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Wow! These menues were great! The bad part was it made me hungry and it was only 3rd Period. It was really neat to see all the themes because none of them were the same. Each one had something different. Some of them were American and some were from different parts of the world. All the describing words made each entree sound more and more appetizing as the sentence went on. I wish I could eat them all. It was also great to hear what people's favorite foods were because you might have never heard of it before. This was a great project for using discribing words and it was a whole bunch of fun!

** This, and my heart beside **
 * __Found Poem From: Emily Dickinson By Lauren W.__**
 * I felt his silver heel **
 * Upon my ankle-then my shoes **
 * Has it feathers like a bird? **
 * I’m nobody! Who are you? **
 * Are you nobody, too? **
 * I hide myself within my flower **
 * Come back, and dust the pond. **
 * The moon slides down the stair **
 * Who’s there? **
 * Attended or alone **
 * I looked for you before. **

Many things have happened and are happening at Fords Theatre in Washington D.C. Some things include President Lincoln’s assassination and plays. The assassination was on April 14, 1865 at the theatre while Lincoln was enjoying a comedy performance called “Our American Cousin”. Lincoln was with his wife Mary Todd and Major Henry R. Rathbone in the presidential box when he was shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth. There was a doctor in the audience and came over to Lincoln. After the shooting of Lincoln, Rathbone attacked Booth and Booth was forced to jump over the balcony. He caught his leg on a flag and broke his leg when he hit the stage. I could only imagine what the audience was thinking after they witnessed the horrifying event of their President being assassinated. I know that if I was in the audience, I would definitely be horrified. Have you ever heard someone say “break a leg” before a play or recital? It is an expression meaning good luck. Oddly enough, it comes from the event of Booth jumping off the balcony and breaking his leg on the stage. I think it is very strange for that to mean good luck because nothing good occurred on that awful evening. There are still plays going on today at Fords Theatre today. Theatre goers and students can visit the theatre to enjoy shows or to learn about Abraham Lincoln and his assassination. Recently, the theatre underwent an extensive renovation. It included an upgraded museum, theatre lobby, and theatrical improvements. There are also educational programs for school groups and visitors who would like to learn about the Civil War, President Lincoln, and the assassination at Fords Theatre. Fords Theatre has a great deal of history and to this day continues to draw people to learn about and experience a piece of our American history and to enjoy modern day plays.

Starlabs was an amazing experience for the Green Team! During Starlab, we learned about the stars and constellations. Some things we learned were the names of many stars and constellations, and where the names came from. For example, we learned about some constellations. The were Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, and some constellations that looked like animals or people, but I can not remember the name of all of them. We also learned some star's names. They were the North Star and Sirius. The other ones I could not remember. Sirius is the britest star in the night sky. Well after all I've told, you must be wondering where we learned about these stars and constellations. We learned about all of the amazing stars and constellations in a something that looked like a giant, 10 foot tall, grey bubble. Starlabs was so much fun and I hope I get to participate in it again! Thank you Starlabs for coming to our school!

Grammar Guide: Noun: A noun is the name of a person, place, or thing.Examples of nouns: Erin, Lauren, Mrs. York, park, home, movie, plate, computer, and many, many more!

Compound Nouns: A compound noun is one noun made by joining two or more words.Examples of compound nouns: sunlight, goldfish, sister-in-law, and many others.

Common Nouns: A common nouns names any one of a group of people, places, or things. Examples of common nouns: scientist, relative, city, and many others.

Proper Nouns: A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing. Examples of proper nouns: Aunt Carrie, Connecticut, Christmas, and many others.

Pronouns: A pronoun takes place of a noun. Examples of pronouns: Eirn said she would chase the ball if it went down the hill. The pronouns are she and it.

Personal Pronouns: Personal pronouns refer to the person speaking or writing, the person listening or reading, or the topic being discussed or written about. Examples of personal pronouns: I, me, we, us, you, your, he, they, and she. There are many more though.

Demonstrative Pronouns: A demonstrative pronoun points out a person, place, or thing. Examples of demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, and those.

Verb: A verb expresses the action or condition of a person, place, or thing. Examples of verbs: build, is, seem, reply, and many others.

Action Verbs: An action verb indicates the action of a person or thing. Examples of action verbs: jump, feel, throw, and many more.

Linking Verbs: A linking verb joins a noun or pronoun at or near the beginning of a sentence with a word a or near the end. The word at the end identifies or describes the noun or pronoun. Examples of linking verbs: appear, look, stay, turn, feel, remain, and many others.

