My Favorite S.T.E.M Fair Project

My favorite S.T.E.M fair project was called “Do You Have The Patience?” The experiment had two choices a marshmallow would be placed in front of you the supervisor would give you two choices, you could either eat the marshmallow now or you could wait an unknown amount of time and get another one. She did the experiment herself and calculated if the  boys waited the most, if the girls waited the most, if everyone waited the longest, if nobody waited or even if they didn’t eat any at all! The experiment interested me very much if I were one of the people doing the experiment I would not even be suspicious of what they were doing I would just be glad to be part of it. By the way all of the projects were great this one just caught my eye but all of them were well formatted, presented well, had great discussions and were all planned perfectly! I am very lucky to have been a part of this!      

 

 

My Recipe-M&M Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe

Ingredients

  1. M&Ms
  2. 3 tablespoons of flour
  3. 3 tablespoons of sugar
  4. cinnamon
  5. oven preheated at 350 Fahrenheit
  6. Fridge

 

  • Put M&Ms in bag and hit it with a mallet
  • Pour in 3 tablespoons of flour
  • 3 tablespoons of sugar
  • Roll that into tiny balls
  • Put the balls in the fridge
  • Preheat oven to 350 Fahrenheit
  • Pour 3 tablespoons of sugar into a bowl
  • Pour 3 tablespoons of cinnamon
  • Put the M&Ms in a lidded bowl that is microwavable
  • Put it in the microwave for 30 seconds
  • Stir the M&Ms for 5 minutes
  • Pour the M&M mixture into the cinnamon/sugar mixture
  • Take the balls out and roll them into the mixture
  • You can put the balls in the oven

 

 

 

Enjoy!

My Holiday Break!

On My Holiday Break I went on a Carnival Cruise it was different from the Disney Cruise but we had already went on all four of the Disney one so we tried something a little different. On the Carnival Cruise they did not have tube slides like the Aqua Duck or the Aqua Dunk it was more of a chill kinda fast slide depending on your position, something that was similar about these two ships is that at every restaurant they dance but on Disney they dance on the floor, on Carnival they danced on mini tables! Something different between these two is that on Disney your waiter or waitress is the same waiter or waitress at every restaurant.

 

I enjoyed this vacation! 

Our Simple Machine: A Catapult

Today we had a project to do. We had to make a catapult out of ,

  • Large Tongue Depressor
  • Tape
  • Water Bottle
  • Dixie Cup

It was a hard project but of course we did it! This took me three times to get it to work properly. The first trial it worked, just didn’t go far, the second trial the ping pong ball would not go out of the Dixie cup, my third trial worked but didn’t make it off the grid so I didn’t go into the showdown. The showdown was just testing your catapult and taping the mark of where the ping pong ball hit and writing your name on the tape.

Rules:

  1.  Once the ping pong ball bounced that was where it’s mark was
  2. We could only use our materials to make our catapult
  3. You are aloud to rip your materials but you are not aloud to open the water bottle

I loved this unit because we always did fun experiments!

 

Virginia Beach (But Not So Much Of The Beach Part)

I had the best vacation ever literally and not figuratively! First of all it was just my mother and me no Allie, no Andy, no father, just my mother and me. Where did we go? Well if you didn’t get the memo from the title we wen’t to Virginia Beach! For breakfast we had waffles and orange juice with syrup drizzled on the top, my favorite food there was the waffles because I made them by myself, but the batter was already made you just put it in the pan. My favorite part of breakfast there was making one of the workers smile she was laughing because I had a lot of modest humor.(as in it was appropriate). We signed up for this thing where it gives you an upgrade to a suite so when we got in there I said “Wow so where is the suite?” Apparently a suite is just entrance room with a couch and T.V , but it was still pretty cool because we got to walk out on a balcony to a oceanfront view! The pool, the pool, how do I say this the pool was awesome mentally and physically! It had lights shining into the pool and it was just us in the pool! I would change the smell, it smelt like seven bottles of fertilizer had just been sprayed everywhere it was terrifying in it’s own weird way. The one thing I wouldn’t change is making people smile, actually make it two making people smile and going there. Thank you for tuning into story time with Elizabeth. That’s a wrap.

Our Chariot Challenge!

Today we had to do a “Chariot Challenge”  We had a couple of choices, yogurt container or plastic cup, popsicle stick or no popsicle stick? Rubber bands or no rubber bands? Skewer or no skewer?  We had a lot of choices to make so here is everything I used and what I used the item for!

