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It was a warm summer day, Dorys friends begged her.

“Come on Dory!”, Sarah yelled.

“I don’t want to and you know why.” Dory exclaimed.

“Oh alright. Bye.” Sarah said sadly.

Dory watched her friends leave. She would go with them but she is afraid. It happened when she was 5 years old. Her family decided to go to the pools. Dory didn’t know how to swim but she went anyway.

Dory went in the pool. She went deeper into the water, then she panicked and drowned. Luckily her dad saved her.

Dory’s summer is not fun. She doesn’t get to hang out with her friends because they are there. Also because her family goes to the pools a lot. She’s thought about it and she’s going to do the unthinkable.

Dory has arrived. She tells her family and friends. She tells herself she can swim. Dory jumps right in.

This week we are completing Edublog Challenge #6 which asked us to look at “work” and we decided to focus on volunteering in our community. I would like to volunteer to a Ventana Wildlife Society in Monterey County. There, it helps birds like the Bald Eagle. In just 10 years they restored the Bald Eagles population. It is important to me because it helps birds whose population is getting smaller and smaller. In return it doesn’t matter what I get because it was for a good cause, so I don’t really care what I get. Also in return we will meet new people and we can become friends. If you would like to help or volunteer, you can go to the website, then click on membership. It will have a button and it will say donate. Please help. Birds may not seem important, but if you were that bird you would want to stay alive, wouldn’t you? Again please go to this website and help these poor birds stay alive, and make their population grow bigger. Who knows, maybe if you help you will meet new friends. To do more volunteer work go to my friends blog, Mikayla’s Fresh Blog. Here are some pictures.

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I am a Persian soldier. I became in one of the soldiers because they chose me.We are battling the Thermopylae. We can smell the sweat from all the soldiers. It reeks of all that sweat. We can taste the blood in our mouth, we would have blood in our mouth because we would get hit really hard. I can hear screams of all the soldiers dying. It sounded terrible. The noise was so loud it was like having someone scratch on a chalkboard.  When I carry the weapons The top part feels so sharp it could cut off my head. It probably could. Even if you touch the top of the spear, it will prick your finger. As I throw the spear my hands get splinters. All I can see is my friends dying and the other team dying as well. It was a gruesome sight. I wanted to just look away but everywhere I looked I could see were dead people. I wanted to close my eyes. But there were still some people battling. I was one of them. An arrow was shot, to me. I quickly grabbed my shield and protected myself. In relief I pulled away my shield. Spears were thrown. Screams filled the air. The battle was over. We had won.

We learned how to find the perimeter to a square or rectangle. All you have to do is add all the sides. We also learned area of rectangles and parallelograms. You just have to find your base & height and multiply them, and you will have your answer. For the last thing that we learned was finding the area of triangles and Trapezoids.It was also easy for me. But on one thing that we learned was very confusing. It was the most confusing thing for me to learn. It was called Area of Irregular and Composite Figures. When we had it for homework, I think I didn’t do so well. But I kind of knew some of them. The process is what really confuses me. It confuses me because I don’t know if I’m multiplying the right numbers or not. It would really be helpful if we started doing more of those problems when we come back from spring break. Have you learned how do this yet? Do you think the part im confused on is easy or hard? Do you think you would be able to understand it well? That is what we did in math this week. Please comment back with an answer. Thank you!

Αγαπητέ μπαμπά & Δευτ.,

Γράφω ένα γράμμα για να σου πω πόσο περήφανος είμαι για να είναι ένας Σπαρτιάτης. Η πόλη μας είναι μια καλή πόλη, και η κυβέρνησή μας είναι μια θαυμάσια κυβέρνηση. Η κυβέρνησή μας κολλά πάντα μαζί δεν έχει σημασία τι. Κάνουν ό, τι άλλοκάνει, έτσι δεν θα είναι από τη διαταγή του συγχέονται. Είχαμεδύο βασιλείς, και του Συμβουλίου 28 πολίτες άνω των 60 ετών.Όλες οι Σπαρτιάτες τους άνδρες άνω των 30 ετών, ανήκε στη συνέλευση. Θα ψηφίσει τους νόμους του Συμβουλίου καιεπέλεξε πέντε ανθρώπους να εφόρους κάθε χρόνο. Έφοροςείναι ένα πρόσωπο που εφαρμόζονται οι νόμοι και διαχειρίζεταιτην είσπραξη των φόρων. Μια εύκολη δουλειά για μένα, διότιόλοι πρέπει να κάνω το μαγειρεύουν, να καθαρίζουν, και δεν κάνουν τίποτα άλλο. Είναι επίσης δύσκολο για μένα, γιατί ο γιος και ο σύζυγός μου είναι στον πόλεμο. Καλά, ο γιος μουείναι στην κατάρτιση, και ο σύζυγός μου είναι στον πόλεμο. Δεν υπάρχει τίποτα πραγματικά κακό στην πόλη μας και δεν υπάρχουν επιχειρήματα ή αγώνες.

