WELCOME TO OUR JUNGLE SAFARI! Class Blog 10/1/12

WELCOME TO OUR JUNGLE SAFARI! Class Blog 10/1/12
 
 Wow...its already October.... this month sure did go fast.. You have officially finished your first month of school for the year!! 8th graders are one month closer to graduating... now that is exciting! 
Math A, 2nd and 4th Period
This week we will be working on estimating with decimals and then entering into the jungle to hunt those dangerous adding and subtracting decimals... such scary little creatures!  
Math B, 5th period
It’s time to do the jungle 1 step dance... haha... no really that’s the two step which is next week!... we will be working on 1 step equations... .

Blog Jungle Fact for the Week: The Jungle Leopard 
Generally leopards will eat any warm-blooded prey, from mice and hares to large antelope. But a leopard is the supreme opportunist and will also eat birds, reptiles, rodents and even insects. If living close to people, it will also attack domestic animals and pets such as dogs.

When there are no large predators or vultures in the area, a leopard will leave its kill on the ground covered with loose soil or leaves. Otherwise it will carry its prey up a tree.
Leopards will also scavenge if necessary, stealing kills from cheetahs, lone hyenas and any of the smaller carnivores. Excess food is stored to be eaten later and leopards have been observed killing again before the first carcass is completely eaten.
-Leopards are part of the cat family, Felidae. The scientific name for a leopard is Panthera pardus.
-Leopards are well known for their cream and gold spotted fur, but some leopards have black fur with dark spots. These black leopards are often mistaken for panthers.
-Adult leopards are solitary animals. Each adult leopard has its own territory where it lives and, although they often share parts of it, they try to avoid one another.
-A leopard’s body is built for hunting. They have sleek, powerful bodies and can run at speeds of up to 57 kilometres per hour. They are also excellent swimmers and climbers and can leap and jump long distances.
 -A leopard’s tail is just about as long as its entire body. This helps it with balance and enables it to make sharp turns quickly.
-Leopards are mostly nocturnal, hunting prey at night.
-Leopards protect their food from other animals by dragging it high up into the trees. A leopard will often leave their prey up in the tree for days and return only when they are hungry!
-Female leopards give birth to a litter of two or three cubs at a time. By the time a cub is two years old it will leave the company of its mother and live on their own.
Some people believe that the bones and whiskers of leopards can heal sick people. Many leopards are killed each year for their fur and body parts and this is one reason why the leopard is an endangered animal. While they were previously found in the wild in a number of areas around the world, their habitat is largely restricted to sub-Saharan Africa with small numbers also found in India, Pakistan, Malaysia, China and Indochina.
-Larger than female leopards, male leopards can weigh from 82 to 200 pounds (37 to 91 kg).
-Leopards are the most successful and cunning among big cats.
-Like most cats, leopards are solitary creatures that hunt mainly at night.
-Leopards have a very beautiful coat with a tawny background and rosettes, that aids them in camouflage.
-The Clouded Leopard has the longest canines amongst cat species.
-Leopards are masters of stealth and extremely difficult to trace and locate in the wild.
-Pound for pound, leopards are the strongest among big cats.
-Leopards are the best tree climbers amongst big cats and are capable of taking prey that is twice their body weight, up a tree.
-Leopards are territorial animals and regularly mark and defend their domain against intruders.
Blog Questions: 
1) A leopard drags its food 15.5 feet to a tree that was 13.86 feet away... order these decimals from smallest to largest.. And what was the total distance that the leopard dragged its food?
2) If you went to the jungle and saw 13 Leopards... what would their total weight be.. taking the largest weight listed?
3) How fast does a Leopard run, use the below converter to find out!
http://www.calculateme.com/Speed/KilometersperHour/ToMilesperHour.htm  
4) What is ONE fact that you learned about Leopards after watching the videos?
8) If there is a large group of leopards... and there are 4 females who have cubs... how many cubs might you find?

FEEL THE SPIRIT!!!  

