Blogging Challenge week #5

Salads are not the only option when you are a vegetarian

By Zach  Challenge #5 Question #1

 

More and more people are becoming vegetarian in America. Vegetarians are people that do not eat any meat, such as beef, chicken or fish. But my family and I eat anything with animal products in them, such as gelatin, margarine and processed breads. I also do not eat processed sugars to help animals. Here are some things that we eat a lot of:

 

  • Fruits (grapes,bananas,oranges,apples and grapefruit)
  • Vegetables (kale,spinach,lettuce, tomatoes,carrots,potatoes,mushrooms and okra)
  • Proteins (cheese, eggs, nuts and tofu)

 

Pizza is very popular in America. Most people think that pizza has meat on it but the meat is all in the toppings. You can get a margarita pizza (cheese,tomato sauce, basil and pizza crust) and be completely vegetarian. My family also likes pineapple pizza, which is like a Hawaiian Pizza, but without the ham. Pineapple Pizza has pizza crust, cheese, pizza sauce and pineapple.

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Omelets are also very popular here as well. in them In addition to eggs, you can add anything that you want to them. In my scrambled eggs,  I like cheese and salt and pepper. In my ideal omelet, there are mushrooms, spinach and goat cheese and it is wonderful.

Tortilla de Patatas con Calabacín y Hojas de EspinacasCreative Commons License Javier Lastras via Compfight

 

When we eat out, we normally go to places like Panera Bread , which has soup and sandwiches that we like. Giacomos Pizza has been voted the best pizza in our region. We also go to the Tomato Cafe for good pizza salad and breakfast.

 

 

Hollow Walls By Adam

 About a month after his roommate moved in on Halloween night, Ethan heard voices inside the wall. He asked Tom frequently if he heard voices, but Tom shrugged it off and said he didn’t. Although Ethan knew he could hear them, because whenever he ask Tom always began to act oddly.

 One day he heard the voices louder this time saying “Get out, he-” and then the voices cut off with a loud rumble.

Tom was walking down the stairs directly after. “Whoa we must have mice or something,” Tom said.

“Yeah, I guess so. See you around.” Ethan left and headed to the RA’s room leaving Tom to do whatever he wanted. He knocked on the RA’s door and when no one answered he went back to his room. Four days after he was walking down the hall, he saw a missing person report on his floor’s  poster board with a picture of Martin. Ethan went back to his room thinking about Martin going missing.

 Ethan woke up to see Tom standing in his room with a baseball bat about to swing at Ethan.

“Oh, umm wanna go play baseball?” Tom said nervously. Tom was getting shakier by the second.

“Yeah sure let me just grab my bat and gl-.”

Ethan shot his leg up and kicked Tom’s head knocking him out. He dragged him to the wall locking him behind like the others. They were screaming so loudly Ethan couldn’t even hear himself think, so he covered their mouths with duct tape and closed the wall back up.

“Oh that’s why? I thought I was crazy,” Ethan said as he began to laugh.

Tom woke up gasping. “Ethan would never do that to me” Tom said.

“Oh really?” Ethan said as an evil grin spread across his face.

 About a month after his roommate moved in on Halloween night, Ethan heard voices inside the wall. He asked Tom frequently if he heard voices, but Tom shrugged it off and said he didn’t. Although Ethan knew he could hear them, because whenever he ask Tom always began to act oddly.

 One day he heard the voices louder this time saying “Get out, he-” and then the voices cut off with a loud rumble.

Tom was walking down the stairs directly after. “Whoa we must have mice or something,” Tom said.

“Yeah, I guess so. See you around.” Ethan left and headed to the RA’s room leaving Tom to do whatever he wanted. He knocked on the RA’s door and when no one answered he went back to his room. Four days after he was walking down the hall, he saw a missing person report on his floor’s  poster board with a picture of Martin. Ethan went back to his room thinking about Martin going missing.

 Ethan woke up to see Tom standing in his room with a baseball bat about to swing at Ethan.

“Oh, umm wanna go play baseball?” Tom said nervously. Tom was getting shakier by the second.

“Yeah sure let me just grab my bat and gl-.”

Ethan shot his leg up and kicked Tom’s head knocking him out. He dragged him to the wall locking him behind like the others. They were screaming so loudly Ethan couldn’t even hear himself think, so he covered their mouths with duct tape and closed the wall back up.

“Oh that’s why? I thought I was crazy,” Ethan said as he began to laugh.

Tom woke up gasping. “Ethan would never do that to me” Tom said.

“Oh really?” Ethan said as an evil grin spread across his face.

