We had a co-op play yesterday. It was about Little House on the Prairie. I got all my lines memorized a week before the play. Here is two parts of the narrator:
Soon Mary and Laura liked going to school. They even attended their first party given by Nellie Oleson. In return, they had their own country party. Pa's wheat field was so very good. It would bring in so much money. But grasshoppers came in a glittering cloud and destroyed the crop. Pa had to go away to the East to find work there but he was soon home and it was Christmas Eve.
There were also haystacks which Mary and Laura were not supposed to play on, but they did. The Ingalls even celebrated Christmas in the dugout and the weather was very strange. It was called 'grasshopper weather.' When the weather grew warmer in the spring, Mary and Laura were about to begin a new adventure, on they were not sure they wanted to participate in.
And here is my third and last part, the teacher:
I see we have some new students today.
They made a mistake. They thought the teacher would be a girl but it was me and I'm not a girl. I'm a boy. So they changed it to Yes, Mister, instead of Yes, Ma'am.
(Yes, Mister. I'm Mary Ingalls and this is my sister Laura. Those are Annika's lines.)
That's just fine. I'll put your names into my book. Now let's hear you read.
(Mary reads a small passage from a McGuffey Reader. Laura just shakes her head. She doesn't know how to read. The teacher dismisses the class for recess.)
That's all my lines.
We made a fiddle out of bungee rope, a pencil, and a 96 ounce can. You poke a hole in the can, then put the bungee rope through, tie a knot, and at the part of the can where you would open it, open it up, rinse it out good, and then take duct tape and put it around the open edge so it won't scratch your floor. Then take the other end of the bungee rope and tie it to a pencil. Once that is done, hold the pencil with one hand and then put one foot on the can and then pull tight on the bungee rope, while holding on to the pencil, but not too tight, and then strum it. That is how you make a fiddle. You have to play it just right to make it sound like an oboe instead of a fiddle.
We went to the apple orchard field trip for Mommy's birthday. We picked about twenty pounds of apples. I'm surprised the paper bag didnt' rip! It was our second time touring Apple Ridge Orchard. They have their own cider press. They also have their own freezer. It smells so good in there! I wish our house could smell that good! We got to have a small wagon ride up a hill to the apple farm. They have their own assembly line. It washes the apples, sizes them, and puts them into a small, medium, or big size.
We made our own inventions in hands-on history. That's Mommy's class. I made a AT-TE from Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
We also had a Halloween party. In Mommy's classroom, they had a candle-making class out of wax beads a pipe-cleaner class where you could make a pumpkin or a black cat. There was also in Mommy's classroom a make-your-own-button craft. I was in that class and I made a button and I stamped on a silver spider. (And if you've ever heard of the book, The Silver Spider, Daddy wanted to read it to me, and Mommy said no, and I don't think I was ready for it, either.) In Sandy's and Valerie's room, they had a braiding class and you made a ghost out of some yarn and kleenexes and marker to make a face. Step one: take one kleenex, ball it up. Step two: unfold the kleenex, and then put it over balled-up kleenex. Twist it just a tad, maybe, but not too much so the kleenex rips. Take about a three inch piece of yarn, tie it around, then cut off the extra. Step three: take a marker and draw the face. I really liked the Halloween party.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Friday Stories: I Like Winter
I like winter. I like winter because I get to try out my new snowboard this year. I also can't wait because we'll get to build a snow fort and have snowball fights. I would like to see if we could make an igloo this year with a hollow inside. I hope we get a snowstorm with three feet of snow. That would be a blast! I also like winter because I get to paint the snow with bottles of water and food coloring. I would like to try to make an underground tunnel under the snow this year. I have never done that before but it sounds fun!
I wonder if we will have a white Christmas. It feels a lot more like Christmas when there is snow out.
Sometimes we get sick in the winter but I usually only get a small cold. I like having snowball fights a lot in the winter. Dad usually is at work when we would have snowball fights.
I like sledding down on our little circle sled down to the pond and this year I'm gonna try out my snowboard going down to the pond. Mitchell said, "That's foolish." He said, "If you go too far and too fast on the ice you will break through." But I don't think that would happen unless the ice is only a millimeter or an inch thick or of course if you are riding a snowboard that's on fire, that will melt through the ice. But there are no snowboards that I know of that will start on fire.
Sometimes we go over to Ella's and sled down their hill. This year I would like to go and bring my snowboard. That will be a lot of fun. It has flames on the front and the rest is black, and it has traction spikes and a handle to hold onto. The handle is grey.
I wonder if we will have a white Christmas. It feels a lot more like Christmas when there is snow out.
