Room 613 Student Blogs - 2005/2006

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.