Darien’s Blog

Over February vacation my family and I went up to Massachusetts and went skiing at Jiminy Peak. My dad and I had lots of fun but it was very cold. The next day we went to MASS MOCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) we saw lots of different kinds of art. They had a special exhibit that we got to go see, they had piles of rice on the floor. The piles were different sizes to represent the population of different things like. One pile was for the Population of the US, this pile was very large. One pile was for the number of people that watched American idol; this one was almost half the size of the US population pile. They had piles representing the populations of many of the world’s countries, and even things like the number of homeless people in our country and the number of people that eat at McDonalds daily. Each piece of rice represented one person. It was a very interesting exhibit. This is what I did over my February vacation.

I read Rachel C’s blog post about “if I could go anywhere in the world.” I really liked it because she would go to the poor regions of Africa and she would help the people there gain there health and knowledge.I recently talked to Rachel and she would also like to see the animals on her trip. I think that it is really nice of her to help others.

This is a picture of a lion inAfrica.

Dear Emily,

Here in Turkey when we go out in public, we wear a veil to cover our face.  The men wear fezzes which are hats with no brims so they can touch there forehead on the ground while praying. When Kemal Ataturk became our new president he banned the wearing of fezzes and veils. But some good things for women did happen too, women could now vote, get jobs in business and government and go to school. This happened because Kemal wanted us to be a modern nation, and in modern nations men and women are treated equal.

Algebra

Today in class we worked on some more algebra by taking our home work and swapping with a friend and correcting them.

Definitions

A variable is a symbol usually a letter that stands for unknown number.

Isolating the variable is when the variable is on one side of the equals sign and the answer is on the other side.