Room 613 Student Blogs - 2005/2006

The new address for this years Room 613 Student Blogs 0607 is http://hetherington0607.learnerblogs.org

For the 7th graders who are reading this message, feel free to post here for as long as you wish. If you forget your password, just see me at school and I’ll give you a new one. You were truly pioneers of this communications medium at our school. Don’t forget to stop by this year’s site and leave a friendly comment for one of the new 6th grade writers. They would really appreciate it.

Mr. H.

Several 7th graders (Maya, EmelieV, Heather A., and Meghan) came in today with questions from Mr. Huntington’s class about the English and French thinkers from the Enlightenment. Here is a link to a set of notes titled Class 9: The French Enlightenment describing that period in history.

The notes on Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau are short but serve as a nice summary of their important accomplishments. Many of their ideas formed the foundation for the philosophies of the founding fathers of the United States.
Thank you Paul Halsall Ph.D. History from Fordham University and the Internet History Sourcebooks Project.

Illustration: Two Treatises of Government written by John Locke in 1690.

Surprisingly, nobody has posted anything for quite awhile…( it took me an hour to remember my password) And seeing how the summers almost over, it would be wise to go on your PC. While you do so, here are some sites to visit. Go to YouTube for all the latest videos(in fact in a article I read they are trying to purchase every music video ever made) For awesome games to make your hand-eye-coordination better go to, JoyTube. Have a good end of the summer everyone.

Whether he is sitting in his celebrity chair or on a piece of paper, everyone know’s the cool cat with the name Garfield!

Thanks to Jim Davis’s funny imagination Garfield has became a kitty with fame! Not to mention, the producer’s of Garfield The Movie and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties also help boost him to become that cat we all know and love!

So remember, garfield is more then just a cat, okay?

Image from http://www.osobnosti.cz/images/filmy/4912.jpg

Blue = Chocolate Ice Cream

Red = Vanilla Ice Cream

Google has an interesting new site called Google Trends. It allows you to review search patterns from the Google search database. In the above example, I asked Google Trends to compare searches for Chocolate v. Vanilla Ice Cream (I like Vanilla.) The site also provides information on the countries where most of the searches come from and the language most often used. Try it out. You can compare anything; Yankee’s and Red Sox, Math and Science, Dogs and Cats etc. Share some of your findings in the comments section.

Nancy McKeand, who has commented on some of your posts, discovered this fun way to learn about active and passive sentences.

Here is a quick quiz. Which of the following sentences is active, and which is passive and WHYyyyyyy?
Derek Jeter drove the ball deep into the seats.

The ball was driven deep into the seats by Derrek Jeter.

Not sure, go to the above link and learn from the lego guy, Troy Sterling.

Everyone has their favorite car manufacturers but my favorites are BMW and Mercedes-Benz. I have always hade a thing for luxury cars and speed. These two cars give it both. My alltime favorite cars from both Mercedes and BMW are the two flagship (if the company had a flag that car would go on it) cars. The flagship car for Mercedes is the S-600. The flagship car for BMW is the 760Li. Both of these cars are fast and offer luxury. The Mercedes “STAR” stand for “land, air, and sea” because those are the engines they make. BMW stands For “Bavarian Motor Works”

Specifications

Price- $140,675

Engine- 5.5L 36-valve Biturbo V-12 engine

Net Power- 510 hp @ 5,000 rpm

Net Torque- 612 lb-ft @ 1,800- 3,500 rpm

Specifications

Price- $118,400

Engine- 6.0 L V12

Net Power- 438 hp @ 6,000 rpm

Net Torque- 444 lb-ft @ 3,950 rpm

If all you people have a favorite show what is it and why? Well I have one. It’s Hogan Knows Best. It’s a family show that tells what they do and how they live. The father is a wrestler. The mother is a stay home mom taking care of her 15 year old son Nick and 18 year old Brooke. Brook is a singer and her album will come out soon. Well Nick just likes working on his car and he may take over the father’s job cause his father has to stop working, thats how bad his injurys are. With a lower back problem, Linda his wife says STOP wrestling. So now you have the scoop on the show, so watch sometime and you will  love it. 

You look down and see an animal that is mostly clear. A small tail tucks in as the little creature squiggles around a bit. After minute’s of staring you finally recognize it as a shrimp. A ghost shrimp to be exact.

