Our chicks

Two weeks ago, we got baby chicks from our Uncle Jimmy Joe who raises chickens in Caroline County. They are so, so cute. They are getting their feathers in. The smallest one is called Chris. Chris, compared to the others, has barely grown at all. She is almost as small as what she was when we first got her. At that time, her leg was limp and almost broken. But now she is better.

There are six baby chicks in all. They are starting to look like little baby ducks.

Our timeline

Today we are doing a timeline. It is very interesting. We are starting from 3000 B.C to 1000 B.C., which is time of the Fertile Crescent to the Mycenaeans. I like the Egyptians the best because they built the Great Pyramids. I also like the Phonecians. They made purple dye from snails called murex. You had to boil it for about 10 days and it smelled awful. But it made the most beautiful dye and it was very expensive so only rich people and kings could afford it. That is why purple is considered a royal color. We have to finish our ancient history timeline and then we will start a timeline on the Greeks and Romans.

Our timeline

Today we are doing a timeline. It is very interesting. We are starting from 3000 B.C to 1000 B.C., which is time of the Fertile Crescent to the Mycenaeans. I like the Egyptians the best because they built the Great Pyramids. I also like the Phonecians. They made purple dye from snails called murex. You had to boil it for about 10 days and it smelled awful. But it made the most beautiful dye and it was very expensive so only rich people and kings could afford it. That is why purple is considered a royal color. We have to finish our ancient history timeline and then we will start a timeline on the Greeks and Romans.

Our timeline

Today we are doing a timeline. It is very interesting. We are starting from 3000 B.C to 1000 B.C., which is time of the Fertile Crescent to the Mycenaeans. I like the Egyptians the best because they built the Great Pyramids. I also like the Phonecians. They made purple dye from snails called murex. You had to boil it for about 10 days and it smelled awful. But it made the most beautiful dye and it was very expensive so only rich people and kings could afford it. That is why purple is considered a royal color. We have to finish our ancient history timeline and then we will start a timeline on the Greeks and Romans.

Elemitus Reamus Prolieum

I have a shirt that says Elemitus Reamus Prolieum, which means elements shall rule the battlefield. I really like it and I have been wearing it lately. U.S Army is also read on the front of the shirt and my grandfather works at Fort Lenard wood.

The tadpoles

One day in daddy's truck, I saw a bunch of things swimming around and I soon found out that they were tadpoles! How I found out that they were tadpoles is because I kept hearing a sound coming from the truck until I saw a frog in between the trunk and the front of the truck and I wondered how it got there and so I was amazed. We then raised four of them in the house one went down the drain and another got ripped somehow. Then one day when daddy was going to bed, he checked on the tadpoles and one of them had it's legs sticking out and now they are frogs.

My Fort

I am making a fort in the woods in our yard. It is being made out of an old chicken coop. We are raking out the path and then we are putting pieces of wood on it to fix it up. We put some new roofing up and it is working well. I want to make a bookshelf inside out of the old nesting boxes. We are going to make a flag for the fort. We are putting chairs inside. We plan to play cards or chess out there and also have a reading room. I can't wait until the fort is done.

The Volcano

A couple days ago, a real volcano erupted in Alaska. It wasn't as big as the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius on Pompeii, but it was good enough. We saw a few pictures online but then the camera on the volcano went out.
So then we decided to make our own volcano. We used mud from our yard and put a bottle in the middle for the hole. We covered up the bottle but not the hole on top. We then poured in vinegar, and then added a little bit of baking soda. Then it made something fizzy. It was carbon dioxide. But it looked like the volcano was erupting because it came out of the hole on the top and went down the side of the volcano.
I learned that magma is another name for lava. And there are three types of rocks: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Volcanos are igneous rocks.
Volcanoes are really cool. We still have the volcano that we made outside on our porch. We can make it erupt again if we want.

My inventions

I have some inventions I have made with my snap circuit set. I made my own lamp. It has a switch and a button. The switch will turn on the button and then the button makes the light go when I hold it down.
I also made my own alarm circuit. It plays an alarm because there is an alarm that I connected to a speaker and then when I flipped the switch, it turned on the alarm. The alarm sounds like a siren.
There is a piece in the snap circuit set called a photoresistor. The photoresistor only works in the light. If it is in the dark or you cover it up, whatever it is connected to will stop working. It only goes when it is in a lighted room or light shines on it. I had my photoresistor connected to a speaker and it made noise in the room. But when I covered it up, it stopped. The photoresistor is my favorite piece.
I love my snap circuit set.

My Snap Circuits

I was able to pick out some toys for my birthday and one was called "Snap Circuits". I am able to learn about electricity by building lots of things. So far, I have made a light, a fan, an alarm circuit, et cetera. That means "and all the rest" or "and so forth" in Latin. The snap circits are really fun to do. I had momma help me once and I am now able to figure them out myself.