I think that it is good to use a blog for learning at school because you don’t have to use this only for school things.  You can use your blog to write things about a book you read or a movie you saw.  Blogs are also great because you can write your own opinion and you can see friends or other peoples opinion about something.  So I think that using a blog to learn in school is a good idea.

What are the best/worst things about using blogs?

Do you think it is important to learn how to use things like blogs? Why? Why not?

Yes because it could help us in the future if we get a job where we have to use blogs.

The characters are also interesting too, the “Joker” was played by Heath Ledger.  Heath was a very good Joker and I heard he locked him self in a hotel room for ten days just to get the Joker laugh right.  Batman is different in the movie because he talks as if he was ghost and in the end he gets hunted and becomes the dark night. 

Breakfast in Hiroshima

By Robin Kennedy

Hachiro Tanaka went for a walk in the Hiroshima Peace Park in the morning with his grandson named Kenji.  When they were looking at the dome his grandson Kenji said Grandpa Hachiro its time for breakfast.  The moment he heard those words he had a flash back to when he was only about 11 years old.  “Hachiro, time for breakfast.”  “Coming mom.”

Hachiro came down to the living room and sat at the table.  Then he looked at his calendar today was August 6^th, 1945.

   “Oh man, only hot water again.”

 “Well you know we can’t afford any food right now.”

Said Hachiro’s mom.  Hachiro quickly finished his breakfast of hot water and started walking to school.  Today was different around 8 o’ clock the bomb alarms went off.  Hachiro and his class quickly hid under their desks.  Hachiro saw a plane flying over Hiroshima, and then a black missile like object dropped from the plane.  When it hit the ground a huge blinding flash of light spread though the city of Hiroshima and the whole school was destroyed just in one flash of light.  At that moment Hachiro knew that this was not a normal bomb, but he had never seen anything or heard of anything like this.  The whole school was burned and destroyed, the whole city was destroyed, and all of his classmates were dead, burned alive! When Hachiro tried to stand up his whole body ached as if a thousand hammers were banging on him.  The air was hot as if he was burning up.  He fell to the ground and tried again.  Even though his body ached but he managed to stand up.

Hachiro walked out of the school and looked at the city all he saw was a destroyed city and corpses of people who were killed in this horrible life-taking event.   Hachiro’s instinct was to go check if his family had made it.  He walked as fast as he could towards his house.  When he got to the remains of his house there was nothing.  He thought his parents and his families were all dead but then he heard his mother scream“help”.

  His mom was trapped under a burning log almost half of her body was burned away!  When Hachiro tried to lift the log she screamed and said “just leave me here, you must go and survive.  You have a whole life to live, but mine is over.”

  Hachiro burst into tears he didn’t want to leave his mother.  He tried lifting the log again but then another part of the house fell on top of his mother.  She had died before Hachiro could even say goodbye.

Hachiro was so sad.  He tried to run as fast as his feet could carry him but soon he collapsed, everything went black.  When he woke up he was put in a pile of dead people about to be burned.  Hachure screamed and shot forward and fell to the ground.  A soldier picked him up and said, “Your alive, I can’t believe it!”

  The soldier rubbed his head but then when he took his hand off Hachiro’s head some of his hair had fallen out! Hachiro had gotten radiation sickness!  He put on a hat and fell asleep.  When he woke up all his hair fallen out and it was in the hat.  Hachiro had become bald.  He put his hat back on and started walking.  He was not planning to go so far but he went for a walk in the holding bay for the victims of the atom bomb.  When he looked around he felt very lucky that he only hurt his head because he saw people with their whole body wrapped up with bandages, people who had lost body parts, people very badly burned.  Hachiro got scared and walked away.  After a while when his head got better he was aloud to leave the holding bay.  He went for a walk around the city he noticed that the only building standing was the dome. 

That was when he flashed back.  His grandson was tugging on his shirt and saying “Grandpa Hachiro it’s time for breakfast.”

  Hachiro and his grandson Kenji walked back to his house and had a very good breakfast.

The End

I hope you liked it.