Ghost shrimps are peaceful creatures that are a good choice for aquariums. Although ghost shrimp are small so putting them in an aquarium with fish mean’s you’re taking a risky chance. You better put many hiding spots if you’re putting them with fish!

Ghost shrimps are clear making part’s in there body visible. If you look closely you might see the food they ate {Sorry for the grossness}. These shrimp also have ten pair’s of legs. The first four include tiny claws on the ends.

Ghost shrimp’s are amazing animal’s in many ways. You should go get one and observe it’s fine details. Good luck!

Gulp (left), Room 613’s classroom plant, is happy and well-watered, in his summer quarters, Mr. H’s back porch.

We’ve had good times, and bad times in sixth grade. We’ve had time’s where we all laugh, and time’s where someone is toast. Anyways, we’ve all had many times, and they all are important in their own special way.

I’d just like to thank everyone for making all those “time’s” happen whether they were good or bad.

Also, I hope everyone has a good summer and I’ll see alot of you next year!

**Ps: This will be my last post on Room 613 Student Blogs. Thanks Mr. Hetherington for making the blog in the first place. =’)

-Sara

When You Left
by Sarah D.

I’m lying in bed
Your voice is in my head
Can’t get you out of my mind
You were so friendly so kind
All the good times we had
Until we got really mad
Things have changed since you went away

My heart is empty
Everythings a blurr
I wish things were back to how they were
Things have changed since you went away

Everythings quiet
I don’t know what to do
All I can say is that I really miss you
Things have changed since you went away

Everythings different
Everythings changed
And now that your gone things won’t be the same
Things have changed since you went away

Well everyone knows what time it’s going to be right? And of course by that I mean summer vacation! I think the year has flown by. I hope all of the staff of grade six and all of it’s students can say that it has been a year to remember. […]… Have A great summer!!!

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR !

Why Me?

By Allie B

Every day when you walk into school you trip up the steps and ask, “Why me?”

Every day some one makes fun of you, you ask “Why me”

Every night your dinner’s cold and no ones home and you ask “Why me?’

Every dream is a night mare waiting to come true and you ask “Why me?”

Every step aches from sleeping on the floor and you ask “Why me?”

Every smile is crooked, bent and ugly, and you ask “Why me?”

And every boy seams to hurt you and you ask, “Why me ?”

And every girl seams to hate you so, ask “Why me?”

Every thing goes wrong and you ask, “Why me?”

But then you stop tripping, and there are no teasing voices, but “Why?”

And dinners hot and the tables crowded, but, “Why?’

And at night it’s soft beds and sweet dreams, but “Why?’

And your smile doesn’t seem as bad, but “Why?’

Boys are nice and no more rumors are spread, but “Why?”

And everything is right. Why? Because you’ve got a friend who takes you into her house, her family, under her wing. You’re safe, she saves you.

There is someone everywhere who experiences, “Why me?”’s and there are friends who help them, so be a friend and stop “why me” ’s from hitting your school.

Say good night moon before rest because tomorrow there will be sun,

Say good night moon every night because tomorrow it maybe gone

Say good night moon every night for there maybe no tomorrow and no moon

Say good night moon for it’s there to listen to you and lull you to sleep

Say good night moon cause I said so!

Live Each Day……

By Allie B

Live each day like the sun won’t come up again,

Live each day like the world will blow tomorrow,

Live each day like you were dying

Live each day to it’s fullest

Life doesn’t have a purpose with- out the kid that sits behind you just to make you crack up!

Live each day like it will be your last laugh

Live each day like the person you love most will disappear

Live each day for the smiles will fade

Live each day peacefull and happy

Live each day until it’s your last!

Dedicated to all those who take their life for granted.

Nessy — The Ultimate Loch Ness Monster

The ultimate Loch Ness monster otherwise known as Nessy is a tale that has been going on for years.

First we’ll start off talking about Nessy’s appearance. Nessy is supposedly supposed to look like a salamander kind of with a long neck, chubby body, four fins, and a tail.

So far their is no proof of Nessy’s existence but many people claim to have seen him or her but they do know where Nessy lives, that place would be Loch Ness!

Deciding if Nessy is real or not is hard to decide, especially when you see how many people claim to have once seen the beautiful monster and some evidence they have found.

