Hi-ya!

2morrow at school we are having some pride rally?IDK. There is no pride to show in that school.....anyways, I'm really bored and I want it to be my birthday idk why..... Math is so hard! I liked Mrs. dresler teaching math better cause, she goes over the answers and if we need help she does the question on the board. They switched my classes? Im in advanced language arts and reading?!?!?! I was confused I didn't know I was that smart. But what ev. E-mail me! chocolatemonster1996@ymail.com. you have to do ymail or it wont work...

My school

I really dont like my new school. Everyone is so preppy! (I am too but, not as preppy as they are) The only class I like is gym. I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY WANNA GO TO BROOKLYN JUNIOR! But my parents wont let me! I cried a river. I'm not kidding. I want to get transffered and be with Watchen, Sandra, Easter, Deja..... :^ C I have no friends. Besides some of Watchens that used to go to her old school. BUT ANYWAYS.....I HATE IT.

Hell's Kitchen

Have you ever seen that show Hell's Kitchen? It's so funny!If you haven't, you need to!

Baby

My mom had her baby! It's a boy!ugh. His name is Levi Timothy. He is sooooooooooooooooo fat.He is 2 weeks old. Today he wouldn't stay in his car seat so i took him out, and he slept in my lap the whole way home while I ate sixlets. BTW they are all gone :( I heard this song on the radio and it's called One time By Justin Bieber. I like it. Alot. And how do u sleep by Jesse Mccartney <3

Ewww

Jason Mraz and lil' Wayne remixed im yours :/ yuck lil wayne sounds like he is on drugs.

Last day.

I'm Glad I came to Birch Grove. Everyone was very nice and I made alloootttttttt of new friends. I will miss everyone............ soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much! I hope every one has a goods summer! :P :^D :^*

Chloe

The Kids Business Book

1. The kids set up the business because, They wanted to earn money for what they do.
2. The kids set up particular businesses because, they chose the thing they would like to do and, they earned money off of doing it.
3.  You need to list things that you like and dislike. You need to find  a place where you could make a profit.
4. Risks that they faced were people not coming to buy there product or not coming to their store.
5. You need a place to start your business. Then if your running a big business you might need your parents or a friend to help.
6. A profit is a certain amount of money you get when you are working.
7. They might run out of business or have to shut their business down.

Minnesota Orchestra

1. This site might be interesting to kids. It is very informal and detailed.
2. I like this site because it gives off alot of information. The site has when the Orchestra started playing and how many people are in the orchestra.
   
3. I do not like that there is no interacting pictures of the orchestra.
4. The site did motivate to want to go the field trip. It did because, I've never been to the minnesota orchestra and I'd like to go.

Think and respond

1. That winning isn't everything and she could figure out to win things on her own
2. In the end and beginning of the story Mari felt like she needed to find a way to make her project look realistic and special.
3. You need to be dependent on other people because maybe something bad might happen or you need advice for something. You could be in a bad situation like Mari and need to be dependent of other people.
4. Teachers should judge students projects on how creative and how much they thought out the project. I know this because, most students who get good grades use their creativity and thoughts.
5. I flipped through the book before I read it. I looked at he problem Mari had and guessed what was going to happen. I did this because I like to know what happens before it begins.

Picturing America

I think they tried to teach american history like this because it seems more interesting to show pictures of american history than rather reading it in a book or encyclopedia(ECT...).

From these pictures you can learn how they dressed and what things looked like then. The cities and homes look different than now. The homes and cities looked more older and less small than now. The people wore wigs and long cloaks then also.  

I think the pictures were selected to show that things in american history were more older and historical than now. People then were American Heros too so, they could've picked those pictures for American Heros.

The pictures that I like are Falling water, and View from mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after thunderstorm. I like these pictures because they are about nature and they are beautiful.

 Here's the site,Picturing America

Painting with a hammer

I think that this video painting with a hammer was named this because, The man in the video was making art with the silver. He was using  tools like hammers to make art. That is why I think this video is called painting with a hammer.

