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Mr. Crosby's Alumni Bloggers
We are a 6th grade class that is piloting a 1:1 laptop program using MacBook computers. We blog, Skype, make Wiki pages, produce digital videos, podcasts and vidcasts.
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Blog Entries
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Maniac Magee
Article posted September 17, 2010 at 11:05 PM GMT0 • Reads 559
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The sad thing about Maniac Magee is that his mom and dad died in a train crash when he was 3 years old and he ran away from his aunt and uncle. He ran 200 miles and he ran so long that his shoes started to get torn up and get holes in them. He was also born in an ordinary house in Bridgeport and he loves to read books to. He ran away when he was 11 years old and has ripped up and dirty clothes.
The most shocking thing that Maniac Magee did was that he sat on Finsterwald's front steps and rescued Arnold Jones in Finsterwald's back yard.
While he was running he meets up with a girl named Amanda Beale, she was going to school when Maniac Magee saw Amanda whith a big suit case and thought she was running away. He also saw a bunch of high schoolers playing football until this guy named Brian Denehy throw the ball to his favorite receiver James Hands Down but apparently it missed James hands and maniac cached the football with one hand and in the other is was a book and he punted it to Hands Down. Â Â
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Article posted September 17, 2010 at 11:05 PM GMT0 • Reads 559
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Energy My First Thoughts
Article posted September 22, 2010 at 07:46 PM GMT0 • Reads 170
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Energy
What is energy? Energy is kinda like a source of electricity that combined together and makes a lot of power.
Where do you see or experience energy? You see energy when ever you like turn on something like a lamp or like a light or something you experience it whenever you feel something energetic.
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Article posted September 22, 2010 at 07:46 PM GMT0 • Reads 170
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When I Was Five And Now
Article posted October 1, 2010 at 10:54 PM GMT0 • Reads 270
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When i was five i wanted to be a wrestler punching people faces as the air was zooming through my fist turning everybody from standing up to laying on the floor knocked out. When i was five my favorite toy was action figures that can move there way through the fist of fury. When i was five my favorite animal was a dog that runs as if he can outrun a cheetah and chases a stick like a bone that never been touched. When i was five  my favorite secret hiding place was under a table that blocks me from pelting rocks and mysterious people such as my dad. When i was five two of my best friends were my uncle and my cousin that trifle around with me and plays diversions with me.
Now i want to be a legendary football player a Quarterback throwing the football really far like as if I'm throwing the ball a mile away like a jet flying through the air. Now my favorite toy is a PS1 that plays games and you play it bye using your thumb on a controller and you can play conflicting games. Now my favorite kind of animal is a bull dog that bits the people as they walks bye horrified to death. Now my favorite kind of hiding place is a trash can that protects me when someone is trying to find me. Now my favorite kind of friends are Christen, Jacob, Claudia, Terry, Malu, Alex L, Brandon. Now some other things that I like to do is play basketball with my little cousin.
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Article posted October 1, 2010 at 10:54 PM GMT0 • Reads 270
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The Time A Ghost Was In My House
Article posted October 14, 2010 at 10:21 PM GMT0 • Reads 171
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One time something breathtaking, heart-dropping event happened to me. It all started when we were telling scary story's about my big cousins past. He started off about somebody was following him because he heard someones footsteps behind him but when he turned around nobody was there. After I herd about one or two story’s I fell asleep, Then an hour later something went on. It sounded like a long beep, Then I looked at my TV and Boom!! My TV was on. As I kept looking at the TV the light of it shined on my face like a million flashlights where shining at me while I'm shocked. A minute went by and I got up slowly slower that a turtle and tuned off the TV. Then I went back to laying down. Then BOOM! My TV went back on again. I was so scared I felt like my heart wasn’t breathing, While thinking in my head wishing It'll all go away. Till I got up and looked at the plug, I slowly grabbed the plug and yanked it right out  of its socket. Like yanking a flower right out of its roots, Then the TV went off and I crawled right back into bed and fell right asleep. But that day it had never happened to me again.
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Article posted October 14, 2010 at 10:21 PM GMT0 • Reads 171
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The Time I Had a New Skate Board
Article posted October 28, 2010 at 10:59 PM GMT0 • Reads 153
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One time on my birthday we were celebrating. It was so awesome because we went like every where, first we went to Roller Kingdom, second we went rock climbing, and last but not least we went to a restaurant.But when it was like one o clock in the afternoon we went home.
It was still daylight when we got home and we were still partying and celebrating my birthday.
All of my friends came to my birthday party with gifts and started handing them to me.
But when it was like two-thirty everybody started gathering up to see me open up my presents.
I was really hoping that I would get a brand new skate board, so I got excited to open up my gifts, then I grabbed a gift and started to tare up that present like a dog ripping paper.
Then after I riped up the last present, there was no skate board.
All of my excitement went from high to low.
I got pretty sad there for a moment, but when my mom said you forgot one present. I looked up and stared at that last present, It was long and kinda skinny.
I slowly started to reach out for it, then I ripped a strip of paper off of the present.
Then Pop a wheel came out. I was so happy my eyes started to mist up with tears.
But after I had my moments, I took it outside and rode it, and that was the time I had a brand new skate board.
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Article posted October 28, 2010 at 10:59 PM GMT0 • Reads 153
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Thanksgiving Dinner
Article posted November 19, 2010 at 10:30 PM GMT0 • Reads 155
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On Thanksgiving day we usually go to my grandmas house to celebrate Thanksgiving there. But this year we are going to celebrate Thanksgiving at my uncles house instead. So all of my family brings a dish of there own food for dinner. They bring food like ham, turkey, potato salad, chop suwy, chicken, and also gravy.I always love the smell of ham and gravy as its cooking and filling up my whole house with great tender smell. So every time I wait for the food I always go outside and skate board with my cousin. So when the food is ready we always go inside the house and we start getting ready to eat dinner.When the food is served I could smell the food like a bird that has great smelling. Sometime after dinner I usually lay down and relax and watch TV. So my favorite part of the day is eating and having fun.
