Sunday, November 23, 2008
Learn while feeding others!
Gelatinous means:
1. jelly-like
2. smart
3. disposed
4. anxious
Correct! Gelatinous means jelly-like! You have just donated 20 grains of rice!
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I try to spend at least 10 minutes on this site everyday. It's a site called Free Rice. http//:www.freerice.com At this site you are given questions in various subjects. which include, but are not limited to, Element Symbols (You'll love this Ms. C!!), Spanish, Geography, Math, and English vocabulary. When you are on this site you answer questions in a subject of your choice, each correct answer earns you 20 grains of rice. What good is this to me, you ask? I'll tell you what good it is. Every single grain that you earn is donated to hungry people all around the world! Just think about this, you learn things, and hungry people get to eat because of your knowledge! I mean, how cool is that!??!
FreeRice has two goals:
1. Provide English vocabulary and other subject matter to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
This site is FREE! FREE to use, FREE to give. Just think of how much time you spend on the computer daily, you probably are on for at least an hour a day! If you spend TWO minutes each day on this site, you could provide a starving child with their meal for the day! This site is a great SAT prep tool too! :)
This site is amazing. And it only works if they have your support. So what I ask of you is this. Go to www.freerice.com , spend 5 minutes having fun learning, then provide a hungry person with food. This can only be beneficial if you do something NOW! DON'T procrastinate!! Go to the site NOW! it's www.freerice.com If you go now a child on the brink of starvation may get breakfast when they wake up in the morning! Do this, not only for yourself, but for that small starving child or adult. They thank you!!
Also, if you have a deviantart account (www.deviantart.com), or even if you don't, I recommend that you visit this link and add this stamp to your profile. (If you go to the link it's animated) Show your support! http://morowhitewolf.deviantart.com/art/Free-Rice-68439793 OR you can find more deviations (artwork) by going to this link http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=free+rice
Thank You for your Support!
Hannah :)
Our Young Old Teacher
Our online chemistry teacher, Shannon C'de Baca, is a young old lady. What do I mean by that? Well, the best I can describe is that she is NOT your average cranky old teacher who thinks all children are pests and is glad she never was one. And believe me I’ve known plenty of those kind. She doesn’t believe in strict old ways of teaching either (obviously if she’s an online teacher). She cares about each student she teaches. That’s one of the problems with a lot of today’s teachers; they don’t care. I don’t know…. It’s just really hard to describe. She doesn’t seem or act as old as she really is (I don’t think she would appreciate me saying how old she is). I can’t say enough good things about her… and I’ve only met her once in person! This is a shout out to the teacher whose last name I can’t pronounce! Ms. C! We love you!
http://auntshansblog.blogspot.com/
Here’s the address to Ms. C’s blog profile. Read it!
Friday, November 21, 2008
Display Picture
In case you haven't noticed we now have a display picture! I drew it (Niran) to represent me and Hannah. I'm on the left and Hannah's on the right. I made us extra cute and chubby! Go chibi style!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
What's with 'i' before 'e?'
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Disturbed Sunbathing
I wrote a descriptive paragraph for English class that had a change of mood transition between paragraphs. I decided to share it!
I sigh as I lay myself down on the beautiful, crowded,
I hear rustling all around me. People are leaving! I feel another splash on my face, then another, then another. Slightly annoyed from the people and the splashes for disturbing my peace I try to focus on the sun again. I find that I can't; I feel no warmth. Another splash lands on my lips. I taste it. The tiny splash does not taste salty like ocean water should. It tastes fresh, it tastes like... rain. Finally, I open my eyes. The sky is no longer sunny and the beach is nearly empty of people. Out of the corner of my eye I see cars in the parking lot driving away. Then, the downpour starts. I squeal, jump to my feet, and race to my car. By the time I get there I look like I've been swimming in the water rather than sunbathing. I open the car door, get in, and slam the door shut. I sit and stare for a moment and then groan. A perfect day completely ruined by the stupid weather. Well, I guess there will always be other sunny days.
The world is going places we don't want
Nevermind, too late. I already got myself started. I was chatting with some of my fellow classmates in my online chemistry course a couple weeks ago about global warming. Nearly everyone thought global warming doesn't exsist! "Isn't it just a theory?" NO!!! There is mountains of proof it exists. We are YEARS past proving it exists. Now we need to find how to at least slow it down if not stop it. I can't believe they thought it was JUST a theory. So to prove that it exists I recommended a documetary by Al Gore called "An Inconvenient Truth" and I gave them a couple of other websites. THEN they tried to discredit my evidence by saying "its kind of hypocritical for a guy who has his own private jet to be talking about global warming." First of all how would they know if he has his own private jet? Did they look it up? Doubtful. Second, did I say listen to Al Gore? NO. I said watch the documentary for PROOF that global warming exists. Just FACTS. Forget who is presenting it. I don't even think they looked at the websites I gave them. They just latched on to something political and held on for dear life. Global warming should NOT be a political subject. In the end the teacher sort of agreed with me. HA!
I think I'll save the stock market for another day. Maybe my "twin" will pick up on the topic.
I gotta Tell you guys the world is going somewhere we don't want it to go. I'm gonna miss it won't you?