Carli’s Blog

Today in L.A. we handed in our packets for the book we read called the westing game. We were supposed to fill in the packet while we read. The packet said The 16 heirs and you had to write about the person. We had to fill in the persons age, occupation, motives, what they look like, clues and other comments. For all 16 of them. Then we watched the movie of the westing game but it was called Get A Clue. It was Way different then the book because it only had half of the heirs and and the parters were mixed up from the book though we didn’t finish the movie and were going to watch the rest tomorrow the book was way better.

Today in s.s we took a test on Mexico. We had two sheets to study off of. We had 15 multiple choice questions and 5 matching questions. We also had two maps of  South America and one and on the islands near it. We had a word bank. We studied  the map off of http://ilike2learn.com/ and quizzed our selves. At the end of the test we took article out and read the story’s. We discussed the paper at the last five minutes of class. The test  was easy or hard depending  on how good you studied.

The last 3 days in math class our grade has been taking the final exam. its a test to see what we have learned and improved at. at the beginning of the year we took a test on what we would be learning it was hard and we didn’t do good. then we took a test in the middle of the year to to see how much we’ve learned since the beginning of 6th grade. on our final exam we are graded for two things. there are some things that we didn’t learn about so we circled them and that meant that they didn’t count but you should try them. that was to see how much you now out of all that and the 7th grade teacher will see it. and the second grade was just to see what we learned though it still counts for a test. on the test we had questions on dividing decimals ,turning decimals into percents or fractions, placing a number on a number line (inequality’s) and alot more. thats what our final exam was.

In social studies on Friday we took notes on India from a movie. We learned about the Hindu ceremonies, the varanasi, and the Ganges river.

The Hindu ceremonies are the first topic I will write about. So, the first thing you probably want to learn about is that they take place at dawn and dusk in there home. Then after their baths they start to pray/worship their god. They go to a family shrine and start praying in Sanskrit. Occasionally the woman will gather in a group and sing hymns for one of their gods.

Next I will explain to you about the Varanasi. Now you should no that Varanasi was really important because people came their before their death. Also the British built railroad tracks when they ruled India. Can you believe that cows were there sacred animal? Plus 670,000,000 are Hindu.

Finally I will explain to you about the Ganges River and how filthy it is. The people who go in the Ganges River are use to the river but if somebody from the United States went in the Ganges they would probably get sick. The Ganges River is were the people prayed. Lots of people go there but there are cremation ghats that cremate bodies into the sea.

That’s what our social studies movie taught us.

Nightfall                                      

The stars blinked as I watched the sky.

Along my side at the dark night the leaves whispered at me.

I came to a pond and the water whistled as I walked home.

And the snow observed me as I stomped through the mist.

Then finally I was home and the roof sparkled from the heavy snow.

Barbaro was a great race horse. he was the 6th horse to be undefeated at the Kentucky Derby. On may 20th when he raced in the Preakness Stakes he fell on the ground and fractured 3 bones.

These were the previous winners. Barbaro died  january 29 from his pains of his last injury.

Barbaro might be buried at Church Hill downs.

Coffee is a very common drink that people all over the world drink. there are many different kinds.uring the 1860’s civill war we were going down on coffee supply.So, Billy Yank and Johnney Reb created a subsitute coffee. Below is there recipe to show you how different it is to real coffee.
Dry brown bread crusts
Rye grain soaked in rum
Peas
1 handful small acorns, hulled, mixed with 1 handful cracked wheat

All these substitutes were roasted (only one type at a time) and then ground as coffee. They could also be mixed half-and-half with real coffee to extend it. Some believed it made “coffee” richer and clearer if a bit of butter or a whole egg (shell and all) was broken and dropped into the coffee substitute and stirred just before it was finished roasting and ground. Sweetening like honey was frequently added to make the brew more palatable.

At home, it was believed that if you had no cream to add to the coffee, it was an improvement to boil your milk and use it while still hot.

Today in science we worked on the muscular system. Well first we handed in our final draft essays about the skeletal system. Than we got new packets and had to reorganize them. eventually we filled in the questions on pg.31. one of the questions was like a math fact it said if a girl weighed 85 pounds, approximately how much of our weight is muscle we divided it and got 29.75. We filled in our syllabus #1 for the rest of the class. that was what our class was on.