Where’s My Yearbook by Zach

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Although they were only 9th graders, they ruled the school. Bobby was always the team captain, no matter the sport. John was the richest kid in the school; his dad owned the power company that everyone got power from. David was the genius. He skipped over three grades at once and he edited the school yearbook. All these kids were very nice and the teachers and kids adored them. But Bobby, John, and David all shared a secret.

 It was an easy decision to leave Timmy out of the yearbook. No one really knew him, and David thought that people would rather forget the tragedy in the boys’ bathroom. Bobby, John and David wanted to erase that day forever. They were all heads of the anti-bullying committee and they knew bullying was bad from first-hand experience. They certainly did not want anyone to investigate what happened on the day that Timmy died.

Carl, the school janitor, had nightmares about that Halloween all the blood on the mirror. He still wondered if he should have told the police about the boys fooling around in the bathroom.

Bobby, John and David were so excited on the night of graduation. David had created a great yearbook and he elected Bobby and John to help him pass them out. Every student immediately opened their yearbook and said how fantastic the book looked – full of great memories of the school year.

 When Bobby, John and David opened their yearbooks, a ghostly image of Timmy appeared on every page.  “Where’s my yearbook?” was written in blood on the back page. The three boys freaked out.  They ran back to the scene of their crime… the boys bathroom, and the mirror was once again covered in blood. Bobby, John and David were never heard from again.

 

Blog Challenge #3- Activity #1

On our vacation last Christmas, we went to the Florida Aquarium. They had a penguin encounter program there and my family and I did it. We had a very good time  and got to carefully touch the penguin, watch it swim and see it get fed. My family and I got some photos and had a lot of fun there.

 

The reason that this is such a special moment is because my dad touched a penguin for the first time (he really likes to take photos and that is normally his role). We got to do it together and the aquarium does not normally let you do that.

 

I love penguins and love that aquariums let people engage and learn about penguins. I think that makes people like and remember the penguins more that just seeing them. Also if the penguins ever needed help, more people would like and know how to help them from the encounter program.

 

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Caption: Joel and Zach Carpenter interact with a penguin at the Florida Aquarium.

FullSizeRender 2Photo Attributions: Kim took the photo and has granted permission for this photo to be used on Shirley’s 6th Grade blog post and for non-commercial purposes.

 

 

Caption: Joel Carpenter interacts with a penguin at the Florida Aquarium.

Photo Attribution : Zachary Carpenter took the photo and has granted permission for this photo to be used on Shirley’s 6th Grade blog post and for non-commercial purposes.

 

Week 3 Activity #1 Blogging Challenge

The story I’m about to tell you happened this summer when I was flying to Poland for the first time. I was so excited because I was going to Poland, plus I was going to meet my Polish family for the first time. When I arrived at eleven at night at the hotel, we got to the room and I was exhausted and grumpy so I got into bed. The next day I toured Warsaw with my cousin and aunt, and after our full day tour, we went to an enormous dinner with all my relatives, such as my three times removed cousin, Pepino, and my four times removed niece, Lena, and my great-great aunt who played the harmonica for all of us. It was great and fun, but the food was terrible because instead of making Polish food, the restaurant made “international” food–whatever that means! Overall, I had an amazing time in Poland.

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Holiday Celebration – Josephine

We all have different celebrations but whatever they are we all love them. So, how about Christmas? Christmas is one of my favorite holidays and also one of the only ones besides Easter that I have never had something bad happen. I just love Christmas and the fact that it is coming up makes me so happy, but also annoyed. I mean it is in seven days and I can’t wait that long. I mean really seven days! Yeah I said I love Christmas but you don’t know why so here it is.  A few days before Christmas we go Christmas shopping. We split up and get presents and I like this because then it is not just people in your family getting one we all do and that means more presents.

There are many reasons I like this holiday and there are many reasons it is one of my favorites. Well yes, there are presents and yes that is fun but I promise you when I say that I don’t want to be too cheesy and I think it is the truth that it is being with your family that really does count and I think I am so lucky because one of the best things about opening presents is your family being there to see what you think and your expressions of happiness, joy etc.

There are many reasons why I love Christmas but one thing and one thing only that you don’t even know is there sometimes well it is those old fashioned snow covered traditions. Don’t you just love them? Well, I least I do. You can have a lot of things, or not but those traditions and you will never forget them. Now some of my traditions are like cutting our own tree down and getting to open one present on Christmas eve that always seems to be pajamas  so we can wear them that night and many more like full waking up my parents before their ten cups of coffee and more, but if I said them all we would be here all day. I don’t know about you but I love Christmas and I hope you do too!