Caitlin’s Blog

Hello Everyone! I am a week and a half into school! I had a busy summer, I went to the outer banks, DC, had surgery and was in the newspaper! ( we made 134 bears!)

Today’s the last day of school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Wednesday we got our finals back. After we had looked at them we worked quitely in our journals while other people finished up their finals.

Today we watched a movie on magnetism. We learned by rubbing a magnet on a piece of metal. When this happens the atoms line up to create a temporary magnet. 

In LA today we read a essay on the Three Gorges Dam. If you click on the hyperlink  it will bring you to the essay we read. When you get back see if you can answer these qustions that we had to answer in class.

1. What is the Three Gorges Dam?

2. Why does Wang Zuolu have to move?

3. Explain in your own words how the dam might affect the animals and wildlife that live there.

4. Why is the fact that many dams in China have collapsed over the last 20 years significant?

5. What evidence can you list for this dam not being a good idea?

6. How does the Yangtze compare to other rivers you know about?

7.  What solutions would you suggest for the dam project?

8.  What do you think about the building of the Three Gorges Dam project?

In Math we got our tests back. We spent most of the class correcting the problems we got wrong and playing Fraction Action, Fraction Friction. My parter and I had just figured out how to play when the bell rang. 

• On Thursday we got our paragraphs back. The paragraphs were about a topic we choose to write to our pen pals in Italy about.I wrote about the musical Oklahoma! we’re performing, but other topics were Easter, St.Patricks Day, CMT’s, and spring sports.

We also had to do a worksheet on complex sentences. A way we remember complex subordinating conjunctions are like this …

3     3     2     2     1     1

 W     A     B     U     I     S

while     after     because     until     if     since

when     although     before     unless             

whenever     as                                                

Today in class we watched a movie on northern India.

The first city it visited was Varanasi. Varanasi according to Hindu beliefs is Shiva’s holy city. The Ganges river is also located in Varanasi. Their are over 100 stairs leading to the Ganges.

Then it visited Agra, India the town whee the Taj Mahal is located. The Taj Mahal was made by a Shah whose wife died after giving birth to her 14^th child.It took 20,00 people and 22 years for the Taj Mahal to be completed.

Next we learned about Hindu ceremonies. In the Hindu religion

• The Geta is the holy book.
• Carma is what you do and keep on doing.
• Krishna is a god with many forms. He is also very popular with the poor.

After that the movie had us travel to Corbett National Park. Corbett National Park has

• Nearly 600 species of bird.
• Was India’s first National Park.
• Famous for its elephants, tigers, and leopards. (oh,my)

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A New 7 Wonders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone knows there were 7 wonders of the ancient world but it’s time to pick some new ones!

Experts chose the finalists which are:

The Acropolis
Alhambra
Angkor
Chichen Itzá
Christ Redeemer
The Colosseum
Easter Island
Eiffel Tower
Great Wall of China
Hagia Sophia
Kiyomizu Temple
Kremlin
Machu Picchu
Neuschwanstein Castle
Petra
Pyramids of Giza
Statue of Liberty
Stonehenge
Sydney Opera House
Taj Mahal
Timbuktu

People around the world are voting and the results will be announced in July. You can read more about it here.

Today is 4/14/07 and I just voted! It feel good to know that I took the chance to change history!