February 3, 2014 Exciting/Boring

Today was a mild day. I started out tired. I still have a cold. AACHOOO! And it got worse.

Mom moved me up to 4th GRADE!!!! Except in Math. (HAPPY DANCE!) It's pretty fun! It's more challenging. But, that's a good thing. I already got a 40 out of 40 on Word Herd - that's a quiz game show in time4learning.com. And I only got 3 wrong on a regular quiz. The quiz was in science.

And today we made cold porcelain! Cold porcelain is a polymer. A polymer is a many molecules all strung together to form really long chains.. I wonder if I can make a necklace out of molecules???

me mixing (in my lab coat)

goop

thicker goop

the final product!

 Cold porcelain is made from H2O, Cornstarch (25% amylase and 75% amylopectin

no chem name, but chem properties because it’s already a polymer), petroleum jelly (vaseline - the amount  of carbon and hydrogen atoms in each molecule is not known) and GLUE, polyvinyl acetate chem name : or chem name (C₄H₆O₂)_n. 

_{We put it on the stove over a low flame for about 9 minutes. We had to stir} 

_{constantly so it wouldn't burn. That would smell! Then we put it on wax} 

_{paper and kneaded it like bread. It's pretty cool. We don't know what we'll}

_{do with it yet. Maybe it will come alive! Maybe it will turn into a human!}

_{Maybe we cloned! Another me!!!!} 

_{Wwwwwwwwwwoooooooooowwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!}

_{Stay tuned 'til tomorrow!}

_{TO BE CONTINUED!!!!}