Well we have a start to a schedule... either way the seasons is just around the corner!SCHEDULE:
October 27 vs. Northwest Nazarene University (Exh)
November 09 vs. Southern Utah University
November 12 vs. West Virginia University - 9:00 p.m.TV: ESPN   
November 18 vs. University of South Dakota
November 22 vs. Clemson University - 6:00 p.m. TV: ESPN2 

Even though life can seem to be wild and crazy... or that your lost in a jungle.. Keep pressing forward! And always remember, you are amazing, incredible people with the whole world waiting to be changed by YOU!
Mr. Rott

WELCOME TO OUR JUNGLE SAFARI! Class Blog 9/24

Another week has flown by... amazing how fast time goes by when your exploring the jungles of learning! Ha ..!! get it...

Keep up the good work on getting your homework turned in.. Great job!  Also, if your looking for something to do you can always check out what is under the Class Activities tab at the top of the blog.

Math A, 2nd and 4th Period:
We continue to work on rounding decimals and also will start comparing decimals... it’s a decimal world for us!

Math B, 5th period
We will wrap up order of operations next week and then move more into evaluating expressions... and working with variables.

Blog Jungle Fact for the Week: Jungle Facts 

Jungles are overgrown with wild tangles of vegetation and dense forest.

Jungles and rainforests are similar, but while rainforests have thick canopies of tall trees that block out light, jungles allow more light in, making it easier for plants to grow.

The extra light creates dense areas of plants and vegetation that can be difficult to navigate.

Jungles are often found surrounding rainforests.

Jungles are home to a wide range of plants and animals.

Over half of the world's species live in a jungle environment.

Jungles are usually in warm places with high rainfall.

The word ‘jungle’ comes from a Sanskrit word meaning ‘uncultivated land’.

The saying “The Law of the Jungle” comes from Rudyard Kipling’s collection of stories called The Jungle Book, published in 1894.

While lions have the nickname “The King of the Jungle” they typically live in savannah and grassland.

Tarzan is a famous fictional character who is raised by apes in African jungles

Shake any rainforest tree and up to 1500 different types of insect may fall out.

More than 2000mm of rain falls in the rainforests every year.

The bird-eating spiders of the Amazon rainforest can grow as big as a dinner plate.

In a patch the size of a tennis court there may be as many as 60,000 seedlings waiting for their chance to stand in the sunshine.

Jungle vines can grow to 200m long and can be as thick as your leg.

Some trees stick out above the canopy, and each can stretch as wide as a 

football field. 

As little as 1% of sunlight reaches the forest floor. 

Scientists from the Museum explore the rainforest for undiscovered species. They think there are millions out there but 100 species of rainforest animals and plants are being wiped out every single week.

Scientists studying the rainforest sometimes use hot air balloons to reach the very top of the canopy.

BLOG QUESTION: SEE THE  Jungle Fact for the Week
1) Go to  CONVERTER (click on the word converter) and find out how many inches 2000mm equal... then write down about how much rain the jungle gets every year.

2) How many animals and plants are destroyed in a month?

3) If you shake 3 trees how many bugs might fall out?  How would you write that number in standard form and expanded form?

4) How long has it been since the saying, “Law of the Jungle” been used?

      GONZAGA MENS BASKETBALL
FEEL THE SPIRIT!!!  Well we have a start to a schedule... either way the seasons is just around the corner!

SCHEDULE:
October 27 vs. Northwest Nazarene University (Exh)
November 09 vs. Southern Utah University
November 12 vs. West Virginia University - 9:00 p.m.TV: ESPN    
November 18 vs. University of South Dakota
November 22 vs. Clemson University - 6:00 p.m. TV: ESPN2  

Even though life can seem to be wild and crazy... or that your lost in a jungle.. Keep pressing forward! And always remember, you are amazing, incredible people with the whole world waiting to be changed by YOU!
   
Mr. Rott 


                           

9/18/12

Greetings from the Jungle of school life!

Things are moving along... and we are all getting back into the swing of things... even Luis is feeling the coolness of school... don't forget to get your homework turned in and that the blog question is due on Thursday!

I am going to try to do a podcast of the blog for those who have a hard time reading.. I have never made one before but figured I would give it a try... so we shall see.. 

