February 28, 2014 End of the month....

This morning, I worked on math. I learned about quadrilaterals. A quadrilateral is a four sided figure. A square and a rectangle are quadrilaterals. I also worked on Spanish. I did some Spanish reading/listening and listening alone and review. I can say, "La mujer lee". That means, "The woman reads." Cool, huh??

At lunch, we got out the K'nex. We made polygons. The hardest one was a pentagon. The k'nex didn't want to make that shape. It was fun! We also did fractions with the K'nex. It was easier to see the fractions when we did it that way.

Me making triangles

After lunch, we went outside. I went on the swings. We played some soccer. (I scored!) And then I stayed outside and played while Mommy picked up Lilly. I did not feel good out there. It's cold and now I'm all sniffly.

I'm swinging in the snow

running to get the ball

taking a nap

Oh and I went to fencing. I got 4 on my 2nd bout, 3 on my 1st bout and 1 on my 3rd. Not bad. Here's a picture and a video of me fencing.

I'm fencing Coach Chuck. This bout went into overtime!

me fencing Evan. Evan's good!

Home schooling, my friends, is fun. I have a lot of benefits my sister doesn't. Like nightly homework - I don't have any! And also, I get to stay home with my Mommy. And I get to work on the computer. 

That's all for now. I want to watch Digimon!

Stay tuned 'til tomorrow...

TO BE CONTINUED.......

May the force be with you.

February 25, 2014 Fencing

I went to fencing today. The coach won the first electric bout and I won the rematch!  I learned one new thing. I learned to hit the foil out of the way and then thrust. Coach made me do it a couple times.

I went to speech therapy this morning. I got to see Ms. Schweikert! Mrs Sanna is my therapy teacher. I did vocab words and I worked on how not to interrupt.

I worked on some more Spanish today. I worked on fractions. I like fractions. I finally found something in math that I understand.

I watched the turtle movie again. I wanted to see the baby turtles. The baby turtles are so cute! They can fit in my hand. Maybe I'll see one someday.

I checked on my aspirin experiment. I observed that nothing changed yet. I'm still waiting for it to do something.

I worked on a picture. I'll take a picture of my picture when it's done.

Today was kinda slow. Tomorrow I have chess and ballet so maybe I'll have something to talk about.

something to make you laugh:



That's not me and Mom....

That's all for now!!! Stay tuned 'til tomorrow.

TO BE CONTINUED...

February 24, 2014 ssssssssssssssssssssHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHuuuuuuuuuuuuu (this is me running out of ideas)

I forgot to talk about one last thing I did at camp. We had a liquid nitrogen demo! This guy took liquid nitrogen and put a red rubber ball in it. Guess what happened?? BBRREEEEkaboom! The ball broke in pieces when he dropped it on the ground. He also poured it onto the ground. A cloud of gas nitrogen flew up like fog and a cloud mixed. The temperature of liquid nitro is -346 degrees F. So when it hits the ground it boils! It's cool.....
Here's a video of a guy playing with the LN on the Ellen Show. BEWARE OF PING PONGS :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh5Y8Gb-kFU

This morning I went to physical therapy at school. I enjoyed it. I got out of the house for a bit got to see my PT teacher.

When we got home I worked on Rosetta Stone. I'm learning Spanish. "La Nina come."

Rosetta Stone has 2 meanings. The Rosetta Stone is something that the ancient Egyptians wrote on and Nefertimons (digimon)attack.

We went for a short walk outside. It was snowing out AGAIN. BBBOOOOOOOO...This winter is the worst winter we ever had.

Oh! We made a thermometer! Mom remembered the alcohol. We put is outside and the liquid in the straw decreased and when we brought it back in, the liquid when up a bit. Just like on a regular thermometer.

Update on the turtle egg issue: I worked on my illustrations on how to do it. I looked up some pictures of a turtle nest to see how we really need to design the enemy zapper. Still working on this.....Maybe we'll start putting something together this weekend..

Hey, Bubba!! ( Bubba's my favorite big brother) I got to see him this weekend. Seeing Bubba does not happen very often. It was exciting. I gave him hugs. Brad is very special to me cuz he is unique. He's cuddly and lovable once you get to know him. And he makes me laugh.

That's all I have on my mind now!

Stay tuned 'til tomorrow! Adios!
To infinity and Beyond!

TO BE CONTINUED...

February 21, 2014 Last day...

Today was the last day of camp. I had fun.

We started out our day by doing solar printing, part 1. Solar printing is where you put a special kind of paper, put objects on it and then go somewhere else for awhile. The special paper was solar paper. Solar paper is paper that reacts to light. If you do any solar printing, you need water to stop the chemical process. The paper has to be colored side down. Here's a pic of it looks like at the end. You can put any kind of shape on the paper, including like the picture below.




