The Sixth Grade Vases: It's all Greek to me!!!!

 Our Greek Amphora from Social Studies

Dijana Causevic Intervieved by Braden & Carter

Dijana Causevic is from Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has a husband and three daughters that live with her in Iowa. She has a sister and a mom, but her dad is dead. She came to the U.S. in 1996. Dijana learned English from friends. She worked at Mercy Hospital as a custodian and did not like the pay so she came to Weber for better pay. She likes everything about her job and has worked here at Weber for thriteen years. She likes to cook Bosnian food, watch tv and play games with her family in her free time. We're happy Dijana came to Weber.



Dijan Causevic



An Interview with Mrs. Rosse by Bailey and Elisa

Mrs. Rosse  works in the libary at Weber and in the luch room and durning recess.  She likes working at Weber because all the teachers are really nice and supportive in and out of the school . She also loves being around  kids and making a difference in the kid's life! She also likes her bosses and thinks they are very nice.
 We asked her from the level 1-10 how much she loves her work and Mrs.Rosse said  Weber is a big fat 10.
 Mrs.Rosse is also currently working at Target in the electric department ,but she doesn't like it as much as  working at Weber. This is Mrs.Rosse 6th year at Weber and  she still likes her work here. Mrs.Rosse also has read a book about how to talk to kids so they will learn. She is working on her English expressions since she is originally from Thailand.



Dig It!                  Unlocking the Secrets of Mohenjo-Daro             Page 9

By: Archeologist Nick Pryor

          One of the world’s biggest mysteries is what happened to India’s city, Mohenjo-Daro. One of the world’s best and oldest civilizations, Harappa, just went away along with its biggest city, Mohenjo-Daro. Even though many people had been there before and had shown me the artifacts they found I wanted to see what they looked like in person. When we were excavating we found many old stone seals, and other artifacts from Mohenjo-Daro. They are now able to be viewed at the public at many places.

          Almost ten years ago I had just turned forty years old and I planned to lead some other archeologists into the ruins of Mohenjo-Daro. We brought shovels, and other excavating equipment. We spent a while driving until we came to a point where we decided to walk the rest of the way. As we walked we got closer and closer and we could see more and more of the legendary civilization. As we got there we saw a huge mound of rocks. I looked in my bag and grabbed my notebook. I had a picture labeled Citadel that looked just like the mound of rocks in front of us so I knew it was the Citadel. As we got closer into the Citadel \                I saw what looked like the Great Granary, so I knew that the Great Bath would be nearby.

          A few of the other archeologists and I ran up the hill getting closer to the Great Bath. It was huge. It was around eight feet deep and around thirty nine feet long. The crew and I were amazed by the size of it as none of us had ever been here before. Part of the crew stayed up in the Citadel but I went down into the town. The reason I even came on my

Trip to Mohenjo-Daro was because I wanted to see how the people of the Harappa civilization and the people of the city Mohenjo-Daro lived. As I got down to the lower city, there were eight foot walls creating alleys between the homes. I walked up to one of the homes; it seemed to be made of some sort of a fried mud brick. I walked into the house. It must have belonged to someone who wasn’t too rich but wasn’t too poor as it was a medium sized house. Just then another one of the archeologists walked in. He was looking for me because one of the other men had found a stone seal. We rushed back up into the part of the Citadel near the Great Granary, nobody knows for sure if it was used as a granary but that’s what its name is. The seal he found amazingly had a picture of what appeared to be a unicorn. He carefully picked it up and put into a bag which he then put in the case that we were putting artifacts in.

          We then walked into what we thought was a temple. It was very big and had some rings and other jewelry. We put some in our bag to study later but left some there. We could see many beautiful things there, rings, beads, and axes were just a few. They must have had a division of labor which would give the m free time to make such beautiful objects.

          We then walked into what appeared to be the city’s sewer system; many people don’t know this but Mohenjo-Daro but they created the first sewer system almost two-thousand years before the Romans. As we walked around where part of the sewer entered, it was amazing just to think how much time these people would have needed to build such a amazing sewer system.

          It had already been four days of investigating the ruins of Mohenjo-Daro and we had to head back home. We took our bags and packed them into the car and drove back home. When we got back to our Headquarters, our head archeologist then examined the artifacts we had found in Mohenjo-Daro.