Helping Verbs: A helping verb is a verb that comes before the main verb and adds to its meaning. Examples of helping verbs: am, are, is, was, has, can, would, and many others.

Adjective: An adjective is a word that describes something. Examples of adjectives: lightweight, thick wool, red turtleneck, and many others.

Articles: An article is a word that points to a specific person, place, or thing. Also, there are definite and indefinate articles. Examples of articles: a and an.

Proper Adjective: A proper adjective is a proper noun used as an adjective or an adjective formed from a proper noun. Examples of proper adjectives: Williamson family, Williamson is the proper adjetive.

Possessive Adjective: A personal pronoun can be used as an adjective if it modifies a noun. Examples of possessive adjectives: my, her, his, our your their.

Adverb: An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Examples of adverbs: She lives nearby. Nearby tells where.

Prepositions: A preposition relates a noun or pronoun to another word. (In a sentence) Examples of prepositions:about, above, below, for, and in. There are 45 other prepositions.

What I think Picasso is saying is that when you are doing something you love, you will think of nothing else. You will block everything out and concentrate on only the thing you are doing. If you are painting a picture for example, you will concentrate so much on it that you will feel like you are in the picture. My reflection on the piece is that once I was drawing a picture in my sketch book and I was concentrating on that sketch so much that I felt as if I was in my art work and feeling how the people felt. It was really amazing.

Today all of the 6th graders witnessed amazing history! Some of my thoughts are that it is really great that we get to have an African American as the President of the United States. Another on of my thoughts is that I'm really thankful that the whole school got to see history being made. Something else that I thought of during the Innauguration is why exactly did Barack Obama want to use the bible President Linclon swore in on? How will the kids cope with their dad being the President?

Back to Our Homepages for Writing This is my Nature's Classroom piece. I hope you injoy it!

Nature’s Classroom was such a great learning experience with fun filled days. There was pretty good food, too! While we were in Nature’s Classroom, we had to have a place to eat. That place was called the Dining Hall. We got to do a lot of great things in the Dining Hall like sing songs and play games. A song we sang was Al-Alligator. There were hand motions for all of the silly songs we sang. The food was pretty good. Some things we ate were pizza, salad, waffle sticks, and lots of other foods. To help serve the delicious there were waitrons. Waitrons are student helpers that come into the Dining Hall 15 minutes earlier than everyone else to set up their table with plates, cups, and silverware. There are 2 waitrons per student table. Also, waitrons get to bring the food from the kitchen, to their table. You also have to ask the waitrons to get up and get something else to eat or to go the restroom. When I was a waitron, I had so much fun! After everyone was done eating and the table was all cleared off by the waitrons, we got to do the ORT report BABY, SHA-BALA-BA-DING-DONG!! That is what we had to say when we did the ORT report. The ORT report is when the people in the kitchen weigh how much food and/or drinks were left on your plate or cup, that unfortunately, never made it into your mouth. We did a pretty good job not to leave that much ORT on our plate. The Dining Hall was such a great place to be in with all the songs we sang, the great food, and the ORT report BABY SHA-BALA-BA-DING-DONG!! It made eating at Nature’s Classroom more fun! When I walked into my cabin for the first time, I thought to myself how big and beautiful it was. Well, my cabin was really big because I was in the Senior Cabin. The Senior Cabin is the only cabin in Nature’s Classroom that is for boys and girls. The bedrooms are separated by a family room that both the girls and the boys got to socialize in. In the bedroom, there were blue, plastic, and kind of hard mattresses. I was lucky because I had a really soft and fuzzy blanket to go over the mattress. In the bathrooms, there were only 2 stalls, 2 sinks and only 3 showers for all 17 girls. Since there were only 3 showers, we had to break up the girls in the cabin to night showers and morning showers. I got a morning shower. I was also one of the lucky girls because I got a steaming hot shower. In my cabin, we had some of the best teachers, too! There was Mrs. Martland, Mrs. Perrigini, Mr. Santa Maria, and Mr. Morris. We had so much fun with all the teachers. The Senior’s Cabin was the best cabin in all of Nature’s Classroom with all the great teachers, awesome bunks, and all the great kids! At Nature’s Classroom, there were a lot of great classes and activities that we got to chose from. A class that I really enjoyed involved making roller coasters. We had to get into groups of four. Then we got to work with a marble, some tape, and some foam. Our groups worked together to make the best foam roller coaster in the world! (Well, at least in all of Nature’s Classroom!) I learned about force and motion. Another great class I took was Grossology with Steve-O. At first, I really thought I would not like the class, but it turned out to be my favorite class. In Grossology, we made jell-o boogers using lime jell-o. Then we got to eat this disgustingly delicious snack. We also made blisters using petroleum jelly and toilet paper. I learned how our bodies make blisters. Aside from all the fun classes I got to choose from, we got to be in a field group. In field group, we played all kinds of games. I enjoyed the 30 foot slide the most! My field group leader was Bobcat. We were able to go on a hike all around the camp with him. The sites were so beautifulb. My favorite part about the hike was when we saw the stream in the woods. It was my favorite part because we found about 40 newts!! I found a lot, but I did not want to touch any of them. They were too slimy. Nature’s Classroom was such a great time and learning experience with all the fun classes, great field groups, delicious food and the best teachers in the world.

