Wood

What we want to know
-how many bird houses can a man make in day
-could man build a big house if a transformer got all the wood
-how did wood get so strong
-if you took some water and built up rocks and fold them in the wood and gather them and piece that little piece of ice cream then they throwed the rocks in the lake, then
would the snow go on the wood?

What we did

Poem
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck
If a wood chuck could chuck wood

how paper is made- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGH7kQ30SKo
how toilet paper is made- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrg_6dny6Po

Made Paper


We collected scraps of paper, toilet paper, and cardboard and tore them up into little pieces. We blended them with water, drained them on a screen and baked it in the oven. Noah and Ezra drew pictures on it.

Ezra's picture


Noah's picture


Math
We played baseball. The boys took turns and tracked their hits and misses. We counted and added them up at the end.

Writing
Ezra collected all of the wood items he could find in the toy room and wrote a list by sounding them out. He did a pretty good job.

Story of a Tree
Ezra drew a stump of a tree with eight rings making it eight years old. Here is the story he wrote about it.
This tree was planted in the forest. It is a peach tree. There are peanut, apple, pear, and orange trees around it. It's as tall as a big transformer. We get 100 peaches from it every year. It has 100 branches so it can carry all the peaches. They sell the peaches for money in Africa. They grow them in Italy and sell them, then they sell them, then they sell them until they get to Africa. Then they have money which they use to buy more fruit and dogs at the pet store. An eight year old boy takes care of the tree. The boy named the tree Soft Peach. The wood can make 109 wood.

Read "The Walnut Tree" The story of the pulpit of the conference center
story
http://www.sugardoodle.net/Conference%20Center/The_Walnut_Tree.shtml
picture http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e1hQ3qa9H2U/SBaJ50zWlI/AAAAAAAAAK4/J3h2xZnpkD8/s320/pulpit.jpg
Summary
Ezra- There was a tree in President Hinckley's yard that was so tall. He went to the bank and told them we need to cut it down. People wanted to make money off it and put it in the news. They found someone else to do it. Then they made a pulpit, boxes for the kids and pens for the prophets

We learned
wood comes from trees, 4 billion trees are cut down every year for paper

how paper is made
Ezra- get wood and burn it and put it in a big fire, make it with water like oatmeal, then they get the water out, then roll it into big pieces of paper, then they cut it and wrap it

Uses for wood
Ezra- with wood we can make: pulpits, pens, birdhouses, robots, houses, little toy houses, puzzles, tables, banisters, boxes, doors, speakers, paper, handles of saws and hammers