Here is tooth supposedly belonging to Nessy:

But then again, their are many things that could be mistaken for this creature such as in this case. The following picture was believed to be actual proof of nessy for quite some time but then one person found out that this was an imposter. Very sadening if you ask me!

Using this we can now say that how do we know that these people arent lying about what they saw or maybe someone is setting an imposter. Plus, this tale has been carried on for years, I would think that Nessy would have died by now. Unless, maybe, just maybe Nessy is breeding! Plus, dont you think that if Nessy was real someone other then best friends that could be setting a scam would have seen him or her by now? I mean, where could the tooth had come from? A dinasaur perhaps?

Is Nessy real or fake? What do you think?

Recently our weblog was reviewed by 7th grade students from another school. As part of their assignment, the students of Room 140 were asked to read and blog about five student blogs from around the world. Room 613 Student Blogs was first on their review list and many students made very positive comments on your work. Here are just a few of the comments from the Room 140 students:
“I think that the blogs are very interesting. I think so because they are detailed and persuasive. The one that I liked the most was Room 613 Student Blogs because they had very interesting articles. One of them was The Poison Dart Frog. This article gives me immense information on the frog such as what it looks like, how it can harm us, and they also provide pictures of it.”

Way to go Kosta!

“I read multitudes of middle school blogs today were interesting and interactive, but some are not. There was one blog titled “Room 613″ and it was truly amazing. There blog had astonishing details and animation. There is an ocean of articles and information in this blog. In this blog I found a game called club penguin. The person who wrote this made that game sound exiting and not boring. The blog about Club Penguin told you how to play the game and was very detailed.”

Good Job SaraH.

“The kids in Room 613 have one of those blog sites. What makes this site so cool is that it talks about a lot of stuff, like as if they can right whatever they want, but isn’t that what a blog is for…YEA! They talk about the Three Gorge Dam, humorous photos, TV programs, science, space, etc. This blog also is like the normal life of a middle school kid, fun and interesting. It is very interesting and made me not want to stop reading it. Because of its perfect combination of pictures and text, it will always make a person wide awake and might teach them something in the process.”

And finally

WOW! You have a really creative and informative page. Love your pictures because it catches reader’s attention. The banana phone is really funny. Maybe that will be the next popular thing. The links where you got the information from is a very helpful tool. I like that you have multiple information. Such as science, some history, and important people. It’s like a one stop information page. Your writing is excellent as well, big words and great opinions.

Room 613 Students, I’m very proud of your accomplishments this year. Keep writing!

Mr. H.

Here is a link to flash cards and matching games so you can practice for Friday’s map quiz. Don’t forget to also study the locations of the South American countries. You can find a fun interactive map activity here.

Pig Latin is Cool

Funny and amusing too

igpay atinlay

National Symbol

Mount Fuji, king of mountains

A beautiful sight

By: Jake S. 6E

DRAGONS

Dragons amazed

Keepers of nature’s beauty

Guardians of earth

FAIRYTALE CREATURES

Fairytale creature

Wonder of nature’s hope

Goodbye forever

LUNA

Creature’s of night love

Luna moth bask in beauty

Luna forever more

FAIRY

Wonderful colors

As you sit there queen fairy

I keep you secret

Softball always fun
Picking you up when you’re down
Never very bad

Dogs energetic
Always plays in the springtime
And ready to eat

Animals peaceful
Always full of emotions
Sometimes boisterous

The fresh cool water

A relaxing swim across

Sand is in my toes!

Nature looks like peace.

Nature is very pretty.

Do you like Nature?

Amanda is nice.

And I sleep over her house,

We have lot’s of fun!!

Here is a pic of a Haiku:

I got this pic at: www.haiku.com or just go to google.

Amber R is cool
We do have fun together
We like to eat food

Tigers are awesome
Dragons are better hunters
Haiku is over

When I go to Maine

I ride my quad into town

It is really fun!

Over the weekend I got to see The Lion King at the Bushnell. I would recommend the fascinating play to anyone. It has the classic story with amazing costumes. My favorite part was in the beginning when they sang “The Circle of Life.” All the animal appeared and my favorite one was the elephant that must have had four people in the legs. The lioness had excellent masks. The costumes were made so you could see the face of the actor but so they still looked life like. Also the singers did excellent, even the monkey that portrayed her part excellently. I would give this play five stars *****. Go see for yourself!!!!!!!!!!!

As student council is coming to end and the new elections are being held next year I think. I better inform you all about it!

