Awesome Chairs! 9/27/20

Hi! This week our science classes consumed of first, finishing our insect project, and second, making chairs! You are probably thinking “how could 7th and 8th graders actually make well made chairs?”, well here is the answer: a “chair recipe”, help from Shane and Tom, and a great thinking mind! We were allowed to decorate our chairs however we like, but first we had to do the thinking part of the project. We had to measure, check to see if our measurements were correct, and–OH YEAH! We got to handle power tools! At first, I wasn’t scared at all, but I wasn’t expecting the tool to vibrate so much! It was so much fun. Thanks to Shane for thinking of this to do in class!

(These chairs looked somewhat like the ones we made in class)

 

 

 

 

For the design part, I am going to draw a frog and put a quote I like behind him. I can’t wait!

-Who thought to name chairs “chairs”?

-How big is the biggest chair in the world?

-How big is the biggest chair that’s ever been in the White House?

-Audrey

Minty the Mean Mosquito 9/20/20

It’s Minty the Mean Mosquito.

Hey, guys. Today was exhausting. Today my friends, my family, and I went out to find some food, when all the sudden we saw that we were being followed by an owl. Guess the owl was hungry, because once we noticed him, he came at us so fast, like a dog to his frisbee. Which was horrible because mosquitos only go about 1 to 1.5 miles an hour. Some of us escaped, but most of us were eaten. Not too big of a deal, though, because I was not captured and swallowed by the blood-thirsty animal. After the owl seemed like he had had his full, he retreated back to his nest. Good thing he did, because the rest of the mosquitos were getting really hungry, now. The whole reason we went out of our houses was to eat. We searched a little longer until, finally, we found some good, young, juicy, children in the shade. Perfect. The children were only a few years old, and they didn’t know how to kill us properly, so we got an amazing meal. We were spitting our saliva into the children and sucking up tasty blood with our needle-like mouths into the squishy flesh, when out came the dreaded bug spray. We had to go back home. The taste is AWFUL!!!!! No mosquito can stand it.

This day has been terrible!! Especially when the average mosquito gets about 5-millionths of a liter of blood when they go feeding.

Anyway, I hope tomorrow will be better. Thanks for following up!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Why are some people more allergic to mosquitoes than others?

-Who made up 7 days in a week?

-Why are our national colors red, white, and blue?

-Why do chrysalises have to hang? Do they die if they get knocked down?

Lollie The Lady Bug 9/13/2020

Hello everyone!!

It’s Lollie the Little Ladybug!

I haven’t posted in a while, and everyone has been asking me how I am. Well, to answer that question, I am doing great!! I have been traveling the forests of Michigan, eating all the aphids I find. I have been learning new tricks from fellow ladybugs that I have been meeting along the way. I have been learning so many new things! I have learned that there are about 5,000 of us in the world, and 500 in America. We might also eat about 5,000 aphids in our lifetime. I also learned about a strange song ladybugs sing to each other for fun. I’ll show you the lyrics.

Ladybug! Ladybug!

fly away home

your house is on fire

and your children all gone.

 

All except one,

and that’s little Ann

for she crept under the frying pan.

 

That’s pretty much it! Scary I know, but it has a catchy tune.

That’s all for now! Thanks for checking in, I’m still an awesome ladybug.

P.S. Technically I am a lady beetle, not a ladybug.

 

-Do you think that song is creepy?

-Do you like pasta? If so, what is your favorite kind?

-What is the most cuddly animal in the world?

Gordon the Green Stink Bug 9/6/2020

Hello, friends!

Thanks for checking in with Gordon the Great Green Stink Bug!

When I was just an itty bitty nymph, I was accidentally brought to the U.S. from Asia. I am having a great time eating up all the flowers and leaves in the family’s garden! There is a problem, though. It is getting into the fall season, and that means it’s getting colder, especially at night. Stink bugs, believe it or not, do get cold. So, I walk into the house, to get warm. When I wake in the morning, my family always tries to CATCH me!! But I always get away. I don’t know why they try to hurt me, I am just an innocent stinky bug.

Anyway, I learned a new fact today! Stink bugs only grow to be around 17 mm! and I am 17 mm!! So cool!!

Have a great weekend, everyone! Thanks!

Wait for another post the following week!