Egg Drop Thingy!

Well, we used popsicle sticks, a parachute (Pink Trash Bag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), and cotton balls, hot glue, and one egg. It was awesome how we set it up & painted it; we uhhh well this assignment is hard & I'm tiredish so yah the egg layed in a triangular prismish thing filled with cotton inside a cube. It's hard to explain, so anyways Mr. Jordan thinks that all of the eggs are going to "die" as he says and all but one group survived the first round. I think ours worked the parachute worked okayish, but it could have been better. We stuff together with hot glue and now I'm going to put a list of things we could use:

1. 50 popsicle sticks
2. string
3. rubber bands
4. miscellanous material
5. Our brains

We used four out of the five materials including:

1. few popsicles sticks
2. rubber bands
3. miscellanous material:cotton that fit in the required 3x3x1 inch area and screws
4. our brains

It was awesome but i think we shouldh've used Jell-O like Casey's group and Play-do. So yah the football field was such a fail!!!!!!!!!!!!! The balcony in the gym was a 12 foot drop so that made a huge plop but our egg survived!!!!!!! The football field was 35-40 foot drop according to Mr. Jordan just a second ago. Is this 5 sentences yet???? Lol Mr. Jordan said that so if you're Mr. Jordan and reading this, I just had to put that. If your not then you can ignore that sentence you just read, because it wasted 5 seconds of your life, have a nice day :)!!!

~(Y) Alyson (Y)~

The Trip OMG!!!!!!!

It was amazing!!!! Well, you can't touch a jellyfish anywhere, disecting a squid is WAY worse then I thought, and that their are sunken ships made out of cement. Oh yah, and that hobo's are located in Houston (i have hobophobia lol) and I learned that the things that looked like a retarded stingray is a horseshoe crab. They also have legs, did you know that? I didn't lol. That's about it!!!! (Y)

Astrology Project!!!

Astrology is sooooo weird lol. Astrology is about the stars, planets, and the sun's alignment. Sometimes astrology is so powerful that it controls countries' futures!!!! Take India, for instance, astrology is taken is so important in politics that if you predict the wrong future you get arrested!!!! There is the "Western" way and the Chinese way. The Western way is when your Zodiac is about the month and day you were born and you have people like Aries, Gemini, Capicorn, Aquarius, Cancer, Leo, Saggitarius, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Pisces, and Taurus. The Chinese way is like the Tiger, Snake, Rat, Ox, Dragon, Rabbit, Dog, Horse, Ram, Monkey, Pig, and Rooster. Unlike, the Western way, the Chinese way is determined by the year you are born.

8th grade trip ;)

I can't wait for the trip!!!!! If we get to do what Mrs. Moore said she did last time she went, then I can't wait!!!! I love Galveston!!!! I especially love the Moody Gardens Hotel!!!! I'm really looking forward to go to be next to the dolphins by the boat with the dude who has handled Jellyfishes so much, that he can't even feel them sting him!!!! NASA thing will be cool I guess, but I've already been there. I just can't wait! I especially love the 3 pyramids in Galveston. I've beeen in all of them but the white or pink one! We always go in the Blue one! I ♥ GALVESTON

Surveillance cameras

I think that public places should have cameras. Correction, they should still have it. If a bank robber or a wanted thief was seen on tape taking something, well, we could get them into jail before something gets out of hand. Sure we would have to give up a little privacy, but it's not like they are going to install a camera in the shower. Now, that would be an issue. It would help put a lot of bad people in jail that needed to be there.

What I Learned About the Holocaust

These people were kids from the Holocaust

As everyone knows, the 8th graders learned about the Holocaust. I learned lots of thungs I never knew. For example, I've heard of Anne Frank, but I really never knew what she was famous for. I also learned that Adolf Hitler didn't kill just blonde hair, blue-eyed Jewish people, but he killed just about anyone except for the Germans. The ironic thing about the Holocaust was, Hitler was also Jewish. I learned about the different types of camps, and I thought that they only had death camps. Well, they actually had work camps, so that's how the survivors survived. It was a very sad time, and the sadest part was, is that they killed 11 million people before they were stopped! Anne Frank also didn't die in a gas chamber, she would have been liberated (or freed) if she wouldn't have gotten typhus. She and her sister, Margot (pronounced Margo) had 3 weeks until they were liberated. Anne would help other people, and her diary was found in the Secret Annex where they were found. It is really sad; I almost cried. If I would have been torn away from my family, lied to, decieved, scanned, found out, turned in, I would have really been depressed. I mean, how could these people do this to other people. Well, what is done, is done. We have to learn from our mistakes.

Jack London

Now that we are done with e-mailing the Iditarod mushers, we did a short study over Jack London, the author of the Call of the Wild. I've learned since Jack London was 8, he has been out in the "real world" working. He tried out college, but that really didn't work out. He also became a hobo and traveled across the U.S. and Canada. Jack London also searched for gold in the Klondike, where no one talked. In October, 1816, when he was 40 years old, he ended his life by over-dosing on medicine. He was married twice, and had two girls. When he remarried, he married a girl named Charmane. He also joined pirates, and he owned a boat named the Stark. It must have been really hard for him, especially if he commited suicide. Well, he had a pretty bad life if he had to get a job at age 8!