Room 613 Student Blogs - 2005/2006

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

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!!!!!!!!!!!

Mahatma Gandhi (see picture above left) was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandr, Gulart, India. When he was 13 years old he married his wife Kasturba (see picture above right) and latter had 4 sons. He grew up in a hindu family (hinduism teaches people to live peacefully). He went to England and studied law and then spent 20 years defending indians in South Africa. During that time Great Britain occupied India and treated its people as slaves and gave them no rights. The people were grossly abused. Ganghi did not believe this treatment was fair and decided to lead (or try to lead) a non-violent protest against the government. One of the famous movements was the “quit india movement” when he asked his followers to give up British titles, schools and anything else British. He had to stop the protest because to many British policeman were being killed by indians and blacks who didn’t agree with Gandhi’s non-violent ways. He served 7 years in jail. After serving his jail sentence he tried again to protest peacefully. He was successful with 10 million people supporting him. The British left the country.

Gandhi was a vegetarian and made his own clothes and lived simply. He tried to achieve by learning from his mistakes and experimenting with himself. Sadly, he was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic during a prayer in New Delhi, India. He lived a good life and no one will forget him. He inspired many world leaders like Martin Luther King. Too bad he died of what he preached against most, violence!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi

the picture is also from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi

Runescape is an online adventure game by Jagex. When you sign up for Runescape you first select your age then you type in a username of your choice and check the availability then you read and agree to the terms & conditions, and you’re finshed signing up. Then you play!! First you select a world (my favorite world is 85) and sign in.  After signing in you create a person then the game takes you through training island where you learn to play. After that you’re on Runescape.  I recommend going and destroying a few goblins so you can get Runescape money.  The best item to buy with your Runescape money (that willl help you the most) is a newcomer map.  It will tell you where you are on Runescape.  After that you should have fun and meet new people.  Who knows, they could be from China or France.  But remember don’t give out personal information.  It is ok to say your country.  It’s interesting to learn where in the world people are from.  If you need help on Runescape my name is leofire94.   I’ll be sure to help you!!

www.runescape.com

++Make sure you get your parents permission first!  Mr. H.

I write this to you with sadness for our great leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died last night.  I’m sorry for the smudging; I can’t hold back my tears when I think about him.  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was born on March 12th 1881 in Thessaloniki, Greece.  I was just born when he first became the leader of Turkey 15 years ago in the year of 1923.  In the years since he made many improvements in the lives of my people.  He gave women the right to vote, let women/girls go to school, introduced the Roman alphabet which is my second language and ordered all Turks to chose a family name.  He was given the name Ataturk that means father of the Turks. 

My favorite quote of his is “Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives…you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country, therefore rest in peace.  There is no difference between Jonnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side.  Here in this country of ours…you, the Mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears.  Your sons are now lying in our bossom and are in peace.  After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”  I think that this was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s finest speech given at the Anzac Memorial in 1934.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk lived a relatively short but fulfilling life which he dedicated to improving the lives of others.  Now you know why I and my fellow countrymen are grieving and why he will be greatly missed.

Phillies bear is a honored member of our class along with Mr.Bell (a bell). I got to take Phillies Bear home with me over a week of vacation. During this week Phillies Bear and I went lots of places.To start I had a little party with Kim and Amanda  (they each brought a bear.) He got to have lunch with Kim’s gigantic bear that took up the whole couch and Amandas purple bunny. The next day he decided to learn what the church i and many other classmates go to. We had a fun time drawing while listening to our teacher Mrs.Sharp read some of the bible. The next morning we got up early at 5:45 am to go to my gradmas who grew up in Philadelphia. That day we went to Bobs for new shoes and Marshals for a new suitcase, then we came home and made my grandpa lunch. After that we ran back out for a 1:00 movie (Eight Below) and then came home, made dinner then watched the olympics late on into the night. The next day me and my grandma went to a travel agency to plan our trip to Washington DC. The next day we stayed home [and]watched a couple of movies. We did lots of chores and more movies. The next day my dad and mom took the day off to go to Mystic Aquarium then out to a pub for a delicious luncn. On Saturday he met my bunny 40. He’s a very big BIG bunny. We let him inside our kitchen for the day because he was so dirty that I tried to give him a bath without much luck :*( .and that was my week with Phillies Bear.

If I could go anywhere in the world it would be Egypt, because Egypt has a very interesting history, with the pyramids, mummification, art, hieroglyphs, gods, and more. I would like to go and see the ruins and travel by camel back through the Valley of the Kings and see the sphinxes and lots lots more.