Squirrel and Bird (Jordan and Kassie)

Me and my buddy, Jordan, have made a Yodio (slide show). It’s a story about a bird finding a squirrel, eating her lunch. Enjoy!

Yodio – Nature Poem-Kassonei

Thirty thousand trees one man planted since ‘05.
This man has tried to help and
So far he has stopped erosion and is supporting more ecosystems.

By the Belgrave Creek, he lives with his saw dust toilet.
Crystal clear water glides through the zigged and zagged steam.
Frogs scream at the grade 7/8 kids that capture them.
Elderberry, ceder, and white pine stand in rows.

This man is like his farm’s “mother nature”.
He takes care of nature like it is his own daughter.
Murray Scott lives by the Belgrave Creek with his saw dust toilet,
and the roofless bus that gobbles up visitors.

“Shush In Those Trenches!”

On June 16th 2011, the grade 7/8’s from Turnberry went to Tillsonburg. Our class went so we could get a full hands-on experience to see how the trenches treated the soldiers in WW1. Robin Barker-Jones instructed us in grenade training, bayonet fighting, and a battle Germans  against the Canadians .  We had lots of fun, but there was a lot of complaining (mostly the girls).

“Oh man, this is it. Crawling in the warm sand, ducking so we stay alive. If only us girls were the Germans! I hear SHOT, no I gotta move to the back of the line now, darn Trevor. Gotta keep crawling like little babies. Ugh! When can we go home? Or at least just get out of the scorching sun!”

I learned a lot of lessons when we were at Tillsonburg. One I learned was that war is not a game. Some soldiers in the war were tortured by diseases, or were instantly killed by brutal weapons. War, is like a curse, it kills and kills, and does not help. Another lesson I learned was to work together. While in the trenches for the big battle, many of us got shot multiple times. We (the girls) did not work as a team until the last trench. Some of us started to complain a lot, and we kept complaining. If we did work as a team though, we might of had a better battle against the guys.

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Where I’m From

I am from stores full of gummy worms and bears,

from helping my parents with work on the farm or watching American Idol.

I am from playing with puzzles, puppets, and hiding in boxes to get away from fighting siblings.

 

I am from acting crazy by singing and

dancing as loud as possible. 

I’m from playing by myself because everyone was too busy.

I am from admiring Carrie Underwood and crushing on Josh Turner

from hating books, but had to read anyways.

I am from wanting to be a princess or an actress when I grew up.

watching the Big Bang Theory with my dad,

or Sue Thomas F.B.Eye.

 

I’m from helping kids around me because they said

“Gimme your book, I don’t understand this.”

then being called a nerd, because I understood it better than them.

 

I am from a place you can’t understand

just by me telling you.

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Tiled Angry Moose . . . RAWR!

Warning: what you are about to see is very angry, so don’t get too close!
The purpose of creating an angry moose tessellation is to create and enjoy a piece of homemade art, and to learn that art is not just about beautiful, but it is also about imagination and creation.

 

Materials used:
– A hexagon shaped piece of card stock
– pencil
– scissors
– tape (clear or masking)
– red pencil crayon
– light sky blue pencil crayon
– jade green pencil crayon
– aqua pencil crayon
– 30cm by 50cm piece of art paper

Steps:

1. First, cut the hexagon out of the card stock.
2. Second, draw a ship shape on the top of the hexagon.
3. Then cut it out, and slide the nibble (the cut out piece) to the opposite side (the bottom) of the hexagon. Tape it good with no spaces.
4. Next, draw a castle shape on the bottom right side, cut out and slide it to the opposite side (top left side). Tape it.
5. Then draw a shape that looks like a back of a camel on the bottom left side, cut it out and slide to the top right corner or the hexagon. Tape it.
6. Start tessellating by starting in the middle of the 30cm by 50cm paper, the shape should be positioned with the two pieces right beside each other.
7. Continue tessellating by connecting one of the sides with the exact indent, just like a puzzle.
8. When the whole sheet is filled with the shape, start detailing it by adding its eye and nose. The nose is by the eye, which is right at the castle indent. eg. like this
9. The eye should be coloured jade green, and the nose should be coloured aqua. The body should be red.
10. But the antlers should be the light sky blue, and the moose shading should be dark, light, dark etc. eg.  

