Student News: February 17, 2006
written by the Scholars of Room
208On February 17, 2006, we
went to an event called the "Jumpathon". The Jumpathon is when we raise money
for people with heart disease. We raise money by asking people we know for
money. We jump rope for 40 minutes. Some of the jumps we did were: regular
jumps, ski jumps, double jumps, snake jumps, and front door and back door jumps.
While we were jumping, people came around with oranges and gave us some to eat.
And that's what the Jumpathon is like.
Also this week, we visited a man named
Wes
Fryer. How we visited him was we used an iSight. He
was in a conference so we saw their principal [at that school]. It was a lot of
fun. First, he asked us questions and then we got to ask him some too. The main
question that he wanted us to answer was "Why do you do blogging?" If you want
to listen to [the conversation], it will be on as a bonus show. So if you can
listen to it, that will be great. It is an awesome show. Well, we hope that you
learn something about Wes Fryer. This
week we learned about the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad
is a path to lead slaves to freedom. The Underground Railroad had houses and
trails with people whose goals were to help the slaves. In 1850, a law was
passed called the Fugitive Slave Act. Anybody caught bringing
slaves North could be sent back South. So slaves had to go to Canada. The
Underground Railroad helped many slaves get to
freedom.Lastly, on February 16, 2006,
we chatted with Carol Anne McGuire on an iSight camera. If you
listen to the Room 208 podcast, you will hear our conversation with Carol Anne
McGuire. We also learned a few things about her. We learned that she brought a
stuffed alligator [to school]---not the kind you have on your bed or in a
backpack, but a real alligator that is dead and stuffed with cotton. Another
thing we learned is that she brought 40 ficus trees into her classroom to teach
her class about the rainforest because her students are blind. They were bumping
into the trees. Ms. Carol Anne McGuire said to her students, "This is what a
real rainforest is like." Don't forget to listen to the podcast and finish the
conversation. [Just] to let you know: it is kind of "staticey" because of the
[internet] connection.
Posted: Mon - February 20, 2006 at 11:53 AM
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