Christmas

My Christmas was good!! I was the first one to get up. Santa Claus left lots of gifts. I went to my Nana's house. I saw my cousins.
This is what I got for Christmas:

• Snap Circuit Rover

• LEGO Von Nebula

• LEGO Meltdown

• LEGO Typhoon Turbo Sub

• Nerf Gun

Legos

I made these two ships. The one here - LEGO Space Police Undercover Cruiser - I made from a box. The one below I made on my own and I used different kinds of Legos.

The one below I worked very hard on. It is fragile!!

This is not the final version.

The final version had much more features!!!

I just finished the second Charlie Bone book - Charlie Bone an the Time Twister.

This book is about time traveling, started by a marble in a game.

Somebody named Henry came from 1916 to Charlie's time.

This is now the biggest book I ever read - 402 pages. It is one more page than the first one.

The time twister is a marble filled with colors and is big and shiny.

My Biggest Book Ever!

This is the longest book I ever read - Midnight for Charlie Bone.

It has 401 pages. I read it in two and a half days.

It was about a 10 year-old boy named Charlie Bone who went to Bloor's Academy for gifted children.

His special power was that he could hear things from people in photographs.

Bloor's Academy is like Hogwarts from Harry Potter!

Thanks!

I want to thank everybody who has been ordering through the Amazon ads on my site and my Dad's site.

So far my commission for this month is already around $50.

Since I earn 6% of all orders, that means $50 is 6% of the total.

X = total

.06 · X = 50

Divide both sides by .06

X = 50 / (.06)

X = 833.33

So the total spent through my ads this month is about $833.

Thanks so much!

Pencil Ed

Me and my Dad are working on a story.

It is called Pencil Ed.

It is a probably going to be a graphic novel.

We thought about the Birth of Pencil Ed and a few other episodes.

There are other characters too:

Pencil Ed

Eraser Burt

Eraser Bette

Permanent Mark

Scissor Sisters

Crayon Man

Paint Boy

Lou Glue

Hope Soap

I don't want to tell you anymore because it might ruin the story.

Two American Biographies

I just read these books:

Daniel Boone lived from 1734-1820.

He was an American Pioneer who was most famous for exploring Kentucky.

He was also a soldier, politician, surveyor, and a merchant.

Benjamin Franklin was a paper printer.

He discovered electricity.

He played music.

He helped write the U.S. Constitution.

Finished Another Book!

I just finished this book - Singapore Math 6B.

It covered:

Rate

Circle

Pie Charts

Area and Perimeter

Volume

Challenging Word Problems

Rate = Distance / Time

Circumference = Π * Diameter

Area of a Circle = Π * Radius²

Area of a Semi-Circle = .5 * Π * Radius²

Area of a Quadrant(of a Circle) = .25 * Π * Radius²

Volume of a Box = Width * Length * Height

Volume of a Cube = Side³

Thanksgiving 2010

Yesterday was Thanksgiving.

I went to my cousins' house in New Jersey for Thanksgiving.

I had a great Thanksgiving dinner: bread, corn, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and turkey with gravy.

And I slept in my cousin Colin's room.

My Birthday Presents

I turned 6 last week. And here are the presents I received:

Invisible Ink Pen

Razor Scooter

LEGO World Racers

Battleship

Thames & Kosmos Physics - Simple Machines

Tiger Slippers

Prague Castle

Toy Story Puzzle

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 7

Magic Show

One Friday I went to a magic show.

It was fun. I found out some of the magic tricks.

I was one of the volunteers. And I have magic powers.

 I made my own magic tricks!

My Job

I have a job.

I get the mail for Grandma and sort it almost every day. Grandma gets a lot of mail!!!

I get 25 cents each time.

My money is hard to steal. It's in a cash register.

I'm doing a great job!!!

This Week's Books

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States.

Geronimo was an Indian warrior.

The Into Volcano one was about two boys who explore a volcano.

The Pet one was about a cat and a dog and a turtle.

The Benny and Penny one was about two little mice.

Andrew Jackson

Today I just read a short biography about Andrew Jackson.

He was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region - which is near where I was born, Charlotte, NC.

Andrew joined the army during the Revolutionary War when he was only 13.

His Dad died before he was born, and the rest of his family died during the War.

Even though he was an orphan he went on to do many great things.

And he became the 7th President of the United States.

He's my father's favorite President!

Central Park Zoo

Yesterday I went to the Central Park Zoo.

It was fun.

There was a Snow Leopard, it was hard to see.

There was a Snow Monkey.

There were sea lions.

There was a polar bear.

There were penguins, lots of them!

I saw bats.

Tecumseh

I just read a short biography about Tecumseh.

He was an American Indian.

He was born in 1768. He lived in Ohio.

He was in a lot of wars against America.

His tribe was Shawnee, he was the leader.

For more information click here

Mother Teresa

I just read a short biography about Mother Teresa.

When she was a kid, she lived in the town of Skopje.

She helped a lot of poor and sick and people. for more information.

She worked for the church.

She won the Nobel Peace Prize.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa

Fast Cake

Yesterday I made a 3 minute chocolate mug cake in the microwave.  Click here for the ingredients.

 It was yummy!                                         

Pumpkins for Sale!

To make my pumpkin sale I had to :

• make the signs
• buy 15 pumpkins
• price them
• set up the stand
• hang up the signs

I sold 10 of them. 


My first customer took 2 little ones for $4 each.  


My second customer took 1 large pumpkin for $12.


After the sale, our neighbors bought one, then Uncle Fred, and then Nana. And we kept 2 for ourselves.  Altogether we have $114 from all the pumpkins we sold, but we had to spend $90 to buy the pumpkins and make the signs.  We made $24. Next year I'm going to grow my own pumpkins!

Rubbery Egg

From this book:

In the Chemistry section, I did Experiment 196 - Rubbery Egg.


I put an egg in vinegar in a glass, and I waited several days.

Today we went to see the egg.  We took it out and it felt rubbery.

Here's the explanation:

The vinegar reacts with the calcium in the eggshell, dissolving it. This makes the shell rubbery. This shows the importance of calcium to make the shell strong, just like the calcium in are bones.Keep drinking that milk!

I don't know how but the vinegar must have done something to the calcium in the shell!

Ooze And Slime

2 days ago, in science class, I made Ooze and Slime.

To make Ooze, You need 1/2 tablespoon Cornstarch, Green food coloring, water.

To make Slime, click here.

My Fishing Trip

Yesterday was my Cub Scout fishing trip. I went with Dad.

I woke up at 6:00 in the morning to get ready!

My bait was clams.

I was on a boat on the ocean.

I put the bait on the hook. Then we threw the fishing line in the water.

Then we waited. That's how you go fishing. Some people caught crabs in the beginning.

It was hard to catch fish.

But by the end I had caught 5 fish. They were baby sea bass.

I ate a lot of Munchkins which are little donuts. You can see some on your face.

It was fun.

I Like Building

 

I built this car. I made it out of screws and nuts.  This is my second Erector set. It had 2 models. It took a long time to finish. My Dad helped me.

You can buy it on Amazon here:

Erector Tuning Truck, 147 Parts

The hard part of this is tightening the nuts. You have to hold the hexagonal wrench and spin the other wrench.