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In S.S. today we watched a very interesting movie on China’s dynasty’s, from Chin to modern day China. And to tell you the truth China probably was the smartest and most intelligent country the world has ever seen.

     The first emperor of China was Quin Shin Han, during his life he made the longest wall of history, the great wall of China.  The great wall                                       of china was nearly 4,000 miles long and was made from clay bricks.  When Mr. Quin died a huge clay army was placed next to Mr. Quin tomb for protection in the after life, this army was latter called the terracotta army.

     A couple years after Mr. Quin died the Quin dynasty fell apart and the Han dynasty began.  This dynasty was when Konfuzi(Confucius) lived.  Mr. Confucius was well known all over China because of his famous quotes and sayings.  For example some were “like threads of silk individually we are so fragile but when woven together we make a powerful tapestry “and” do to others as you would have them do to you.” 

     The Han dynasty was also the beginning of the dark ages where artistic side of your brain was very important.  They built fabulous cities ad thrived.  The Han dynasty invented paper where they could draw on them.  Then in ‘58 the Han dynasty dissolved into the Tang dynasty.

     The Tang dynasty was more involved in making silk and transporting silk than any other dynasty.  They made the trading rate silk road to transport silk from China to other countries.  The silk road started from the capital Xian where the capital soon began turned to Beijing.  The silk road had many different routes.  Sadly in 960 the silk making dynasty broke apart and formed the Song dynasty. 

     The Song dynasty lasted till 1279 where during that time they invented two things gun powder and the magnetic compass.  Marco Polo was one of the first people to wright a story on China.  Marco Polo lived in Vance, Italy and traveled by the silk road and never stopped trying to get to China.  Later that dynasty died out and the Ming dynasty took its place.

     The Ming dynasty started the construction on the forbidden city, where all the higher ups lived.  Then in 1514 Portages finally reached China by boat.  Then still in the Ming dynasty Hong Kong was considered British territory.  Then Hong Kong finally broke free from China and became a Chinese city once again.  

    Later the Ming dynasty was demolished and the Ching dynasty took it’s place.

     There are so many fascinating things about China and it’s dynasty’s why don’t you visit it. 

                                         True or false

1. ______The Brain has three main parts to it.
2. ______ The Brain has a stem that leads to the spinal cord.
3. ______ The spinal cord is like a wire that runs through a flexible pipe.
4. ______ The Nervous System controls your learning and Artistic abilities.
5. ______ Your Brain Stem controls the involuntary muscles.
6. ______ Your Nerves transmit signals from your Brain.
7. ______ Your Nerves can grow Fungi.
8. ______ Peach is the color of the Brain.
9. ______ Albatroscilosis is the disease were your Spinal Cord gets infected.

                                             BONUS!!!!

NAME FIVE REASONS WHY WE HAVE OUR NERVOUS SYSTEM.

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  I soon realised I was being surrounded by old people in farmer outfits smoking long brown musty pipes shaking there fists at each other fighting over somthing but not me.I quick turned my head and saw this beautiful lady  crying and wispering to a old farmer

 smoking a long black pipe. The farmer sadly shook his head and ran to the othor farmers.I overheard the farmer say the lady will die then I woke up from my black dream.

                          In Science class we are learning about the Nervous System.  Let me fill you in on the Nervous System.

                           The Nervous System is all about giting messages to all the places in your body.With out it your body could not read,wright,spell or be artistic.  Your brain is the most important

 organ in this system. Your brain three main parts to it.  These three parts are called the cerebrum, cerebellum and brain stem.  See picture below for locations of these areas.  This picture was copied from another web site that I found helpful.

WHAT ARE THE MAJOR AREAS OF THE BRAIN WHAT DO THEY DO? Cerebrum Cerebellum Brain Stem w the largest part of the brain   w the outer part is called the cerebral cortex about the size of a pear located at the bottom of the brain, above the neck where it connects the brain to the spinal cord divided into 2 parts called the right and left hemispheres tucked under and behind the cerebrum controls reflexes such as sneezing, swallowing, coughing responsible for: thinking, senses, producing and understanding language, memories, eating, emotions, body temperature, drinking, sleeping, hormones controls muscle movement, balance, coordination responsible for automatic survival functions such as breathing, heartbeat, digestion, and keeping your body alive while you sleep
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	The right hemisphere controls the left side of the body, the left hemisphere controls the right side. These two hemispheres are connected by nerves through the corpus callosum.