  • Yogurt cup: Inside of chariot.
  • Skewer: To go in the wheels.
  • Bottle caps: The wheels.
  • Popsicle sticks: Push pulley system/decoration for horse
  • Rubber bands: Reigns for horse.

 

We had to go back and forth to make this project work, and had to make decisions like if we wanted to use hot glue or not (and to be honest most of us did!) A lot of us drew what our chariot was going to look like and we ended up having something that looked like that but with a lot of stuff added on. This was the process of trials. Trial one was our original chariot, trial two was what it ended up like next, and so on and so on.

What I predicted that was going to be difficult was getting the wheels to move the chariot, no one got it to move. How I was approaching this challenge was that I would work hard, have patience, and try again. One of my ideas was for me to have a stick for me to pull.

In the end it did not fall apart.

I loved this challenge!

Hunt v.s Beauty

A long time ago on Mount Olympus (The home of the gods) Aphrodite had used Artemis’ sword to cut off stray hairs, and Artemis had used Aphrodite’s make up supplies to make colorful targets to shoot  at. Artemis found out as well as Aphrodite, they both came to each other, they’re was nothing but crickets for a second or two. All of a sudden all you could hear is “You took my make up!” “Well you took my sword and left hair all over it!” “Well you got dirt all over my make up!” “Well now my sword looks like a cat!” “Well at least I know how to use the make up!” So they went to war, and they tied they couldn’t decide who won so they fought over that. Finally they wen’t to ask Athena so they wen’t to the Parthenon! They got Athena’s advice and she said “I didn’t see the fight and since it was a tie you can try not to take each others stuff anymore” They were not satisfied so Athena made a deal with them “Okay, okay Aphrodite can have a golden chariot for the rest of your life, and Artemis can have new hunting supplies that will never break” so they did but the next day, “Aphrodite why are you using my arrow as a hair piece!?”  “Well why are you using my hair curlers as something to go in your sling shot?!” And you thought it was going to be peaceful didn’t you? The end!

 

R: I like this blog because I used a lot of humorous and witty commentary in this fiction! I like writing fiction because I have a more reliable structure. Fiction lets my mind explore!

My Favorite God or Goddess

In third grade we started to learn, read, and talk about Gods and Goddess. It was a very interesting topic to learn about and I am very sad we are about to move on. I want to tell you about my favorite Goddess. Her name is Athena, Athena is the God of wisdom and war. I’ll start from the beginning, this may sound weird but Athena was not born she popped out of Zeus’ head. You may be thinking “Well that’s it i’m out of here.” Well I may be able to change your mind about that. Athena had a building called the Parthenon that was dedicated to her, the Parthenon had a big statue of Athena in the building. The Parthenon is still standing but is not looking it’s best. The Parthenon is between demolished and needs to be rebuilt. Anyway I think Athena is a good God, Actually let me rephrase that I think Athena is a great, wonderful, and beautiful (even thought she is a God of war and wisdom)  God.

 

Our Matter Project!

In class on Friday we did the most fun project we had done all week! We had came into the classroom from art to see a clear cup with a scoop of ice cream in the see-through cup. We sat down in our seats and we saw a pixie cup on our desk too, so we all looked in to see root beer! We all were very surprised (except for David he had been told about it.) If you did not know root beer and ice cream make a root beer float. A solid and a liquid make a gas. On the count of three we all poured the root beer into the ice cream. We ate the ice cream with a spoon most people drank the liquid part with the spoon, but I just drank from the clear cup. This science experiment was very fun and tasty! Bye!

Juan Ponce De Leon

We learned about European explorers and I chose to talk about Juan Ponce De Leon. He landed in St. Augustine, Florida. He was trying to find riches or land for Spain. Juan Ponce De Leon was looking for a mystical land because he believed that in the”very mystical land” lay the “Fountain Of Youth” now of course this was more of a myth than mystical. (Ha) Juan Ponce De Leon’s sponser was Spain. Ponce De Leon was the first European to land in Florida mainly St. Augustine. He claimed land for Spain only. There were three more explorers we learned about they were, Christopher Columbus, Christopher Newport, and Jaques Cartier. But I liked Juan Ponce De Leon. I hope you learned a bit more about this European explorer, Bye!