Sometimes we get sick in the winter but I usually only get a small cold. I like having snowball fights a lot in the winter. Dad usually is at work when we would have snowball fights.
I like sledding down on our little circle sled down to the pond and this year I'm gonna try out my snowboard going down to the pond. Mitchell said, "That's foolish." He said, "If you go too far and too fast on the ice you will break through." But I don't think that would happen unless the ice is only a millimeter or an inch thick or of course if you are riding a snowboard that's on fire, that will melt through the ice. But there are no snowboards that I know of that will start on fire.
Sometimes we go over to Ella's and sled down their hill. This year I would like to go and bring my snowboard. That will be a lot of fun. It has flames on the front and the rest is black, and it has traction spikes and a handle to hold onto. The handle is grey.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Journal: 9-29-2008
We went to hands on history. We got to try hard tac. Hard tac is a kind of a cfrakker. But it's about an inch thick. It's also salty. We also got to start a fire with a real blacksmith.
Journal: 9-22-2008
We went to an appel orchrd. We pict 30 to 40 appels. It was about a 30 minit drive. We got three jugs of appel sider. One small and two big. We also got a carmled appel with emanems [M and M's].
Journal: 9-15-2008
We went to New Ulm. Mitch had his party at Happy Joe's. Mitch got over 100 tickets. We got 1214 tickets with the help of Brine, Ashly, and Dany. I got about 100 tickets to. We each got 607 tickets.
Journal: 9-12-2008
Mommy started a new cowop [co-op]. Over 20 kids came. We had musik, literature, and hans on history. Wear learning about litle house in the big woods. It gos [goes] from 1 to 4.
Journal: 9-5-2008
I did water balloons this summer. I filled up the water balloons. I soaked Mitch with the water balloons. I made about 30 water balloons. About 12 balloons popped. It toock me about an our to blow the water balloons up.
Journal: 5-19-2008
We whent to New Ulm. I found a dime at a park. We got to see the New Ulm Battery. The Battery had canon's. There were two canon's. The canins fired gun powder.
Journal: 5-12-2008
We whent to Seed Savers. We bot popcorn seeds. We spent $233.25. It was 67 miles from our house. It was an hour and a half drive. I'm going to sell some of the corn.
Journal: 5-6-2008
We went to a feald trip at the radio station. They had cool sounds. It was almost an our. We got ticits for the radio show. We got to be on the radio. They had a lot of trophys.
My Great Summer
Mitch and me had a small water fight with just the two of us. It wasn't much of a water fight because there were only two people. I soaked Mitch! He didn't want to play for very long, but then Dad came and I'm pretty sure he took Mitchell's squirt gun and squirted me.
I also played at our park about twenty times. We visited other parks, too. We had a playdate at IBM Park about a week ago. We also played at Kutzky Park and I found a Hot Wheels car. We also went to Roy Sutherland Park about five times. And we went to the one right across the street from it about five times, too.
I also found about five dollars during the summer. I used to find money at the old Target but now we don't go there much and the new Target I barely ever find money at. Last year I found four fives in the Whistle Binkie's parking lot. I counted my money up about a year ago and it equaled $27.37 that I've found in stores, but now I've found more money so I need to count it up again.
I passed level two at Stewartville pool. We went there after swimming lessons twice. I went down the yellow waterslide, and boy, was that fun! I went off the diving board in swimming lessons and it's pretty fun. I did in ten feet deep water. I also did a mini water slide in the ten feet deep part.
We flew our kite in the summer about three or five times. It's a light up one, and I haven't tried it in the dark yet and I would like to fly it in the dark yet this year.
We played outside every day. I rode my bike three or four times a week. I watered the plants every day, too. I also took Minnie for a walk every day.
I also played baseball. I was on Coach Darrin's team again because I like to be on his team and we got to be the Blue Lightning Bolts. I only missed one game. Games were on Tuesday nights and practices were on Sunday nights. One of my favorite positions is probably shortstop or first base because then I get to try to get the guy out at first or throw to third or second. We have a party each end of the baseball season. This year we had hot dogs just like last year. I think I only struck out once this year in the whole baseball season. Once I got either the first score for the team or the last score and then the game was over if it would have been the last score.
I also played at our park about twenty times. We visited other parks, too. We had a playdate at IBM Park about a week ago. We also played at Kutzky Park and I found a Hot Wheels car. We also went to Roy Sutherland Park about five times. And we went to the one right across the street from it about five times, too.
I also found about five dollars during the summer. I used to find money at the old Target but now we don't go there much and the new Target I barely ever find money at. Last year I found four fives in the Whistle Binkie's parking lot. I counted my money up about a year ago and it equaled $27.37 that I've found in stores, but now I've found more money so I need to count it up again.