Follow these easy steps, and you should get a beautiful angry moose tessellation! WARNING: since you have made the tiled angry moose I should tell you something: NEVER and I mean NEVER look him/her in the eye (because he/she will be jealous of you having two eyes.).

Obesity

Did you know obesity forms in a person because they have too much body fat?  Obesity can cause health problems and may cause death.  But to help stop obesity there is ways of dieting (but not starving yourself) to help. http://s252tzn.edu.glogster.com/obesity/

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The Word Shaker Story

These last two weeks, Turnberry in Wingham and JFK in Snowlake are working on a story inside of a The Book Thief.Our classes were separated by groups. In my group I had,  Cassidy, Parker, Ed, and Kassie (me). We were assigned this because we are reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. It is a story with-in a story. The story is called The Word Shaker. We had to look at the pictures and agree on what to say about what the picture shows.

A local German is in a store that has been taking over by the Nazi’s. The Germans are buying all of his hatred and fear so they can be safe and not end up like the Jews. Hitler took over the store so he could have more votes so he can rule Germany.

As the Germans are walking down town, they are being brain washed by Hitler’s words to hate the Jews.

A seed is in my hand and it reminds me of the hatred towards the Jewish people. The freedom it has and how the Jews should be like the seed, and get more freedom, and grow stronger instead of just dying.

There is a little girl under the tree, she is a German girl that likes Jewish people and she wants the Jews to be free again like the little plant that she is looking at.

The Nazi members are about to cut a tree but, Liesel is in the tree and they can’t anymore. The people that are trying to cut down the tree don’t know that it was planted by a Jew.

Liesel is staying in a tree so she can have more good memories instead of the bad ones. Liesel is taking care of the tree as if it were me when I was in a coma. Maybe Liesel thinks that tree is like me.

I have a hammer and some nails in my bag, its the only thing I have left.  Maybe I could find my old buddy Hans Hubermann.

I’m climbing a tree so I can get 1 last look at Moclhing before I leave.  I have all the supplies I need.  I’m thinking of staying longer, but I don’t know if it would be safe. The Nazis already  came to the house before, what if they come again and find me?

Me and Liesel are looking from the same point and all we see is the Nazi’s and what they stand for.  They only stand for Hitler and the fear and hatred he spreads.

Me and liesel are looking at the destruction from the war.  We can see all the people and everyone trying to put thing back to normal, but I think it will never be back to normal.

WHAT!!!! Conflict in a book?

There are conflicts in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. One type of the conflict in The Book Thief is character vs character(s). For example, there is External and there is also Internal. The example that I’m giving is character vs character(s) and it is under External. Liesel is the protagonist and Max is the antagonist. Liesel is hoping that she can find Max in one of the many long lines of walking Jews, but he is never there. I think that Liesel feels worried about Max because they were friends but then he left without explaining why. I think that Liesel will go after Max, because in the book she always goes down to the long line of Jews that are walking through the town. I also think that Liesel will find Max later in the book. I think this because I think that if Liesel and Max are friends then Liesel will not give up to look for him.

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Another type of conflict in The Book Thief is character versus nature. Character versus nature is External again. Hitler is the protagonist and the Jews are the antagonist. Hitler hates the idea of having Jews in Nazi Germany, but they have always been there. I think that Hitler feels very paranoid because he doesn’t like the Jews. Also he can’t get rid of them unless everyone agrees with him. Everyone won’t agree with Hitler because not everyone can be brain washed with words to hate Jews. Also I know this because Hitler is loosing the war so he is taking more  German men. In this situation it is a lose-lose. It is a lose-lose because Hitler can’t get all the Jews out of Nazi Germany, and the most Jews will not have homes.

