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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The rockhound club

Today I went to the rockhound club and we carved soap stones I made an arrowhead. When we used sandpaper to make it smooth it started to look a little bit green and the instructor said it would turn out ivory.Here are some facts about soap stones; soap stones are the softest stones known to man and that soap stones are so soft that you can carve them with wood tools

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Chocolate bars

This week I learned about chocolate bars and how their made one of the chocolate bars we have learned about is the twix bar which is made with cookie Carmel and chocolate.The milky way bar is very chewy and and doesn't have cookie.

I would love some bacon chocolate bars for Christmas.

Here is the link to the chocolate bacon bar that we saw being made on the TV show unwrapped on the food network

http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/product/bacon_exotic_candy_bar/exotic_candy_bars

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Beer

Yesterday I learned how beer is made.Beer is made with hops,yeast,barley and much more.Here are some interesting facts about beer.The earliest beer was made in 3,500 B.C.Mostly women made beer and at A Lodon brewery on October 16,1814 a huge wooden storage vat burst open flooding the street with a 25 ft. high wave of beer.Eight people drownd while dozens of other ran to scoop up the free beer.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Galls




The leaf above is from a scarlet oak tree.You will notice black lumps,these are called 'Galls' and galls are bug eggs in this case it is a wasp egg

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

ARROWHEADS

I have been in another club and It is called THE ROCK HOUND CLUB and every month they do another activity this month we made arrowheads It was realy cool I made three.One is light gray and is realy big,The second one is realy sharp and is dark gray.The last one is thick at the tip and half of it is gray and the other is red.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Atoms




Above this post there is A pretend oxygen atom, and the yellow gumdrops stand for the electrons the white gumdrops stand for the protons and the purple gumdrops stand for neutrons.The electrons have a negative charge,protons have a positive charge and the neutrons are neutral.

Friday, October 9, 2009

The speech

At are local library i made up are own club called The World Travelers and this month we were learning about Japan and I had to talk about what I read about.So I gave a speech I t made me so nervos my legs were shaking but in the end I did realy good.