Japanese Numbers

Japanese Numbers

1 Ichi                                  1,000 Sen

2 Ni                                    1,200 Sennihiaku                      

3 San                                  10,000 Ichiman

4 Shi                                   100,000,000 Ichioku

5 Go

6 Roku

7 Nana

8 Hachi

9 Kyuu

10 Juu

11 Juu-ichi

12 Juu-ni

13 Juu-san

14 Juu-yon

15 Juu-go

16 Juu-roku

17 Juu-nana

18 Juu-hachi

19 Juu-kyuu

20 Nijuu

26 Nijuu-rocku

26 Nijuu-rocku

27 Nijuu-shichi

33 Sanjuu-san

41 Yonjuu-ichi

45 Yonjuu-go

52 Gojuu-ni

55 Gojuu-go

59 Gojuuk-yuu

66 Rockujuu-rocku

72 Nanajuu-ni

77 Nanajuu-shichi

88 Hachijuu-hachi

95 Kyuujuu-go

96 Kyuujuu-rocku

97 Kyuujuu-schichi

100 Hyaku

111 Hyaku-juuichi

220 Nihyaku-nijuu

331 Sanhyaku-sanjuuichi

356 Sanhyaku-gojuurocku

407 Yonhyaku-nana

600 Rockuyaku

Flower Quiz

                                                       FLOWER QUIZ SCORES

                                       7 out of 9 correct questions

POWER HOUR QUIZ #1

                                                       POWER HOUR QUIZ SCORE

                                              Total score: 7 right, 3 wrong (70%)

Expository Paragraph - My Hobbies

                                                     My Hobbies

          I like doing a lot of things when I have free time, in other words, I like to do my hobbies. My hobbies that I like to do are listening to music, swimming, and read books.I like doing these hobbies, because they are relaxing, to me. Also, I do them because I don’t have anything to do, most of the time. So this is my essay that gives reasons of why I like to do these things.

          I chose listening to music as my hobby. I like listening to them when I do my homework, when I don’t have anything to do, or sometimes when I eat. I like almost all types of music; pop, country, rock n roll, and other type of music. I like to hear them because some songs bring me back memories. Also, because it gives me energy to clean my room. Most of the time, I like hearing music when I’m doing my homework. The music makes fun the homework. Listening to new songs is awesome, because you haven’t heard the song before. This is the reason why I like doing this hobby.

          I also picked swimming of one of my hobbies. I like going swimming, of course when the day is hot. The apartments where I live have a swimming pool (the one which we usually go) and are only for the ones that live in the apartments. I always like going to the pool because I spent more time with my brother and friends. Swimming is good for you, because while you swim, your flexing your arms and legs, to make it short, you exercise. Sometimes is relaxing, but when there are a lot of people in there, for example like little kids, it gets noisy. But still I have a lot of fun. That is my number 2 reason why I like doing this hobby.

         My last choice of my favorite hobbies is reading books. I like to read books when I feel like it or when I have assignments. I like reading books that are comedy, mystery, or scary. Reading books that are comedy is fun for me because it makes me laugh. Mystery books leave you wondering. Scary books terrify you and sometimes don’t make you sleep at night. Reading books at home warms up your brain for school, and makes your reading better. I like hearing or reading stories of any kind. No matter if the story is fantasy or real, I would probably like it. This is my last reason of why I like doing this hobby, reading.

         These are the reasons of why I like to do these hobbies. I like to listen to music because it helps me get energy. I like swimming because I have fun and it is exercising. Also, reading is cool because it helps your reading to get better and learn more new things. So this is my essay of my three favorite hobbies that I like to do when I have some free time.

Social Studies Summary - 10/19/11

                                       Hadar

             

                                 Exciting New Discoveries

            Donald Johanson was an anthropologist in 1974. An anthropologist is a scientist that studies lives of human beings. Hadar is a place that is located in Great Rift Valley in Africa. Before long ago, Hadar was a forest and grasslands that had lakes. That year, Johanson and his team were working in under the hot sun, when Johanson was digging, he found bones of an early ancestor.

