My Mom is Chicago this week for work.
Chicago is a big city in Illinois.
It is called the “Windy City” and has the 3rd largest population in America.
But it is still not the state’s capital – Springfield is.
My Mom will be home tomorrow.
Today I finished reading this book.
In this book there was some bad people who kidnapped the President and cloned him.
Nobody knew that this happened except for KC and Marshall.
They found out because they saw the fake President on TV writing with his right hand when he was supposed be a lefty.
So they got in to the White House on a tour and hid under Lincoln’s bed.
Then at night they searched everywhere and found the real President tied up in the basement.
So they freed him and the bad guys got caught.
Ron Roy also wrote the A to Z Mysteries books.
That’s a book I read this week.
It is a true story about an Indian boy named Squanto.
He lived in America and then he went to London with the white men.
He learned English there and stayed for many years.
Squanto wanted to go home and boarded Captain John Smith’s ship.
A bad man named Captain Hunt kidnapped him and tried to sell him as a slave.
But some good men freed him and he got back to his home in America.
That was the Italy project that my sister and I made.
We made it for our geography fair in our homeschooling group.
Everybody got to choose a different country. Some examples were: China, India, Japan, Spain, Romania, Easter Island, Galapagos Islands, Antarctica, and USA.
We made passports, visited each country, and got stamped.
Also, everyone made some food from their country. We served potato gnocchi in a sausage red sauce.
Those are pumpkin seeds that I grew.
I put the seeds in a wet napkin.
We put it in a zip-lock bag so the water wouldn’t evaporate.
Now I have to put it in a pot with soil.
Today I built a model rocket!
It has a nose cone, body tube, launch lug, fins, a parachute, and an engine.
It can go 1,100ft high.
I will take a video of the launch and post it on my blog.
Today I went to the Boston Museum of Science.
I saw snapping turtles!
There was a baby and an adult.
I took these pics:
This week I read about Ben Franklin on my audio books. He discovered electricity he seemed pretty cool!
He also built a miniature tower.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Today I read (with a tape) – Cam Jansen and the Birthday Mystery.
It was about stolen presents and suitcases.
Cam used her amazing memory to help catch the thief.
Today I read this book ↑.
It was about a girl with an amazing memory.
She remembers everything and helps solves mysteries.
This book actually wasn’t about fudge. It was about a bank robber.
I read all 58 pages by myself – without any help from a CD or from my parents!
I made another graph yesterday.
I took all the Bananagrams tiles and counted how many there were of each letter.
We knew that we were missing one.
And we found out that it was an “E” because we only had 17 – instead of 18.
I filled out most of the map.
But I still need Mississippi, District of Columbia, US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, New Mexico, Wyoming, Kansas, and Nevada for my state quarter collection.
That is my second spreadsheet ↑!!
It is a geometry calculator that will tell you the area of different shapes.
Click here to see my other calculator.
My Nana says she is 29 years old. Her birthday is next week.
But my DAD is 35 years old.
So that means my Nana was -6 years old when my Dad was born!!
Today I made a graph.
I rolled my poker dice 20 times and I counted how many 9s, 10s, Jacks, Queens, Kings, Aces, and Jokers I got.
As you can see, I got more Jokers than anything else. And I didn’t roll any 10s.
This is called a bar graph.