina and Daphney Grimm who discover that their ancestors are the famous Brothers Grimm. They learn the truth about the small town of Ferry Port Landing. It's citizans are really fairy tale charctores from all different stories such as the Big Bad Wolf, Little Red Ridinghood and many others. Their real mission is to try to find out who kiddnapped their parents.
Happy Reading, Sabrina]]> http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=304314 2007-09-20T16:24:42-05:00