                                        Putting Together the Pieces

              Johanson and his colleague, Tom Gray, dug the bones carefully. A colleague is a coworker. When they had done digging, they had collected 46 parts of bones of one skeleton. When all the parts of bone were reassembled, he realized that he had found 40% of a skeleton, a small type of Australopithecus. The bones of the skeleton, which Johanson found, was the most complete skeleton of Australopithecus ever found. With all the parts and sizes that he found, he knew that he found a female one. So he named her Lucy, but her scientific name is Australopithecus afarensis.

                                           Walking on Two Feet

               After the scientist tested Lucy, they discovered that she lived in between 3.2 and 3.8 million years ago. This is the oldest ancestor that was discovered. Older than the Nutcracker Man. Johanson discovered another important thing, Lucy had walked like a normal human, with both feet, scientists call it bipedalism.

                                           The Importance of Bipedalism   

                Bipedalism is so important because walking upright on both their feet, is a considered one of the basic traits of human beings. Trait means is a quality that makes something what it is. Anthropologists never found tools old enough like Lucy, so now scientists think that the earliest ancestors walked upright with both feet before they use any tools or could speak, or as Johanson says, the discovery of Lucy proved that walking upright with both feet was the first human trait.

Little Tree Summary - Monica Arreola

                           THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE

          This story is about a boy named Little Tree who was raised by his Cherokee grandparents in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee during the 1930s, after his parents died. Little Tree’s usually daily life was helping his grandparents, learning how to stand up for their rights, and learns a great deal about standing up for his own. Little Tree describes the simple life lessons he learns by living in touch with Nature. 

          Little Tree’s parents died when he was very young. His Cherokee grandparents took him to live with them in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee in 1930s. Every day, his grandfather took him out in the woods, and taught new things, for example, how he makes money; by making whiskey. During that day, he met a special person, Willow John. Willow John, is also an Indian, was a very good friend of Little Tree’s grandfather. Willow told a story to Little Tree that he had to know from the past. He told him about how the white people treated the Indians.

          After days, the government had bad news for Little Tree’s grandparents; they are going to take Little Tree to an orphanage. Little Tree first day at the orphanage was hard, he got punished for correcting the teacher and thought that wasn’t fair. In the night, his grandfather couldn’t let Little Tree in that orphanage anymore, so he snick in the orphanage and took Little Tree home with him.

          After a few days, Little Tree’s grandfather died, in the same day, her grandmother also died. His grandmother left him a letter, before she died, that said that they will always be together. Willow John took care of Little Tree, after his grandparents died, but not for long.

          This story was mainly about Little Tree, who was raised by his Cherokee grandparents and Willow John, in Tennessee. Little Tree was an Indian boy who learned how to read, and stand for his rights from his grandparents. Little Tree was taken to an orphanage by the government. But luckily, his grandfather took him out of there. After days passed, Little Tree’s grandfathers died, and also Willow John, Little Tree was now all by himself, and after all the things Little Tree’s grandparents taught him, I think he will know how to take care of himself and become a responsible person.

                                 

Quiz Results

Quiz on Pronoun Usage Results: 6 Correct -- 1 Wrong -- 0 Skipped                            Nouns: A Crossword Puzzle Results: 10 Correct -- 0 Wrong-- 0 Skipped                                               Quiz Results: Pronouns Your grade: 100%

Monica: Social Studies Homework #2

                               Lesson Review    

1.      Why is Olduvai Gorge so important in the study of human origins?

Because Olduvai Gorge is the place where the earliest human ancestors lived.

