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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

National Geographic for Kids Reading Assignment - Day One

Reading Assignment:
1.  Click here to read "Ten Freaky Forces of Nature."  


2.  Write a three-point paragraph in Word (or Pages) to summarize the article.


3.  Edit your paragraph.


4.  Listen to your final draft and make any necessary corrections.


5.  Copy your paragraph and post to this blog.




When posting, choose "anonymous." 


Write your first name and 3B (Blythe,) 3H (Harland,) 


3L (Longman,) or 3M (McMahan) at the end of the summary.

24 comments:

  1. I have not read this assignment yet.

    Anna 3L

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  2. Deadly
    I read about the deadliest forces of nature ever. The great ball of fire, flaming twister, and dodge ball are freaky. The great ball of fire is dangerous. When it hits the ground, lightning comes out. The flaming twister is just key to death. It is made of fire! Dodge balls are huge chunks of ice. Onethousend years ago a dodge ball mysteriously killed some people! Those are the deadly forces of nature!!!!!!

    By Jonah -3b

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  3. Ten Freaky Forces of Nature

    There are three freaky forces of nature that you will never forget. They are gas attack, mystery wave and snowball factory. When a volcano erupts glowing sea molten runs down it’s sides. That is an example of a gas attack. This kind of molten is very dangerous to all mammals. My second favorite is mystery wave. A mystery wave can arrive at any time, even in the best weather. Scientist say that these waves are very real and very dangerous, even to the largest ships. My last one is snowball factory. If you look outside after a snowstorm there will be these chunks of snow that looks like a log. We think that Mother Nature is trying to say it’s time for a snowball fight. Do you think you will ever forget those forces?????

    Campbell Smith 3b

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  4. Ten Freaky Forces of Nature

    Here are three stories that I read that were most interesting. I read “Dodge Balls”, “Flaming Twisters”, and “It’s Raining Frogs”. About 1,000 years ago, mysteriously, people in Himalaya Mountains were killed. The hailstorm dropped clumps of ice the size of a baseball! For “Flaming Twisters”, it says that wild fires can create their own weather. They are called a fire whirl. They can be fifty feet wide and as tall as a forty- story building. A fact in “It’s Raining Frogs” is that frogs fell from the sky. People think that tornadoes suck up lakes, marshes then they drop the frogs anywhere. These are the things I read that were the most interesting.

    Mikaela-3b

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  5. Funny and Deadly Things
    Some of these things are funny and some are deadly. The raining frogs, Dodge balls, and flaming twisters are all cool. Small frogs rained on a town in Serbia! Tornadoes take frogs and drop them miles away. That’s how it rained on that town. About 1,000 years ago hundreds of people were mysteriously killed. They were killed by ice the size of baseballs. As if tornadoes aren’t dangerous enough but one is made of fire! They can be 50 feet wide and as tall as a 40-story building. That’s why some are funny and some are deadly.




    By JC- 3b
    2011

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  6. Ten Freaky Forces of Nature
    These are three freaky forces of nature that I find interesting. The most interesting facts were mystery waves, the snowball factory, raining frogs. Mystery waves are also called freak waves. Even in the clearest weather they can appear. Snowball factories are shaped like logs. Snowball factories are very rare creations. Scientist believe that waterspouts sucked up the frogs. They said that thousands of rained down in Serbia. Those are the freaky forces of nature! By Suzie -3b October 13, 2011

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  7. Green Invaders

    Here are three things that I learned in the articles I read. The three things are “The Food Web”, “Milkweed”, and “Fewer Bugs and Birds”. For the first topic I read, it says when insects can’t get to the right plants they die off. When insects die off birds have nothing to eat and die. When they die the Earth dies! Here are things about “Milkweed.” Monarch butterflies dine on Milkweed. Caterpillars also dine on Milkweed. If people cut down the Milkweed the Monarch butterflies and the caterpillars will die. Now, here are some facts about “Fewer Bugs and Birds.” The invaders are plants from different countries that make gardens prettier. Ever since people started to come on America’s shores, they brought along trees and flowers. They also brought vegetables from other places.

