The happy puffy cloud

On the way back from swimming one day my mom and I know what is this beautiful cloud in the sky. We were driving and it was really hard to see the cloud perfectly so I really wanted to take a picture of it and we decided to pull over and stop the car and get out and take a picture. So we did it was a beautiful cloud and it made me very happy I love noticing nature and it's beauty it touches me at makes me happy. I wanted to remember this puffy cloud so here's a picture of it and we often play this game with my mom and my siblings and my dad we lay down in the grass and we look up at the sky and the clouds and think of all the shapes that they're making and use our imagination. Long live creativity and imagination!!!!!

One mile swim and the Olympics

Yes On Friday last week I swam 1 mile with my mom at the local YWCA. It was a wonderful experience and my body felt so happy. In the beginning it was a bit hard but then I kept going on and on and on and didn't even want to stop after the 72nd lap. It is fun now to watch the Olympics in London this year and the swimmers around the whole world are inspiring me. We have been watching the opening ceremony and have been watching vollyball and beach-ball and tennis and track and field and fencing and really love sports

Public Speaking

Today was my first official public speaking engagement. I really enjoyed doing it. I think because I practiced many times before hand what I was going to say it made it easier when I had to speak the day of my public speaking engagement. I even showed pictures which I drew to go along with my talk. At the end everyone told me what a great job I have done. It was wonderful after practice so much that it went great. I love public speaking and next time I have to do it I'll do even better.

The Normans

The Normans were Vikings. The Vikings attacked France but when Charlemagne was king of France the Viking’s attacks were unsuccessful. When Charlemagne died the Viking’s raided and raided and raided until the French gave them some land in turn for protection from other Viking’s. When other Viking’s came the Viking’s in France defended the French. After some time the Viking’s in France settled, converted to Christianity and became Normans. The first Norman king was Rollo the king after him (Richard the fearless) spent a lot of time fighting off the French but at last there was peace. And one Norman king set off on a journey to Jerulasam called a pilgrimage and died on the way back to Normandy. All he left behind was a 8year old William. It was hard for William to become king. He had many strong enemy’s the strongest was guy of burgundy he had allies to his strongest ally was a bishop a leader of a church but when the bishop died guy of burgundy took over . William fled to France and henry the king of France welcomed him and helped him by attacking Normandy with his forces after guy of burgundy died in a battle against the French William became king but he called himself duchy of Normandy. William looked over the seas toward England. He wanted to conquer England because Edward the confessor was close to death and had no heir. William was a distant cousin of Harold Godwinson the heir chosen by Edward Harold was not related to Edward at all but he was a good choice. One day Harold was in a boat and a storm blew him to the shore of Normandy and wrecked his ship there when William heard the news he was happy. What luck! he and a troop of soldiers ran to the shores to meet Harold William brought him to one of his castles and treated him kindly & gave him a feast when the feast was done William took the table cloth and reviled bones of saints he made Harold swear an oath on them swearing on bones of saints was considered sacred . The oath was to say that William was the rightful heir to throne when Edward died. Harold swear it because he was in Williams’s castle and did not want to get captive or killed. William set Harold on his way with a new ship. When Edward died Harold did not keep his promise and he was crowned king on his crowning day Haley’s comet was in view of the earth and many said that it as a bad omen because Harold did not keep his oath. Harald Hardarda of Norway attacked England and conquered a few cites he took hostages and decided to exchange his prisoners for gold so he and a few other men with no armor because it was so hot they weard skins instead when they came a bridge were they were supposed to get the gold but when they came the whole English army marched on the bridge Harald Hardada sent two riders to his ships were the rest of the army was when the riders came to the ship they called everyone to come and help fight but when they set off most took their armor off and walked there those who didn’t died because it was so hot for Viking’s
and the battle of Stamford bridge was utter defeat for Harald Hardada and he died . when the English defeated the Viking’s the Normans attacked at the south the Vikings had attacked from the north so Harold’s army had to march all the way south and when he got there his army was exhausted and camped on a hill near the Norman’s camp the William decided to attack and that was the battle of Hastings in the battle the English made a wall of swordsmen on the top of the hill and the Norman’s charged with Calvary the Norman’s were winning. When suddenly some swordsmen from the wall of swordsmen charged and destroyed a lot of the Calvary and made William fall of his horse all the Normans thought he was dead and were about to give up when William got up and said he was alive then the Normans fought stronger and at last the Normans won and Harold died after that it was easy to conquer the other cites because there was not a king and the Normans conquered England. Williams conquer of England earned him the name William the conquer .the Danes attacked Norman-England and they did not conquer anything.




