My favorite thing this week - Science/History

My Favorite Things This Week

Science-Foodmaster and The New Way Things Work.
History-Story Of The World

Twenty One Balloons Chapters 1-8

1)  Describe the Restaurant Government?
There are 20 letters in the Krakatoa Alphabet, A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T, so there are 20 restaurants, (A-T) and there are 20 Krakatoa days, (A-T) so say, on T day, you go to the T restaurant, on O day, you go to the O restaurant, you get the idea. lt.



2)  Describe the Merry Go Round the children build.  What happens when it flies over the volcano?

8 boats, all connected, balloons folded up in bottom of boats, children go in a boat and unfold the balloon and connect it to the boat,  when all balloons are set up, it starts moving up and flies off a pole connecting the boats.  If it flies over the volcano the boats shake violently and start moving down.

James and the Giant Peach Book Report

                                                James and the Giant Peach

 Would you suggest this book to someone? Yes, I would suggest it because it is funny, but well made,

Did you like this book? Yes. Because it is funny and well made, I just told you!  ^

Characters: Aunt Spiker, Aunt Sponge, James Henry Trotter, Caterpillar, Miss Spider, Glow-worm, Old-Green-Grasshopper, Silk-worm, and Earthworm.

What happened next: Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge got up, squashed from a giant peach, and their money-box was crushed and pieces of money was everywhere, Aunt Spiker  went inside the house and looked down at the destruction, Aunt Sponge started wailing about how horrible she looked, and ran into the house and looked for new clothes. They suddenly heard a splash and water flying up far away in a cliff..

Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun

How did Commodore Perry Change Japan? Do you think Japan would have stayed isolated forever?

Commodore Perry changed Japan by: Going to Japan with a treaty and to open to trade.
Showing them their steamships,Showing them their generosity, and,Telling them to let visitors (American ships) stay for some time,Showing them their ways of living,

I don't think Japan would be isolated forever because it shut them down from the world, they wouldn't know other new things (steamships, trains, electricity, etc.)

Poetry Memorization

Mom here:  Part of our school work this year will be on improving Levi's memory and some basic public speaking.  We are tying that into our poetry readings from the book Knock at a Star

The first poem Levi memorized was "Learning" by Judith Viorst and we videotaped his presentation. He seems very calm, because the first two tries he broke out into hysterics half way though and he is working hard to get all the way through this very silly poem.

If you want to see the actual poem, it is here: Learning

And then after we did that, he found another one line poem (unnamed) that he wanted to do as well.

He is such a goof ball. From Levi- ...Seriously Mom? Anyway, that is a lie, it had a name, HANDSAWWWWWW, I told you. :P ._.

Twenty One Balloons

The author believes balloon travel is best.  Do you agree or disagree?  Why?

I disagree, there are many problems that could happen, A) The wind could stop and you would fall. B) You would run out of fire. C) You would never make it there because the wind is to calm. Or D) The wind would blow you in the wrong direction. I personally think rail travel is best. Why? Well air travel always feels like your going to die, water travel has a chance of sinking, and subway travel is just plain scary, your inside a dark tunnel, and it feels like the roof will collapse any minute, and on rail travel, your on the ground, yes, it's loud, but it's not that bad when you get used to it, it's fast, so you won't be on it for years, and it rocks a bit, but to me it feels relaxing.