In science we’ve been studying force and motion and simple machines for people who don’t know, a simple machine is  something that makes work easier and has one (or few) parts. our experiments were the push pull meter and the see-saw lever. If I  changed one thing in each machine I would make a gigantic push pull meter and do it to: the empire state building, taj mahal  and the great wall of china.

Wednesday was Halloween. I was a Ghostbuster for Halloween and my favorite part of the costume was the light up Proton Pack! I went trick or treating with Chelsea, Isabella Katie Beth and others. Raise your hand if you were at Chelsea’s Halloween party my favorite part of the stack of candy was the full size Hershey’s bar that I got from Mrs.Moschetto in Chelsea’s neighborhood! next year  maybe I will be Harry Potter again.

The other day we went to Mount Vernon. First we went to the house where we saw the key that Lafayette gave him to symbolize freedom from England. Upstairs we saw Lafayette’s and George’s room there were curtains around the bed to keep warm. next we went outside where we saw the greenhouse. behind the greenhouse we saw the slave quarters where we started our walk. then we went to the tomb where they opened the gates to let us lay a wreath next to George and Martha in conclusion we went to mount Vernon.

Today we did Anna’s super glasses which was the 2nd and third grade performance this year and I was playing the glockenspiel in the preformance in optometrist the songs were Anna’s song Anna’s friends optometrist super glasses what am i to do and discovery in that order after I was like whew! I’m glad that’s over but I wanna do it again!!! It was also awesome!!!

Today we did our 2nd grade & 3rd grade performance called: Anna’s super glasses! I was exited for doing it because i was playing the glockenspiel and the glockenspiel is really cool because it rings and that is called sustain so the glockenspiel is a sustain instrument.

My favorite song is the optometrist because I like how it sounds it goes like: I love my job I’m an optometrist come and see my cool machine -thunder tubes.

My perfect meal is pizza (of course) but the pizza is extremely cheesy and awesome but crust can wait. I will want sauce In the pizza like with domino’s because dominos is the best pizza ever!!!!

My side will be fries (Mc’donalds to be specific) because they have the best kind of fries. For my drink I’ll have HI-C fruit punch.

For dessert I will have me and my dad’s favorite dessert: CHOCOLATE LAVA CAKE it’s just so good!!!!! I mean it’s like a chocolate volcano in my mouth.

The only one who can cook that for me is Alfred at Wayne manor because he’s such a great cooker and I will I have it at Wayne manor to not have Alfred have the trouble to travel with all those pots and pans.

Last week 3rd grade went on a field trip to the Metro Richmond Zoo. I was with Luke and Nate’s mom. Luke and Nate Were with me too. First we saw my favorite animal, the  SNOW LEOPARDS!!!  Then we saw the tiger. We couldn’t see the tiger then we saw a show they had an  albino snake and an armadillo and then we went to the animal nursery and there were baby spider monkeys. They were so cute and next to them was a Komodo dragon. There were giraffes which I got to feed with the free food we found at the white rhinos then we saw the lions but the male lion wasn’t looking at us then we went to lunch. I had taqitious and cheez-its after last nch we went to the gift shop I got a snow leopard and it’s arms were like a slap bracelet. So when you hit his arms on yours, he wraps his arms around yours and I named him Oliver. Next we saw the herrrens and flamingos then we saw the tiger again and it was looking at US! Then we went back to the lions and the male lions was facing us so we could see the mane. After that we got on the bus and went back to the school.

In third grade we had been studying endangered species. My animal is the snow leopard. The snow leopard lives in cold areas which you might guess from the name.The snow leopard has rosettes not spots. Rosettes are rings and spots are just solid black. In the winter the snow leopard is white but in the the summer they are yellow.

Their habitat is in the Himalayas from Russia to India but none in Mongolia. The mountains they live in have heights of 59,00 -18,000 ft. That’s pretty high if you ask me.

They’re carnivores so they eat meat like mountain goats, deer, pikas, and other livestock they reproduce once a year with 2-3 cubs a group of snow leopards is called a litter.

One of the adaptations is that they have strong lungs because they’re isn’t a lot of oxygen in their dens and they have thick paws to help them walk on the snow to keep their feet from sinking in the snow.

A reason they are vulnerable is that climate change is melting their snow and deforestation. Deforestation is when trees get cut down and used for other things we don’t need like paper and desks. Another one is poaching. Poaching is illegal hunting the animal for its skin, body parts, and sometimes valuable substances.

There are 7,000 in the wild and 600 in captivity (that means in zoos and reserves) so there are 7,600 total snow leopards in the world. Reserves are areas protected by the government to help the animal from going extinct.

Did you know they use their urine to mark their territory? And they have the longest of the cat family? They also have pale green eyes which unusual for cats. the word leopard is Greek. Uncia uncia is the scientific name.