Eels

On Sunday, June 13 I found two eels.  When I first picked up the rock I thought it was water droplets, but when I lifted up the rock all the way they started flapping their tail.  You might be, "Like... how much of them is their tail?",  because they look like one big long tail.

When I picked them up and they were hard to keep a hold of.  Yes, they were slippery.

Here is a picture of me holding one of the eels.  I then let them go.

Douglas Mawson's Sled Plane

Douglas Mawson was an Australian polar explorer.

In 1912 Mr. Mawson took a plane to Antarctica but it had no wings. He wanted it to be like a sled with an engine. He would use it to drag supplies for explorers.

Antarctica is very cold, too cold for an engine to last long. The plane quit working. Mr. Mawson left it behind.

The sled plane got buried in ice. People thought it got washed into the ocean.

Australian researchers recently found the sled plane. It is still under ice. They can only see a little bit of it though.

The sled plane is still in the place he left it almost 100 years ago!




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Source: God's World News
Writing Method:  Excellence in Writing
Dictated and Edited by:  Daniel
Typed and Edited by: Mamma

 

Storm Alley

by

Daniel Blanchard

Storm Alley on Saturn has been busy. There was a lightning storm south of the equator that was non-stop since January. It was the longest lasting thunder storm in the solar system.

 

An enhanced color view of a storm on Saturn. The larger view includes a view showing Saturn in colors that approximate what the human eye would see. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

The Cassini (kah-see-nee) spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn for about five years. Scientists in Germany have been using Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument to measure Saturn's lightning storms.

The last big storm lasted about 7 ½ months. Scientists have been watching a new storm since January 2009.



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Key Word Outline from EIW virtually done by Daniel
Dictation done by Daniel
Typing and help with editing - Mamma
Resources
God's World News  -  Nov. 2009 Current Events
NASA

Blueberries

New England had cold rainy weather this summer. But it didn’t hurt the blueberry crop. The Tougas Family Farm in Northborough, Massachusetts rose blueberry crops. This year they tasted plentiful, plump and tasty. That makes them have tougher skin than others. That makes them less likely to get diseases.

(Summary of an article from God's World Current Events using the Excellence in Writing concept.)

Alina and Jail

Yesterday when we all went into Alina's car and we went to Goofy's house Alina drove into Goofy's mail box and bent it. I said, "I didn't see it but I was in there the whole time." Then Alina didn't want to call the police so Tiana had to.

Then Alina went into jail. Then we all went into jail. For me, I was so skinny I could fit right through the bars.

At Disneyland the area that all these pictures were taken was at Toon Town. Well, see you on my next post.

2 days 'till Disneyland

Fun with Play Dough

Yesterday, I made some really cool stuff out of play dough. The top picture is a doughnut creature.

This is a boat about to get shipwrecked. I had a lot of fun destroying them. It was also fun making them. For the ship idea I was squishing the play dough and it kind of looked like a boat. And so I got an idea of making a boat that was about to get shipwrecked.

Well, see you on my next post. Bye.

First Loose Tooth

Yesterday I got my first loose tooth! I can't wait until I loose it because then I will have my first tooth gone. Also, in this picture I got a hair cut and I don't like it. Today I found a caterpillar. Since it's a sunny day, we are keeping care of it. There's not that much to say this time, so, well! See you on my next post!

My First 20 Chapter Book

The Mystery of Cabin Island is my first 20 chapter book. I am so excited to finish it because I am so excited to read another one. So far there is a seagull in the book, and I say that the seagull did it! I'll tell you more about it when I do my book review. Bye! See you on my next post.

Earthquake in the Early Morning

This a book review on Earthquake in the Early Morning. This is 24th book in the series.

The main characters are Jack and Annie and Morgan. Jack likes to take notes and he is careful. Annie can talk to animals and isn’t as careful as Jack. Morgan is a magical librarian from Camelot. In this one Jack and Annie go to Morgan’s library in Camelot. Betty is a newspaper reporter and Fred is a photographer. Aunt Mary, Andrew and Peter are people that Jack and Annie met on the way to Golden Gate Park, their house had caught on fire.

In a previous Magic Tree House book Morgan left a note that Jack and Annie need to find “something to lend,” but they didn’t know what that meant.

