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 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.

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.

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.

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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.

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!

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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!

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