I passed level two at Stewartville pool. We went there after swimming lessons twice. I went down the yellow waterslide, and boy, was that fun! I went off the diving board in swimming lessons and it's pretty fun. I did in ten feet deep water. I also did a mini water slide in the ten feet deep part.
We flew our kite in the summer about three or five times. It's a light up one, and I haven't tried it in the dark yet and I would like to fly it in the dark yet this year.
We played outside every day. I rode my bike three or four times a week. I watered the plants every day, too. I also took Minnie for a walk every day.
I also played baseball. I was on Coach Darrin's team again because I like to be on his team and we got to be the Blue Lightning Bolts. I only missed one game. Games were on Tuesday nights and practices were on Sunday nights. One of my favorite positions is probably shortstop or first base because then I get to try to get the guy out at first or throw to third or second. We have a party each end of the baseball season. This year we had hot dogs just like last year. I think I only struck out once this year in the whole baseball season. Once I got either the first score for the team or the last score and then the game was over if it would have been the last score.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Friday Stories: Toys in a Treehouse
One morning I woke up and looked out the window. Our maple tree by the sandbox had a treehouse in it! I went outside and climbed up the rope ladder and went inside the treehouse. It was filled with toys. I woke Mitch up but he didn't want to come. So I went back out, brought one of the coolest toys to show him, and then he followed me up into the treehouse. Mitchell found a pile of Ninendo DS games, Game Boy games, Play Station games, and it measured one cubic foot.
In another corner I found a pile of Legos: the hundred and three dollar Lego set. I couldn't wait to show Mom and Dad. I sold some of the toys for money and bought a water cooler for water up there. I had friends over and I let them play in the treehouse.
The treehouse is about seventy square feet. It had four windows, one on each side. The treehouse ceiling is about six feet tall. There was a rope ladder that could be rolled up. There was a little attic with a trap door accessible from the top or inside. Sometimes I leave it open so the birds can make nests in and I can get their eggshells for the nature tray.
In another corner I found a pile of Legos: the hundred and three dollar Lego set. I couldn't wait to show Mom and Dad. I sold some of the toys for money and bought a water cooler for water up there. I had friends over and I let them play in the treehouse.
The treehouse is about seventy square feet. It had four windows, one on each side. The treehouse ceiling is about six feet tall. There was a rope ladder that could be rolled up. There was a little attic with a trap door accessible from the top or inside. Sometimes I leave it open so the birds can make nests in and I can get their eggshells for the nature tray.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Friday Stories: I Wonder
I wonder how they make circuit boards. I wonder how they make resistors, too. I think what they're made for is to absorb energy so it doesn't get overloaded with power and break.
I like taking things apart. I unscrewed a CD player and it had a laser eye in it. I wonder how a laser eye reads the things on the CD.
I wonder how those sticks of circuit boards hold memory on a computer. I wonder if those black chips have anything to do about storing the memory. I wonder if they store the memory in them.
I've also unscrewed an old phone. There are two bells inside and I wonder how when there's a call coming, it knows when to ring and when it knows to stop ringing. I wonder how they make the phones now so they have an answering machine and you can hear the message and save it.
I wonder how the machines solder that and put the pieces on circuit boards and make them. I would like to take a tour of that factory.
I wonder how they make memory cards store so many pictures. I have a camera. The most pictures I've taken on a memory card is five hundred; almost six hundred, I think.
I wonder how some computers know the exact time, date, and how on Playstation, you hit a button on the controller and it sends it to the game box, into the TV, projects in on the screen, and it does the move. I wonder how all that happens so fast.
I would like to unscrew an answering machine next. If you read this, if you have any broken things, you can give them to us, if they have a circuit board in 'cause I like seeing inside them.
I like taking things apart. I unscrewed a CD player and it had a laser eye in it. I wonder how a laser eye reads the things on the CD.
I wonder how those sticks of circuit boards hold memory on a computer. I wonder if those black chips have anything to do about storing the memory. I wonder if they store the memory in them.
I've also unscrewed an old phone. There are two bells inside and I wonder how when there's a call coming, it knows when to ring and when it knows to stop ringing. I wonder how they make the phones now so they have an answering machine and you can hear the message and save it.
I wonder how the machines solder that and put the pieces on circuit boards and make them. I would like to take a tour of that factory.
I wonder how they make memory cards store so many pictures. I have a camera. The most pictures I've taken on a memory card is five hundred; almost six hundred, I think.
I wonder how some computers know the exact time, date, and how on Playstation, you hit a button on the controller and it sends it to the game box, into the TV, projects in on the screen, and it does the move. I wonder how all that happens so fast.