Jack and Annie go to San Francisco in this book. They are in the earthquake of 1906. After a little earthquake Annie fell down a hole. Jack got her back up by giving her bricks. After the big earthquake there was a fire. During the fire Jack and Annie met Aunt Mary, Andrew and Peter. They were told by Betty, the reporter, to go to Golden Gate Park because their house caught on fire. Jack and Annie noticed that the boys didn’t have any shoes, so they lent their boots to the boys. The boys lent them a piece of wood that said, “There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.” Jack and Annie realized that this was the special writing that they needed to get for Morgan’s library, the “something to lend.”

At the end when Annie looks in the book about the San Francisco fire Annie sees a picture of them on the way back to the Magic Tree House that Fred took.

I loved this story because I like the part where they see the picture of them in the book and the story is really funny.

Dinosaurs Before Dark

The book I read is “Dinosaurs Before Dark” written by Mary Pope Osborne.

The main characters are Morgan, Annie and Jack. Jack likes to take notes and he is careful. Annie likes animals and she isn’t as careful as Jack. Morgan is a magical librarian from Camelot and Jack and Annie do stuff in the books for Morgan to put in her library.

This is the first book in the series. Annie discovered a rope ladder and showed it to Jack. This is when they discovered the treehouse. Annie went into the treehouse, but Jack called her to come down. Annie hollered that there were books in the treehouse. Jack loved books and he went into the treehouse. Since Jack liked dinosaurs Annie gave him a dinosaur book to read. When he was looking at the Pteranodon( ter-AN-oh-don) picture he said, “Oh, I wish I could see a real Pteranodon!” Then a Pteranodon came flying by and it looked like a glider plane. The treehouse started to spin and Jack was leaning out of the window. Annie told Jack to get inside the treehouse and pulled him out of the window. The treehouse was spinning and then all of a sudden it was still.

Jack looked out the window and realized the world outside was just like the book he was holding.

Annie ran to explore and although Jack was afraid he went after her. After exploring they decided they needed to get back to Pennsylvania.

When they got back to the treehouse Jack discovered that he forgot the book on the hill and went back to get it. Annie stayed back and waited for him since it wasn’t that far. A T-Rex was by the book and Jack hid behind a tree. Annie saw this from inside the treehouse and she went down and talked to the Pteranodon asking it to go help Jack. And that’s exactly what the Pteranodon did. It went and brought Jack and the book back, but the T-Rex was chasing it. Jack and Annie got back in the treehouse and Jack said he wanted to go back to Pennsylvania. Annie realized he didn’t have the book in his hand like he did when they came, so they got the book and Jack said “I want to be back in Pennsylvania.” The tree started spinning just before the T-Rex got to them and they were safely back home.

Ocean Box

Hello this is Daniel and this is my ocean box. Sereina helped me a little bit and it's really cool. The inside blue is blended in with the other blue. All we needed was blue paint and water to make it blend in.

As we learn of animals we are going to make the animals and put them in the ocean boxes. The ocean boxes are already dry.

The Adventures of Fred the Ladybug

Hi I am Daniel and here is my pet ladybug that I can't always find in our house. He takes flying lessons. I think the amount of spots is how old he is and since he only has one I guess that he's only 1 year old. Here is a story I just made up.

Once Fred the ladybug was just walking near the park, then he saw a criminal. The criminal was going to steal everyone's stuff. He put his sharp wings on just in case that criminal could fly. Then he figured out that the criminal couldn't fly so he put his flat wings on. Then he just figured out that he could run really really fast. Don't worry about anything in this, because it's just a comic book. Then he turned himself into a leopard with sneakers on. He could run faster than the criminal. Now Fred ran to New York because the criminal ran all the way to New York.

Then he lived happily ever after.

The End.

High Tide in Hawaii

The book I just finished reading is called "High Tide in Hawaii" written by Mary Pope Osborn. It is the 28th book in the Magic Tree House series.

The main characters are Jack, Annie and Morgan. Jack likes to take notes and he is more careful than Annie. Annie likes animals and she likes going places and she is not as careful as Jack. She can always tell when the Magic Tree House shows up. Morgan is a magical librarian from Camelot.

Jack and Annie go to Hawaii in the Magic Tree House. Morgan left them a riddle in the Magic Tree House and they figured out that they had to build some sort of ship that never sinks and always floats. Jack felt an earthquake and then read in his book that when a earthquake happens there is always a tidal wave. Even though Jack had a hard time surfing the first time he tried, he decided to surf to Annie, Kama and Boka, some kids they met in Hawaii to warn them. This time Jack did better, because Kama told him before that it's better to stay on your stomach when you surf. The answer to Morgan's riddle was "friendship."

