6 steps to a healthier you

Created For: Brie Smith

3 Exercise Fact Steps

Step 1-Walking 10,000 steps or 30 minutes a day, five days a week. A pedometer worn on your waistband can help you achieve your goal no matter where you go. One thing you can do this year is buy a membership to a golf course and plan on walking at least two 18-hole rounds a week. Each round burns over 1,500 calories!

Step 2- Lift weights to help increase your upper body strength.

Step 3-Set small, obtainable goals regarding your health. Keep a daily  journal as a way of tracking your progress.

3 Nutrition Fact Steps

Step 1-Eating a balanced diet that includes the appropriate amount of servings from each food group. Refer to the food pyramid below:

Step 2-Read and educate yourself on the nutrition labels of the food you eat daily.

Step 3- Know your daily calorie goals

On average, daily calorie goals are as follows:

• 1,600 — children ages 2 to 6, most women and some older adults
• 2,000 — average adult
• 2,200 — older children, teenage girls, active women and most men
• 2,800 — teenage boys and active men

Reading Log 3-7-11

The Sea Of Monsters By: Rick Rordan

 1. The conflict in this fantasy book took place when Annabeth saves Percy by stabbing the last Laistrygonian from behind and takes Percy and Tyson back to Camp Half-Blood. They find the camp under attack because Thalia's tree, which protects the camp, has been poisoned by an unknown intruder.

2. My favorite character in this book was also one of the main characters, Annabeth. Annabeth is a protagonist aswell as static and major. Annabeth is tough especially for a girl. A quote from the book that shows me this is, "When we got mad we tended to cause promblems ... like World War II, for instance."

3.An interesting authors secret in this book that really stuck out in my mind was how he used extremly vivid words that not only made the story come alive and really pop out but also made you actually enjoy reading it.

4. A new word I learned in  this weeks reading was valedictory which is an adjective meaning expressing a farwell.

5.This is a book I would do for a book comerical because it was a just right book for me and most students in my grade level.

Volcano Classwork Grade

A……

1. A planian eruption

2. The plume in this type of volcano looks dark, smoky, and it blankets the area around the volcano with a black sheet of ash.

B…….

1. Interesting facts:

1  Can humans trigger volcanoes?

2  Who made up the word volcano

3 How do vlcano plumes travel so far away?

Write 2 new vocabulary words that you learned about volcanoes.

1  Vulcanology- The study of volcanoes.

2  Plume- A large cloud of ash that covers the sky around the area where a volcano erupted.

                       

                        Write 1 question that you still have concerning volcanic eruptions.

1 Where do volcanoes erupt the most?

2A.

1. They were used to earthquakes
2. In the back of their house, away from the street.
3. They probably died from the noisiness gasses in the air and hot tempectures.

2B.

1.       Pompeii was famous for fish sauce and grand villas.

2.       About  20,000 people lived in Pompeii

3.       Two interesting facts facts I learned about the buildings in Pompeii  were…

1.       People enrich they houses with gardens.

2.       Each room was heated by hot air running through cavity walls.

3 – Mount Vesuvius Erupts

A. The Last Two Days

                        Imagine that you are a citizen in Pompeii on August 24, 79 AD. Write a descriptive thought that you could have had during each of the time periods listed in the article. Make sure that you include facts from the time periods in your “thought”.

1 p.m.- All of a sudden it seemed out of nowhere a massive plume of ash began rocketing out of the volcano.

Midnight – The lava is beginning to pour off of Mt. Vesuvias just when the ash cloud began to grow.

1 a.m. – The posoiness gasses are beginning to touch Earth and I feel as if I am breathing through a straw.

7 a.m. –This was the end…….

B.

My reaction made me very sad; looking at the eruption of the volcano was devastating. I can’t imagine being in the shoes of the people who had to experience that tragedy.

4 – Pompeii Today

A. Vesuvius Survivor

                        Did you survive? YES!

                        How many questions did you get correct? 17

                       

B. Vesuvius Residents Paid to Move Away

                        How much money will Italian authorities give to residents who move away from Mount Vesuvius? Up to 30,000 Euros.

                        Why are they doing this? To reduce the potential hazard of what has been described as the world's most dangerous volcano.

                        How many times has Vesuvius erupted? 3 Dozen times since 79 AD

                        When was the last eruption? 1944

                        How many people have applied to move away so far? 3,276 People

                        Would you move away if you lived in this region? Why or why not? Yes because I believe it is not worth risking not only mine but also my family’s life for where I live.

My Writting Dear Diary 3-9-11

Halle-Kate Wheeler

Dear Diary, 8:42 A.M September 1, 79

“C’mon Alabella your going to be late for school!” my mom screamed at me in an uneasy voice. I had been up so late the night before studying for the Science test today and now I feel as if I am lugging around a boulder on my back from the exhaustion.

Dear Diary, 9:50 A.M September 1,79

After I had marched off the bus something didn’t seem right……My eyes were watering yet, it isn’t allergy season and even more as I look to my left the sky looks like black paint is blanketing it. I have no explanation.

I thrust open the heavy entrance doors to the schools long busy hallway. During Science, after the test my teacher Mr. Wilson was teaching us about our new topic for the semester, volcanoes. I learned that they are very destructive and unfortunately they rob innocent people of their lives. In the middle of his lesson…..

Dear Diary, 12:45 P.M September 2, 79

I’m sorry I left without finishing my story yesterday. For no apparent reason the lights turned off and it was too dark to finish but now I’ve got something better to tell you.

School has been postponed for every student here in Pompeii today. The funny thing is though it’s a beautiful day…even though the skies look like they did yesterday, no worst.

My parents are in the living room watching the news when they call me out there,” Alabella , come here quickly please.” My mom proclaims. Mom hastily spits out each word she has to say and before I knew it she had finished. I do recall her saying something about a volcano, yes a volcano that is what it was.... I believe her words were " Fox Five News has issued an evacuation for all citizens surrounding the area of Pompeii. "

What does this mean, an evacuation? Where are we going to go? But before I had the chance to really wrap my head around any of it mom was coaxing me out the door and into the car.

Dear Diary, 1:13 P.M September 2, 79

We are in the car and honestly I've never seen mom drive this fast. I swear she was going at least 90 miles an hour with absolutely no clue what so ever of where she might be going. Everyone was silent and just when the cars brakes stop squeaking for a mere second you could almost hear a faint sound coming from nearby. Am i crazy? Could I be hearing things..Its beginning to get louder as mom speeds ahead. Yet, I do not know what lies ahead of me, no one does, but what I do know is in the book of life the answers aren't in the back.

Dear Diary, 1:24 P.M September 2, 79

What I made myself think might not be so bad turned out to be worse; correction it's my worst nightmare! Looking forward I see a dead end in the road but not only that, I saw it..... I saw Mt. Vestevious. It is trembling more and more each second, and now the ground is starting to follow in it's footsteps... EARTHQUAKE!

Considering how fast mom drove over here it feels like she is now going double. I'm scared not only for my life but for my families and if I don't make it out of here tonight please know I died trying.

I turned around about as far as I could with my seat belt on and looked out the back window in curiosity to see a plume of ash shooting from the volcano signaling this was the end...There was no way this little mini van could out run that monster.