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A third type of conflict is character versus society. The protagonist is Max and the antagonist is the Nazi’s. This example is External. In the book, Max is leaving because he is a Jew. Max doesn’t have to leave because no one knows that he is there. Also I think Max left because he was feeling too unsafe. I think this because two Nazi’s came into the Hubermann’s house and after they left, Rosa, Hans and Liesel found him with scissors, behind a sheet, in their basement If Max had stayed, I think that he would have been caught. In this situation, it is a lose-win. It is a lose-win because Max leaves so he loses, and the Nazi’s win because there is one less Jew in the town.

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Maitland Valley Watershed

The MVCA (Maitland Valley Conservation Authority) protects the MVW (Maitland Valley Watershed). The MVW spreads out onto a 150km area, which includes the Nine mile river, Eighteen mile river, South, and North Maitland river. The purpose of the MVCA is to get people to help protect water and other related resources for the future and present generations. All the plans are made/changed by the local Source Protection Committee. They protect water resources, such as lakes, rivers and groundwater, from contamination or erosion. In autumn, 2006, the Clean Water Act was passed and the Source Protection Plans development is supposed to start up in the future. The Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region is in southwestern Ontario, along Lake Huron. Water is needed to all aspects of our lives, so protecting the sources of our water is very very important. It is very important that there is enough safe and fresh water for all of our daily uses now and later on in the future.

The Drinking Water Source Protection is protecting municipal drinking water sources with specific attention to four harmed areas. The four harmed areas are Well Head Protection Areas, Intake Protection Zones, Highly Vulnerable Aquifers, and Significant Recharge Areas. The Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection region has almost 100,000 population.

Almost half of the population of the planning region obtain their drinking water from municipal wells, meanwhile the other half rely on private wells. This makes it very important that the Source Protection Planning involves both citified and agriculture people, and with private wells being more popular, agriculture landowners will have to accept in protecting surface water and groundwater.

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Rudy Steiner

Have you ever been yelled at by your parents? Well of coarse, everyone has. But did they only yell at you because they were worried? Well, Alex has done that a lot to his young son, Rudy.

Rudy is crazy. Rudy is crazy because he had told Liesel to take Rosa Hubermann’s money, and buy candy, over and over again. Also he likes to ask a lot of questions to his dad. Asking a lot of questions gets a lot of people mad, or upset.

Pink Sherbet Photogrraphy: I chose this photo because it reminds me of Rudy and Liesel at Freu Diller’s candy store window, looking at all the yummy treats.
Rudy is also careless. He is careless because he doesn’t listen to his dad, when he says something. Also he likes to do the opposite of what his dad says. For example, he still coloured himself with the charcoal, after his dad said he shouldn’t.

Rudy’s also determined. Rudy’s determined because he wants to be like Jesse Owens. He even put on black charcoal to look and act like Jesse.

I’m also pretty sure that Rudy feels embarrassed some times. I think that because I would be embarrassed if my parents yelled at me for their sake. I can relate to that because, my mom would yell at me when I would play with my dogs when I was little. I was so embarrassed because, I wanted to be able to play with dogs without having my mom yell at me.

I think the author included Rudy in the Book Thief because he shows how determined some one could be to be just like some one else. Also, I think his character was included because, it shows that he still respects his father’s decisions, like being with the Nazi Party, and still liking the Jews, unlike other Germans.

Is it possible that Rudy doesn’t like his dad being in the Nazi Party. He is friends with a Jew, so maybe he thinks that all Jews are nice and kind like his friend.

I wonder if Rudy will join the Nazi Party to make his dad proud? I think this because I want to go into cadets so I will make my mom proud, because she was in the cadets. Kids like to make their parents proud of them, by repeating their life parent’s but only in a different way.