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Toothpick Bridge

May31

This is our last day of working and we got everything together. Now we have to wait for the glue to dry and hoping it will hold.

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Toothpick Bridge

May26

This is day 5 to our bridge building. Our walkway was way too weak so we tore it apart and rebuilt it. On Wednesday we just have to put it together then we are done if everything  turns out right. Then it will be put to the test.

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Toothpick Bridge

May25

This is day  4 of our working on our bridge. We are hoping that our bridge will come together soon. WE only have one more day left.

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Toothpick Bridge

May24

This is day 3 and we are done with the top and the base. We have to put it together and put it on the base.

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Toothpick bridge

May23

This is our 2nd day working on it. We are making a lot of progrssive. We have bases done and almost half way done with the top of bridge.

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Toothpick Bridge

May22

We started on our “legs” of our bridge. We are building them like a log cabin.

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God at Work

April12

God prepared Paul by giving him many different languages. Also he was a tentmaker which made it easier for him to get a home. One of my talent is playing the piano, which I am not very good at it yet, but if I put my heart to it I can play. I have had many different hard time in my life just in 8th grade, but I think is just testing me for patient or something else I have no idea of what. One thing is like my knees my muscles rubs against my knee bone and at some time it can feel like someone shoot me in my knee. I found out that I will have it until I stop growing which is in 1 and a half years. During the play it was harder for me to get along with the director,but God could be showing me there will be people who are like this  and I just have to think before I say anything. Something else I am good at is soccer and I don’t know how God can use that. I think when I grow up these bad and good things could come in hardly and I don’t see why I have to go through hard times. Sometimes I winder why is God doing this to me. He could have a reason for these bad and good times now that will help me in the future.

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Our Volcano

March29

The volcano we had isThe Kīlauea Volcano. It is a Shield Volcano. We made it with pipe, Funnel, PBC pipe, and we made it out of paper machete. It was hard, but fun and I had a good group and we Finshed it and it turned out great

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Christian Persecution Paper

March29

Brooke De Vries

Mrs.Roskamp

L.A., 8B

10 March 2017

 

Christian Persecution

Here are some crazy facts about Nepal. When they want to say hello, they put their palms together and put their forehead down, that means I salute the God in you.  Today, Christians make up 2.8 percent of the population while Hindus account for 75 percent. Nepal is between India and China. Their flag color is blue, red, and white. The population is 27.8 million in 2003.The flag stands for the mountain and stands for Hinduism and Buddhism. Christians have been persecuted in the past and are still being persecuted in countries today such as, Nepal, however, there are things, we can do, to help others Christian.

Here are some stories that show people getting persecuted in the past. Stephen was one of the seven that got chosen from the Holy Spirit. From all the people or the disciples the Word of God spread very fast. Stephen was filled with God’s grace and power. So I heard that some men went and told the elder and the teachers. They got everything stirred up. They brought him before the elders and said that this man has not stopped talking against the Lord and the spirit. When he was asked if the charges were true  he brought it to the Bible. He also said he would never say anything bad against Jesus and the Bible. When the high priest heard this he said that Stephen was lying and he should be stoned. Stephen knew in his heart and mind that he was right. He also knew that is what he gets for telling the word of God. Before the stoning could take place god put Stephen to sleep.  Nero, he grew up to be the worst ruler in the history of Rome. Because when he found out about Christian he would anything to stop them sharing the word of God. Like Nero slaughtered Christians by the hundreds. Fastened to

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crosses, Christians were set on fire to illuminate a circus which Nero staged for the crowds in his own gardens. This story is a crazy story because John was one of Jesus disciples. The Romans wanted James dead, so they tried to burn him in a pot of oil, then poison him, and then they sent him to an island. On the island James wrote the book of Revelation. Many people killed Christians like a king, judges or anyone who had power. People didn’t like their teaching, that is what got them killed.

Christians in Nepal are still getting persecuted today. On story is this, The police arrested two school principals and five school staff members. The police treat them like terrible people. They are not bad people. The police made them sign a paper. That paper was if they were taking Bible’s and giving it to people who would like them. Not forcing people to take them. I’m not sure what happened to them at the end. Another story is this, Four Christians were sentenced to 5 years in jail because they were doing “Whichcrafts.” One woman came in a church and asked for healing. So they prayed for her that she could get healing. It is sad that the 4 people are going to prison when they didn’t do anything wrong.

Something that we can do to help the persecuted is pray like everything depends on God. This woman in her 20s said, “I came across your ‘Silence is deafening’ article on during my work shift Friday afternoon. Needless to say, by the end of the article I was in tears, nauseous, and overwhelmed by a sense of impending doom. You concluded the article with the words ‘…Act as everything depends on you.’ These resonating words have seemingly found a permanent place in my mind. As I sit here, I feel absolutely powerless…How do I help? Is there any way of helping? What do I do? I need to do something after reading your article, and I’m praying you might have an idea or some sort of guidance for me.”The woman who was reading

 

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this sent a letter back to this person and asked for ideas and this is what that person said.  Some things that this woman responded was this… Be as informed as possible, support

 

organization that reaches out to the persecuted, pass the word, put it in writing, make your voice heard, pray and depend on God.