Oil is going down
In social studies the past few days we had a assignment on oil.We don’t have a lot of supply on oil left because we use it it in transportation to big trips and heating homes. Scientists belive that 2.6 trillion barrels are how much oil we have and only 1.7 are actully found, the rest are formed into rocks or we can’t locate it. Another problem is O.P.E.C.(Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)the supply of oil is going down but the demand is staying so basicly everybody wants the oil. To solve that problem people are creating oil free things that run on energy for example some one made a car called the Mini Cat. The oil is mostly in O.P.E.C. countries like Saudia Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Venezuela, and Nigeria. Canada, Russia, United states,and Mexico are some of the countries that more oil in non O.P.E.C members.What I wrote about is what we learned in social studies today soyou can tell some body else about how low our oil supply is.

Math

Today in math we got ready for our mid-year exam.
First we started out by correcting our homework from the night before, it was a review on what we have already been learning.We already took the test at the beginning of the year and we all got horrible grades like 4s,9s,and 12s,also we had some 0s. the review had problems like write 0.00001 as a power of ten witch was 10 to the nagetive 5th power. Also had to write 273,800 in number and word notation and the answer was 273.8 hundred thousand. then we worked on our Journal #1 and did some pages that would get us ready for our test tomorrow.after the pages she past back our tests from last week and we ended class. Now you can see what our teacher teaches us.

Dear Ronald,

I’m writing to you about the Ottoman Empire that ruled Turkey, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, southern Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia Iraq, Kuwait, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, eastern and western Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, eastern Yemen, Egypt, northern Libya, Tunisia, and northern Algeria. It was the longest empire in history. It controlled most of southeastern Europe. This empire lasted from 1300 to 1920 and it controlled the most powerful countries. The Ottoman Empire had a strong military which was split into part and ruled by strong leaders. Here are some important dates: in 1534 Iraq was added to the empire, in 1881 Tunisia was taken by the French, and in 1882 Egypt was taken by Britain. (these were important countries).Important leaders were, Osman 1(1281-1324), Mehmed 2 Fatih (1444-1446), Murad 3 (1574-1595), Osman 3 (1754-1757), and Murad 5 (1876). People think that the reason the Empire was very strong was because they had experienced leaders.

From, Monaly

Hi i’m Chucky the 2nd.

My cousins are really nice. I have a lot of cousins. They help me and we have a lot of fun.With my dads side we have a huge soccer game when we go to my Grandma’s but my Grandma and Grandpa go to north Carolina for winter’s and i don’t get to see my cousins so we are going to Vermont and it has already snowed there of coarse so we will go sleighing.

Macy is my best friend. She is nice and FUNNY she can make any body laugh. We both do the same hobbies and kidda look alike, people say were the three triplets. She includes people and practicly lives at my house. Are Moms are good friends too. I think we will be best friends forever no madder who comes in.

Christmas is around the corner and i can’t wait. There’s huge lines at the malls and people are going crazy with decorations. My family can’t hang our stockings because there stuffed with candy and goody’s like that. Almost everybody is loving the joy except the fact that it hasn’t snowed yet. The lakes are almost ready for ice fishing and i’m here to keep my nickname for ice fishing Catfish Carli. there are neighbors competing who has the best lights. Who doesn’t like Christmas?

My dog Munson is the best dog ever. We rescued him from labs4rescue

when he was 2-3 years old. His birthday is Valentine day and he will be turning 5. Of course he is a chocolate lab and he is STRONG. He gets a walk every day and enjoys the company playing with some of the other dogs on street (Hammi,Montie,Frosty ,Blossem,Feebie,and Meeso). He is my favorite cute brown dog in the world.

I love basketball!

Basketball is so fun because there’s so much you can do there’s 5 positions and they represent were you are I play rec basketball and I am the manager of school team I score a lot of points and my dads the coach. My streaths are shooting picking and defending. My weakness are left hand dribbling and not fowling.

My favorite book series is the clique

im on the 4th book they are addicting to read. Lots of people are reading them now so if you have trouple finding books you like read the clique. Girls will be interested because it has drama, and if you think your spoiled check out this book.

I love horses  I ride at a barn an d i love it. I,ve been riding for almost  5 years and i have been to two different barns i love my favorite pony Alfie. Macy my B.F.F. rides with me and she rides Missy we love it are riding teacher is so nice he gives good tips and makes sure were safe.

If I were to go to any place in the world i’d go to Kentucky. i would go to Kentucky because it is a nice place to live in and they have lots of horses there too. it has always been the state i have wanted to live in, i even did

kentucky for the state fair in third grade. Abraham Lincon grew up there. Also me and my dad are going to go to Kentucky to see horse race and i might even transfer from eastern college to a Kentucky college when i’m older.

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