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Menu Reflection I think this activity was exquisite. I was glad that we could pick our own theme and write what type of food we wanted. Describing each food was very exciting to me. It's because you get to write what you think about the food, And what kind of words describe that type of food. I want to say that when I was writing my menu I had to make sure the food that I picked when well with my theme, and try to describe the food the way it is suppose to.I also had to make sure the most important part of the meal was their. I think we should of made one of our food from our menu and bring it to class so everybody could try some, but most of all I think this was an exquisite project.

A Found Poem from Carl Sandburg by Cynthia

The fog comes on little cat feet A lone gray bird Dim-dipping, far- flying The sea is never still Many birds and the beating of wings Summer grass aches and whispers Wool white horses and their heads sag and roll Orange and tawny gold clusters By day the skyscraper looms in the smoke sun and has a soul Between two hills the old town stands A big enough box could hold the world ===the Civil War. The war started because someone wanted to make the world a better place. Well the story that you’re about to read is about the civil war. I think it all started when Abraham Lincoln wanted the slaves to be free, but some of the people that had slaves didn’t want any thing to do with freeing them. The story I want to tell you are about men going into war. They had to do it or some one could have killed you. Well I mean it is possible that someone could have killed you. Six men that had to go to war slept in a tent all together. Every morning they had to get out of the tent and stay in a line. They had to be prepared and have good armor. One of the first things they had to do before going into war is to know how to follow orders and shoot a gun and not be afraid. They had to know what to do when a men is shot or hurt. When they learned the signals, the men had to practice them before going to supper. The six men had very little to eat and drink. Many people that went to war did not survive two days of train because of the small meals. They had to be trained for as long as they needed to, but the only problem was if they weren’t ready when the war ended they had to stay longer until the second war came.The men that were in war had to walk to the men they were battling. It was fighting too many of the men in the war. When they learned all those things they had to follow a man with a blue shirt, before going into battle, but they had to practice first. The men were so very tried day after day and had no water after. The man with the blue shirt had good news and bad news for the men. The good news was that they could go to war, and the bad news was that they had to go to battle in four minutes. When four minutes pasted they had to go in the battle when people were firing. It was a bad feeling. When the war was ending they had to get more men to join. that was scary for to many men.It's becaue some of the men didn't want to go to war at an year age. The men that went to war and died, rested in peace. The six men followed all the things they had to do like help people that got shot or hurt. The Six men did a good job and they didn’t get hurt, which was the good thing. The man in the blue shirt said the six men could go home for helping another men and doing the right thing. The those men were very happy and had a great life. by. Cynthia. The Starlab === ===When we went in to the Starlab I thought I was in a dream. The first thing we did was stand against the wall and let Mr. Science talk. Then we went to the stage and took our shoes off and five people went into the lab at a time. When we went in, it was so cool. I was so excited when we were going in the dark tube. He used the flashlight to put us in a row. Then Mr. Science was showing us a map of the world, which I thought was so cool. After he was done we looked at the stars up above. He was talking about the stars and how people used them for pictures and to help them tell what the season is. He showed us some pictures that people saw when they were pretending to connect the dots. We all came out with our eyes so wide, and tired from moving all the time. It was the best experience at school. ===