Lebanon Silver Mine

In stop 2, ("The Lunch Room") The miners used a double jack sledge hammer. They would see by having candles in the mine with them. At stop 5,("The Changing Room")  Miners would change there wet mining clothes for new dry clothes after they were done with their work. There was a fireplace in that room so they could dry their clothes. In stop 7, (" The Tool Shed") I recognize the hammer at the bottom. They could've used that for mining silver and other minerals. In stop 12,("Powering The Mill") The mill had been powered by water and the creek near by.

Silver of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Century

These pictures look the same in lots of ways. They both look like they are used for some sort of drinking set. They all are made from silver and are in tea form. They all look like they were used a long time ago like, in the 1800's. The silver drinking sets

Twilight By: Stephenie Meyer

Twilight was about a Girl named Bella who fell in love with a vampire. Bella moves to Washington for the summer and is not liking it. She goes there to live with her dad. The first day of school there, she sits by an unusual boy that sits on the edge of the seat. His eyes were always black and he was very pale. As Bella gets to know him, she falls in love with him also. She then figures out that Edward is a vampire. A boy named Jacob tells her the story of the vampires and wolves. One day as Bella was with Edward and his family, 3 vampires come to see what they had been doing. What the Cullens (Edwards family) didn't know was that the strangers wanted Bella's blood.  To find out what happens in the rest of this mind thrilling book read Twilight By: Stephenie Meyer.

Sans Arc Lakota Ledger Book 1880-1881

The Patterns I see on this picture is in their clothes. The next pattern in the feathers. They repeat in all of the Native Americans clothing. The last pattern is The feathers in their hair.

Migrant Mother, 1936

The picture on Migrant Mother looks likes she is thinking about what's going to happen in the future. She looks worried about her children and what's going to happen to them. The Migrant Mother is living during the great depression.

19th-20th Century

I like the Bright Blue striped quilt. It looks like it took awhile to make. I think that it looks very ineresting and Beautiful!

Benjamin Franklin

1. Three deatails that this picture (statue) is that He is wearing a hat that people wore in the 1800's. He is wearing a long cloak that people wore in the 1800's also. Lastly is that, Benjamin franklin is not living anymore. He is a American hero.

My Side Of The Mountain Chapter 22

1. A photographer cam and all of a sudden took a picture of sam. It had made his heart heavy, and also that frightful was on his shoulder.
2. Sam talked to reporters and photographers for the next four days
3. Days later, Sam's father came. Sam heard voices and then he hesitated before meeting his dad.
4. Sam had found out that his dad brought the whole family to visit.
5. Sam's mother had said, "Well if he doesn't want to come home, then we will bring home to him."
6. Sam's father brought lumber to build a  house. His family was going to live with him.
7. His mother said that they are not leaving him until he's eighteen.

My Side Of The Mountain Chapter 21

1. Jessie didn't come around anymore because, she had a tree full of babies and was taking care of them.
2. A man named Aaron came to the mountains for passover. He and Sam sang songs.
3. Sam wouldn't have made another house for Bando and Matt.
4.  When Matt saw Sam's tree, he had asked sam why he lives in a tree.
5. After Sam and Matt returned from the fishing trip, Sam found Bando sleeping on his bed.
6. Matt had told Sam That there might be photographers on the mountain.
7. After Matt and Bando had left, Mr. jacket came. His real name was Tom Sidler.
8. Aaron had never asked him what he was doing on the mountains.

My Side Of The Mountain Chapter 20

1. In February, Maple trees began to make syrup.
2. Sam looked for skunk cabbage in the marsh.
3. A boy named Matt Spell was looking for a wild boy. He startled Sam while he was whistling for Frightful.
4. Sam told Matt where the wild boy was. Although he was the wild boy. Matt had believed the story he told.
5. Sam and Matt made roasted rabbit and Matt liked every bite of it.
6. Matt was supposed to return with a news paper of what He wrote about Sam
7. Frightful was talking about Matt. She didn't want him to come because he ate to much.

