My inventions today

Today I made a foosball game with a shoe box , playmobiles, pencils , paintbrushes , scissors and tape . It was pretty hard to make but I did it . I also made a pulley elevator out of salt boxes , a lamp and some string . It works by putting a weight in one box that makes the other box go up !

My periscope and my ice ball

Today my siblings and I made a ice ball by filling a water ballon and putting it in the freezer . 2 hours later we opened the freezer and we had a ice ballon ! I cut the part of the ballon that was tied and wallah ! A ice ball !

I also made a periscope out of a "Quaker oats " box here's how it works : your eyesight looks at one mirror at the bottom of the box and if you angle the mirror right you can see the top of the box and put a mirror there it reflects your eyesight to a hole at the top and you can see !

a look through the periscope from the bottom. 

a look through the periscope from the top.

my periscope and how  your eyesight bounces  off the mirrors 

how a periscope works

ice ball ( horizontal)

ice ball

Pettson's inventions

Pettson's inventions is a App made by Filimundus AB it is very fun and helps us learn about physics I beat all the inventions Today!! I won and here is what happens when you win .

Lego building

today we spent most of the day building Lego's . we had so fun making different things 

a spaceship i made

my Lego business i made

Lego badger 

the white and black Lego Moose. 

tall male Lego Moose

two Lego Moose on my Lego business

Lego Moose man

a Lego figure on a Lego Moose

 another Lego spaceship

my business with all the Moose

my business full view

a Lego spaceship with rocket boosters 

a spaceship

a tall Lego moose man a foot tall

Marie curie and radioactivity

Marie curie was a scientist who studied radioactivity . radioactivity is when a atom decays it let's of particles ( like protons and neutrons) and become a totally different atom . and she was interested in science since she was very young .she was not allowed to go to school in poland (poland was part of russia and the poles hated the Russians ) though . Because of her passion of science she went to Paris for college and became one of the first woman professors there. And married a French man called Pier Curie . The curies experimented with uranium and Marie
Came up with an idea that radioactivity was caused within the atom and that the atom was changing .Before her scientist's thought atoms did not change . She found out that substances with more uranium had stronger rays and substances with less uranium have weaker rays . She experimented with a mineral called thorin and see found the same results as with the uranium and called it radioactivity . She execrated uranium from a rock called pitchblende she discovered that the pitchblende had a stronger radioactivity then uranium she
execrated from the pitchblende . So with pier's help she found two new
Elements from the pitchblende called polonium Po 84 and radium Ra 88 . In 1903 The curies and Henri becquerel ( who found radioactivity but did not name it ) revived the noble prize in physics and in Marie got the noble prize for chemistry for finding the two elements . radioactivity was useful but also harmful Marie died of a blood
Disease caused by radioactivity .

ROMNEY-RYAN!!!

Today we went to the polls and my mom and dad voted for ... MITT! they know Mitt Romney  personally and after they voted we went on the other side of the street and we petitioned with two home made signs (me and my granpa made them ) one free sign (that we got at a Romney Rally in new Hampshire ) and we had other Friends who petitioned with us many pepole honked at us it was so fun !! one biker yelled "RRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEYYYY!!!!!"
it was fun .

us and our friend

my little sister

us and two other Friends for Republicans

NYC vacation trip

My family and I went to New York City on vacation. My mom drove that car through the night in the thick rain and fog. We left at 4:30 in the morning Newburyport and ended up in Manhattan by eight. After that we got into the most amazing apartment where we were staying. The views from the apartment were spectacular. It was a busy and polluted city I enjoyed watching the three musicals on Broadway. We saw newsies lion King and wicked. They were fun I think I liked most lion King. The costumes were so beautiful. It was nice to have a taxi all around the city so that we can not worry about being stuck in traffic or taking the subway. It rained quite a bit that day but the next day was nice and sunny. My brother night and my sister went to a big toy store called FAO. Here are some pictures from our trip.

The Lord or the Rings Trilogy

I have just finished reading the lord of the rings series.

You know that they are 8^th grader series and I’m a 4th grader, but I was able to understand it fine. 

They were fun books and my favorite parts where when Sam attacked Shelob ,when Gimli  and Legolas were playing a game in which they trying to see who could kill the most orcs, when Gollum fell into the cracks of Mt. Doom, when Aragon came and helped Gondor to win the first battle, when everyone celebrated their victory over Saruon and when Eomer met Aragon on the battlefield .

I learned that if you’re in tough times you should never give up hope and that if you’re small and weak it doesn’t mean you can’t do amazing things. The hobbits in this book are a great example.

Here are some of my pictures from the series.

the house of Gondor includes Boromir prince of Gondor (top left), Farimir steward of Gondor (top right )and Denathor king of Gondor (bottom right)

here is Denathor(playMobil version) top left, Thedon  (playMobil version),top center,a soldier of  Gondor (top right),Thedon king of Rhohan (bottom left) and Eomer prince of Rhohan

here are the hobbits of the fellowship

here are all the strongest in battle from the fellowship

First Program

I've been learning some programming on Khan Academy.

