Month: March 2013

• A volcano is made up of long pipes called vents.  These vents are connected to a hole deep inside the Earth called a chamber.  In the chamber is magma that can be as hot as 2,192 degrees fahrenheit.  The magma chamber sends up the magma which causes lava to flow from the volcano.  The fissure volcano is a crack in the Earth’s surface.  It can flow a long way from the volcano.  It turns into little rivers.  Volcanoes in the Hawaiian islands have runny lava.  The lava flows gently to form a shield volcano.  A dome volcano has a single pipe from which magma erupts.  A volcano is really made up from the crust of the Earth.

 

Facts from Volcanoes by Simon Adams

 

 

 

Mount Vesuvius is located in Italy.  It’s the only active volcano in Rome.  It is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world.  The volcanic ash buried the city of Pompeii.  Pompeii was slowly recovered by an earthquake.  In Pompeii,  ash blocked the sun by1:00 p.m. and the people tried to clear heavy ash from rooftops as it fell at a rate of about 6 inches an hour.  It erupted in 79 A.D.  Few people escaped this eruption.  The people died of suffocation from the gases that came from the volcano.  The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius was in 1944.

 

 

 

 

One day in Woodwill,  Sally the skunk, Harry the hare, Oscar the owl,  and Sam the squirrel were walking in the park.  Then  Harry was thinking about Bob the bear.  He looked behind him and Bob wasn’t there!  He asked his friends, ” Hey guys, where’s Bob?”  His friends exclaimed,  “We don’t know!”  They all decided to look for Bob.  They looked outside the city.  ” Not here,”  said Sam.  ” But I did find a huge raccoon!”  Everyone screamed and ran away!  Next,  they checked the forest,  ” Not here,”  said Sally.  ” But I did find a big orange and white rock!”  Harry said,  “T-t-that’s not a-a-a r-r-rock.”  “I-i-it’s a tiger!”  They all ran for their lives!  After that, they checked the city.  They spotted a tree.  They looked up high and saw a scary face!  They all ran rapidly away from the tree.  Next, Oscar said “Knock knock.”  The other animals asked “Who’s there?”  Oscar said “Boo.”  Everyone else said “Boo who?”  Oscar said, “Don’t cry it’s just a joke.”  Harry said “Oscar, this isn’t a time for jokes.  Bob’s lost and we need to find him.”  They all decided to go home.  After they were about to walk into their houses, Bob came out of his cave after a long nap.  He asked his friends if they wanted to take a walk in the park.  They said “Yes!”  And from that day forward they took a walk everyday.

 

 

 

 

PHOTO BY JEFF KERBY

 

PHOTO BY STEVE HILLEBRAND

Harriet Tubman was one of many leaders that helped slaves.  To start with Harriet Tubman had perseverance.  She never gave up on her dream of freedom.  Additionally she was brave.  She didn’t want to get caught, but she ran away anyway,  so she wouldn’t get killed or whipped again.  Another example is that she was diligent.  She worked hard on leading her people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.  Finally she was helpful.  She helped on the plantation when she was 8 because she was told to do it.  I think we can learn a thing or two from Harriet Tubman,  don’t you?