I would like to unscrew an answering machine next. If you read this, if you have any broken things, you can give them to us, if they have a circuit board in 'cause I like seeing inside them.
Journal: 4-28-2008
We whent to the Waste to Energy facility. There was a gint [giant] claw. I liked the claw. It was at least 80 feet tall with jonk [junk]. They bern 175 tons [of garbage] a day. they need a third fernnes [furnace].
Journal: 4-21-2008
We built a raised garden. I helped with it. I get my own garden. We are going to Seed Savers. They have unique seeds. I get to pick my own seeds.
Journal: 4-14-2008
Mitch got a new car seat yesterday. It cost $160. We bot it at Toys 'R Us. Mitch likes it. It gos [goes] up to 100 pounds. He wonet nead a new one agen.
Journal: 4-7-2008
We had an egg hunt. There were 2000 eggs. I flew a Buzz Lightyear kite at the egg hunt. I found about fifty eggs. I found a gold egg. You get a prise if you fined a gold egg. I like the rings for a prise.
Journal: 3-24-2008 Dyeing Eggs
We dyed deggs. I did glitter eggs. I made swirl eggs. We each got 12 eggs. Thare are 48 eggs in all. We used large eggs. We did it at night.
Journal: 3-17-2008
We have a squrle visitting the dek. He likes Nutter Butters the best so far. It is intteretaning to wach him. We give him plates of food. Thare are two squrles. The crose [crows] some times take the cookies.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Story Starter: Candy Galore
Out of breath, Max dashed inside. He wanted to play outside longer, but Mom had called him three times already, and he didn't want TV privileges taken away. When he entered the kitchen, he couldn't believe his eyes. The countertops were covered entirely with ... candy.
I didn't know what to say. "Where did you get all of that candy?"
"Mitchell won a prize on the radio," Mom said. "He chose candy."
There was all kinds of candy. There were Jolly Ranchers, cherry sours, Fruit-By-the-Foot. All the candy you could imagine.
We decided to sell some of it for money. One pound cost five dollars. We sold ten pounds of candy in one day. We got fifty dollars.
Each day we sold about ten pounds. The weekends we sold a little more than ten pounds 'cause more people were home. We decided to save it up until we had enough for the Wii.
The only problem was the Target was out of Wiis, and that was the only store that we knew that sold them. They said they'd be getting an order of Wiis in one week.
In one week, Mitch and me bought the Wii. We bought Mario Party for Wii with it. And we also bought Mario and Sonic Olympic Race for the Wii, too. We had a blast playing them.
We decided to start selling some of the candy to the stores. We charged twenty dollars for four pounds. We didn't know what to do with all that candy. After we sold so many pounds, we still had heaps of candy left, so we decided to give some of it away. We gave the candy to poor people and then they sold it to other people and got some money.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Journal: 2-18-2008
I went to the science fair. I memmerysed how to spell Chocolate! The titel of my science projekt is: How Much Energy Do Foods Contayn? I used 3-D paper. I love SCIENCE!
Journal: 2-26-2008
Here's som of my favorite things I wont to remember.
I like droing [drawing] on my free time.
I like playing play stayshton [Station].
I like playing in the snow.
I like to play whith Ligos.
I like dooing beads.
I like Scooby-Doo.
I like droing [drawing] on my free time.
I like playing play stayshton [Station].
I like playing in the snow.
I like to play whith Ligos.
I like dooing beads.
I like Scooby-Doo.
Friday Stories: Laws Aren't Fair to Kids
I don't think it's fair that you have to be 18 to vote and when I'm 18 there won't be a presidential election, so I'll have to wait until I'm 21. Some adults don't even do research on who they pick, they just pick it if they don't know. If I could change the laws, I would change it to "you have to be eight to vote."
I don't think it's fair that you have to be 18 to buy lottery tickets because I know there's billions and billions and billions of people trying to win, and I'd be very surprised if I won. I just want to do it because it sounds fun. I'd change it so that you have to be eight, also. I'd leave the one that you have to wait until you are 21 to drink beer. 'Cause beer can damage your brain, I don't know how though. Your brain is done growing when you're 21 so I'd leave that one.
I think you should be able to drive when you are ten. Well, whenever you are tall enough to reach the pedals and see out the window. And when you learn to be a safe driver.
When you collect sales tax when you sell something to someone, you have to give it to the government. I don't think that's fair 'cause the governments are so rich, they don't need our money that much. The government should set aside some of their money for interest. That's another way for them to earn more money easily. If you have a million dollars, and put that million, all of that, into interest, you would be getting paid six dollars a minute, and ten hundred dollars a week. You'd be so rich, you could live on your interest.