Here is a link to the first program I created.

It is an animation where you can swing a sword , hit  falling enemys,get a higher score,have health and go through levels  It's based on Zelda here's what it looks like

i drew this one

 this is what it looks like when you click the link

Arcademic skill builders

Arcademic skill builders helps with math skills me and my brother have been playing it a lot

Khan academy progress

This picture shows all my math progress in khan academy. This year I worked mostly on multiplication

beach and clams

today me and my family went to the beach with some friends and they thought us to go clamming . we found ten clams but they weren't very big we got hungry so we went back to the camp to eat . after we ate we went to play in the water i swam a bit . after that we found a hermit grab and started to make a place for him to stay while we were digging out sand we found two clams good sized ones . so we kept digging and while we were digging we saw a clam jump ! it really jumped ! we kept a eye on them for a bit when one of our friends found a moon snail we but it with the clams and it started to go on top of one as if it were eating it ! we took it of quickly and put it in a separate place . i kept an eye on the clams and snail while everyone else kept digging and finding more clams . while i was watching one clam started to dig under i quickly pulled it out .we kept finding clams and snails . we found two more hermits and now had three . sooner or later there was no space to put more sea creatures in so we moved the to a much wider and bigger place . but it led to the ocean so me and my brother built a large wall with rocks and sand so no one could escape . we dug and dug and found twenty-one clams seven snails and seven hermits . we kept an eye on them and sometimes they jumped and sometimes dug under whenever they dug under we had to grab them so they wouldn't escape . but some times we just watched them to see what the would do it was fun and fascinating  time at the beach

here is my sister with some moonsnails

here is a hole where we put the hermits

here are the clams

here are all  the creatures we found at the beach

here is my brother making the wall

Thirty years war

the Spanish general  Don Ambrosio Spinola

Ferdinand the second holy roman emperor  

The thirty years war was a conflict between most of Europe .it started out as a religious war and ended out as a war for power and land .here's how it started . There were many German states in the holy roman empire and some of them were Protestant or Luther and some were Catholic .so there started to be tensions between the states and it seemed they were going to fight each other .so the holy roman emperor ( a devout Catholic ) quickly made a law that said all states can worship whatever they want. but that didn't work because in 1618 the bohemian ( now part of the czech republic ) revolt began. the Protestant bohemians did not like there Catholic rulers and a group of them threw two catholic noble men or prague castle window ! what they did was called the defenestration of Prague which means throwing someone out the window . after that the bohemian noble men chose Protestant Frederick to be there king and he became allies with the ottomans by sending Ambassadors to Istanbul . The ottomans in return send ambassadors to prague . The ottomans attacked Poland won a few battles then lost one and withdrew from the war after that they stopped there alliance with bohemia . Catholic holy roman emperor Ferdinand became emperor in 1619 and send his army to bohemia . in 1 year defeated the bohemians .Frederick fled to Protestant Netherlands .now bohemia was Catholic . Spain entered the war in 1621. (Here are the reasons they enters the war . #1 because Ferdinand the II war a member of the Hapsburg family which included Spain and Austria #2 because they wanted power and they thought if they helped the holy roman empire he would give them some power ) on the empires side and attacked the Netherlands in 4 years Netherlands asked Denmark and England to help the English could not help much because they were in the middle of a civil war . Under Christian IV Denmark attacked the northern holy roman empire and took some land .Then Denmark asked France to help even though France was Catholic it helped Denmark because it's enemy's were the Hapsburg's the combined army of the French and the Danes took more land . So Ferdinand the II holy roman emperor made Tilly and Wallenstein his generals and Tilly marched towards the Danes while

Gustavus Adolphus

Wallenstein marched towards a Protestant German army . The Danes were defeated because France were in a civil war ( the war with the Protestant Huguenots ) and England was also in the middle of a civil war . The Germans were also defeated at the battle of Dessau bridge . The swedes enters the war under Gustavus Adolphus  ( here are the reasons the swedes entered the war • Gustavus wanted to become Holy roman emperor
• the swedes thought that the Hapsburg's were to powerful
• the swedes wanted to help the Protestant cause ) and won many battles there biggest victory was the battle of Breitenfeld but at the battle of Lützen Gustavus was killed and the swedes withdrew a year or so later . After that the French kept fighting they lost to the Spanish at the starting but defeated them later the .Danes helped the Spanish fight the French after they were conquered by Tilly . The war ended with the peace treaty of Westphalia . after the war France became the most powerful european nation . Many people died during the war not only the soldiers but civilians to . The war nearly halved the population of most German states .

Cardinal de Richelieu of France 

Wallenstien the Catholic  general