Grammar guide
Nouns- it is a person, place, or thing. For example, Sarah when to the beach on sunday. beach, and Sarah is a noun. dog, cat, sun, rat, are some nouns. Preposition.- desribe nouns and pronoun. for Example behind, except, across, about and many more. If you want to use it in a sentence this would be an example. Tom's bed is behind the wall. Behind would be the perposition and and an adjective. For example the cow slowly ran trough the yard.Slowly is the adverb. Adverb also desribe how, when, and where. It's like how slowly when late and where outside. Adjective- descibes a noun and a pronoun. For example The man was so tall. Tall would be the adjective in that sentences. an adjective is like tall, small, big, short, pretty and more. Also the adjective describs the characters. Verbs describ what the person place or things do. For example, My mom painted the wall in my room. Verbs also describes or explains how a person place or things did. Verbs can describe many words in sentencbehind the wall would describe behind. Adverb- is a word that describe a verdes. Pronouns describe the persons name, the type of animal and more. For example the dog ran down the street. Dog would be the pronoun. Compound Nouns can have two or more words that ae joined together. There could be separate words, For example dinner jacket. An example of a compound noun is The Golden Gate Bridge shone in the sunlight. The Golden Gate Bridge and teh sunlight would be the compound Noun. Commom and proper Nouns. Commom Nouns area group of people,places, or thing.and a pronoun names a specific person, places, or things,. For example singer, doctor, building, and hero would be a common noun and Franklin D, Lake Superior, Macy's, and Andes would be a proper noun. A personal pronoun desricbes the topic of a person place or thing. There is the first person which describe I, me, my, mine, we,us,and our. the sencond person describes you, your,and yours. The third person describes he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, and theirs. For example marlene and I examined the building. I would be an example of the first person. You will see the picture. you would be an example of the second person.He wants to listen to music. he would be an example of the third person. Action verds describes the action of a person. For example sarah plays soccer. plays would be the action. Another example of an action verd is mom shouted at the dog. shouted would be the action. Linking verbs. it joins a noun and a pronoun. For example wolves appear alot. appears would be the linking verb. Heling verb comes before the verb. For example A snowflake is created from a fleck of dust. paper If you didn’t go to N.C don’t worry you will have so much fun with Mrs. Rado. You will get free snacks, learn about salves, color, and watch movies and more so don’t be afraid that you didn’t go. 

Every day at 9:45 am we go to the café to get free snacks. On the first day of school we got to pick a bagel with cream cheese, milk, doughnut, muffin, strawberry milk, coffee, and more. We would take the food and go to Mrs. Rado’s room. We talked to our friends and had a great time. When we didn’t finish our snacks, we would go next door to put it in the refrigerator. Our stomachs were full by the time it was lunch. Sometimes when we ate to much we didn’t eat lunch. When I got coffee milk I spilled it on my pants, I sat in my chair until it was done, and it was so cold. The good thing is that we all had a great time with Mrs. Rado.   When it was the 2nd day at MMS without the gang, we went to Mrs. Rado’s room and she said we are going to do a science experiment.  First we had to go to period 1 and 2 while Mr. Science got every thing set up, then we got into groups of 2 to 3 students. We had to put on cool glasses; they were funny looking. I had to put 2 glasses over my glasses. It hurt my eyes. Then we each got 5 to 10 chemicals and Stared to mix them. In my group were my 2 best friends, Julia and Jenell. We were laughing until the teacher said to stop. When I mixed a nasty Chemical with a purple chemical I got a bright yellow, it looked like a lemon. We had a great time. We learned something new that day.   On the 3rd day at MMS without the gang, we made it to Mrs. Rado’s room by the time the 8th graders were going to period 1. Mrs. Rado said we were going to do an egg experiment. During period 3 she gave us 15 straws, 5 inches of tape and a bright white egg. Then we had to make a nest with those materials. I put the tape around the egg and stared to put the straws on it. We put newspaper on the floor and got in a line. Mrs. Rado put her arm out she wanted to do this experiment to see if the egg would crack, bounce or break. She dropped the egg any way we wanted too. WE put the score one the white board. When it was my turn, my friends were cheering and finally my egg cracked. It was a great experiment with a small group. 

On the 4th day at MMS without the gang we were reading about the Underground Railroad. Mrs. Rado said we will color for the whole day. When we colored the quilts she said if we were in the 1800s would you make quilts to help the salves? I said yes. I did many colors on mine. At the end of the coloring we had to glue it on a big white paper. Mine was the biggest. The good think is that we learned something important.  

