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Back to Our Homepages for Writing  The menu project was awesome! I loved making the names of all the dishes and describing them. Everyone did an amazing job on there projects and I was starving by the time everybody was done sharing. I loved doing this project! 

A found Poem from Jack Prelutsky by Drew Something big has been here Were I am growing a glorious garden In the glade were the glockenspiels grow The turkey shot out of the oven And someone disturbed the wooly wurbbe My neighbor’s dog is purple Last night I dreamt of chickens My brother built a robot The zoo was in an uproar My mother made a meatloaf And a goat wandered into the junkyard All because I’m digging a hole in the ceiling

This was my life back in the civil war. I was always down in the bunkers loading and firing cannons. The war changed my life forever. I was 18, and a rich businessman’s son, when I was drafted into the war. Three months later, I was fighting for slavery to end. I started out in the rifle infantry in Connecticut, training for the war. It didn’t take long for me to learn how to fire a rifle in close combat. I was soon the best in my troop in precisely firing over an extended range. Pretty soon, my troop was put out into battle. The war was a lot scarier than I ever thought that it would be. We would stand out in the distance, repeatedly firing at our southern enemies, and before you knew it, the confederate soldiers were right in front of you. You would see people falling down right next to you. You would hear screaming bullets flying right by your face, and hitting the person behind you. You could see people limping to safety, and soldiers thrusting baronets at each other. After fighting in Gettysburg, all that I wanted to do is go home. After the battle at Gettysburg, I was recognized for my bravery and promoted to a lieutenant, and I moved down into the bunkers to shoot the 10-inch Columbia cannons. Shooting the cannons was not nearly as scary as fighting up close, but the intense BOOM from the cannon scared me every time. My main job with the cannon was to put in the gunpowder and the cannon balls. Lieutenant Bradford’s job was to light the cannon. We had many other people around the cannon, trying to aim it, and trying to protect us. Colonel James was in charge of everybody and nobody questioned what he said. After a couple years of fighting, the south surrendered and the war was over. I still see the frightening images of war every day of my life. Just seeing my friends right next to me all of a sudden fall, or stop moving. Like I said before, the war changed my life forever.


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 **Pablo P ****icasso was a very famous artist from the twentieth century. He was born in Spain, October 25, 1881, and later mover to France where he died on April 8, 1973. Many of his paintings are considered masterpieces and are very valuable. Pablo Picasso  was inspired to create art from his earliest childhood. His father was a painter and also an art teacher. Both his father and mother greatly encouraged and influenced his work. Picasso  is best known for his paintings and drawings, but he was also a very good sculpture. Picasso  is considered by many to be the most influential artist of the twentieth century. Pablo’s work was definitely influenced by his Spanish heritage. He used Spanish cultural symbols in his work, such as bulls and bullfighting. After attending many art schools, Picasso  left Spain for France in 1900. He was only nineteen years old then. In Paris, he became clos ** **<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">e to several artists, who like him, were destined to change the face of contemporary art, such as Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, and Fernand Leger. He was also inspired by some of the late 1900 artists such as Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh. <span class="hithighlite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Picasso <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'s style went through a series of changes during his long career, resulting in what art historians labeled a variety of periods. Most of these styles were not traditional or common, which made his work easily identifiable. He went into a depressed period in life, which is called a blue period. During this time, his work had a very sad mood. Most of his works of art in his blue period were portraits. After the blue period, he had a rose period. That changed his work from dark and gloomy, to bright and warm. After the rose period, he used a lot of cube shaped figures in his paintings. This method was called cubism. This method was strange and abstract, but it was loved and admired by many. **

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Prompt:now that you have witnessed history, what are your thoughts. Post this prompt to your homepages.

=Now that I saw Barack Obama become the president of the United States of America, I realized that so much has changed in our country in not even 100 years. When my great grandma was living in that time period, she even eat in the same restaurants as the African Americans did. The entire country has changed so much, that now an African American is the president of our county that had them as slaves. I can't believe all of the pressure and tough choices that he had to go through to become president. Now I realized that anybody can be what they want to be.=

