Kyle’s Blog

Today in math we continued our mid-year assessment. The circled problems were only for Miss V to look at and not counting for our grade but the non-circled ones do.

Without oil we would be nowhere, because tires, tennis rackets, trash bags, toothpaste, crayons, parachutes, telephones, and even shoes are products of oil not to mention gasoline. But now the oil in the ground (crude oil) is running low and the prices are getting high.

According to U.S. scientists there is about 2.6 trillion barrels(which is 109,200,000,000,000 gallons) left in the ground. 1.7 of it is discovered oil or oil that has been found. Although, there are 900 billion barrels that has not been found. Furthermore, when half of the oil is found in one place the oil is harder to pump out, so the 2.6 trillion barrels is almost cut in half. After doing that math, Paul Roberts(the author of the book The End of Oil) says that in 2030 the world oil supply will peak and start to go way down.

Some Ideas to fix this problem are to drive gas/electric cars, installing the most efficient heating and cooling systems in buildings, and switch from oil to solar or wind to power things. We will never know when the world will run out of oil, but it is coming so we need to research ideas quickly.

Here are some amazing facts I found at  http://www.indianchild.com/amazing_facts2.htmLightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

In LA today we shared our paragraphs on vegetables. Also we recorded how many people included in the paragraphs a golden brick.

[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8550611586798933498&q=turkey+during+Kemal+Ataturk%27s+presidency[/googlevideo]Dear Mr. Smithers,

Life here in Turkey had changed a lot when Mustafa Kemal was president. He had changed rules, and the people that live in Turkey.

Mustafa Kemal (otherwise known as Kemal Atatürk) had gotten rid of some rules and made new ones during his presidency. I remember when we were praying and Kemal banned the fez, so we had to pray without our fezzes. After that we all had to wear brimmed hats everywhere we went. Something else the ”father of the turks” changed was that no women can wear veils (a cloth that hides their face). Although he did give women the right to vote and girls were allowed to go to school. Next, he moved the capital of our country from Istanbul to Ankara. And the last thing he changed was our language to something similar to the Roman alphabet, he made the newspaper, books and street signs to this language.

Sincerely,

Oktar

I got my information from http://www.ataturk.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/  which is the website in the Musafa Kemel link.

The first thing I liked about camp was the initiatives. I remember when we were doing the spider web and Jared H. crawled under the web and got mud all over his pants. When we were doing the Mohawk walk ( which was one of my favorites) it felt like walking across a tightrope. Another initiative that I liked was the human ladder because when your crawling on it you think you’re going to fall but you don’t. My favorite initiative was the meat grinder, and our task was to was to get on, over, and off without falling.

Something else that was fun at C3CC was the talent show hosted by Meghan K. and Emily G. An act that I liked was the mixed up hands by Rebecca, Meghan, and Catlin where Rebecca’s hands are frivolous. Another act I liked was I’ve Been Waiting For The Shower by Kevin K. and Jared H. When the Eagles song was sang it felt like being at a football game. Finally, last but not least, I remember when four kids imitated the four teachers Mr.Lawrence, Mrs. Ekstrom, Ms. VanOstrand, and Mr. Hetherington, then the teachers imitated four students, and they were Jamie, Mike L., Mike L., and Micaela.