http://rachelh6h.learnerblogs.org Just another Learnerblogs.org weblog Wed, 23 May 2007 02:32:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Iran is an Islamic republic or a theocracy. Iran used to have a Dictatorship but now they have a democracy. Iraq used to be called Persia and led by a Shah. If the Shah was overthrown he runs for his life. People that followed the Shah ... http://rachelh6h.learnerblogs.org/2007/03/30/ss-scribe-post/            Today in social studies we learned about the Caspian Sea,the Persian Gulf and also a little bit about Iran. First is the Caspian Sea is not really a sea at all it is a lake. It's not really a lake because it's not connected to a larger body of water. ... http://rachelh6h.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/01/social-studies-scribe-post-wed/ Colleen wrote a post on a very good book series called WARRIORS.I have been reading this series.She is the one who got me interested in this book series. I also liked her post because she did a very good job.I strongly suggest you to read her post.Who knows you might ... http://rachelh6h.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/25/my-favorite-post/ Lots of things are made from oil like toothpaste,trash bags, gasoline, home heating oil and much more. Guess what the most important thing traded between countries is. OIL! Did you know that the first oil well was drilled ion the shore of oil creek in Titusvill PA. Now we have ... http://rachelh6h.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/23/crude-awakening/ http://rachelh6h.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/23/14/ Dear Colleen, Mustafa Kemal was the first president of the Turkish republic. He was president for 15 years. He got the name Ataturk when he removed the sultanate and replaced it with a republic. Attaturk means father of the Turks. Ataturk said we are not allowed to wear vails ... http://rachelh6h.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/09/mustafa-kemal-ataturk/ Today we looked at a poem about Turkey called I AM LISTENING TO ISTANBUL by Orhan Veli Kanik. Then we took turns reading the poem. Then our class read the first and last lines of the poem and Mr.Hetherington read the rest of it. Next we discussed the poem we ... http://rachelh6h.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/17/social-studies-scribe-post-friday/ In social studies today mr. Hetherington talked about ESPA which is when students vote on the best scribe post. ESPA stands for exemplary scribe post award. To vote you go to the comment section you also have to wright ESPA and why you would give it the ESPA award. You ... http://rachelh6h.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/17/social-studies-scribe-post/      The first thing we did in math was reviewed what we had for homework. Then we practised the F=(1.8 * c)+32 formula (also known as the Fahrenheit formula.) Another thing we did was page 94 in our journals. On this page there were some equations for  example: A=1/2*(B*H)       A=1/2*(4*2.5)      A=1/2*(4.52)        ... http://rachelh6h.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/12/math-scrib-post/     Nathan sawaya rebuilt New Orleans using 120,000 Lego's. He planes to reveal his hard work at the New Orleans public library on November 17. On the same day the city-schools will receive more than 1 million Lego's donated by u.s children. Nathan hopes his wonderful creation will bring happens ... http://rachelh6h.learnerblogs.org/2006/12/10/a-city-bilt-of-legos/