Nature’s Classroom __** The whole Nature’s Classroom experience was awesome! There was so many amazing activities and new people that I met. The classes that were available for us to choose from were really interesting. They also had comfortable cabins with a fire place and long transition times between activities. It was really fun and I learned a lot. I hope that I can go back there again. The cabins were so amazing! I was in the senior’s cabin and I was surprised to see how huge it was. It was the size of a huge house. The cabin had about 25 bunks, and on the first night, everyone was crazy. Everyone kept yelling and telling stupid jokes that didn’t even make sense. They kept throwing stuff at each other and Troy kept making random farting noises. Mr. Santamaria and Mr. Morris got really mad when we were up almost all night. Another part of the cabin was the common room that had a fire place, couches and tables. It connected the boys and girls sides of the cabin and was located in the middle of the building. This was where all of the boys and girls hung out and wrote in their journals. The senior’s cabin was really cool and outside it had a real basketball hoop. At the end of the trip, the basketball champions were Matt and me, because we beat Devin and Drew. The next night in the cabin went a lot better. We played a fly’s up game with a monkey. If you caught the monkey, that person had to get to the wall before they got tackled by twenty other boys who wanted the stupid monkey. Eventually, Jake took his monkey and we had to go to bed. The last day, when we had to clean the cabin, it was a nightmare. Everyone was messing around and not doing anything productive. Every time someone stole the monkey, Steven Croce and I started chucking my hand warmers at them. I had hit Jason about seven and one half times by the end of our cabin cleanup. I was sad that we had to go. I would miss the nights that I laid on that blue plastic covered mattress thinking of all the really wonderful activities that had happened throughout the day! All of the people at nature’s classroom made the whole trip a lot better. There were so many different teachers. Ashley was the head of all of the N.C. My favorite teacher was a dude named Bobcat. He had a beard and long dreadlocks. He also played guitar and the mandolin. We did many activities that were fun with him, such as running down the side of Mount Sunrise. My second favorite teacher was Papa Bear. He was big, nice and he had a long beard too. I got to dissect a shark with him. There were also a lot of teachers from MMS that made the whole trip fun. I had Mr. Santamaria and Mr. Morris as my cabin leaders. Mrs. York and Mrs. Martland were also there. I was disappointed that Mrs. Rado could not come. The food that was there was awesome! It always tasted great. On the first night, we had really good pasta and for dessert they had bread pudding. In the mornings, the breakfast was always really good. One morning, they had egg sandwiches. I was the watron that morning and I went back to get bacon fifty times until they finally ran out of it. Also, if you did not like what they were serving for breakfast, they had a ton of cereals to choose from. At lunch and dinner time, they also had a peanut butter and jelly bar with a big pan of jelly and two tubs full of peanut butter. At lunch, we could make our own wrap. We got to choose from, cheese, ham and salami and turkey. They were good cooks. All of the activities at nature’s classroom were so fun! My first activity, camouflage and stalking, was really fun because we got to sneak up on people and put tape on there backs. The second activity, I got to build shelters with Bobcat. We went deep into the woods and made a giant shelter by finding a forked tree and putting a big stick in it. Then we put smaller sticks on the side then coated that with leaves to keep out the rain. Another activity that I got to do was dissecting a shark with Papa Bear. Almost all of my friends were in that group, and I got to make the first cut on the shark. I was scared that I was going to ruin it. When we were finished, the heart of the shark fell down my friend David’s shirt. The shark was really slimy and smelt really bad, like seven day old barf. There were so many classes to choose from, and I only got to do a few of them. On Tuesday, we had two-for-Tuesday so we got to choose two classes to do instead of one. Field group was when we met with our field group and our field group leader, and went and did something with the group. My field group leader was Bobcat and we did a lot of stuff with him. On the first day we didn’t have field group so on the second day we got to go down to the brook and fish for newts. I caught an orange one and he was my buddy, so I named him Larry. Everyone else was catching newts and naming them. On the third day with our field group, we and some other groups climbed Sunrise Mountain. Bobcat said “there is a marshmallow tree out there and whoever can find it gets to roast the first marshmallow over the fire”. We were all out walking and looking for the “marshmallow tree”. That’s when I saw this normal old tree, with a bag of marshmallows in it. I ran then jumped up into the tree and took down the bag of marshmallows. When I got back, I got to have the first marshmallow. Then the N.C. teachers that were there pulled out extra marshmallows from their bags, and gave them to us to roast over the fire. Sparky, another teacher started making tea from hemlock and birch bark. It was probably the best tea that I have ever had. We still had plenty of time left, so we found this big, hollow old tree, and we fit our whole field group in there. It was cool because we all had to climb up the tree on the inside. When we were done with that we still had about two hours before our next transition time, so we started to build a giant shelter. We used a fallen tree and about 90 huge sticks on each side to build it. We had not realized how much time passed, so we had to get down the mountain in five minutes when it was an half an hour walk. We started sprinting down the side of the mountain as fast as we could, dodging trees and slowly climbing down rock piles and small cliffs. It was one the best things that I ever did! I loved having field group. In between classes and meals we had a long transition time, which is like having recess for an hour, four times a day. At transition time, I would always go up the dining hall and get nice juicy apples for myself, Jack, and Matt, my best friends. Then I would take the giant, green slide down to the soccer field. When there was transition time there were so many things to do. Most of the time, I was playing soccer like everybody else. Sometimes, I would go to the indoor wall climbing room and try to climb the fake tree in there that must have been covered with wax or something because it was so slippery. Once, I went to the farm that had a giant bunny. There was a huge pig there that must have weighed at least 600 pounds. The big cow there had really long horns and they looked pretty pointy so I didn’t go in with the cow like they told us not to. We got to go in with the sheep and pet them. You had to be careful not to step in little tiny piles of droppings. One of the sheep didn’t like me, so he kept on running away while I was there. We got to pick up and pet all of the chickens, except for the rooster who looked really mean. The llamas that were there were awesome too. There were three of them and they were really soft and nice. One of them peed for almost four minutes straight! Overall, Nature’s Classroom was a blast! Although I missed my family, I had so much fun there and I wished that my whole family could go to Nature’s Classroom together. I will always miss the people at Nature’s Classroom. All of the activities there were amazing and I would love to experience them again and again because I had so much fun!!
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 * 12/2/08- =Tonight around six pm, I was in the car coming back from my guitar lesson, when I remembered to look up at the sky and search for the planets. Today they were a bit lower than they were the nights before, because I looked at them later. They were the brightest and shiniest thing in the night sky,(except for the moon).I was amazed to see that the planets were so close to the earth that we could see it with our own eyes.**

The whole nature’s classroom experience was awesome! There were so many classes to choose from. They had comfortable cabins with a fire place, a long transition time, and really nice people. All of the night time activities were really awesome and the food was great. It was really fun! I learned a lot and I hope that I can go back there again.