And yes, I said "Leaves".  We are learning about how and why leaves change color. Here is the Color Coding:


Green is from the chlorophyll in a leaf.
The Red color is always in the leaf, but it becomes more obvious when the green stops being produced. for this reason, the leaves look red.  The red might also help the leaf stay on the tree longer.
Lastly, Brown.  Brown is just the humdrum color of all the tree's waste, not too overly exciting.
 

This is my presidential glog.  Half blog and half--I don't know what the other half is.  We all made one.  You see, we are all divided up into groups supporting a "candidate".  That part is in quotes because we are not supporting real candidates like Obama and Romney, they are members in our class.  We are going to have our own elections as one of our social studies units.  As you can probably tell, I am a staff member of Ryan M.  So far, I have had a ton of fun working and reaching deadlines.  We did a whole bunch of awesome projects before this one.  I must say, all of them were really fun.  My only problem was that on one of them we didn't hear properly and thought we had to have two things for our part of the election, and we only had to have one, although both would be nice.  We got all worked up over it to the point that we were going to try and stay after school when we had the genius idea of simply asking Mr. Solarz about the problem.  Then he told us that we didn't have to have both of them and I felt kind of embarrassed.  I don't know about my group members.  However, I have to say this just might be one of the greatest ideas anyone has ever had.  In case you can't see one of the pictures, hover over the glogster ad.  A few choices will pop up.  Click on the one that says view in fullscreen.  The whole thing should include all the pictures. Good luck!

We went to a Historical Reenactment at Olive the other day.  At the first station, I was an example, so of course I couldn't take a picture of THAT!  Some others probably did.  At a station with a "tavern", we read a letter and the owner was quite amazed.  We had forgotten that these people were in character.  We were all a bit intimidated by the next station, where we were shown a "helping stick" by a school teacher.  There was also a surveyor, a woodworker named Jeremiah, a wig maker, and a scout.  At the wig maker's, one of our classmates tried on a wig.  He looked hilarious, and we learned that even men and boys wore wigs!  On the way home, we took a break in the bus and compared and contrasted our experiences.  Some people were yelling about "Oh yeah, and I liked that..." etc. etc.  All in all, it was a really fun trip.  I put some of our favorite moments in the slideshow at the left.  Have fun looking at it! 

Today was our principal's birthday and we made electronic cards to email to him.  Mine is on the left.  It was a video, and  I could only screenshot the end.  Just so you know, my card had a chef juggling ingredients for a cake.  On his 5th juggle, the ingredients turned into a cake!  The chef struggled under the weight of a giant chocolate cake and it flew straight at the screen.  That was the picture I captured. This was 21st century because it was online and because everyone was really responsible about it.  No joking around for us!

This is my first madlib online.  I say first because it is definitly not going to be my last.  Madlibs are fun.  I have some at home and I play them all the time.  One of the words messed up.  It was supposed to be "Rosie" my next door neighbor's dog, but it ended up looking like "osie" instead!  However, it was really fun trying to catch all of the words.  Madlibs help me remember my nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, conjunctions, you get the idea, by helping me repeat them and remember them.  Madlibs are super funny, so you want to do more, and you end up learning your speech!