    Mikaela3b

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  8. Three Freaky Forces Of Nature

    There are more than ten freaky forces. They are “great balls of fire,” “raining frogs,” and” flaming tornadoes.” The great ball of fire is as big as your head. Actually they are lightning. Raining frogs is just when water spouts and tornadoes suck up surfaces of lakes, marshes, and bodies of water. Sometimes they carry frogs and fish. Flaming tornadoes are called fire whirls. These tornadoes are fifty feet wide and forty stories high. These are three deadly forces of nature.





    JP #6 3B

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  9. Green Invaders


    There are several reasons why everybody must keep growing the same plants in the same place. Insects, monarch butterflies, and birds have suffered because man has taken away native plants and added new plants. Insects have nothing to munch on because of what people are doing to there environment. Insects will die if they don’t get the right plants. My next little critter is a Monarch butterfly. Monarch butterflies dine on milkweed, but people are starting to cut down milkweed so the butterflies are not very happy. My last reason has to do with birds. Birds are not very happy about food either, if all insects don’t get plants and die that means birds don’t get insects so the birds will die to. That is why we need to keep the same plants growing.

    Campbell Smith 3B

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  10. Green Invaders

    Do you want to know about green invaders? I will tell you about invaders, butterfly, and planting. Invaders are taking up the America. They like plants and some plants are dangers. Butterfly’s, like to sit on milkweed. Butterflies will not live if we replace the plants. Planting will help the earth. Kids adopted a bird and they now insect move quickly. I hope you like this. BY: LEXIE HOARD 3M

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  11. There are ten freaky forces of nature. I will only tell you about three of them. Mystery Waves are the first one I will tell you about. Mystery Waves are deadly, enormous, and called a freak wave. The second one is called Great Balls of Fire. Great Balls of Fire include lightning that suddenly appear and are glowing balls. The third one is It’s Raining Frogs. They are small frogs that rained in the town Serbia it is sent residents running! Now you know about three forces of nature.


    Anna Claire 3M

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  12. There are ten freaky forces of nature and I’m going to tell you about three of them. The three things I’m going to tell you about are dodge balls, great balls of fire, and flaming twisters. One thing about dodge balls is that they are big balls of ice. Two other facts about dodge balls are that they killed 1,000 people and now we today call them hail. One fact about great balls of fire is that it happens during thunderstorms. Two other things are that it has a small explosion, and it looks like a burning bubble. One fact about flaming twisters is that it burns. Two other facts are that it can create it’s own weather, and it’s as tall as a forty story building. These are my three freaky forces of nature I told you about.

    Brock 3M

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  13. I will tell you three of the ten freaky forces of nature. I will tell you about mystery waves, flaming twisters, and gas attack. The mystery waves never stop. Mystery waves you never know when they will come. The flaming twisters are tornadoes on fire. Flaming twisters create their own weather, and it’s as high as a 40 story building. Gas attacks are when volcanoes erupt. They can reach more than 1,000 degrees fareghit, and speed up to 50 miles per hour. This is all facts for these freaky forces of nature!

    Ryan 3M

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  14. Ten Freaky Forces of Nature

    I have three reasons why I like ten freaky forces of nature. My three points are about light snow, raining frogs and flaming tornados. My first point is about light snow it shows up in the north and south poles. Light snow is colorful in the sky. Raining frogs happen when tornados happen. Tornados pick them up and drop them everywhere. My last point is about flaming tornados, they are made from wildfires. A flaming tornado can be fifty feet high. Those are the three reasons why I like ten freaky forces of nature.

    Solomon 12
    October 14, 2011

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  15. There are many different forces of nature. Today I am going to tell you three of the ten freaky forces of nature. These three are dodge ball, light show, and mystery waves. In dodge ball, hundreds of people were killed from hail. The hail was the size of a baseball that was formed in storms when raindrops are carried to cold places in the atmosphere. The second freaky fact I found is about the light show and people in the northern and southern poles get to see it. The giant shimmering curtains are vast glowing rings called auroras. The last freaky fact of nature is about the mystery wave, which, 15 years ago, was thought to be a myth. These mystery waves are not tsunamis, but they can feel like freight trains rushing towards you. That would be definitely freaky. These are all the freaky facts for now!