The spinal cord branches off of the brain and both of them are from the central nervous system. They both work together to keep your body alive and well. They are protected by your skull, rib cage and the vertebrae in your spine. The rest of your nervous system is called the peripheral nervous system and it is all the other nerves that branch off the spinal cord and the brain. Many of you are wondering what peripheral means and it means outside or in other words just branch off.  The autonomic nervous system are the nerves that are responsible for your involuntary muscles like your heart, eyelids, and of course your stomach. Involuntary muscles are your cardiac and smooth muscles you can not control them they are involuntary. If anything from your brain to your spinal cord gets damaged your whole body is damaged. Now you know why the nervous system is so important for you to survive. 

                            Wright true or false.

1.  ______ The Limphatic system is a system of tiny tubes that run through the body.
2.  ______ The Limphatic system drains the Red Blood Cells.          
3.  ______ You cannot feel the Limph Nodes in your pelvis,chest and your abdomen.
4.  ______ The Tonsils are the one gland in the back of your throat..
5.  ______ The Spleen holds Digestive juices made from your Liver.
6.  ______ The spleen is located under the Ribs and on the right side of your body.
7.  ______ The Adenoids are also known as the Nasopharyngel Tonsels.
8.  ______ The Thymus helps produce Mistroihopihag blup cells.   
9.  ______ The Macrophages are the orange simunis that lock in bad germs.
10.  ______ Pink is my faviorat color.

              In social studies we learned alot about Chinas government.   China has a comunist government which means China has only one party to vote for. For example, you wanted to start a trend in a different government and you wanted a different party other than communist you would be thrown in jail before anyone would be able to vote for you. The leaders of China have all the property and decide what to do with everything. The people really have no choice in what’s happening around China. It’s kinda like being in a dictatorship because once a leader gets in to office they’re never getting back out. 

             In the 1950-1970’s  Chinas government over the people and every building was falling apart.  In the 1970’s the government alowed free interprize in China.  Free enterprise is making more supplies and using the same amount of people in the US but paying the people less in China. For example, say Sue lived in China and Jordan lived in the US and they both had the same amount of people in their factories but Sue in China wasn’t paying the Chinese people the same amount that Jordan had to pay the US people in his business Sue would make more money because she did not have to pay her factory workers as much as Jordan did in the US. Now Sue is over in China making good money and Jordan over in the US is getting kind of jelous so Jordan moves over to China to also take part of free enterprise.                

In science class today we drew what each gland efected in the human body.In case you want to refresh your memory on the five major glands I’ve made a sharp study guide for you to reveiw over or study off of.

                                     Pituitary Gland

                  The Pituitary gland is the master gland.In othor words the Pituitary gland controlls all glands.The Pituitary gland also gives off the Hormone for the Human body groth or HGH for short.The Pituitary Gland is the size of a marble, . .pretty small!!!

                                          Pancreas 

                    The pancreas is very important because it makes enzimes to help break down food in the stomach then turn the food into chime. Anyway the Pancreas also produces insulin wich alows the glucose to move from the blood on to the hungry cells.

                                         Adrenal Glands

                        The Adrenal Glands make a hormone called Adrenaline. This is called a fight or flight hormone. Adrenaline makes your heart beat faster. The reason why your heart beats faster is because the adrenaline releases more food stored in your liver, this often causes more sweating in your sweat glands.

                                               Parathyroid

                           The four parathyroids are behind the thyroid and their purpose helps you keep the right ph in your blood. They are about the size of a pea and the glands release a horomone that helps control the amount of calcium in your blood. Calcium is really important for clotting blood.  Without it you would be bleeding all the time if you got a scratch. If the parathyroids make too much calcium the bones may become very fragile and easy to break. You may be thinking that huh? I thought too much calcium is a good thing? Well you are wrong!

                                                Thyroid

                            The thyroid has a horomone called thyroxine. The thyroxine controls your bodies chemical reactions that happen inside your body, in other words metabolism. The thyroid however is not able to work properly if it does not have an element called iodine. If you do not have iodine the thyroid will get larger and larger.  A thyroid that has grown in size is called a goider. Good thing they are not so common today!