I don't think it's fair that you have to be 18 to buy lottery tickets because I know there's billions and billions and billions of people trying to win, and I'd be very surprised if I won. I just want to do it because it sounds fun. I'd change it so that you have to be eight, also. I'd leave the one that you have to wait until you are 21 to drink beer. 'Cause beer can damage your brain, I don't know how though. Your brain is done growing when you're 21 so I'd leave that one.
I think you should be able to drive when you are ten. Well, whenever you are tall enough to reach the pedals and see out the window. And when you learn to be a safe driver.
When you collect sales tax when you sell something to someone, you have to give it to the government. I don't think that's fair 'cause the governments are so rich, they don't need our money that much. The government should set aside some of their money for interest. That's another way for them to earn more money easily. If you have a million dollars, and put that million, all of that, into interest, you would be getting paid six dollars a minute, and ten hundred dollars a week. You'd be so rich, you could live on your interest.
Friday, February 15, 2008
My Science Fair Project Abstract
A calorie is a unit of energy. One calorie can lift a 70 kilogram (155-pound) person into the air 6 meters. Sugar in a different source of energy is more powerful than dynamite. I know two calorimeter types. A can calorimeter and a bomb calorimeter. The point of a calorimeter is to see how much energy is in foods. A bomb calorimeter is like a can calorimeter although you blow up the food instead of burning it. You dry the food up for the bomb calorimeter and you grind it up so it doesn't have to use up some of the heat energy to get the moisture out. Then you use pressured oxygen and it's shielded by a steel dome with a water bath.
A can calorimeter is put on a ring stand and you use a clamp to hold your food in place. Then you burn the food and however much the temperature of the water rises is how much energy was in the food.
We burned ten different kinds of food. We burned cherry sours, apple, carrot, Pirate Booty popcorn, Mentos candy, Fiber One granola bar, peanuts, pistachios, provolone cheese, and a Hershey bar. I only picked foods that I liked. First we had to get the supplies. Then we weighed the foods in grams. We used gram weights. We used a balance scale. We burned one food at a time. The food that took the longest to burn was the Fiber One granola bar. The Fiber One granola bar burned for exactly 16 minutes and 5 seconds. The provolone cheese had some reactions that looked like a sparkler. It shot out blue sparks. The provolone cheese stinked the most.
I was surprised that the peanuts raised the temperature from around 15 or 16 degrees up to around 95 degrees Celsius. One hundred degrees Celsius is boiling. Even though the pistachios didn't reach 100 degrees Celsius, they still boiled.
There are two different kinds of calories. Science calories with a little "c" and food Calories with a big "C." One food Calorie is worth 1000 science calories. It takes 4200 joules to make up for one food Calorie. You use joules to figure out how much energy is in foods and how much work you can do with a certain amount of energy.
The carrot was the most fun food to burn. It was the easiest to do. The chocolate was kind of hard. The pistachios I did for a little bit, and oh, they lit on fire so easily!
I wrote observations about the foods we burned. I wrote the observations myself. I wrote about what I learned while doing the experiment. I memorized how to spell chocolate and observations. I'll tell you how to spell chocolate: c-h-o-c-o-l-a-t-e. I also thought of the hypotheses by myself. I guessed that the slower a food burned, the more energy it would have. I was right. I wrote all the foods that we were going to test. I wrote a list of supplies we needed. I wrote the numbers in the tables. I did all the measuring for the experiment. I measured how long the foods burned. I measured their weight before they were burned and after they burned. I measured the water temperature, too. The coldest it ever got was 15 degrees Celsius. I measured 50 ml of water. Every time we burned a food, I had to get fresh water.
My mom made the tables on the computer. Mom printed the papers for my display board.
Mom made the books and lists of websites we used.
The hardest part of the project was writing. It's hard for me to do that much writing. The experiment was easy for me to do.
If I do this experiment again, I would use a candle instead of a lighter so we wouldn't run out of fuel right in the middle of the experiment! I would use a different calorimeter to get a more accurate answer. This calorimeter let some of the heat out through and into the air. Next time I would try the foods a few times to see if it actually burns that long, and to see if the flame was hotter or colder. I would test out marshmallows next time. I could use different kinds of nuts next time, like Brazil nuts, walnuts, coconuts, and macademia nuts. That would be interesting. I would measure the water level at the beginning and the ending of the experiment if we did the experiment again because that could affect our answer. It takes energy to make the water evaporate and I would need to measure that energy.
A can calorimeter is put on a ring stand and you use a clamp to hold your food in place. Then you burn the food and however much the temperature of the water rises is how much energy was in the food.