My side of the mountain Chapter 18(paragraph)

In my side of the mountain chapter 18, sam made moccasins to walk in the cold snow. Sam had named four birds. Their names were Mr. Bracket, Mrs. O'Brien, Mrs. Callaway, and Mrs. Federio. Sam named the birds these names for this reason. It reminded him of 23 Avenue. Bando had come around 4:30 christmas eve. Sam was making him Rabbit skinned moccasins. Bando told sam about him in the newspaper clippings. After Bando told sam about the newspaper clippings, they played christmas songs on the willow whistles. Bando was too tired to play more after that.

Sam's dad had came in the morning. He knew where to find him from the news paper. Sam's onion soup was cooked to perfection when they ate it for christmas dinner.  Sam iced fished for breakfast that morning and he caught a fish for breakfast. Sam's dad had stayed the longest. His dad left by a different route than he came. He id this because he did't want anyone to hot trail him and find Sam.

My side of the mountain Chapter 17

1. When he was cutting wood, he said it kept him busy.
2. The author means that In the beginning of the book, Sam is talking about the snowstorm and him being afraid and what not. So Sam says " Now I'm back where I began. I wont tell it again." So, Sam is back where he started with the snow storm.Sam had found winterberry and teaberry eaves under the ground.
3. Sam's standby for breakfast was Bando's jam on hard acorn pancakes.
4. Sam had found winterberry and teaberry eaves under the ground.
   
5. Sam wrote on birch bark because he had no paper.

My side of the mountain Chapter 16

1. Frightful's feathers changed plumage during autumn. Sam had said it looked beautiful.
2. Sam had used a penknife to cut his hair.
3. Sam was walking in town as a boy his age called him Daniel Boone 
4. The boy knew he was from new york because of his accent.
5. Sam had told the boy he was doing research.
6. Sam called the boy Mr. Jacket. He called him this because he had talked about his deerskin jacket
7. Sam had forgotten to get wood for the winter.

My side of the mountain Chapter 15

1. Hunting begins in early November. Sam needs to hide from them so he wont get caught.
2. Sam wanted to go to the library to see Miss Turner.
3. After sam was trying to go to the library a shot went off practically at his elbow and he saw a deer. That made him stay.
4. The hunter gave up on his deer because, The deer had fallen in the ferns and the hunter gave up his hunt.
5. Same didn't smoke the venison because, it was so cold that the coldness had preserved it.
6. Sam had trouble tanning the deers hide because the water had kept freezing.

My side of the mountain Chapter 14

1. Sam's competition for food was the squirrels.
2. Sam dried apples on a boulder to keep them dry and so they wouldn't get moldy.
3. Sam served, some of his dried apples, walnuts and hickory nuts.
4. Sam found wild rice in the ox bow at the stream.
5. Sam's house got trashed by raccoons. They were throwing all his goods around.
6. To get rid of his guests, sam chased them, threw more wood in the fire, and growled, snarled, hissed and snorted.
7. The bat had been the last one to leave.

My Side of the mountain Chapter13

After Bando had left, Sam spent his time collecting food for the winter.As winter was coming, Baron the weasel was changing into his winter fur. That made sam think. He wanted to get stuff for winter to. So, he was going to make a winter suit. Animals were preparing for winter. They were collecting food and hibernating. So, Sam's raccoon was fat. Sam dragged clay up the mountain to build a fire place to keep his tree warm in the winter. Sam finally got his fireplace to work. But, the fire place took up oxygen and frightful got sick. So, Sam had to fix his fireplace once more. Sam fixed the chimney with two stones and cut more holes in his tree.

My side of the mountain Chapter12

1. Sam used rug wood for his bath. He said its gets soapy when you rub it with water.
2. Sam met a raccoon. He had dug mussels for sam.
3. Frightening, Sam's falcon, Was now called the expert hunter. She caught lots of different meats for sam.
4. Sam made sassafras and pennyroyal tea.
5. In the book, Sam finds a man between the shed and a tree.
6. He made, Brown puffballs in deer fat with a little wild garlic. And had made boiled venison.
7. Sam had made up a name for the man. He called him "Bando"."Bando" called Sam "Thoreau".
8. Bando stayed with sam until his school started in september.
9. Bando made jars, lids, and an oven with the clay they found in the river. Sam says it was as course as ice.
10. Bando promised sam he would come back at christmas.
11. Sam and Bando made willow whistles. They played jazz with them.