 My favorite parts were the big race between Hippomenes and Atalanta and when they are both slowly turned into animals.  Those are my favorite parts because the way the author who retold these myths discribed these parts for example she wrote “When the trumpets sounded, the two shot forward and ran so fast that their feet barley touched the sand.  They looked as if they could run over the surface of the sea without getting their feet wet–or skim over fields of corn without even bending the stalks.” or “One night as Atalanta and Hippomenes lay side by side under the moonlight, changes began to happen to their bodies.  They grew rough amber coats, and stiff, long claws. And when dawn came, they woke and growled at the early light.  Then the thick tails of the two mighty lions swept the ground as they began hunting for their breakfast.”

         The Bucket List is about two old men who meet in a hospital.  One of the men is very rich, and he owns a hospital chain.  The other is poor and lives a normal life as a mechanic.  They were both told that they have six months to a year left to live.  So they make a list of all the things that they want to do together before they die. Their list is called The Bucket List because  “kick the bucket,” means to die.  Some of the things they put on the list and actually do were go skydiving, drive a racecar and laugh until they cry.  They also wanted to climb Mt. Everest, but they were told the weather was not okay for climbing.  In the end they both die after completing most of the tasks on the Bucket List.

         I recommend that you see this movie because it is funny and very interesting, but sometimes it can be sad.  The saddest part is when the poor man dies before the list was completed.  His ashes were put at the summit of Mt. Everest.  When the rich man dies later his ashes were put together with the poor man’s ashes on top of Mt. Everest.  This movie makes you think about what is really important in life and how to share experiences with friends.  

         The Bucket List is about two old men who meet in a hospital.  One of the men is very rich, and he owns a hospital chain.  The other is poor and lives a normal life as a mechanic.  They were both told that they have six months to a year left to live.  So they make a list of all the things that they want to do together before they die. Their list is called The Bucket List because  “kick the bucket,” means to die.  Some of the things they put on the list and actually do were go skydiving, drive a racecar and laugh until they cry.  They also wanted to climb Mt. Everest, but they were told the weather was not okay for climbing.  In the end they both die after completing most of the tasks on the Bucket List.

         I recommend that you see this movie because it is funny and very interesting, but sometimes it can be sad.  The saddest part is when the poor man dies before the list was completed.  His ashes were put at the summit of Mt. Everest.  When the rich man dies later his ashes were put together with the poor man’s ashes on top of Mt. Everest.  This movie makes you think about what is really important in life and how to share experiences with friends.  

I think that our group did well but it was a hard task because we had to learn how to work together in a big group with out a teacher.  We had to use lots of teamwork for example we had one person doing each thing like one person did the cutting another did the stapling onto the board.  The start of the project was very good because we just sat in a circle and talked about what we think about Roald Dahl then we decided to interview some teachers Anton and I interviewed Mrs. Kar different people interviewed other teacher like Mr. Tracey, Mrs. Nadeau, Mrs. Gerrish and Mr. Neary.  Towards the end we were still doing well but at some points people were goofing off but I still think we did a good job. 

1. The Umpa Lumpas because they are interesting and funny characters and I’ve always like Charlie and the chocolate factory and they are my favorite characters in the book and movie. I also would like to learn why Roald Dahl made The Umpa Lumpas who they are.

2.Willy Wonka because he’s wierd but creative, he can be kind to some and cruel to others.  I like chocolate and his creative side comes out when he thinks of all the flavors and ingredients for his chocolate.  Willy Wonka also one part I like about him is that he searches for honesty.

         I think that middle school has been really fun so far because you get to move around to different places around school and you get a little more freedom than elementary.  You also get a one hour lunch break.  The only thing I don’t like even though its never happened to me if your late to class twice in one week you get detention on friday after school.  I got on the middle school B team soccer team.  I am also one of 5 sixth graders who made the middle school basketball team and I’m on the starting five.  I think middle school is better than elementary school but you get a little more homework.          

I also like Hatchet.  I have read this book twice, once in 4th grade in America and this year in 6th grade class.  This book is about a kid named Brian.  In the story his plane crashes, his pilot dies in the crash, and Brian becomes stranded in the Canadian wilderness.  All he has the hatchet his mom gave him, a wind breaker, and himself.  The story is about his survival.