We burned ten different kinds of food. We burned cherry sours, apple, carrot, Pirate Booty popcorn, Mentos candy, Fiber One granola bar, peanuts, pistachios, provolone cheese, and a Hershey bar. I only picked foods that I liked. First we had to get the supplies. Then we weighed the foods in grams. We used gram weights. We used a balance scale. We burned one food at a time. The food that took the longest to burn was the Fiber One granola bar. The Fiber One granola bar burned for exactly 16 minutes and 5 seconds. The provolone cheese had some reactions that looked like a sparkler. It shot out blue sparks. The provolone cheese stinked the most.
I was surprised that the peanuts raised the temperature from around 15 or 16 degrees up to around 95 degrees Celsius. One hundred degrees Celsius is boiling. Even though the pistachios didn't reach 100 degrees Celsius, they still boiled.
There are two different kinds of calories. Science calories with a little "c" and food Calories with a big "C." One food Calorie is worth 1000 science calories. It takes 4200 joules to make up for one food Calorie. You use joules to figure out how much energy is in foods and how much work you can do with a certain amount of energy.
The carrot was the most fun food to burn. It was the easiest to do. The chocolate was kind of hard. The pistachios I did for a little bit, and oh, they lit on fire so easily!
I wrote observations about the foods we burned. I wrote the observations myself. I wrote about what I learned while doing the experiment. I memorized how to spell chocolate and observations. I'll tell you how to spell chocolate: c-h-o-c-o-l-a-t-e. I also thought of the hypotheses by myself. I guessed that the slower a food burned, the more energy it would have. I was right. I wrote all the foods that we were going to test. I wrote a list of supplies we needed. I wrote the numbers in the tables. I did all the measuring for the experiment. I measured how long the foods burned. I measured their weight before they were burned and after they burned. I measured the water temperature, too. The coldest it ever got was 15 degrees Celsius. I measured 50 ml of water. Every time we burned a food, I had to get fresh water.
My mom made the tables on the computer. Mom printed the papers for my display board.
Mom made the books and lists of websites we used.
The hardest part of the project was writing. It's hard for me to do that much writing. The experiment was easy for me to do.
If I do this experiment again, I would use a candle instead of a lighter so we wouldn't run out of fuel right in the middle of the experiment! I would use a different calorimeter to get a more accurate answer. This calorimeter let some of the heat out through and into the air. Next time I would try the foods a few times to see if it actually burns that long, and to see if the flame was hotter or colder. I would test out marshmallows next time. I could use different kinds of nuts next time, like Brazil nuts, walnuts, coconuts, and macademia nuts. That would be interesting. I would measure the water level at the beginning and the ending of the experiment if we did the experiment again because that could affect our answer. It takes energy to make the water evaporate and I would need to measure that energy.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Friday Stories: The Snow-Burning Snowmobile Shoes
Once Mom took me to a shoe store and I said I could pick out anything I want and I found a pair of shoes. They had a little conveyor belt built in that worked like a snowmobile. They were only eight dollars. Mom said yes.
And what luck I was in! It was winter when Mom bought them so I got to try them out and I said, "Slow!" it went slow. When I said, "Medium!" it went medium, and when I said, "Fast!" it went fast. I loved making jumps for my shoes and doing stunts on the jumps.
Once I entered a contest What Was the Fastest in a town called Waseca. The pond was a mile long. The judges said I lost but actually I went up so high on a bump and I accidentally turned around the other way. I was three-quarters of a mile there. I was heading right toward the starting! Then I turned myself around and then a foot before I got to the finish line I hit the ground, and boy, that was the funnest jump I ever did.
The prize was one million dollars. I put it in interest, so I'd be getting paid six dollars a minute and ten hundred dollars a week. I chose to impress Target and I sold them out of Game Boy games. Then I gave a quarter of the Game Boy games to Mitch and then I sold some of them for fifteen dollars each. Accessories were five dollars. I earned one hundred dollars.
I donated ten hundred dollars and [Mom, what are those bell-ringing things?] I wrapped up a check for ten thousand dollars in a one dollar bill and gave it to the Red Kettle for the Salvation Army. [We read a newspaper article about a donor who donated in that manner during the holidays of 2007 and Max was most impressed.]
And then I decided to impress Target again by selling them out of Air Hawk toys and Nerf Toys. I bought the newest dart gun from Nerf. It's twenty dollars and it's the newest dart gun in Target made by Nerf and it has laser point action. I sold them out of that and the glow-in-the-dark dart guns.