(paragraph.) Chapter 11 my side of the mountain.

Sam used rug wood for taking a bath. Sam had met a raccoon. He dug mussels for him. What ever the raccoon didn't eat, Sam would have the raccoon dig for him. Frightful, Sam's falcon, was now the expert hunter. She caught lots of meat for sam to eat. Sam made sassafras tea and pennyroyal drinks. The man that Sam found was sleeping Between the house and a tree.

My side of the mountain chapter 11

1. Sam needed tannic acid to tan hide. 
2. He burned out a hole in another tree stump and put water in it. Along with wood chips.
3. Clean, skin, and boil until tender. Add wild onions, also water lily buds and wild carrots. Thicken with acorn flour. Serve in turtle shell.
4. Sam needed another deer for clothes.
5. They went to gather seeds, bark, and tubers for winter.
6. sam stored his food into another burned out tree to keep his food in.
7. The baron scared harold and grace away when they tried to sit on his boulder.
8. Sam made a deer suit out of the deer.
9. Because if she gets into the habit of what eating things she catches she'll go wild. So, Sam took the sparrow from her

my side of the mountain chapter 10

1. He would burn the bones of his food to preserve them well.
2. Baron weasel screamed, so it scared Sam and he had jumped onto the tree.
3. A man shot the deer from far away and sam got the deer before he could.
4. A man from another side of the mountain killed the deer.
5. Sam ate deer steak for a while because, he didn't want to wast one part of that deer.
6. While sam was lying down, he heard "pip pop pip!" He then found out that it was earth worms making the sound.

My side of the mountain ch.9

1. Sam fed Frightful rabbit pieces that he didn't eat.
   
2. Sam had caught a weasel in his trap!
3. Sam was surprised that the animal wasn't afraid of him.
4. Sam called the weasel Baron.
5. Sam wanted to trap a deer so he could have a door, and a blanket.
6. He used hickory sticks that had been boiled dry.
7. Sam put the seasonings in soup, on his cooked food and turtle.
8. He made a shovel out of the board he found in the stream.

MLK for a Day

In school, we have been learning about Martin Luther King. I am going to reflect on what we learned. Martin Luther King was a man who Helped whites and blacks not be racist against each other. He helped people realize not to hate each other not just because your skin is a different color. He was a man that didn't fight with violence, but with peace. He was known as a peace warrior.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate can not drive out hate; only love can do that.- Martin luther king.

   This poem moves me because, It tells you not to fight in hate, but with love.

Heres a video that moves me also.

My side of the mountain chapter 8

1. The man was wearing a foresters uniform.
2. Sam went to a comfortable place just below the rim of he gorge where he could pop up to se the man.
3. Sam caught a rabbit in his trap
4. He seasoned his soup with garlic and Jack -in-the-pulpit roots.
5. Sam didn't get home that night.
6. He was thinking about training his falcon and forgot about the man.

My side of the mountain chapter 7

1. Miss Turner cut Sam's hair in the library.
2. Sam said My apples (according to him,) tasted like very sweet bananas earthy and a little slippery.
3. Sam was watching the falcon as he was cooking his trout.
4. Sam slept near the cliff where the hawks were.
5. He baked tubers of an arrow leaf that grew along the stream and boiled mussels he found in the river.
6. He climbed the cliff and he was looking at the baby duck hawks. The mother (he calls the falcon) was hurting him as he grabbed the biggest baby and left the nest.
7. Sam named the falcon Frightful.
8. His shoulder was bleeding because the Mother of the little hawks were hitting his shoulder.