Student council is an excellent program. That is why you should run for it! The awesome activities after school are sure to keep you busy! There are also meetings every other Friday morning. We also hold dances, activity nights and fundraisers, such as the candy stick sale. Council members help collect food for drives and help out with things such as the upcoming art show. Also we get into most sponsored dances free!

There is also our director, Mr Jollif! He is very nice and fun and keeps us all in line. He organizes our field trips to conferences, our fun dances and activity nights. He also greets us every morning with an announcement sheet. Some(times) we can talk on the morning annoucements. Mr J also goes and gets us donuts, o.j. and bagels. All in all Mr J rocks!

Last but not least is the meetings. Each meeting is semi packed with fun ideas and thoughts for the up coming events. We discuss the last event we held and talk about how much $money$ we made. We have so much fun, sometimes we goof around but you didn’t hear it from me! Student council is the greatest activity in school and keeps you always busy!

So next year I hope you run for the fun and fantastic Student Council!

Horses very fun
Horses are very peaceful
Best part of my day

Nature is so sweet.

The bird’s are chirping loud.

Bird’s build their own nest’s.

Do you run through each day

On the fly?

When you ask “how are you”?

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done

Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores

running through your head.

You’d better slow down

Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won’t last.

Ever told your child,

We’ll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

not see thier sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time

To call and say, “Hi”

You’d better slow down.

Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won’t last.

When you run fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

Its like and unopened gift….

Thrown away.

Life is not a race

So do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

Written by David L. Weatherford and published under his name in 1991.

Live everyday of your life like you were dying.

The test is stressful

Maddy and Meagan hate it.

That is the END

STARE AT ALL THE IMAGES FOR ABOUT 30 SECONDS AND YOU WILL BE AMAZED!!!! IF YOU CLICK ON THE IMAGES THEY WILL BRING YOU TO THE WEBSITE I GOT THEM FROM!

Growing in the field

Greens, pinks and purples looks great

The flowers look good

Barbaro the winner of the Kentucky Derby broke his legand had 23 screws put in during his 5 hour surgery! Barbaro is supended in a warm water pool during recovery and will stay there as long as possible. They might have put him down since the surgery cost a little under 1 million dollars and he will suffer much pain at times, not to mention the risk of disease. They have decided to keep him alive because he is an expensive horse and can be kept for breeding. Although he may not live ( he only has a 50% chance of surviving) he legend will. The day started and he was ready for the race. He had already won the Kentucky Derby! A false start was called on him. He must have been nervous and excited all at once, and could have popped the bone slightly in the false start. As he made his way out his was some 8/13 around the track when the jockey must have heard a pop! The jockey stopped him from going on(this is only what I have heard from the onlookers ) “they saved his live” some one said! But he is alive and now is recovering!

The Mighty Dragon

Dominant Flyers of Earth

Until Humans Grow

Ruling Over Earth

Chinese Mythical Creature

Gone But Remembered

My Birthday

First day of summer,

The day of my own birthday,

I shall celebrate.

Teammates running fast

Running at a meet can be,

Very tiring

Reese licks my face

I smile, laugh and hug her

We run to go play

Horses

Beautiful horses,

How wonderful and graceful

Highlight of my day

Tigers

Tigers, always free

Free to hunt and roam in peace

Until we hurt them

Home

My wonderful home

So welcoming and loving

My sanctuary

P.S. My tiger poem is about how tigers are endangered because of humans.

1. The wind blows gently

2. It beckons me to do things

3. The wind is incredible

By: Matthew m 6h

Oliver Twist

Just recently in the sixth grade chorus we finished performing the play, Oliver Twist.

Oliver Twist is about a little boy named Oliver who is an orphan who finds himself living in a work house owned by Mr. Bumble but after Oliver asks for more gruel he gets transfered to an undertaker. Oliver doesnt seem to like his new home with undertakers so he runs away and is found on the street by a boy named Jack Dawkins, who offers him shelter in a house owned by Fagin. Fagin is a man who trains orphans to pick pockets for him. Oliver stays with them for awhile but once he goes on his first “mission” involving stealing a hankerchief Oliver becomes scared and runs away. Then he is found by owner of the hankerchief and a man named Mr. Brownlow, who takes care of Oliver for awhile while he is fainted but then Mr. Brownlow’s and Oliver’s relationship is ruined when a man named Bill Sikes finds him and takes him back to Fagins hideout. Will Oliver be happy to be back with Fagin? Will he want to return to Mr. Brownlow? Will Oliver become a pick pocket master? Read the book, watch another play or see the movie of Oliver Twist to find out what happens.