                                                 

        Two years ago I was walking down a dirt road in North Carolina when I saw this strange thing hiding in the shadows behind an old abandoned Tobacco barn.  I first thought that it was no big deal so I just kept walking, then it started to get scary.  This thing seemed to try to say something, like it was warning me to go home before it was to late.  I started to run home.  I was running so fast that everything was a blur and then it went blank.  The next thing I remember I was surrounded by shadowy figures and that’s when it got really weird. 

   I now tell every one I got hit by a golf club in my forehead but it’s not true.  My secrets are being revealed.  It’s just the beginning; will it ever end?

     Today in science class we learned how to check our pulse.  We checked our pulse when we were sitting, standing and sprinting in place.  Kat and I just swung our arms around while the rest of the class ran in place.  We got a much slower pulse than everyone else because we did not need as much oxygen.

                              HOW TO FIND YOUR PULSE 

• Go to your neck with your hand.
• Find your vocal cord.
• Go a little bit to the side and put 2 fingers on that spot.
• Find the number of heart beats in 15 seconds.
• Multiply it by 4.
• YOUR DONE!!!!!

In social studies class we watched a movie all about North India Ganges river, and the Taj Mahal . Let me tell you a tiny bit about the Gangesriver and the Taj Mahal.

Every one comes to bathe in the sacred water of the Ganges, from tall to short every one is born there and every one dies there. The Ganges is said to be a Hindu god. The river is so polluted that even the god its self needs help. People wash in the Ganges and even die in the Ganges. Millions of people go to the Ganges to splash or even just relax while listening to the music and singing. The people don’t even mind if the water is dirty, they just go along and drink the water knowing that there are dead carcases floating around[…]. For me to think that way I would need a little extra guts!

The Taj Mahal is said to be the most beautiful Tomb in the whole Universe. You may be thinking tomb, what are you talking about? It is a tomb because it holds the corpse of a wonderful lady that died having her 14th baby. Her hubby loved her so much he ordered all his workers to build a magnificent tomb to house his dead wife. It would be Pretty scary knowing you had the largest tomb in the whole world. What do you think about that?

      The quest to find oil efficient transportation is on.  Its been less than 150 years since the one and only first oil pump was made and already the world’s oil supply is running out pretty quickly and the gas prices are going up like a hot air balloon.  Scientist have already created the new fuel efficient car/van or whatever it is the new MINI-CAT

       Oil can’t be made quickly, it takes thousands and thousands and thousands of years to make.  To make oil you need billions of diatoms they are like plants because they take light from the sun and convert it into energy the website listed above states that, “popular misconceptions are that, oil comes from dead dinosaurs.” 

     Oil is the main reason why we are getting global warming, here’s an example.  Oil gets put into a cars gas tank, gets used, and gets released as green house gasses, goes into the atmosphere, and breaks a hole into the shield that protects us from the suns Ultra Violet Rays and causes the whole world to warm up.   A section of this article says, “Many scientists today believe that this life-protecting stratospheric ozone layer is being reduced by the chlorofluorocarbon gases released into the atmosphere by different sources on the earth. Many envieonment groups are vehemently protesting against the use of these gases, and their use in many places in the world has been banned. Pollution on the earth has already caused a hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic.”           

     The orginization that influence the cost of oil is called O.P.E.C. that means Organization of Petroleum Exporting Country’s.  They increase or decrease the amount of oil they suck out of the ground.  If they want more money they reduce the amount of oil that comes out of the oil pump.  If they want less money they would increase the amount of oil that comes out of the oil pump. Scientist guesstimate that there’s 2.6 trillion barrels of oil left in this world.          Its sad, no one really cares about oil running out.        SCIENTIST KEEP THINKING PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

Have you ever had tractor that was green like a avocado?  Or do you even have a tractor that has 50 horse power engine and can pull up to its own weight [which is really really really heavy].  John Deers are great for pulling hay, gravel, dirt, bricks and SO much more.  You MUST be careful around steep hills, the John Deer may tip.  My active grandma drove into a tree, luckily she got away with a hip transplant and a third degree concussion.  I just recently learned How to drive [ITS EASIER THAN IT SEEMS!!!]