Christians have been persecuted in the past and are still being persecuted in countries today, such as, Nepal, however, there are things, we can do, to help others Christian. Something that I can do is pray and be informed about it. Knowing it is happening is one step closer. We do not need to do anything big. Bigger is not always better. Praying about it is really strong. You are letting God know that you care. I am a 8th grader and I know that I can make a defence if I try my hardest.  

 

 

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Christian Persecution

March14

https://website.mysimpleshow.com/#/edit/JmGHWUpEuQ/publish

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Peru #5

February22

En la hospitales de Peru es mucho pequeña.  En la hospitales es mucho medicina y radiografia. Mucho enfermero y enfermería. En la hospitales es mucho acostar.

Un adolescente se quiere snowboard. Hay sólo arena. Ahora el snadborads.

Yo mucho gusto porque él no se detuvo.

 

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Where is Emma

February21

Brooke De Vries

Mrs.Roskamp

LA, 8B

17 February 2017

 

Thursday morning at school on September 21 it was an ordinary day like always. As Jaclyn ran out of the car because it was raining. We were working on a project when Jaclyn and Jade walked in. Sam was waiting for them because they were in a group together. They were working on how to write a letter the right way in L.A. in the morning. Then Emma needed to go to the office to get her lunch box because she forgot it at home because she was having her birthday breakfast. So Sam said he would do her part as she walking over there. As Emma was walking over Jaclyn asked Mrs. Roskamp if she could go to the bathroom. Of course she said yes. When Jaclyn never came back Jade went to check on her, but she wasn’t there. She went around to find out. Then in a blink of an eye it was black. Jade couldn’t see anything because the lights went off. Next thing she knew she was in the office. All she saw was a gym bag and a lunchbox. She didn’t know what just happen, but she thought to herself that she might have a mysteries at hand. Then she notice on the ground that there were wet footprints coming up the door.

This is when I come in, hi my name is Brooke Briggs and I am the one who will be solving this mysteries of Missing Emma. I went to Ask Sam and Emma some questions.

“Hi I am Brooke Briggs and I will be asking you some questions.”

“Ok”, Said Jade and Sam

“What did you find at the crime scene? Brooke asked.

“Well, we found a minion keychain, book, wet foot prints, and a gym bag.”Said Jade.

“Thank you for showing me this. Do you have any questions for me?” asked Brooke.

“Brooke, what did you have for breakfast” asked Sam

“All I am going to eat is all these clue I’ve got.” Answered Brooke.

So they went back to class and I went to see what I have. I wonder why it happen in the office. Look what i just found, it likes like glitter. Why is there glitter in here? I asked myself.  Sam was wearing a minion shirt and a backpack, but he said he had five keychains and gave one away to his friend. So it isn’t him. The glitter I saw on Jade’s hands, but she didn’t have the same color as the glitter I found here. This glitter is Purple and Jade’s glitter was blue. I better go and ask Jade more questions.

“Jade was there anyone you know who would leave wet footprints?” I asked.

“Yes, Jaclyn, Jaclyn Meyer because she had her mom drive her to school and got drop off here,” said Jade.

“Thank you, I know what happen.”  Brooke Briggs.

 

Solution:  September 21 is Emma’s birthday and it is on a Thursday and 8B has gym in the morning and Jaclyn needed her gym bag. And no one else has gym in the morning. It was raining outside and Jaclyn had to go outside to sneak up on Emma. Emma favorite color is purple and she was making a card for her. Jaclyn didn’t want anyone to find out that she took Emma so we wouldn’t find out about the surprize party that we threw for Emma. She left all of the red herring so it would take longer to figure out. Jaclyn left the gym bag so they would look in the gym and that is where the party was.

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Tower

February6

This tower is very stressful and took a lot of long hours of thinking. We made  four different design and finally found the best one. We used a lot of material but never ran out of money. We had enough material to make it never ran out. It was fun, but not fun at some points. It was harder because we had a limit of supplies we could use. It took a lot of thinking to get through. At the end our tower stood with the egg on it. It had to stand for 10 seconds while the earthquake was happing.

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Peru #4

January11

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El futbol americano es muy famous. No deported es patinar.

 

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El Voleibol es no esta muchos famous. No famous esta nadar.

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El Futbol es mucho famous. No estoy el tenis.

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la pelea de gallos:

 

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Math 3D Project

November29

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Reflection: We needed to find a right triangle that people use in real life. So then we had ideas and asked Jaclyn if it makes sense. They helped us think of somethings. Some ideas were not the best, but then it came to us. We just picked a name and wrote our problem. Our result makes sense because the ladder has to be a least 12 feet because if it is 11 feet and it is 11.4.

