http://hetherington.learnerblogs.org A learning network for Mr. Hetherington's 6th grade social studies students Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:12:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://hetherington.learnerblogs.org/2006/11/12/new-site-for-20062007/ 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 ... http://hetherington.learnerblogs.org/2006/09/08/the-enlightenment/ 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 ... http://hetherington.learnerblogs.org/2006/08/19/awesome-sites/ 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 ... http://hetherington.learnerblogs.org/2006/07/17/the-cat-with-power/ 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 ... http://hetherington.learnerblogs.org/2006/07/08/google-trends/ 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 ... http://hetherington.learnerblogs.org/2006/07/08/active-and-passive-legos/ 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 ... http://hetherington.learnerblogs.org/2006/07/07/the-two-greatest-car-manufacturers-in-the-world/ 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 ... http://hetherington.learnerblogs.org/2006/07/06/hogan-knows-best/ 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 ... http://hetherington.learnerblogs.org/2006/07/06/look-at-that-thing/ Gulp (left), Room 613's classroom plant, is happy and well-watered, in his summer quarters, Mr. H's back porch. http://hetherington.learnerblogs.org/2006/07/04/gulps-summer-home/