Building Houses

We want to know
-how do they get up on the top of the roof and make the roof, they don't bring ladders, they can't even stand on the roof because it's not even made yet, so how do they do that?
-if houses can lift up a house
-is a bigger house stronger than a littler house or are they same size

What we did
-sang "The Wise Man" and talked about the symbolism of Christ being the solid foundation to build upon, and Satan being the sandy foundation.
-drove around to construction sites at different stages and took pictures
-treehouse building game
http://www.agame.com/game/tree-house-building.html#jump_manual
-built a house with a styrofoam foundation, skewers for 2x4's, poster board for wood boards, foam board for dry wall and a poster board and skewers for the roof. We carpeted the floor, made stairs, and put shingles on the roof. Ezra and Noah painted it.
-talked about the contractor and subcontractors

Foundation


Wood Panels and Drywall


Roof and Painting


Finishing


Final Product

Bowling

We want to know
-if bowling is really really hard
-if the ball is really really heavy
-if the ball is just like a weight
-is the ball heavier than you think?
-is the ball a circle like a grape? Does is crack like a grape?
-if any bowling ball is green, or is there only one

Poem
Polar Bowling
It used to be that polar bears
went bowling, just for grins,
with snowballs for their bowling balls
and penguins as the pins.

The bears would have a blast
with all the snowballs that they threw.
The penguins weren't as happy;
that's the only time they flew.

So penguins all moved south and now
they're at the other pole.
Well, wouldn't you move far away
if bears used you to bowl?
--Kenn Nesbitt

What we did
-listened to a bowling song by Raffi-
http://new.music.yahoo.com/raffi/tracks/bowling-song--764556

-played subtraction bowling. We set up 10 blocks (pins) and rolled a tennis ball to knock them down. I had him count the number of pins he knocked down and the number of pins that were left.

-Went bowling with Grandpa Miller! Noah won (101), Livi (99), Ezra and Grandpa
(87), me (75)I've never bowled so low in my life. Ezra didn't use the ramp, the other kids did. It was really fun!


We want to know:

Cookies

We want to know-how do you get chocolate chips inside cookies
-if cookies can get burnt
-if you can slice cookies if they are the hardest cookies ever
-if you can make cookie stand up by itself
-if cookies can get ripped easily

Ezra's recipe



I asked Ezra how to make cookies. Here is his recipe:

3 inches of salt
1 gulp of milk
2 eggs

I would mix salt, milk and eggs in a bowl. Then roll them into balls. Then bake them in an oven that is burning hot.

He made this recipe and added butter and granola. We baked it at 270 for 30 minutes. He sprinkled it with salt and we ate it as a side dish for dinner.

Noah's Pancake Recipe

Mix:
Lamanites
chickens
beans
Cook them on the griddle


The World's Biggest Cookie



We learned
-the biggest cookie ever was made by immaculate baking company http://www.immaculatebaking.com/company_bigcookie.php
picture of it: http://my.opera.com/Ghatne/blog/2009/04/10/weird-world-records
It used 40000 pounds of ingredients.(About 5 elephants. Ezra wanted to know). It took 8 months of planning and buildng the oven. It was 100 ft in diameter. They raised $20,000 from selling pieces of it.

What we did
-sang C is for cookie
-wrote the ookie family -cookie, bookie, lookie, tookie
-drew a picture of the ultimate cookie - had candy, marshmallows, and ended up with pants, a shirt and a hat.
-made playdough and cut it out with cookie cutters
-brought cookies to people in the ward

Playdough
4 3/4 c (24 oz) flour
2 c (16 oz) water
1 c salt

Computers

We want to know
-if computers are like your brain, it could be like sun because I think sun needs electricity, hot like fire needs electricity
-what computers do for us
-how they work
-what parts there are

We Learned
-the CPU it helps the computer think, it is the brain of the computer
-there is a motherboard, it sends messages like electricity messages to the computer
-there are little things like cords, they are like little gray casts, they connect things to the motherboard, the electricity goes through that to the computer
-heat sync, you can get an ice cube and it melts it even when it's not plugged in or attached to anything, it diffuses heat and cold, it is a heavy copper piece
-memory sticks help the computer remember stuff
-video card - helps the picture on the screen

We Did
-Mike took a computer apart for us and showed us the parts and told us what they did
-http://videos.howstuffworks.com/howstuffworks/23-computer-tour-video.htm
-I turned Ezra into a computer and gave him math problems to solve
-I turned my computer off and wrote a list with pictures of how to turn it on and get to PBSkids.org. He did it, the password was tricky for him, so he had to type it a few time. He followed the steps then got to play on the computer