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Article posted November 19, 2010 at 10:30 PM GMT0 • Reads 155
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Article posted November 24, 2010 at 10:47 PM GMT0 • Reads 147
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To The Top! By S.A. Kramer
Page 5. Snow is falling, and an angry wind roars all around.
This sentence means that when the wind is roaring it is telling you that the wind is blowing hard against your body while your just standing there.
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Article posted November 24, 2010 at 10:47 PM GMT0 • Reads 147
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What I
Article posted November 29, 2010 at 10:43 PM GMT0 • Reads 169
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I'm thankful for having a family, I’m thankful for having a good education, I’m thankful for having food to eat, I’m thankful for having clothes to wear, I’m thankful for having a teacher, I’m thankful for thanksgiving, I’m thankful for my mom and dad, I’m thankful for every holidays with my family. I’m thankful for having doctors to take care of me, I’m thankful for having a home to live in, I’m thankful for having friends. I’m thankful for having aunts and uncles and cousins, I’m thankful for scientist always finds cures for use, I’m thankful for having laptops in school, I’m thankful for our youth, I’m thankful for cops to protect us, I’m thankful for having people inventing stuff, I’m thankful for having school supplies, I’m thankful for sweaters to keep us warm through the winter.
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Article posted November 29, 2010 at 10:43 PM GMT0 • Reads 169
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Article posted December 7, 2010 at 09:05 PM GMT0 • Reads 134
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Tall grass billowed in the wind like waves on an endless sea. It means that the wind is blowing the tall grass so gentally that it looks like waves in a smoth sea
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Article posted December 7, 2010 at 09:05 PM GMT0 • Reads 134
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Article posted December 9, 2010 at 08:30 PM GMT0 • Reads 131
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Title: True Life Treasure Hunts
Men and women were swallowed up.
It means when the earthquake was happening great big cracks opened up from the ground and swallowed them right up.
Title: True Life Treasure Hunts
The streets started to rise like waves in a sea.
It means that when the earthquake was happening the streets got bigger like wave on the sea.
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Article posted December 9, 2010 at 08:30 PM GMT0 • Reads 131
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The Time I Went To Six Flags
Article posted December 10, 2010 at 07:14 PM GMT0 • Reads 179
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One time I was at my house watching TV. I was watching football with my dad. The 49ers were playing against the cowboys. I was waiting for my friend to pick me up so I can go to his house to spend the night. When it was three o clock, my friend came to pick me up. But right when I got there me and my friend started to ride his moder scooter. We rode his awesome moder scooter all day. After it was like close to midnight we went inside because every night coyotes come out. Then we ate diner and my friends dad went to Sonics to buy me and my friend Brandon a slurpy. Then it was time for bed and we all got ready to sleep. So its in the morning and we took showers and started getting ready to go. We all pack food for the rode trip because it was going to be a really long trip. So we set our stuff in the truck and started getting inside the truck and we headed off. It took a very long time and me and my friend we watching a movie and then I fell asleep. But when I woke up I said are we there yet and my friends dad said we are almost there and then I fell right back to sleep. Then my friends dad woke me up and said we are here now and I got really excited and got out of the truck and we all grabbed our stuff and went to a hotel and set our stuff on our bed and we all headed off to six flags. Right when we got there we went on this ride called Tony Hawks and we went on there first and right when we got on we started to go up I was so nerves that I got the butter fly in my stomach and when we got on the top we flew down like if we were literally sky diving off of a plane that is twelve thousand feet in the air. But when we got on this track that is curved a lot it felt like I was going to fall off of the side but when it was done we rode a lot of other ride but then we went home.
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Article posted December 10, 2010 at 07:14 PM GMT0 • Reads 179
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The Time I Got a New Bike
Article posted December 10, 2010 at 08:02 PM GMT0 • Reads 493
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One time when I was seven it was Christmas eve. I was so excited because tomorrow was Christmas day and that was the time that my mom said that I was going to get something big for Christmas. So I waited and waited then  finally I told my mom is it Christmas yet and my mom said that I had to go to sleep first. Then I said ok then I sat on the couch and waited until it was dark and went into my room and layed down and went to sleep. So when I woke up from my sleep and screamed its Christmas! then I jumped off of my bed and sprinted to my moms room and woke up my mom and told her that its Christmas then I went in the living room and saw the presents under the Christmas tree and I cracked a smile as I glanced at the big present that had my tagging on it so I danced with joy. But when my mom woke up she said that I cant open up my presents until after dinner then I said ok. So my mom, dad, grandma and grandpa are in the kitchen cooking dinner and I’m helping them make mash potato. So when I’m done I go in the living room and sit down and watch TV. I waited until the food was ready and then my mom said that the food is ready so I got up and walked to the kitchen. The food is ready and it smelled so good that it filled up my whole house with tender smell. Then we started to eat and everybody was happy and we all told stores and told jokes but when we were done eating we all gathered up to open presents and then my uncle started handing my presents to me and when I opened up my last present my mom told me to go outside and close your eyes and I did. So my mom was guiding me out of the house so when she told me to open my eyes I saw my bike I was so shocked and ran to my bike and tried to hop on and next thing you know I new how to ride so that was the time I had a bike.
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Article posted December 10, 2010 at 08:02 PM GMT0 • Reads 493
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