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I am a Brook

November18

Brooke De Vries

Mrs. Roskamp

LA, 8B

15, November 2016

I am a brook

I am a brook. It is made up of many different things. One things are ripples. They show my gentle and quietness of me. I just go with the flow. I am not loud and noisy like others. I still like to have my voice hear. Sometimes ripples can start to get bigger and I do have a voice that can be heard when I want to. Sometimes they can be heard and everyone should be heard at some point and I can be heard when I feel like it.

Something else a brook is made up of is fish and animals. They stand for or show my different friends and talents. People who spend time and see my different talents know me better. The fish are unique and I have different hobbies that people do not see, but fish are like that to. If you look close to the fish and you will see things you didn’t know about. Some things that are my hobbies are reading, crafts, piano, playing outside, camping, traveling, and hunting. Just because they are girl or boy doesn’t limit their things they can do. Like fish are different from each other and have unique things about them.

Something else that is hidden in a brook is splitting ways. Splitting way in a brook is when in a time in your life you have to chose. Stay with God or follow others or bad examples. Sometimes your friends might want to do something bad and then you have to choose to go God’s way or stay with your friends. Or one way might be shorter, but short and easy isn’t the way to go always. God’s way is long and hard because he want you to grow character and know who you are.

Also a brook has trash in it. Trash is like my sins in my life. Everyone has sin in their life. No ones life is perfect and you will sin. Wildlife ranger are like God will come and pick up the trash and make it look perfect again. God is like that because he forgive you and cleans your life up again. And you have a clean new start. Some trash is smaller and easier to get rid of. Some is big are takes time to get unstuck or forgiven by someone else.

Something else a brook has a dark and murky waters. That is when in my life when things are going bad or stuck in a situation. Like if you are stuck in sin. You don’t know what will happen when you step into murky waters. It could swallow your feet right up into a terrible sin. Then you are stuck and you can’t get out.  Sometimes you just have to step in and face the challenge. And hoping you don’t get wet feet.

 

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November16
  • El celebracion en Peru
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Carnaval: La carnaval es muy bailar. La persona están bailando.

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Fiesta de la Vendimia: La fiesta de la Vendimia no decorar.

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Semana Santa: Semana Santa celebrar Jesus.

 

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Fiesta del Inti Raymi

5. Image result for puno week peru

Puno week:La persona están disfrazarse.

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God Sighting

November7

Something I saw God threw was how warm the weather was in November. It is crazy because last year we had a little snow by now. That is amazing.

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Thematic Writing

October26

 

The book I just read is called, New Beginning. Some things that happened her cousin, but they eachother friends. Her aunt and uncle had to move away to make a little more money. Rachel was so mad and upset. Then Mary, her cousin, gave Rachel her doll so she wouldn’t forget her. Rachel went to school and a new girl moved into Mary’s house and desk. And things haven’t been going well together. Rachel think That Audrey, the new girl is doing things that she is doing things on purpose. Like Rachel got the wrong lunch and that new girl had it and she tripped her on purpose. All of that was on accident.  Rachel react by the problem is thinking that whoever did it did it on purpose. Say if her mom looks at it different, like it was an accident because they happened. When she was jumping on the tramp and her brother’s dog came and watch and Rachel had her doll in her hand and she dropped it and the dog chewed it all up. Don’t take your anger out on others.

One conflict in the book and how you see the theme. At Rachel house her mother and Audrey mother were talking and the kids went upstairs. And Audrey brought some of her toys to play. Then she saw Rachel’s doll and asked to play with it. Rachel said no because she doesn’t want anything to happen to it. Then they had to go downstairs and Audrey said she would be right down. When she left she went up to her room and found that her doll was missing and it was nowhere to be found. So she went to the barn to play with her cat and then when she looks up there was her doll hanging by a hand. Rachel got mad and didn’t know how it got there. Then her brother starts talking up there and said that he took her doll to teach her a lesson. Before she came into the barn she went to mother and said that Audrey took her doll and even when she didn’t. I saw that she is talking her anger out on Audrey for no reason because she knew she wouldn’t do that, but she let it get to her mind.

Another conflict in the book and how you see the theme. At lunch at school when the kids were grabbing their lunch pals. Audrey grabbed Lily’s and Lily grabbed Audrey all by mistake. When Lily found out that she didn’t have her lunch she was so mad that she started to stomp over there. When she got there she took her lunch pal away and said that you did this on purpose. Even when their lunch pals look almost the same. Lily didn’t even take time to think about what she got.

Don’t take your anger out on others. What I thought about the book was it is very good and it really shows what trouble they had back then. It showed that people back then had trouble like us today. Even if they had a little harder life than us it was pretty much the same. It was a very well put together book. Lily was a crazy child. Very good book.

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Chain

October17

unnamed-1This week we are making a chain and trying to make it hold different grams of water. This chain is made out of pipe cleaners. And pipe cleaners are wrapped in paper.  It is 106cm. My group is Allie, Gabe, and Me. It is fun and hard to make it hard to hold.

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