Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder was born 1950 and almost blind! By age six he was completely blind. Even though Stevie was blind he had a great ear. That means he could hear himself and others very well. Stevie Wonder started his music carrer in the 1980's and became more popular as the years went on. Did you know that Stevie Wonders real name is Stevland Hardway Judkins? When Stevie was born his parents dicided to name him Steven, but one day they rethought the name and decided to go for Stevland. That's a pretty rocking name don't you think?




        By age 5 Stevie was making millions of dollars a year. He was the top grossing artist untill of course Queen came along. Stevie gave many generous donations to hospitals and other child care companies. Stevie Wonder was a great singer and thats why I chose him as my Black History Month Person

                                                 By: Declan 

Sugar Ray Robinson

            
             Sugar Ray Robinson was born on May 3, 1921.His mom and dad got divorced when he was young. As a boy Robinson took tap dancing lessons(these helped Robison a lot while boxing),and Sugar Ray took small menial jobs as a shoe shine boy, window cleaner and delivery-boy in a local vegetable and meat markets during the day. This was during his childhood ! Do you work now? Think about how early he had to go to work instead of getting a good education.
              Did you ever want to meet Sugar Ray Robison one of the most famous fighters worldwide? He fought in every state in the US! Robinson fought in 202 fights! Now that's alot. He won most of his fights; he won 175, lost 19, drew 6, and didn't go to 2 of his fights. Robison started his career in October 4, 1945 and retired two times, but on one he came back. His career oficially ended in December 10, 1965.

          Sugar Ray is on the left.

Jackie Robinson

I am doing Jackie Robinson for black history month.  He was a great baseball player and   born in Cairo Georga in 1919. In 1947 He joined the Brooklyn Dodjers.HE received the all star game award in 1949.

HE DIED AT THE AGE 54. hE WAS A GREAT BASEBALL PLAYER And made a great effect on baseball forever. please comment if you dont agree.LEarn more on http://www.biography.com/.

Malcom X

Malcolm X was a black muslim. Malcolms father Earl fought for civil rights. He was born in 1925 and he died in 1965. He died by being shot 15 times at close range. He was once accused of burglary and was arrested. There were 500 members in the Nation of Islam in 1952 but when Malcolm came it increased to 30000 in 1963. He impacted african american history by fighting for civil rights.

                    

Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen went to Jack Yates High School in Houston,TX in 1967. She went to Howard University. Debbie Allen was born on Janurary 16, 1950. She was an atress, dancer, and choregrapher. Debbie Allen was 3 when she started dancing. She directed the the TV show " A Different World". Debbie's sister was on the "Cosby Show". Debbie Allen reauditioned for the Houston Foundation for Ballet in 1964, and this time was admited on a full sholarship and became the companys first black dancer.

i am doing denzel washington

Green Team

So we finished our green team video a couple of weeks ago and are still waiting for results. I hope we win! The prize amounts are First place 2,500 dollars Second place 1,000 dollars. Man I want to win so bad we might with the money be able to bring back on of our chours\orchastra\band programs. This is my first ever blog so if you like it please leave a comment. BY the way we are making a video so watch out for it

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                          Posted By: Declan

Kroger Earning Plus Learning Project

         This year at Alpharetta Elementary, our 5th grade class entered the Kroger Earning Plus Learning contest, this is a competition in where you make a video and you enter the video and if you win first place you can win up to $2,500! Second place can win $1,000. The video has to at least 1 to 3 minutes long.
        The idea to recycle was to earn money for our school, so we can buy supplies for our school an our classroom. We also want to convine people to recycle. We were trying to show you how we recycle at our school, home, and neighborhood.
        We are a group of seven kids an our names are: Kelli, Leah, Tim, Jacob, Jared, and Fernando. Our name is Haight's Green Machines! We meet every Thursday. Then we had to figure out what to say,and sent in pictures to make a slide show. The slides took from 15 to 30 minutes long.
       We also used quite a bit of technology. We used Squidoo.com,Google.com and frames. We had a hard time choosinhg the site on which the video was going to be made. There was over 5 sites.
Our motto is " We have one chance for this Earth, and one Earth for this chance, SAVE IT WHILE WE CAN!! We fund it on accident . We were just looking for a good recycling team name. The original writer was Lori Lee Ray.
    We want our Earth to be clean! Yay!

Super Bowl Sunday

Superbowl XLV is coming up and I'm so excited! Steelers V.S. Packers, who will win?( PACKERS WILL). I'm saying that cause I know Clay Mathews is going to BREAK ROTHLESBURGERS FACE! Packers beat the Falcons in playoffs 42-24 so they have to be pretty good. I still have a feeling Polumolu is going to have a pic for a TD.Steelers played the Seahawks in playoffs and won 31-24. At the beginning they were losing 14-0 but they never stopped trying and won.

    Blogged By: Tim and Jared