Un jour normal en France

C'est ce que nous faisons normalement dans un jour:

Tous les matins nous nous réveillons à 7:30 ou 8:00 et Papa va chercher une baguette pour le petit déjeuner. Nous mangeons à environ 8:30. Cameron et moi commençons l'école à 9:00. Après l'école, à 14:00, nous allons quelque part comme Centre des Halles, Baggersee, ou Hautepierre pour faire les courses. Ou nous allons au parc: Orangerie, Citadelle, ou Fossé des Remparts. Nous mangeons le dîner à environ 18:00. Puis , nous jouons à l'ordinateur ou nous lisons jusqu'à l'heure du couché, vers 22:00. A l'exception des leçons de musique les mercredis, c'est comment nous passons notre temps à Strasbourg.

Un Jour à Strasbourg

Les jours dans notre appartement sont planifiés très soigneusement et clairement.
J'espère que vous allez aimer!

Chaque Jour à notre appartement, nous nous réveillons entre 7:00 et 8:30. Après ça, nous mangeons le petit déjeuner (habituellement une baguette). À 9 :00 , nous commençons l'école. Nous faisons un sujet de 9 :00 à 10:00, puis un autre de 10:00 à 11:00 et encore de 11:00 à 12:00. À 12:00 nous avons un repos de 30 minutes, puis nous mangeons le déjeuner à 12:30. Quand 13:00 arrive, nous faisons une autre heure d'école pour finir. Entre 14:00 et le dîner (18 :00 à 19:00) nous faisons ce que nous voulons, si nos parents n'ont pas quelque chose de planifiée. Après dîner, nous jouons à l'ordinateur ou lisons lit un livre.

Les jours dans notre appartement sont très structurés. Un dérangement mineur peut se changer en désastre! Heureusement c'est très rare.


Salut de France!

Cameron

Meghan's novel study

The following is my novel study for the book Northern Lights. It is in the form of a slide show.

Meghan's science experiment (1st term)

How surface texture affects friction

Question:

How does surface texture affect the amount of force needed to move an object? I will test three floor surfaces: carpet, parquet flooring, and concrete.

Hypothesis:

I think that concrete will need the most force, parquet flooring will need the least, and carpet somewhere in between.

Materials:

1. a box with a hole in it
2. an elastic band
3. a small weight of about 200 grams
4. scissors
5. a rug
6. a concrete surface
7. parquet flooring

Procedure:

1. put the weight in the box
2. weigh the box with the weight in it
3. cut the elastic band so that it is now an elastic “string”
4. tie the elastic “string” to the hole in the box
5. hold the elastic band straight so that it is going as far as possible, without stretching, and measure it
6. (on the parquet flooring) hold onto the rubber band and drag the box
7. stop the rubber band and box, taking care not to stretch the rubber band any more
8. measure the length of the rubber band
9. repeat steps 6,7, and 8 on a concrete surface and on a carpet (I did it three times on each surface)

Data and observations:

The elastic band is 6.0 cm when it is straight and not stretching.

The rubber band was 7.4, 7.1, and 7.2 cm long when I dragged the box along the concrete. It was 6.5, 6.3, and 6.3 cm long when I dragged it across the parquet flooring. Last, it was 7.0, 7.2, and 7.2 cm long when I dragged it across the carpet.

Analysis:

My hypothesis was mostly right. I thought the concrete would need the most force, but it turns out that concrete and carpet are about the same.

           Concrete   Parquet   Carpet
1st time    7.4 cm    6.5 cm    7.0 cm
2nd time    7.1 cm    6.3 cm    7.2 cm
3rd time    7.2 cm    6.3 cm    7.2 cm

Conclusion:

My conclusion is that it takes the more force to push or pull something on carpet or concrete than it does to push or pull something on parquet flooring.

Reflections:

I think the carpet and the concrete needed the same amount of force because they are both bumpy.

I think the parquet flooring needed the least amount of force because it is a smooth surface and has very little bumps.

I could also do other experiments. I could use different surface textures (wood, towels, or plastic). I could measure the amount of force used to push an object. I could use a spring scale to measure the amount of force needed to lift an object.

The Outsiders: Summary of Chapters 1-3

I chose to do The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton for my Novel Study. Here's a summary of the first three chapters.