Anyways, It was a blast, however, we had a little problem with opening the curtains but eventually the whole play went good and everyone pulled off a great performance!

We have been in school since the beggining of the school year! Finally we have reached the end! With only 4 in a half weeks left of school, we are all very excited for the summer. Im sure the teachers are too!

The Three Gorges Dam is located in China and is one of those things where it is getting built and yet some people are still very unhappy with it. I know I dont like the idea at all! Some people say “well it’s already about half built and it would be a waste of millions of dollars to stop now and we would go back to polluting the air with nuclear power plants.” The Three Gorges Dam is designed to generate 18.2 million kilowatts of electricity. That is 1/7 of Chinas total electricity for a year and it equals to 18 nuclear power plants. It will reduce air pollution that would have been made from nuclear power plants and it will control down river flooding. One thing that most people like about the dam is that it lets boats and ships go 1500 miles further inland. Others say “this is damaging the environment just stop now.” The dam will kill many animals including birds and fish. Also the dam will put 150,000 acres under water that include 140 towns, 320 villages, 1500 factories and many historical sites. So as this is all going under water more then 1 million people will be relocated.
So after all there is a debate some people may like the idea of finishing the dam and some may hate the idea. “I hate the idea to finish the dam it will put so many historical sites under water and then the history will be gone!” explained Heather. “Plus”, added Allie “it will cost around 32 billion dollars and it may not stop flooding”. “It will let boats move 1500 miles further inland, but it will slow them down because they will have to go around the dam in the locks or elevator.”

I got my resources from:

www.wikipedia.com

www.googlesearch.com

http://pic.templetons.com/brad/photo/china/boats/img_6946.jpg

http://www.dola.state.co.us/oem/images/floodpic.jpg

http://www.greendiary.com/images/nuclear_power_plant5.jpg

http://www.index-china.com/index-english/images/CHINA%20map.gif

Here are some web sites that contain information on Japan

CIA World Factbook - Japan- good site to find interesting facts about Japan. GNP, population, type of government etc.

The Japan Times - Japan’s leading english language newspaper.

Japan Railways Group - train information

Airfare information:

Delta Airlines

Asia.com - Airfare and hotel information

Map of Japan - detailed maps of all of Japan’s islands

Is it just me or is this dog winking at you?

Lion King 2 Summary

Director: Darrel Rooney / Co-Director: Rob LaDuca

Voice Cast: Matthew Broderick (Simba), Neve Campbell (Kiara), Andy Dick (Nuka), Robert Guillaume (Rafiki), James Earl Jones (Mufasa), Moira Kelly (Nala), Nathan Lane (Timon), Jason Marsden (Kovu), Suzanne Pleshette (Zira), Ernie Sabella (Pumbaa), Michelle Horn (Young Kiara)

As we all know, The Lion King left off with a new cub born. Her name, Kiara. In the beginning they show Kiara growing up. Being a adventurous and very curious cub. She was thrilled alot just by chasing grasshoppers! Although, Simba was very overprotective in the movie. He even gave her “guards”, Timon and Pumbaa, as Zazu was his own. Also, Simba tries hard to follow in his fathers paw prints.

Later on in the story, Kiara manages to escape from Timon and Pumbaa and explore the Pride Lands on her own. She finds Kovu on her adventure, a young male lion, like any other lion, persay, except he was one that was banished from the Pride Lands like the rest of his family. But to Kiara, that didnt matter. She thought that they were all equal and all the same. If only the others could see that too…

Kovu’s mother dislikes Kiara and her family very much, for they are the generations of Lion that have thrown them out of the family for obvious reasons. Simba forbids Kiara from having contact (friendship) with Kovu. Kovu’s mother does the same, untill she realizes that this may give her the chance she has been waiting for. Think about it, Kovu could get into Kiara’s family, “become one of them”, and then turn on them. That way her son (Kovu) could become the King.

Will Kovu take over the pride lands? What will happen to Kovu and Kiara’s love? Will It fade away? To find out go watch the movie, and remember like It says in the Lion King Two song I posted earlier, “