And what luck I was in! It was winter when Mom bought them so I got to try them out and I said, "Slow!" it went slow. When I said, "Medium!" it went medium, and when I said, "Fast!" it went fast. I loved making jumps for my shoes and doing stunts on the jumps.
Once I entered a contest What Was the Fastest in a town called Waseca. The pond was a mile long. The judges said I lost but actually I went up so high on a bump and I accidentally turned around the other way. I was three-quarters of a mile there. I was heading right toward the starting! Then I turned myself around and then a foot before I got to the finish line I hit the ground, and boy, that was the funnest jump I ever did.
The prize was one million dollars. I put it in interest, so I'd be getting paid six dollars a minute and ten hundred dollars a week. I chose to impress Target and I sold them out of Game Boy games. Then I gave a quarter of the Game Boy games to Mitch and then I sold some of them for fifteen dollars each. Accessories were five dollars. I earned one hundred dollars.
I donated ten hundred dollars and [Mom, what are those bell-ringing things?] I wrapped up a check for ten thousand dollars in a one dollar bill and gave it to the Red Kettle for the Salvation Army. [We read a newspaper article about a donor who donated in that manner during the holidays of 2007 and Max was most impressed.]
And then I decided to impress Target again by selling them out of Air Hawk toys and Nerf Toys. I bought the newest dart gun from Nerf. It's twenty dollars and it's the newest dart gun in Target made by Nerf and it has laser point action. I sold them out of that and the glow-in-the-dark dart guns.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Retelling a Story: The Three Bears
There once was a girl named Goldilocks. Her mother had told her not to go by the woods, but one day she saw some beautiful flowers that she had to pick right where the woods started. But then she saw more and more and wandered into the woods even though her mother had told her not to.
Then, she was starting to feel kind of hungry. So she wandered around. And then, after a little while, she found a cottage. She looked through the keyhole and peered around. She saw that no one was home. So she went inside.
She found three bowls of porridge on the table. She first tried Papa Bear's but it was too hot. Then she tried Mama Bear's but it was too cold. Then she tried Baby Bear's and it was just right. And she ate it all gone.
Then she started to feel a little drowsy. She remembered it's past her naptime. So she went into the living room and found some lovely chairs. She first tried Papa Bear's but it was too hard. Then she tried Mama Bear's but it was too soft. Then she tried Baby Bear's and it was just right. But it wasn't long before she sat the bottom part out of it.
So she went upstairs and found three beds. She first tried Mama Bear's but it was too high at the head. Then she tried Papa Bear's but it was too high at the foot. Then she tried Baby Bear's and it was just right. And she decided to take a snooze.
She didn't stir a bit when the door opened. Then Mama Bear said in her medium voice, "Someone's been eating my porridge!"
Then Papa Bear said, "SOMEONE'S BEEN EATING MY PORRIDGE!"
Then Baby Bear said, "Someone's been eating my porridge and they ate it all gone!"
Then they looked in the living room. Papa Bear said in his great, rough, gruff voice, "SOMEONE'S BEEN SITTING IN MY CHAIR!"
Then Mama Bear said in her medium voice, "Someone's been sitting in my chair!"
Then Baby Bear said in his wee, little, tiny voice, "Someone's been sitting in my chair and they broke it to pieces. Ohhhh!"
So then they decided they better check out the upstairs. Then Papa Bear said in his great, rough, gruff voice, "SOMEONE'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED!"
Then Mama Bear said in her medium voice, "Someone's been sleeping in my bed!"
Then Baby Bear said in his wee, little, tiny voice, "Someone's been sleeping in my bed and they're still in it!"
Goldilocks was dreaming so she thought that Papa Bear's rough, gruff voice was in her dream and she thought that Mama Bear's medium voice was in her dream, too. Then Baby Bear's voice was so shrill, she woke up at once. And then once she realized that there were three big bears standing right in front of her, she ran home as fast as her little legs could carry her and never came back again.
Then, she was starting to feel kind of hungry. So she wandered around. And then, after a little while, she found a cottage. She looked through the keyhole and peered around. She saw that no one was home. So she went inside.
She found three bowls of porridge on the table. She first tried Papa Bear's but it was too hot. Then she tried Mama Bear's but it was too cold. Then she tried Baby Bear's and it was just right. And she ate it all gone.
Then she started to feel a little drowsy. She remembered it's past her naptime. So she went into the living room and found some lovely chairs. She first tried Papa Bear's but it was too hard. Then she tried Mama Bear's but it was too soft. Then she tried Baby Bear's and it was just right. But it wasn't long before she sat the bottom part out of it.
So she went upstairs and found three beds. She first tried Mama Bear's but it was too high at the head. Then she tried Papa Bear's but it was too high at the foot. Then she tried Baby Bear's and it was just right. And she decided to take a snooze.