And if you want to see how it turned out you need to read the book.

Chocolate Covered Red Vines

Hi I am making chocolate covered red vines! They are really easy to make. I made up the recipe ALL by myself. Here's what you do.

1. Get Red Vines candy,
2. Cut up the Red Vines into bite size pieces
3. Get chocolate chips and warm them up
4. Then cover the Red Vines with the chocolate.

Let them sit in the fridge for at least a day. Then you can enjoy your Chocolate Covered Red Vines.

Chef Daniel Helps with Dinner

I love to cook things. Two times I helped make biscuits. This is all the things that I helped with. I helped with measuring the ingredients, I rolled the dough out and I also did the most important thing... cutting the biscuits all by myself. I didn't have any help with rolling and cutting the biscuits.

There is something else I did. I helped beat the meat. I really liked to do it, but it got kind of hard.

Cooking is one of my favorite things to do.

Good Morning Gorillas

This is my book review of "Good Morning Gorillas" written by Mary Pope Osborn. It is another Magic Tree House book.

The main characters in the Magic Tree House books are Jack, Annie and Morgan. Jack likes to write notes and he is very careful in everything he does. Annie likes animals and isn't as careful as Jack. Morgan is a magical librarian from Camelot.

The Magic Tree House takes Jack and Annie to a cloud forest in Africa. It takes them so high it looks like they are in the clouds. Annie found a baby gorilla and Annie named it "Bu Bu". Later on they find a family of gorillas. A mother gorilla is called a Silverback because it has a silver back. Later Jack looks in the book about gorillas to look up how to be friends with a gorilla. He needed to act like a gorilla and also he pretended to eat plants and other stuff that real gorillas eat, like berries, leaves, bamboo, branches, bark, twigs, ferns and flowers.

In the end they don't want to leave because they really missed the gorillas, but they had to because they were done with the mission.

I really liked this story because it was funny and I like reading Magic Tree House books.

Magic Tree House - Christmas at Camelot

I just read my first chapter book and I finished it last night.

The name of the book I read is "Christmas in Camelot" which is a Magic Tree House book and it was written by Mary Pope Osborne.

The main characters in the story are Jack, Annie and Morgan. Jack likes to read books and he is very careful. Annie likes to explore. Morgan is a magical librarian from Camelot and she collects books for her library from different times and places.

In this story they go to Camelot but they don't know how to get there because they have no books about Camelot because it's legend. Annie makes a wish to go there, then Jack and Annie go there in the Magic Tree House.

All the people like Morgan, the knights, Merlin and King Arthur were frozen. A Christmas Knight froze them and he said for them to get the Silver Cup full of Water of Memory and Imagination.

Jack and Annie rode a white stag to the other world and figured out that they could turn invisible to get past the guards at the gate. They saw dancers dancing in a circle and Jack wanted to dance with them and then Jack went to go with them. It's a magical circle and once you get in you don't want to leave. Annie pulled Jack out of the circle.

The Christmas Knight told them to get the water out of a cauldron. They had to use the key that Lancelot gave them to get into a crystal cave. Jack and Annie found the cauldron pot and filled their cup with the water just before they say a dragon like monster that shoots blue fire. Jack and Annie picked up sticks with fire on them to scare the dragon back and they escaped.

Then they saw the knights again and they forgot where their horses were, but Jack and Annie knew where they were. Then they went back towards Camelot and they saw the white stag. The knight said to get on the white stag because it's magic and they'll go faster.

When they got back in the castle Jack accidentally tripped and the water went out of the cup and it froze up into nothing and there was a big cloud. Then somehow King Arthur, Merlin, the knights and Morgan weren't froze anymore.

I liked the story because it was exciting.

Finding Stuff at the Beach

One day when I was at the beach I found in the water a dead fish and seaweed.

Here is the fish I found. When I put it back I put it back in the water and forgot to feed it to the birds.

Doctor Daniel

Hello my name is Dr. Daniel and I do surgery, fix broken arms, legs and help people when they are sick and stuff like that.

I once fixed a girl's broken arm. I kept giving her so many shots that she shot out. Hee! Hee! I had to give her surgery, but she didn't let me do surgery. I had to look inside her mouth and I put my head inside. Giggle! Giggle!

If you are ever sick, you can come see me.