A Favorite Sentence from my pumpkin piece: Applie then said, "Bobert, lets try to stay out of trouble today because I'm new around here, but tomorrow is a whole different story!!" -Lauren W.
 * If I could time travel to a different time priod to celebrate Christmas, I would go into 2025. I would go to 2025 because of all the** **new and amazing toys and fun things that they would have.**
 * There would be so many amazing toys that you could get for the holiday. Some toys you would be able to get would be i-Pods, laptops, flatscreen televisions, and a lot of other cool things, too! You would be able to get all of these things because they would not be as much money as they use to be because they would have more new and improved toys. I would still want some of the toys we have today because some of the things we have are really cool. For Christmas, I would want to have some of the new toys there are but they would more than likely be a lot of money. The toys that there would be will be amazing, fun, and very technical. **

The topic sentence to my story is: One cool morning, Bobert was in the pumpkin patch at Jack-O-Lantern farms in Middlebury CT, where he normally is every morning. My best discriptive sentence is: Bobert the curious pumpkin, then looked over and saw a little baby pumpkin getting ready to open his eyes for the first time. 

This is my favorite paragraph in the whole story:

Then Bobert, the 2 year old pumpkin, heard something. Being a curious pumpkin, he looked over and saw a little baby pumpkin getting ready to open his eyes for the first time. He then wobbled over and saw this pumpkin miracle happen. He watched this in amazement! He had never seen a pumpkin open his eyes before.

Since you have seen my favorite sentences for my story, now you will be able to read my piece. It is located below.

One cool morning, Bobert was in the pumpkin patch at Jack-o-Lantern farms in Middlebury CT, where he normally is every morning. Bobert then said to himself “Yah! It’s October 29, 2006, and it’s almost Halloween. But tomorrow is Mischief Night. I hope I don’t get smashed!” Then Bobert, the 2 year old pumpkin, heard something. Being a curious pumpkin, he looked over and saw a little baby pumpkin getting ready to open his eyes for the first time. He then wobbled over and saw this pumpkin miracle happen. He watched this in amazement! He had never seen a pumpkin open his eyes before. When the baby pumpkin’s eyes were open, Bobert wanted to be the first one it spoke to and immediately said “hi little pumpkin. My name is Bobert Chester Williamson and I will be your best friend in the whole world.” Incase you do not know what “pumpkins opening their eyes” is, it is just like when humans are born. Also, when pumpkins first open their eyes, they can do everything. They can eat normal pumpkin foods, wobble (walk), talk, and do all kinds of other unthinkable things. Another thing that happens when pumpkins first open their eyes is they need help getting off their stem. And guess who was there for the new pumpkin. You guessed it. Bobert!! After 5 minutes of trying to get the new pumpkin off the stem, Bobert finally succeeded! Before the 2 new friends could do anything, the new, beautiful pumpkin needed a name. Bobert came up with one great name. At first he said, “Bobo, no, Pumpkin, no, to obvious, Applie, perfect! The name Applie is perfect because the pumpkin is shaped like an apple. Also, the eye opening of Applie was very important because apple pumpkins are very rare until this day at Jack-o-Lantern Farmes. Before they could have any fun around the farm, Bobert wanted Applie to say his first words so he knows he is a healthy pumpkin. Bobert was smart about that because you would not want to bring a sick pumpkin out exposed into more pumpkin germs. Then Applie said, “Bobert, you are the best friend an apple pumpkin could ever have!” Bobert was so happy he almost broke down in tears becaue he knew his new friend was healthy! They both hugged each other and went off exploring Jack-o-Lantern Farms. Applie then said, “Bobert, lets try to stay out of trouble today because I’m new around here, but tomorrow is a whole different story!!”

I have been working on another piece and I would like to share my TS with you. It is about my NC piece and soon the whole story will be on my homepage. Nature’s Classroom was such a great learning experience with fun filled days. There was pretty good food, too!