My side of the mountain chapter 6

1. The house was finished in June.
2. Sam took ash trees and made his bed.
3. Sam said after you cook them well they will taste like potatoes.
4. Sam used snares and traps to catch rabbits and turtles.
5. She met a lady who had worn a skirt and scared Sam.
6.  The woman was picking strawberries. Sam helped her do this.
7. Sam was going to train a duck hawk to hunt for him.

My side of the mountain chapter 5

1. Hikers, campers, hunters and fishermen would travel cross the catskill mountains.
2. Sam had to chop inside the old big tree, and he would have to burn some of it out.
3. Sam had to find food so he wouldn't get hungry working.
4. Sam put his clothes in to a pack so, after he fell into the water, he put all of his clothes on.
5. Sam ate dogtooth violets. he said they had tasted like lima beans
6. Sam ate the roots of the dandelion and the greens.
7. The tree that the eggs were in was an aspen tree.
8. Sam boiled his eggs in a leaf.
9. Sam found crawfish in the spring water

My side of the mountain ch. 4

1. Sam said it must be the warbler migration because, birds were dipping down from trees and there were so many of them.
2. Sam went into the streams and got mussels. He steamed them in leaves and then ate them.
3. Sam found apple and walnut trees. There weren't many apples though.
4. Sam found cattails, he called them very starchy food.
5. Sam found, White birch, Maples, Oaks and Hemlocks.

Chapter 3 My Side Of The Mountain.

1. He needed to know how to survive. He made fires, caught fish and got berries for himself.
2. He was looking at the library for a map to his grandfathers farm. A lady at the library helped him find that.
3. The Librarian (Miss Turner) Helped him find The map he was looking for
4. After he had found his grandfathers land, He had a cat fish he had caught for dinner
5. After sam had eaten, He wrote to his friend Billy. The one who taught him how to build a fire and let him stay at his house over night.
6. Sam stayed in his Grandfathers cabin that night.

1. When sam left his home, he was going to find Great Grandpa Gribleys land.(farm)
2. Sam lived in a apartment with 11 people. His 4brothers, 4sisters, himself and his parents.
3. He took a penknife, a ball of cord, an ax, and $4o. He also had brought a flint and steel to start fires.
4. His dad told him "That land is still in the family's name. Somewhere in the Catskills is an old beech with the name Gribley carved on it. It marks the northern boundary of Gribley's folly- the land is no place for a Gribley.
5. Sam caught 5 trout with Grub from a tree and carved a hook out of wood.
6. Sam did not cook his dinner. He couldn't get a fir started with his flint and steel.
7. Sam cooked his dinner in a house with a guy named bill.
8. Bill taught Sam how to build a fire with his flint, steel, and tinder.
   

1. Sam lives on a mountain and made his home out of a tree. People passed him without knowing that anyone lives there. He dug and burned it out until, he made a cave in the tree and calls it "home."
   
2. Its the fourth of December and below zero outside.
3. He is the narrator because, he is telling us how he lives and what he does as he is doing it.
4. His best friends are Baron and his falcon.
5. Sam has been living there for eight months. 
6. The last part of the snow storm was last written two days ago when he was afraid of the snowstorm.
7. He was scared because he thought he would never get out of his tree.
8. His dad said " Somewhere in the catskills is an old beech with the name Gribley carved on it. It marks the northern boundary of Gribley's folly.
   

Questions on myside of the mountain

1.) The author of My Side Of The Mountain is Jean Craighead George.

2.)Her father taught her how to live in the wilderness. They built rabbit traps and her dad showed her edible fruits in the wilderness also.
3.)The characteristic inherited in this family is, trying to find how it was to live in the Wilderness. They camped and lived off the land.
4.)The author was born and raised where her father could research about the wilderness.

5.)The author found out how to train a falcon when Sams foraging became tough, he would find a falcon.
6.)The publisher decided not to publish this book because parents should not encourage kids to run away. He then changed his mind after Sharon Bannigan told him that its better for kids to run away to the woods than the city.
7.)This story isn't true. Maybe it could be a little like Jean Craigheads life but it's not true.
8.)The name of the main character and narrator of this book is Sam Gribley.