Ok, Sorry everyone. William lost interest tonight. I think these early mornings just turckered him out.

So, in true William fashion -

That's all for now.

TO BE CONTINUED

February 20, 2014 Snowball fight!!!!

Once upon a time, in a far away galaxy, there was war...again. 

Today we worked on our oxidation artwork. We used the slabs from yesterday with the copper and iron paint on them. We used iron pellets (I don't remember the name). We put liquid onto our slab and then put the pellets on the liquid. Voila! It was like magic! RUST!!! It only worked on the copper on mine for some reason. The copper turned green! It's called patina. 

Today we made Persia ink! We used iron chloride and 1 ml of water  and we used potassium and 2 ml of water. Then we mixed the 2 together in a separate bucket. And we made blue Persian ink . We painted with it. I made Flamedramon, Halsemon, Digmon.(These are characters from Digimon) 

My clay pot is still in the kiln. What's a kiln? A kiln is a type of oven that can heat pottery up to like 2000 fahrenheit! 

We went back outside today! Well, the enemy won again! They destroyed most of my fort! Those kids are so annoying! 

I love my big sister Meggie! Today we watched Doctor Who. See ya, Matt Smith - Hello, New Doctor! I'm gonna miss the 11th - or was he the 12th......

Sock Fight!!!

Today was fun. Like any other day. 

I'm gonna go eat my snack now.

Stay tuned 'til tomorrow!

TO BE CONTINUED...

February 19, 2014 WAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

Once upon a time, in a far away galaxy, there was war...

Today at science camp I, William Benz - William Carl Benz, in fact - did a painting with mixed acids and bases, went outside for war, ate lunch, (I'm not going to talk about lunch) and put iron paint and copper paint on slabs.

Those two things are like when I put iron paint and copper paint on the slabs, guess what?? Guess what happens?!? It looked like the black was on the copper and the copper was on the black . Kinda looks like this, but a little different, but still close. I have not idea why I did this.


Painting with acids and bases was pretty cool. There was a chemical background on our paper, I don't remember what it was. When our background dried, we used 2 acids and 3 bases. The acids made a yellow color and the bases turned a dark color. One acid and base was 1 ph and 14 ph, the most powerful acid and base ph. These are highly reactive - big KABOOM if you add them together. An acid at a ph 1 is hydrochloric acid - VERY dangerous. It could probably eat the tissue of your eye! OUCH!!! A base of 14 is lye. This can hurt you too! But baking soda can't and it's a base. It just depends on the ph.

We went outside for war. And this is where the first line of the blog comes in. I gave my teacher Miss Susie Jedi training. The enemy was ranking up. There were spies of the rebels everywhere. And scouts of the enemy everywhere. We all had to retreat. I went to plan B and surrendered, got thrown in jail, broke out. Plan B backfired. I have a secret plan and a trick up my sleeve for those guys the next time.  I threw snowballs at the enemy. And Ryan and Miss Susie wouldn't stop fighting the enemy. She was a good Jedi, a good Padawan too.


Stay tuned 'til tomorrow.

TO BE CONTINUED.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjMNNpIksaI
(star wars theme...)

February 18, 2014 It's Daddy's Birthday!!!!

Happy Birthday, Daddy!!! I hope you had a nice day!

I went to the museum again! Today we learned about suminagashi. It's a type of Japanese painting using ink and soap. (ink and soap, ink and soap, paper) It was fun. Mine looked pretty. I think I'll be able to bring it home. I'll take a picture of it if I do. Here is an example:



We also did  chromatography. This is where you put line at the bottom of a paper, put it in water and watch the color go up the paper. You make the line with a marker. It showed me the different chemicals that are in marker. Mine showed bluish-greenish. This was fun too!

We got to go to the In Motion studio at the museum. It's a place where you have to go down the hall, go through the nano section, go straight, go through another hall, turn right, turn right again and you're there! You can put balls in tubes and they'll float. There is air shooting up the tubes and the balls float. You can build your own car and race it. You can make a crash dummy video. I did the ball thing and other things too.

I went to our place in space. It has not changed at all. We did everything in that room. Apparently, it's the only room on the 4th floor.

We learned about polar molecules. A polar molecule is a molecule with an unequal number of electrons.

Fencing was fun. Coach won both bouts. Both bouts were 4 to 4. Coach used his skills to beat me.


I'm tired now. I'm going to bed. Tomorrow we get to go outside.

That's all for now! Stay tuned 'til tomorrow.

TO BE CONTINUED...