Η Αθήνα μας άρεσε όμως και να τους αντιπαθούν. Ήμασταν σε πόλεμο μαζί τους. Γι ‘αυτό και ο γιος και ο σύζυγός μου είναιστον πόλεμο. Δεν συμπαθούμε ο ένας τον άλλο, επειδή οι ​​κυβερνήσεις δεν συμπαθούμε ο ένας τον άλλο. Αυτό είναι ό, τισυμβαίνει εδώ.

Με εκτίμηση,

Algaia

Dear Mon & Dad,

I am writing a letter to tell you how proud I am to be a Spartan. Our town is a good town, and our government is a wonderful government. Our government always sticks together no matter what. They do whatever another one does, so it wouldn’t be out of order of mixed up. We had two kings, and the council 28 citizens over age 60. All Spartan men over 30 years old, belonged to the assembly. They voted on the council laws & chose five people to be ephors each year. An ephor is a person who enforced the laws and managed tax collection.  Its an easy job for me because all I have to do it cook, clean, and do nothing else. It’s also hard on me because my son and husband are in the war. Well, my son is in training, and my husband is in the war. There is nothing really bad in our town and there are no arguments or fights.

The Athens however disliked us and we disliked them. We were at war with them. That’s why my son and husband are in the war. They did not like each other because the governments didn’t like each other. That’s what is happening here.

Sincerely,

Algaia

I am participating in the Edublog Challenge. We have to visit at least five other blogs from students or classes around the world and ask at least five questions about their town, school, country in your comments. We have participants from 24 countries taking part in the challenge. I have left some comments on other peoples blog all around the world. I have asked them about their town, school, & country. To check the first blog I did click here. I asked them if they thought they lived in a good town, if they thought they had a good school. To go to the second blog I did click here. I pretty much asked the same questions like the first one I did. To go to the third blog I did click here. There are too many questions to type so if you want to see what I asked them go to that link. To go to the forth blog I did click here. To go to the fifth blog I did click here. Those are the comments I wrote.

To see what they responded click on the link.

This week in math, we reviewed all the things we learned. We had to do that because we had a benchmark. For the past week all we did was benchmarks. Even in our other classes we had to do benchmarks. They all seemed very easy to me. They seemed easy to me because we studied and the teachers gave us a study guide and I studied it like crazy! I think I got a pretty good score on my tests. It took the whole week to finish testing! But the good part about it was that we didn’t have any homework. That’s what we did in math this week.

In this post, I’m pretending that I am 65 years old and giving advice to my middle school self. My life has been great these 65 years. I achieved most of my goals. Like skydiving, learning french, getting good grades, and getting into a good collage. Although I achieved my goals, it wasn’t easy. When I when skydiving I went with my good friend Mikayla, and I landed to hard and I fell and broke my arm. Learning french was really hard too. I got a book of how to read french, but that didn’t help at all. So I got more books and more books, and that didn’t help either! But just when I was about to quit, the librarian new someone who knew french and I skyped with them everyday, and now I know french. It was also really hard to get good grades in middle school, high school, and collage. I had to memorize everything, and study every night. But it was all worth it because I got into a good collage and I got a wonderful job. My job was being a doctor. I really enjoyed that job because I got to help people that were sick and now they are all better. I also had a wonderful family. They kids are out of collage and doing their job. That’s how my 65 years of living were.

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But, there were somethings that I wish I would have never done. I wish I never went skydiving because I wasn’t feeling good that day but I went anyways and broke my arm. My husband and kids had to cook because I couldn’t cook anything with my hands. I could only help a little bit. I also got more sick that day. I also wish that I never learned french. I wish I never learned that because when I had my broken arm I had to go to the library and get a lot of books and only use one arm to carry 10 books! As I said the librarian knew someone who knows how to speak french and I skyped with them the whole night! We had to skype at night because she lived somewhere faraway and the time way different. But, the things that I’m glad I did were study for all of my years is school and get a good job. Since I’m from the future, I would like to give you some advice. Never go skydiving! Or Never be mean to your family or friends.