From the deep jungle... your favorite Safari Tour Guide!
Be cool, Don't Drool - remember MATH RULES!!
Mr. Rott

WELCOME TO OUR JUNGLE SAFARI!
What a great week... our safari through the jungle of this school year has gone well so far with no wild animals or volcano's erupting to slow our pace! It’s great to have all of you back and exciting to see so many 6th graders, wow are there a lot of them!
This week we will be working on how to use the blog.... so the questions we use will be practice.. NOT for a grade.... I want you to be successful so I figure we will need to work together in class to learn how to use the blog.       

Things to remember:
Be ready for class... have your Math spiral, something to write with... your calculator... and be ready for class to start... don’t wait for class to start - be ready!

Keep up with your work.. If you fall behind it’s much more difficult to catch up!

Keep your papers from all your classes.. You never know when you want to check a grade!

Do your BEST... why settle for less when it takes very little effort to do MORE and BE MORE!

Jungle Fact for the week: The Amazon Rainforest

The site, unique-southamerica-travel-experience.com states:

The Amazon rainforest, world's largest remaining natural resource, represents 54% of the total rainforests left on Earth.
It covers an area of 2,5 million square miles, embracing nine South America countries: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and the Guianas - Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname, or two thirds of the South America continent.
 
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world. According to the Mongabay website, the Amazon covers an area of approximately 3,179,715 square miles. It is hard to imagine something so big. To put that into perspective, the entire land area of the United States is 3,794,083 square miles, not much larger than the Amazon Rainforest.

Its live force is the Amazon river, born in the Andean mountains of Peru, flows for more than 4,000 miles to discharge its waters in the Atlantic ocean near Belem, Brazil. Along the way, it is fed by about 1,100 tributaries.   

The Amazon rainforest gets its name from the Amazon River, the life force of the rainforest. The Amazon River begins in the Peruvian Andes, and winds its way east over the northern half of South America. It meets the Atlantic Ocean at Belem, Brazil. The main river is about 4,080 miles long. Its drainage basin covers 2,722,000 million square miles, and lies in the countries of Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and the three Guyanas. Sixteen percent of all the world's river water flows through the Amazon delta. Twenty eight billion gallons of water flow into the Atlantic every minute, diluting the salinity of the ocean for more than 100 miles offshore. The Amazon rainforest watershed is home to the world's highest level of biodiversity.

More Facts:
More than 20% of Earth's oxygen is produced in this area, thus the name "Lungs of the Planet"

With 2,5 million square miles, the Amazon rainforest represents 54% of the total rainforests left of the planet

Amazon rainforest birds account for for at least one third of the world's bird species, being toucan the most popular icon

More than half of the world's estimated ten million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical forest.

70% of plants found to have anticancer properties are found only in the rainforest

The number of edible fruits found in the rainforest is estimated at 3,000. Amazon natives consume more than 1,500, but only 200 are cultivated for use today

 An estimated 90% of Amazon rainforest plants used by Amazon natives have not been studied by modern science

 In 1500 there were an estimated 6 to 9 million Amazon natives. By 1900 the number has gone down to one million left in Brazil. Today, the number is believed to be of around 250,000 Amazon natives, comprising 215 ethnic groups with 170 different languages.

There may also be fifty or so Amazon tribes living in the depths of the Amazon rainforest that have never had contact with the outside world

An estimated number of 2,700 million acres of the rainforest are burned each year.

Blog Questions: 
1) If 70% of the anticancer plants are found in the Amazon, then what percent is found outside of the Amazon Rainforest?

2) If the Amazon Forest is estimated to be 4,080 miles large... and if you could walk 25 miles a day... how many days would it take to walk the whole Amazon?

3) What do you think about the Amazon and what is happening to the forests after watching the videos?  Is there any think you can do to help the forest or even the woods around Newberg?        
             

Gonzaga Basketball!

Our first game is October 27..... can’t wait to see the guys back at it!  Hold on for more exciting news to come!

Even though life can seem to be wild and crazy... or that your lost in a jungle.. Keep pressing forward!

As always, you are amazing, incredible people with the whole world waiting to be changed by YOU!