          From the research and notes I got from my travel to Mohenjo-Daro I have figured that they spent much of their time making sure that their city was the best that they could make it. They would have had to have a division of labor to make all of these beautiful artifacts. Even though the Romans are credited with making a sewer system the people of Mohenjo-Daro built one nearly two thousand years before the Romans. They even had indoor bathrooms. A day for someone in Mohenjo-Daro would have been different depending on how much money or barter they got. If you were rich life may have been very easy to live your life. From the artifacts other people there have found they didn’t have horses and may have just used cows to do the work of what people use cows. On my expedition I found many artifacts that may have been from the other legendary civilization, Mesopotamia, as we are not for sure if these artifacts came from Mesopotamia they are very much like things archeologists have found in Mesopotamia.

          Just a few of the many facts I found out on my trip to Mohenjo-Daro: The city of Mohenjo-Daro covered almost 260,000 miles, inside the Great Bath there were eight private bath rooms, now days the soil is much worse than it was back then, Mohenjo-Daro actually means Mound of the Dead, it was first found in 1922 by a archeologist named D. G.F. Dales, they had many cans that held, many different kinds of grains and other items in Mohenjo-Daro such as, barley, cotton, dates, melons, peas, rice, sesame seeds, and wheat.

          My trip to Mohenjo-Daro changed my perspective of the world; it showed me how this world has changed and gotten better, but it has also showed me how this world has gotten worse. Back then people worked together to build towns, now days we fight each other for resources our countries need. I hope at some point in your life you can visit Mohenjo-Daro or another one of the ancient places like Mesopotamia, they are truly life changing.

~Archeologist Nick Pryor

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Guest archeologist, Archeologist Nicholas Pryor.

Book Settings Illustrated

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Book Settings Illustrated

 As a final project for our latest novel unit, each book group created a mural showing the setting of the novel that they read.  The author of all of the books that we read is Jean Craighead George. She is a naturalist, and she sets her books in interesting places throughout the United States.  The first book mural to the left, shows the Everglades, Florida.  This book, The Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo, tells the story of a girl named Lisa who along with her friends and neighbors try to locate their "watch-dog" alligator Dajun.

The second book illustrated on the left is My Side of the Mountain.  Sam Gribley leaves his family and sets out to live for a year in the Catskill Mounatins of New York. This poster shows the home that Sam made for himself in a tree.

        Three groups all read a book called, Tree Castle Island. This book tells the story of twins who were separated at birth but become reunited in the Okeefenokee Swamp in Georgia. All of the books go into great detail about the settingsand the plants and animals in them.  Each of the main characters values the environment and tries to protect it.

It was fun creating the murals from the ideas in the novels.

The Grand Canyon by Bailey N.

the Grand Canyon sky view

   For my spring break I not only got to go to Arizona but I got to visit the Grand Canyon! It was AMAZING! It actually loked like a wallpaper, it was so big and dusty! As a bonus though I get to learn about  it in science in class!
       I guess you could say I got a 'birds- eye -view' of the Grand Canyon because I got to go on a helicopter ride over it! The Grand Canyon is so big! It is really hard to believe a river made it! But while I was up there, I finally got what Mrs. Kurtz was trying to teach us in science. The Colorado plateau is completly and totally flat.  Then over time the Grand Canyon was formed by the Colorado River. So a car could be driving along on a completly flat surface and then fall off a cliff!
       The Grand Canyon looks kind of like bumpy roller coaster.  You fall off a cliff than climb up a steep piece of the plateau, then fall off again,and so forth.
           If you were wondering, we didn't get to see any animals or Native American tribes living in the Grand Canyon! (I know there are animals, but some people including me,still question if any Native Americans live there!) Anyway I'm still disappointed. I wanted to see something cool like a mountain lion !
              Well enough about me,and hopefully you can someday see the amazing Grand Canyon like me!



Safety Patrol by Jalu W

This story is about being a safety patrol. Safety patrol isn't that hard, you just have to get used to it like I did. You just monitor the kids. I was a safety patrol and I had to take Kindergarteners to their correct bus. A lot of kids in my class have the same post as me. Some people don't wear belts, but I wear my belt most of the time. I have two kindergarteners and both of them take the same bus. At the end of the second trimester safety patrols have a pizza party. For me,  the pizza is good. I added garlic juice to it. Some patrols don't feel like coming. For me safety patrol is fun but I'am just relived it ended because I was a little tired of it. There are a lot os patrol posts like monitoring the  portables, bus circle, kindergarten, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4, and  maybe more. At the end of the trimester other patrols that signed up "shadow" the current person. A person shadows me also. The two kindegarteners ars probably going to miss me. I will probably take patrol next year. Did I tell you if you get the winter post, you get hot chocolate if you take the morning post?  It is a lot of fun.   

Jalu with his patrol belt