Room 613 Student Blogs - 2005/2006

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.

Last Wednesday Mr.Hetherington, me, Emily M., Sam M.,an Sara H took a trip to the state legislative office building for the CECA Tech Expo, a technology convention. While we were there we talked to many people about our grade’s very own website and the Room 613 podcast. Some of the other demonstrations at this fair were students with family trees, and some students even had their own handhelds. Our school was one of about 30 schools. We had our own table and our website set up on Mr.Hetheringtons laptop. We also had our third podcast playing. Many people had questions about these two things that our school experences and some people didn’t even know what these things were. My favorite part of the trip was getting to meet new people and telling them about our podcast and our website. Now you may think that Mr Hetherington did all the talking right? Well he didnt, while we were talking about our school Mr Hetherington was off looking at some of the other schools presentations. Well, that’s what we did on Wednesday on our field trip to the L.O.B

These two great cities [are] both located in present day Pakistan, each with great culture, techniques, and religion!

Can you believe that the first traces of civilization in India was around 2000 B.C? Well studies show that the first two cities were called Harappa and Mohenjodaro. These two cities were very complex, and they where in what is now present day Pakistan. The people of these cities most likely settled at this spot because they got moved there by the Aryans. Also research says that the citizens liked the fresh water and farming grounds. A surprising fact is that both cities used the same kind of burnt brick for their houses even though they were hundreds of miles apart. The Indus Valley people were very good farmers. Some crops were cotton, sesame, peas, and barley. Besides farming they Indus Valley people were in the merchant class, that used trading with other cities. The women in these cities were always dressed in fine jewelry and they had a good sense of taste. To start these two civilizations the citizens did not have to clear a large portion of forests because they were in the middle of a desert. That’s a good thing too because if they did have to the wouldn’t have the technology. Though they didn’t have to clear large portions they did have to clear some space. They did this by using bronze or stone based items. Both of these cities were ruled by priests and not by a king or queen. Certain clay figures(insert hyperlink here) have been found at the sites where the priests had been. These clay figures are a mother goddess and a male sitting on the ground doing yoga with animals around him. So you may wonder what happened to these two great civilizations? Well the Aryans attacked both of these great cities and they both fell.

At the begging of this project I had no idea what this first two cities were like, but now I know so much more and I had a fun time researching them. I also learned how to put a link in the middle of my story. I can really benefit from that because now I can use it in later projects.

I got my information form

http://www.punjabilok.com/land/indriver_vallycivil1.htm

http://www.punjabilok.com/land/indriver_vallycivil1.htm

Image from http://www.gosai.com/chaitanya/saranagati/html/vedic-upanisads/indology/harrapa.jpg

Can you believe that on January 28 an earthquake stuck Eastern Indonesia? Well at 1:58 a.m it hit the Banda sea in Eastern Indonesia. The earthquake had a 7.7 magnitude,but a depth of 212 miles which made the impact less on the Earth’s surface. Even though you may think that this earthquake caused lots of damage it didn’t and there is no chance that a tsunami would occure.”Although it was quite strong, it was deep, so the possibility of casualties and damage is relatively small,” Yusuf, an official at the national earthquake center in Jakarta, told Reuters on Saturday. Earthquakes are common in Indonesia and its 17,000 thousand islands are located around the Pacific ring of fire,so that is why there are so many earthquakes! Now you know about the earthquake in Eastern Indonesia.

Ref:http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_international.asp?id=125629

Can you believe that The Suez Canal is 120 miles long? Well it is. An amazing fact about The Suez Canal is that about 25,000 ships pass though it every year. The maximum depth of the canal is 23 meters allowing ships a maximm drought of 62 feet. In case you don’t know what a drought is, it is the length from the bottom of a boat to the bottom of the canal. Many, many people from Asia used to have to sail all around Africa to be able to trade with Europe. The Canal connects two parts the north and south ends of the Bitter Lake. Now because that is connected it links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

If I could go anywhere in the world I would go to Europe. I would go there because I want to see the beautiful churches and landscapes. Also I would want to see Big Ben and be able to see many landforms. While I’m there I want to get a tour across all of Europe. Last I would want to go to Wales England because I have friends that live over there and I would want to see where they live.

Hi Brianne. This is a test.