Energy Conservation Is Key

The video "energy conservation is Key", is about a girl named Madison, intervewed to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator called Lisa Jackson.
Madison asked Lisa about what U.S is doing to protect the environment, in this critical situation that the world is living with the contamination and other serious problems with the environment.

Opinion:
I think that all the things U.S government is doing are essential nevertheless they are so simple and there are more important aspects with the ones we can help to solve this serious problem with the environment.
Remember you can also help!!

If you want to see the video, it is in this page:
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/scholasticNews.jsp?FromBrowseMod=true&Ns=Pub_Date_Sort%7C1&CurrPage=scholasticNews.jsp&TopicValue=Scholastic%20News

My favorite hobbie.

Hi…
Today I am going to talk you about my favorite hobby that is to paint.
I like it because I can express what I feel in a nice wayand with many colors. I also like it, because I can do what ever I want and I can show what I am good for, I think.
For painting, all what you need is to be creative, have the materials you need (paintings, paint-brushes, a surface were you can mix the paintings, a surface were you can paint, and other things you need depending on the tecnic and way you paint) and have an idea of what you are going to express.
In this hobby, there are many tecnics with the ones you can paint, some of the tecnics use other elements like sponges, sticks etc.
If you know, I have painted some things in my life and I have exposed some. I you saw them, I am sure that you liked them.
Have a nice day. Bye.

Bogotá

Hi again, today I am going to talk you about my favorite city that is Bogotá.
This marvelous city has 3 things that I love and I think other cities are sad because they don’t have them.
The first place is “Monserrate”, it has a very, very beautiful view from its top were an important church is find.
The next, are all the museums that show us all the history and traditions of an old Bogotá. One of all this museums, and I think the most important, is “El Museo Del Oro”, in this place, people can see all unique and special things that old Bogotá people made in a material name gold.
The third and last place is “La Candelaria”, a place with many historic events that conserve its style.
These places are some of the many reasons that I like this city: Bogotá.
I’m sure you will like to visit this places and specially this city.

Adelaida

Legacy

When I grow up, I want to be a doctor. I want to study medicine and be the better doctor ever in this world. When I am completing my dream, part of it is to make a foundation where people can learn to be a doctor without paying a complete career.
In this foundation, people will receive education from me, and when I can not continue, my family will continue with my dream (I hope so).
Also, I will leave a hospital in which people can go and help any person by being assistants of any doctor that work there or work in any other thing like in telling the people where each place inside the hospital is located. In this place, people that need work will have it.

Please pray that this legacy, that is also my dream, can become true.

The New World

Abby Sharp, 14 years old; Wyatt Peery, 13 years old; and Tom Krajnak, 14 years old; won the first price at the 2009 NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FUTURE CITY COMPETITION. This time, it focused on water conservation; participants had to invent a way to improve the uses of water in the houses. More than 30,000 students competed (38 middle schools). They had to construct it in a computer program ,SIMSCITY 4 DELUXE, and then, make a model of it and write about the project.
These Ohio eighth-graders students, created a city where all the people had a system that used natural resources such us geothermal energy and hydropower that helped the planet; its name “New World” comes from the Latin “Novo Mondum”.
I think this competition is a way in which the students can have many ideas of how they can help our planet in their houses in a way that they can learn easily, also they can learn how to be architects and be prepared to the future.

Taken from:http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK

little cooker

I like this photo because I was very happy after Christmas because my mom gave me a small kitchen here I “cooked” for all my family while my mom cooked what I was going to eat.
What I did not like was that all my family pretended that it was real food and now I know it is not and I am very desilusionated.

welcome

Welcome 5a, I am so glad to find a place where we can share many things and express all the feelings we have and all the things we like to do.
I think this activity would help us to be very attentive to our spelling and all the comments we make...
Have a nice day!!!!!!

Adelaida.