    Raveena 3M

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  16. I am going to tell you three facts about green invaders. These invaders are taking over, they came from different countries, and native plants and animals are disappearing because of them. These invaders are taking over, but they are not aliens. The invaders I am referring to are plants, but people are destroying their food web. These invaders come from many countries and people brought them here. Plants are crowding the world and removing native plants. Plants and animals are disappearing and it is clobbering the food web when we plant non-native plants. To preserve the plants and animals, we should give them food to eat and when non-native people came, they brought non-native trees and flowers with them. I don’t have any more facts to tell you. How about you?

    Raveena 3M

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  17. Ten Freaky Forces of Nature


    Here are three types of things that I learned. Those things are dodge balls, mystery waves and great balls of fire. 1,000 years ago people were killed in the Himalaya. So they investigated who killed 1,000 people. Mystery waves can be a tsunami. You can drown easily in a mystery wave. Great balls of fire are dangerous. It vaporizes a mineral called silicon in soil. Those three things meant the most to me that were interesting.

    By Hannah Gummadi 3b

    October 13th 2011

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  18. Weird things
    I read about three weird things. Tornadoes, frogs, and snowballs are freaky forces. There ware a lot of tornadoes that hit houses and towns. This was in Oklahoma. It went up to 70 miles across Oklahoma and the speed was 318 miles. The town of Serbia has weird things. It was raining frogs. There was an ice snowstorm. It was from Mother Nature. These are the three weird things that I learned.


    By Madison Cassidy
    Oct.14 3B

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  19. Ten freaky forces of nature

    Here are three things I want to write about. They are mother of all tornadoes, dodge balls, and a mystery wave. The mother of all tornadoes is my first favorite.
    Then dodge balls is my second,
    In then mystery wave is my third
    Favorite .I like the mother of all
    Tornadoes because when I read
    About it and I got interested.
    The mother of all tornadoes
    Is my favorite one yet.
    Dodge balls tells how strong
    Wind. dodge balls is interesting
    Because the hail is the size of baseballs.
    I like mystery waves because I am into waves. Mystery waves are
    Fun to learn about

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  20. Three Weird Forces of Nature




    I learned three things about nature. I learned about “dodge balls”, “mystery waves”, and “gas attack”. Dodge balls are the size of a baseball. They are balls of ice. Mystery waves are also called freak waves. They are walls of water. Gas attacks are pyroclastic waves. They are clouds of gas. I think these are all interesting things.









    By: Anna Clausi 3b

    Oct.13

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  21. Fun and Dangerous

    I learned about three freaky forces of nature. They are great balls of fire it’s raining frogs, and flaming twisters. During a thunderstorm, a glowing ball the size of your head suddenly appeared. Scientist thinks that silicon forms a kind of bubble that burns in the oxygen around it. Small frogs rained on a town in Serbia, sending citizens running for cover. Scientists think tornadoes pick up frogs and throw them all over the place. As if tornadoes aren’t dangerous enough, one kind is made of fire. Wildfires are so powerful they can create their own weather. This is what I like about them.

    By: Cole
    Oct.19,2011

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  22. Three Freaky Facts of Nature
    These are three facts why this interested me. These facts are it’s raining frogs, flaming ball of fire, and flaming twister. When it rained frogs (in Serbia), it was a funnel. In a village, people thought it was raining frogs. A flaming ball the size of your head fell from the sky. Lightning shot out the ball. The flaming twister was caused by a forest fire. A man set the forest on fire. These are some freaky facts of nature.
    Caedmon 10
    Oct. 19.2011

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  23. Today I will tell you about only three of the ten forces of nature. The three forces of nature are Snow Ball Factory Tornadoes and Balls of Fire. Snow Ball factory looks like snow logs. It also is wet snow and its like Mother Nature saying snowball fight! Tornadoes are made of fire. It also is called firewalls, and is as tall as a forty-story building! Great balls of fire always evaporates. It also is the size of your head and it forms into a kind of bubble. There are way more I like. Sarah Ellen3M

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