These are the strong word choices by the author that I noticed as I read tonight.

kingdom

argue

magic

palace

storm

huge

worries

afraid

listen

mad

blast

guards

blocks

sword

freezes

melt

saved

friend

Ice Cube Keeper Engineering Challenge

Ask: How will my ice cube stay cold?

Next, we imagined what our ice cube keeper would look like, planned, and created it.

I predict that my ice cube will stay frozen 3 hours.

My table:

Time:	Measurement:	Observations:
9:30	4 cm.	Jagged, rectangular
10:11	4 cm.	More like a circle now.
12:08	2 cm.
1:00	2 cm.
2:30	A puddle

 

I might try this to keep my ice cube from melting as soon as it did. My reflections: I think on one of the designs that worked really well, the person put this special foam together with snow under it. It had a hole for the ice cube, and it stayed cold for a long time. It was like a freezer.

 

To improve my design, I noticed my ice cube didn’t stay cold because there were a lot of holes that let the heat come in, so I would fix that.

 

 

After reading The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs, a folk tale where a young boy searches for seven wonders in his own ordinary little country town, we went hunting for wonders in our own lives.

My wonder is my dog Dino.  He makes me wonder, and he is a wonder.  I wonder where Dino used to live.  I wonder if the people who used to have Dino were nice to him.  I wonder who rescued Dino.  I wonder what Dino’s brothers and sisters are like.  I wonder who cared for him before us.  I wonder why the other people didn’t care for him.  I wonder why Dino chews through every stuffy or kid toy he sees.  I wonder why he turned so big before he turned one.  I wonder where his brother and sister are because they got separated.  I wonder why Dino likes my mom more than everybody else.  I wonder why the first time it rained when we had him, he was scared.

Three facts I learned while I was reading:

It rains a few inches a year.

It can snow in the desert!

Cactuses store water inside them.

 

Two questions I have for the author:

How do cactuses grow with thorns?

Is the water in the cactus good to drink?

 

One thing that I thought was the most interesting:

I didn’t know that it sometimes snows in the desert.

So how you play Red Light Green Light is where first you pick a person to be It.  Then the person that you picked turns around.  Next, the person that is It says, “Red light!” or “Green light!”  Third, you get into a line before the person says red light or green light.  Finally, if a person moves that is not It, they are out.  That is how you play Red Light Green Light.

moving clouds

blazing sun

blowing wind

swimming person

dozing stingray

snooping shark

flowing water

swimming fish

falling coconuts

resting girl

standing umbrella

playing music

 

blazing hot ashes

warm flaming blazing burning

sweaty monster home