Red

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Christina

by Christina Celentino

My favorite color’s red,

And then I went to bed.

I was dreaming of a goat,

That was in a very big boat.

It was eating some hay,

And I was like “Okay.”

The hay was very dry,

And the stack was very high.

It almost ate the whole pile,

And it was also dressed in style.

And then I woke up,

And I was like “What’s up!!!”

THE END

When Grammy Moved to a New House

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Christina

By Christina Celentino

This year, Grammy moved to a different house. She moved from Mission Hills, where I live, to Clairemont, where my Dinha used to live. Me and my family were sad that she had to move farther away from us. We are still helping her find a new home. She’s living at my Dinha’s old house until we find Grammy a new condo. Right now Grammy lives close to my old school. Grammy kept all her old furniture and moved it all into my Dinha’s old house. Do you think Grammy will find a condo that’s closer to us?

The Mystery in Tanzania

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Christina

By: Christina Celentino

It all started one November morning. There were two groups of girls. One group was Asia, Betti, Cassidy,and Daisy. The other group was Tory, Delila and Anna. Asia,Daisy,Tory,Delila, and Anna were freshmen. Betti and Cassidy were Juniors in High School. Asia, Betti, Cassidy and Daisy met in detention. Tory, Delila and Anna met in Science class.

One day the girls got into a fight with some boys at lunch. Because fighting is not allowed in school, the girls were given detention. After the fight at school the two groups of girls became one. As the girls became closer friends, they decided to go on a trip for a day. The girls kept on thinking where to go. They decided to go to Paris. The girls went to Paris for a day, but had so much fun, they decided to stay for another day. While watching TV that morning, they found out that there was a robbery at their High School in Tanzania.The girls decided to leave Paris and go back to Tanzania and solve the mystery. The girls flew home and tried to find out who the robbers were. The girls went to their High School and ran some finger samples on the jewelry that was left behind. It took 4 days for the fingerprint results. The results showed that Robert T. Johnson and Samuel A. Brutto were the robbers. The girls interviewed both of them. Both of the boys admitted they did it and said they did it in a group. The boys had to give back the stuff they took and went to jail for 5 years.

The girls felt safe again and were trying to find another place to go on a trip.

THE END!!!!!!!

Intro and Guidelines for Student Web Logs (Blogs)

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Old Town Academy

Dear OTA Student:
Your personal Learning Journal is designed to help you create a record of your quality work (and your growth over a year) in the 8 OTA Core Learning Strands— Music, Science, Math, Seminar, English, Art, History, & Outdoor Ed.

The Categories available in the sidebar are set to match those 8 Strands and you should mark every post with one or more of those categories.

Why Create An Online Learning Journal?

Blogs are very powerful content-management systems: which means they allow you to create a beautiful, multimedia record of a year’s worth of work and retrieve it instantly when you need it (by just clicking on the category of posts you want to see or by using the SEARCH Box to find all posts with the word “music” or “football” etc.)— but only if you use the Categories!
Publishing your work on your Web Log ( = “Blog“) will often be the last step in earning a Passing Grade on a Project, or extra credit.
When you are ready to apply to high school (choice programs like IB or an art magnet, or a private school) your Blog will be a Portfolio of all your best work that might just help you get in.
You work hard to earn a passing grade on your OTA Projects, why throw them away? Now you can keep them, share them, go back and improve them as you learn more. If the work’s worth doing it’s worth keeping.

To Create Your Learning Journal You Will Have to Learn to:

Scan, convert, and upload Text and Images (working with .doc, .pages, .pdf, .txt, .jpb, .png, inspiration, etc. files). Note: before you can upload word or pages documents you must convert them to pdfs or images.
Create Slideshows and manage image databases.
Edit and convert movies and music or sound files (working with .mov, .wmv, .qt, .mp3 etc. files), and
Use the WordPress dashboard (content management system) to create, edit, categorize, and publish posts)

Things You Can Change On Your OTA Blog:

The Header–from pre-selected photos or you can customize it with your own photography or artwork.
The Picture of the Week–you add a new picture every week… from your own or classmate or teacher’s photos or scans or artwork.
The Background image–from preselected photos or your own photography or artwork, or a 200 x 1000 pixel collage of other artwork (See “fair use” below)

Things You Can’t Do:

Upload copyrighted images from the web (use your own photographs or artwork–or find public domain images)
Upload violent or obscene photos, images, or text.
Change the Theme Options. Why not? “~~Dark~~” makes your blog illegible; ~~Content right~~ ruins the left border of text, making it jagged and difficult to read; “~~No Sidebar~~” removes Categories and makes it impossible to find your content!