Katarina’s Blog

Today in S.S we took a test on the central america map, and south america map, and multipal choice questions. Did you know the first people to plant corn lived in mexico. This test is the last social studies test this year.

Today in L.A we watched the movie “Get A Clue”. This movie is based on the book, “The Westing Game”. The Westing game is about a man’s twisted game. Sam Westing sets up a game based on his death. He makes everyone believe he is dead by writing his will that says, “My life was taken by one of you.” Now everyone gets clues to figure out who the murderer is. This book-movie is exiting. That is what we did today in L.A

Today in L.A we went to the book fair and we bought books, guessed on how many shells were in a jar, put in a slip to try and win a poster. We stayed the whole class.

Today in social studies we went over the questions we had for homework the night before. We split the class up into two groups : Windows against Doors. Some of the questions were as follows, What are three main waterways in China, What is china’s official name,etc. The game took up the whole class, and everyone had a great time! What we had too do was one team asked a question the other team had to answer it without looking at their paper. At the end the winner was the doors.

In the North India movie  I learned some interesting facts. Did you know that Hindu people bathe in the Ganges river because of religious beliefs?  The Hindu people come to north india to spend their last years. For a tastey snack North India people make a wrap containing of a leaf and special spices that turn your teeth red. Have you ever heard of the Taj Mahal? Well, The taj mahal was built in 1631 and took 22 years to build! To get to the taj mahal you get into a little car called a rickshaw. In North India the most popular got is Crishna. The Hindu people also worship Sheba, The God Of Death. Last but not least, Did you know in India people worship cows?!

Did you know tires, tennis rackets, trash bags, and toothpaste are made from oil? Oil is the most important trade in the world today. Some things we need to live are drugs ( prescribed), Detergents, and fertilizers. Saudi Arabia produces a lot of oil and just one barrel of oil is about 42 gallons. Another place to get oil is from the OPEC countries. The OPEC countries contain of the countries   Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. The OPEC countries control the Persian golf region. Did you know oil provides 40 percent of the worlds energy. Surprisingly the U.S is only 4 percent of the world’s population but takes up 25 percent of the world’s oil supply.

OPEC countries

OPEC Logo

At the beginning of the class Mr.Hetherington showed us how to use the blog google. After that he told us that we’d be doing some thinking. He taught us the lesson that he taught the class he went to teach at another school. Some questions were:Connect the 4 dots with 3 straight lines without crossing through the middle.

The next one was… Which worlds don’t belong.

1) Window, Glass Door, Wall

2) Roller Skates, Cars, Houses

3) Floppy Drive, Hard Drive, Driveway

4) Saturn, Venus, Frogs

5) Lead, Nickel, Oxygen

6) Sad, Happy, Mad

7) Trees, Grass, Cats

Ball, Sphere, Cube

9) Pencil, Tape, Glue

10) Dance, Present, Gift

11) Shop, Bear, Buy

12) Cake, Poison, Muffin

13) Energy, Lawn Mower, Scissors

14) Shower, Bath, Sewer

15) Chalk, Lemon, Orange

Some people had difficulty with 3, 6, and 8.

The third one was…A farmer has a fox, a goose, and a bag of grain, and one boat to cross a steam, Which is only big enough to take one at a time. If left alone together, the fox would eat the goose and the goose would eat the grain. How can the farmer get all 3 to the other side? The answer is to be continued…

Anoter was what is interesting about this statement…

A MAN A PLAN A CANAL PANAMA

The
Ottoman Empire began in 1299 and ended in 1922. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was in control of parts 3 cotenants. The
Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful empires in the world at that time. For six centuries the
Ottoman Empire was a major attraction. The city that’s name kept changing (
Constantinople,
Byzantium, and
Istanbul) was now
Istanbul. The area of the
Ottoman Empire was 4,633,226 sq mi. The government of the
Ottoman Empire was a monarchy. The ottomans thought of themselves as the universal empire. The
Ottoman Empire was the only Islamic country to challenge the rising power of
Western Europe between the 15th and 19th centuries. In 1638 the ottomans controlled
Turkey,
Syria,
Palestine,
Arabia, and
Egypt.  They controlled most of the
Balkan Peninsula. For almost 600 years the Turkish rulers made those countries pay heavy taxes and obey Muslim laws.

                         THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE…

 informatoin from social studies handout and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire

Today we got our penpal letters!

Today in LA we looked at our last nights homework. After we corrected the homework(4 types of sentences) we re-read the CARS story Tiger Woods. WE didn’t do anything else because it was a shortened day.

Did you know the population of ageria is 32,531,853? also the population of Libya is 5,765,563? And the population of Morocco is 32,725,847? If you add all those people the total population of the maghreb is 71,023,263! that’s not that many people for such a big area.

Last month a five year old Gabriel Gottfried looked in his backyard and saw the rare Californian condor! they haven’t seen one in the area for the last 100 years. He followed the bird and photographed it before it flew off!

The country of Libya has no rivers and it is mostly  desert. In Libya has an oasis which is green area that is fed by underground water. Libya also uses the aquifer to get the water. The aquifer is a rock layer full of water. NO FISH! The people get the fresh water from the aquifer if the layer is close to the surface. Libya gets it’s money from the underground pipeline that was built in the 1990’s. They get their food from imports. Did you know that the Berbers were the first known people to live in Africa. Libya is ruled be a dictator. A dictator is an all powerful leader. The Libyan dictator is Muammar Al-Qaddhafi. Libya used to be known for terrorism. Terrorism is violent acts against civilians to reach a certain goal. An example of their terrorism is the bombing of Pan AM flight 103. 

By: Katarina 6L