   

2.      Use each of the following vocabulary words in a paragraph about the Leakeys’ work at Olduvai Gorge.

archaeology        fossil

excavate             theory

            Louis, as an archaeologist, carefully excavate, historical sites, pottery, and fossils, with his with his wife, Mary Leaky. They were looking proves that Leakey’s theory that the Olduvai Gorge region was where our earliest ancestors originated.

     

3.      Why is it important to know about our human ancestors?

So you know where we come from and it makes you who you are today.

   

4.      Why is Olduvai Gorge sometimes referred to as the “ Cradle of Humankind”

Because in Olduvai Gorge was the place were the ancestors lived.                 

Monica: Social Studies Homework

 

                                The Cradle of Humankind

                                        Olduvai Gorge

             Long time ago one part of Earth’s crust split leaving a depression or a low area. The Great Rift Valley is an example of a depression that runs for more than 3,000 miles from the nation of Syria in Southwest Asia to Mozambique in East Africa. The Great Rift Valley appears to be in Tanzania in East Africa. North of Tanzania is Olduvai Gorge. Olduvai Gorge is a steep-sided ravine that is 300 feet deep and 30 miles long. Millions of years ago, Olduvai Gorge was an area of heavily forested that had water and a huge amount of animals including sheep, antelope, elephants, and ostriches. Also it remained earliest human ancestors. But now Olduvai Gorge is like a desert that only a few of people live there.

                        Archaeologists Louis and Mary Leakey

                 Louis Leakey was the one who discovered the remains of the human ancestors. When he was only a 12-year-old boy in Kenya, in East Africa, he found his first fossil. A fossil is the trace or imprint of ancient life that has been preserved in Earth’s crust. After Leakey found the fossil he decided to be an archaeologist. Archaeology is the study of the remains of past cultures. Archaeologists dig or excavate carefully historical sites, looking for tools, buildings, and fossils. They called it ‘digs’. In meantime almost his whole family worked with him.

                                                A Human Ancestor

               The Leakeys were interested in early people.  They would ask their selves: What did they look like? Where did they live? How long did they live there? What was their daily live?

                                                Looking Backward 

                  Some digs of archaeologists can take years and not finding what they were looking for. Richard Leakey, Louis Leakey’s son, explained why this was true: “To me it’s a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root….To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we have come from.” In the 1930s Louis went to Olduvai Gorge to work there. He thought that this was were the early people lived. But most of the scientists would not agreed with him. Afterwards, it was generally believed that the earliest ancestors lived in Asia, not in Africa.

                                    Discovery of Early Humans

                   Louis Leaky and his wife Mary Leaky worked for 20 years together in Olduvai Gorge. They did not found important things. But they did found skeletons of animals, fossils, and early tools. None of these prove Leakey’s theory that the early people lived in the Olduvai Gorge. A theory is an idea that needs to be tested against the best available evidence or facts.  In 1959, Louis got sick so Mary went to search by herself. She went to dig were they started at first when something caught her eye. Carefully she excavated and saw hundreds of bones. When the bones were reassembled, they formed a complete skull of an early human ancestor.

                                                 Nutcracker Man  

                                    Mary named her Nutcracker Man because of his square teeth. She thought because he probably used his teeth to crush the nuts and the roots. These were the foods that grew in the areas where the African grassland, or savannas, met the forest. The area was where the first ancestors lived. The scientific name for the Nutcracker Man is Australopithecus.

                                              Testing the Evidence

                                    Meanwhile Louis Leakey thought that Nutcracker Man lived for 600,000 years ago. Tests measured and new tests, using the latest scientific methods and chemistry, scientists from the University of California were able to examine fossils as well as rocks and soil where the Nutcracker Man was found. The Leakeys were shocked what they discovered.

                                               Older than We Knew

                           The tests prove that the skull of Australopithecus was 1.7 to 2 million years old. The discovery of the Leakeys made East Africa and Olduvai Gorge an important site of the study of human. Soon many people referred to Olduvai Gorge by the name one scientist used: the “Cradle of Humankind.”