In the beginning, Ponyboy was unwisely walking home alone from the “movie house”. Two blocks away from home he got jumped by some Socs (the opposite of Greasers; abbreviation for Socials). They almost cut his hair off, but his “gang” came to the rescue. They are his brothers Soda and Darry, also Two-Bit, Johnny, Steve, and Dally. He managed to make it home with only a bruise on his cheek and a cut on his forehead.
The next day Dally and he went to the drugstore. They goofed around until the manager got wise and made them leave, although not in time to stop Dally from leaving with two packages of Kools. Next they went to the Dingo drive-in and found out what was happening around town, like who’s in jail and who stole what. Later, when it was dark enough, they snuck into the Nightly-Double drive in unpaid and Dally started pestering some Soc girls.
Johnny told Dally to cut it out, which was unusual for him since he usually “can’t say boo to a goose”. It was even more unusual, since he recently got beat up very badly by some vicious Socs. Dally scowled and stalked off, while Johnny and Ponyboy made friends with the Soc girls. Later, Two-Bit showed up and persuaded the girls to let him drive them home. A blue Mustang showed up, and since the girls didn’t like the thought of the fight that could have occurred between the greasers and the car occupants, they allowed the mustang to escort them home.
After that episode, Two-Bit walked home, and Johnny and Ponyboy accidently fell asleep in a lot close to Ponyboy’s house. They woke up at 2:00 a.m., and Ponyboy sprinted home, hoping Darry wouldn’t be too mad. On the contrary, Darry was so livid that he slapped Ponyboy across the face- something that had never happened before. Ponyboy ran away, back to Johnny, who was still in the lot. He eventually decided to walk slowly back home, because Darry seemed so sorry, and he couldn’t cope out on the street alone.

If you enjoyed this summary you should read it yourself!

Watercolour samples

By Cameron



By Meghan

Riverdance in Freiburg

On January 28, we went to Freiburg to see Irish dancing. The group that we went to see is called Riverdance. The train trip was an hour and a half long, half an hour to Offenburg and an hour the rest of the way. We had a good trip, no train cancellations.

When we got there we walked a couple blocks to our hotel. We were staying at Novotel, a very fancy hotel. There was a small swimming pool there. So small, in fact, that we did not go swimming. We also saw some people in that hotel that we thought were going to dance.

At 8:00 we were in a room with a stage and about 1500 other people. In the middle of the show a man came out to sing. Dad said he saw him in the elevator in our hotel. He had goulash for lunch. (Not that that really matters).

It was a good show. Some of it was talking though, and was all in German. At the end we called a taxi to come pick us up and take us to the hotel.

The train trip back was the same, nothing out of the ordinary. So, all in all, our trip to Freiburg was just as we had planned.

Social Studies 7 report

Mesopotamia
By Meghan

This Ziggurat was a pyrimidal structure. Unlike most pyramids, it had a flat top. It was very important to the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians of Mesopotamia. The step pyramids style began in the early dynastic period. It has a ramp leading to the summit, or a spiral ramp from the base. At the summit there was a temple or shrine.


This is a timeline from 5000 B.C. to 0 B.C. for Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, and Persia. Babylon was ruled first by the Akkadians from 2330 to 2112 then by the Amorites in 1750, by the Kassites in 1159 and finally by the Chaldeans from 606 to 525.



Here is a painting of The hanging gardens. The Hanging Gardens was a wonder of the ancient world. King Nebuchadnezzar had it build for his wife, Amyitis, who was from Media. She missed the meadows and mountains. The Hanging Gardens was said to be more than a hundred feet tall. Herodotus states that the wall was 80 feet thick, 320 feet high, had 250 watchtowers and 100 bronze gates.



This is a statue of Hammurabi, one of the most successful kings of Babylonia. Hammurabi, who created Hammurabi's code, was the sixth king of Babylon. He extended Babylon's control over Mesopotamia by winning a lot of wars against other kings. Although his empire controlled all of Mesopotamia when he died, the later kings could not to maintain his empire.



This is a map of Babylon. Babylon belonged to many civilizations, including the Chaldeans, Sumerians, and Kassites. Nebuchadnezzar is one of the most famous kings who conquered Babylon because he built the Hanging Gardens. Here is a list of the kings of Babylon in the first Dynasty.

Sumu-abum ruled for 14 years

Sumu-la-el ruled for 36 years

Sabium ruled for 14 years

Abil-Sin ruled for 18 years

Sin-muballit ruled 20 years

Hammu-rapi ruled for 43 years

Samsu-iluna ruled 38 years

Abi-eshuh ruled for 28 years

Ammi-Ditana ruled for 37 years

Ammi-Zaduga ruled for 21 years

Samsu-Ditana ruled 32 years

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