The Normans in Italy


the Norman Italians were mercenaries byzantine mercenaries that attacked Italy under a byzantine general they conquered a lot of cites but when the general died the army fell apart and some Normans attacked Italy more and took it for themselves they conquered Sicily, Malta and part of north Africa the first Italy Norman king was William iron arm there greatest leader was Robert Guiscard he maintained all those lands at the same time! After him all the Italian barons revolted because a new king had power over them now a Sicilian king his name Roger. Germany and byzantine banded together and called aid from the pope in Rome he helped the anti-Norman army attack the Normans. Under Rogers control they were beat. Roger did not attack and did not do one open battle at all. He waited and waited let the summer sun, bugs and revolts in Germany and byzantine make the German byzantine army go away without them the pope was powerless he signed a peace treaty with roger and went back to Rome . Roger had defeated his enemies without bloodshed! He was a wise king but after him Norman Italy fell apart Malta and north Africa were conquered by Arabs and the barons in Italy revolted and revolted and the Byzantine ,German army attacked again and the Normans in Italy were conquered .

Swimming

Yes I have been swimming a lot lately. It is such a beautiful sport and my body feels very good after I swim. True I am tired but it is a good kind of tired I love to do it as much as I can we go to the YMCA in Newburyport. I go there with my brother and sister and mommy and daddy and last time I went I swim 24 laps. Every time my goal goals up and up and up it is wonderful to be in the water when it is so hot outside. The month of July on our beach on Plum Island there are so many green heads that we just don't go to the beach. So we swim in the pool all a lot. I really enjoyed backstroke and crawl. But I think backstroke might be my favorite. Both my mom and my dad were on swim teams so it is fun to have them as my teachers. We go almost every day sometimes when my daddy gets home sometimes on the weekend for example on Saturday we went for two hours. I think I might try the swim team next year

Soccer

I love soccer it is probably my favorite sport I also like swimming a lot I usually play soccer for Newburyport but this summer I'm playing for Amesbury because that is the only league that plays soccer in the summer in the fall I will play Newburyport again. I play on the same team as my younger brother in London. It is fun to be with him on the same team Sometimes it's hard waking up for an early game like last Saturday we had a game at 8 o'clock in the morning we had to go to bed early on Friday night so that we can wake up early on Saturday we played great. The score was 5 to 0 for our team. It is a wonderful game our dad is our coach and we love that. There are some wonderful kids on our team we've made some great friends with them just last week we watched the European soccer cup. We were chairing for Spain the whole way through and yes they became the European champions. They play really really really good. I love the game soccer.

An interesting experiment

This was so fun. Our friends have a sun stove my mom and dad said that we are probably going to buy one as well anyhow we went and cooked an egg in it it with no water. The temperature was 350°F. And then we put the egg and it took 10 minutes until it was hard-boiled. Then we could've eaten it was a very interesting experiment and I really like Sun stoves
now. They would sure come in handy if there was a natural disaster or we lost power. And of course it can't rain since we need the sun to cook our food. Here are some pictures

The solar station

My mom and brother and sister and I went to meet some friends at a nearby solar station which was run by the US government. Our friend was the captain and showed us around including the two telescopes with which we saw the sun it was very interesting he also showed us a PowerPoint presentation explaining important things about the sun and it's rays. I also really enjoyed drawing on their dry erase board with erase markers and drew a Roman and a Viking and had so much fun.

Playdoh creations

I have been creating different pieces with Playdoh my favorite is the Viking. I also like Mario and the cat that I did

Air-conditioners

Air-conditioners are really amazing we have few of them in our house. I have studied them and understands now that the hot air from the outside turns into cold air on the side. I have watched videos about them and it's interesting to understand how the process really happens.