She didn't stir a bit when the door opened. Then Mama Bear said in her medium voice, "Someone's been eating my porridge!"
Then Papa Bear said, "SOMEONE'S BEEN EATING MY PORRIDGE!"
Then Baby Bear said, "Someone's been eating my porridge and they ate it all gone!"
Then they looked in the living room. Papa Bear said in his great, rough, gruff voice, "SOMEONE'S BEEN SITTING IN MY CHAIR!"
Then Mama Bear said in her medium voice, "Someone's been sitting in my chair!"
Then Baby Bear said in his wee, little, tiny voice, "Someone's been sitting in my chair and they broke it to pieces. Ohhhh!"
So then they decided they better check out the upstairs. Then Papa Bear said in his great, rough, gruff voice, "SOMEONE'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED!"
Then Mama Bear said in her medium voice, "Someone's been sleeping in my bed!"
Then Baby Bear said in his wee, little, tiny voice, "Someone's been sleeping in my bed and they're still in it!"
Goldilocks was dreaming so she thought that Papa Bear's rough, gruff voice was in her dream and she thought that Mama Bear's medium voice was in her dream, too. Then Baby Bear's voice was so shrill, she woke up at once. And then once she realized that there were three big bears standing right in front of her, she ran home as fast as her little legs could carry her and never came back again.
Journal: January 29, 2008
I went to a resling trnoment. I got 4th plays. I got to resl 2 times. I allso got a resling trnoment tee shert. I like resling. My fraverit moov is singgl lig take doun [single-leg takedown].
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Double O Doggy and the Case of the Crooks
Muffy the Magnificent and her assistant Minnie the Magic were on a case of the crooks who stole the kibbles from Miss Ali Abu. Double O Doggy is actually Muffy, but she doesn't want to reveal her secret identity, and Minnie the Magic is Super Spy. They found a trail of footprints.
Double O Doggy said to Super Spy, "Give me a magnfiying glass! I want to see these footprints."
"Okay," said Super Spy. Double O Doggy used her Super Dog-ifier to see the footprints up close. They led to an old doggy fort in a hollow tree. The found a doggy crook named Kibble Crook Crock. He loves stealing kibbles. His owner won't buy him any so he figures he just take the kibbles.
Muffy the Magnificent said, "Missy Ali Abu, we have found who has been stealing your kibbles. It is Kibble Crook Crock. His owner won't buy him any kibbles, especially the new and improved brand, which I see you have. We will write Kibble Crook Crock's owner a note that says, Your dog has been stealing Miss Ali Abu's new and improved kibbles," which is just what they did.
They wrote him a note that said:
Your dog is going around stealing Miss Ali Abu's new and improved kibbles. Please tell your dog to stop. Can you please buy your dog some new and improved kibbles so we don't need to keep trying to catch him. Thank you.
Signed Muffy the Magnficent and Minnie the Magic
The owner replied, Surely, I understand. I will buy my dog some new and improved kibbles.
And that's just what he did. And Kibble Crook Crock lived happily ever after.
Double O Doggy said to Super Spy, "Give me a magnfiying glass! I want to see these footprints."
"Okay," said Super Spy. Double O Doggy used her Super Dog-ifier to see the footprints up close. They led to an old doggy fort in a hollow tree. The found a doggy crook named Kibble Crook Crock. He loves stealing kibbles. His owner won't buy him any so he figures he just take the kibbles.
Muffy the Magnificent said, "Missy Ali Abu, we have found who has been stealing your kibbles. It is Kibble Crook Crock. His owner won't buy him any kibbles, especially the new and improved brand, which I see you have. We will write Kibble Crook Crock's owner a note that says, Your dog has been stealing Miss Ali Abu's new and improved kibbles," which is just what they did.
They wrote him a note that said:
Your dog is going around stealing Miss Ali Abu's new and improved kibbles. Please tell your dog to stop. Can you please buy your dog some new and improved kibbles so we don't need to keep trying to catch him. Thank you.
Signed Muffy the Magnficent and Minnie the Magic
The owner replied, Surely, I understand. I will buy my dog some new and improved kibbles.
And that's just what he did. And Kibble Crook Crock lived happily ever after.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Friday Stories: Is Zero Powerful?
Is zero Powerful? Yes or no? By itself, it is nothing. But add it to other numbers and they can be very, very big. Take one, for instance. It's not very big, is it? Add a zero to one, and you get ten. Add another zero, then you get a hundred. Another zero and you get a thousand. Zero is very weak alone, but add it to other numbers, and it is very, very big, just like every other number.
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