If I could time travel, what time period would you want to have your holidays in and why? I would travel to 2001. I was 5 years old in Portugal in the cold windy weather. My whole family would be there. My dad would help my grandpa and grandma bring the big tree inside the house. My grandma would have that dog that would go near me every where I would go. I would like to go bcak in 2001 because vI grandpa that was very sick would be there. He would give me and my twin cathy a big present. I might of bein bigger than us. He would give him a big hugg and a kiss. We would try to make a cake and give him an big present. Sometimes he would cry in my hands. My family loved him so very very much. My mom would makes the best cakes in the world. My grandma would make a big cookie just for me and Cathy. Know my grandma is 83 The big number. When We opened our presents back then we would have to sing a portguees song. I didn't know it when I was 5, but now I know the song by hard. There would be big and bold lights outside in the dark. Sometimes we would go outside to look at them. My cousin would be happy and it would be the best time of year. We would have I best time of our lives. I remenber that my dad had to go back to the plane and get the sweaters in our house and back on the plane to keep us warm, It was te nicest thing some one could do on Christmas day. My mom give me and my sister a doll that was fat and the size of my dad. It would be the best present in the world to time travel back to 2001. 

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Ts. It was 11:00 on Halloween night and a pumkin named Nicholas was a month old baby.

fav.p Nicholas had one best friend named Sandra. She's a girl that is 11 years old. She could walk, talk, and she giggles at Nicholas's jokes. She even thinks that they are funny.

fs Nicholas wanted to have pizza for dinner and for dessert, ice cream, jello, candy, muffins, pies, brownies, cakes, cookies, and a Halloween special.

The story of my New Best Friend Bus and his weird mom and crazy dad. <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #00ff99; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">

One day I woke up and saw a big fuzzy bird in my window. When I opened it, the bird was talking to me in a funny way. Then he told me that his name was Bus. I said " what kind of name is that". He said "it means goal in French. "I didn't know that until he told me. I pulled Bus in my bed room and told Bus to stay with me until we could find his mom and dad. I got dressed and went down stairs. I told my mom that I am going to go to the movies with my friend Zoey. I told a lie. What I really did is go to the Bird Zoo to look for Bus's mom and dad. Bus was a bird that had the colors of the rainbow and the eyes of the ocean. He was nice to people, but to animals that are mean to him ohhhhhhhhh you don't want to be near him. As we walk to the Zoo my head started to hurt. I said" we have to go to the Zoo as soon as possible. When we arrived at the Zoo we had to ask people for money in order to get inside, so we did. We got our tickets and went to the bird section. We found his mom and dad. We got to my house and I fell asleep in my bed. Then I realized that my head was hurting because I started to think that Bus was the nicest bird you would want to meet. Now that is the story about my new best friend Bus and his weird mom and crazy dad. By CynthiaF

If you are not going to NC, don't worry you will have so much fun with Mrs. Rado. You will get free snacks, learn about slaves, color, watch movies and more, so don't be afraid that you are not going. I hope you have fun. Introduction paragraph By Cynthiaf.

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<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #095d54; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My thoughts about the history is what kind of person was the man who killed Martin L.king jr and why. Why did they want to do something like that if he was trying to help those who have suffered in many ways. I learned a lot about our History.I know that Rosa Parks did the right thing. I mine who cares if they were black. God made you the way you are. get why they had to make that law, and who ever made it had to be real mean and strong to do something so unnature and so unfair. I know the blacks had a hard life and had to do what ever the whites said. Well all the people who don't break the laws and they were good people, I don't know why they didn't do any thing that was unfair.Most of the whites were the same when it came to doing something the laws says to do. I wonder if their was no laws would they have done the same things that the laws said.Those are my thoughts about our history. <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #00ff99; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #d40c0c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By CynthiaF When we had lunch in our homerooms to see the inauguration, I thought it was very interesting. I learned a lot. When the crowds were cheering and waiting until Barak Obama came out and saw the crowd they were so happy and excitied in the cold wind and the freezing temperture.I think Obama is going to be a great president. We all were waiting in that small room listening to what he has to say to all of those who listen.It was a happy day and Obama is a good person and he is going to do what is right for our country and our lives. It was very cool to see our first African American president. I think it was important to a lot of people.Those are my thoughts about the inauguration. <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #00ff99; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">

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I think Pablo Picasso knows how to speak art. I am trying to say that he has words that are really nice and when Pablo says "For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart". I think it is a great way to put that and it has lots of meaning that helps people understand art. I also think it is talking about respect and all the things art can do.I wish I could go back a few years when that stared to happen. I want to learn more about the people back then. I don't <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #00ff99; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">

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