My first post in months, friday show and tell and projects that we have been doing.
I have not been on my blog for a long time, but I will start to do some posts more often. Yesterday we got two kits, one on circuit boards that teach you about electricity, circuits, how to make a dynamo, circuit boards, how traffic lights work, a generator and lots of other things work on circuit boards. It is really interesting. I have done Three projects out of it so far. We also have a Triop volcano kit. Triops are very interesting crustaceans that are related to wood lice and crabs. The name "triops" means dinosaur shrimps or tadpole shrimps. In the kit there is a plastic water tank and a nursery tank and food and triop eggs, a magnifying glass and various tools. With the things from the kit you can raise your own little critters and they grow up to 4cm and live for two months. They originate from some part of America. I will post some pictures of them when they are grown.
Today I have been doing some bird-watching out our back garden for a hour and have written down what I saw. I saw some black birds, blue-tit's, four great tit's, some robins and a house sparrow. Some of them where feeding on Mum's bird feeder and the fat balls. Some other birds that we see quite often are wood pigeons (we had some nesting in our tree-house tree last year), magpies and other types. We went on a boat trip with some friends last year on Lough-neagh which is the biggest lake Great Britain, to Coney Island and saw lots of interesting birds there. Lough-neagh is just a short walk from where we used to live. On the edge of the lake there is wildlife center called Oxford Island which we used to visit quite often.
These are some pencil that I made out of some wood from the holly tree. First I chopped it to the right length. Then I drilled a hole and removed the sawdust. Finally, I poured melted crayon wax into it and left it to harden then whittled a point.
I have also made these animals out of some oak. The turtle I made by carving the shell and pattern on the top and then gluing on the legs and head. I made the snake next and then the crocodiles.
Lately I have been making a bird feeder out of a book that shows you how too make Bird-feeders, shelters and bird-baths, It is a very good book. I am making it for someone but I can not say who because they might look at my blog. This afternoon me and Caleb are going to go swimming.
Today it is Elijahs (my second smallest brother, (I have three brothers)) second birthday. At the moment mum is baking a cake to eat later. Dad made him a cool wooden rocking horse that me and Caleb helped sand it and helped build for one of his presents. Mum made a neat quilt and knitted a jumper with a picture of Bob the tomato on it. If you are wondering what Bob the tomato is, it is a cartoon tomato of veggietales, one of Elijahs favorite videos. The rest of us got him crayons and some animals. This afternoon I helped Dad planted some bush's at the bottom of the garden. I will post some photos some time soon, I was going to do it now but i can't do it till Mum uploads them onto the computer.
Yesterday (Saturday) we went to our friends house for Davids birthday and stayed there for dinner and had some birthday cake. We also brought our bows and we used some of Davids arrows and we made a target by drawing on a plank of chip-board wood with some yellow road paint. We also did a few projects out of a chemistry set that David got for his birthday and the girls baked some cookies. After dinner we went up the lane with the bikes. I had a good time. I will put some photos on later.
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This week I have been making a few things. Here is a electric motor I made on Wednesday, It is from Opitec. First I cut the pine strips and glued them in place, then I made the bearing block, then the motor by winding the copper wire windings around the bits of metal and did a few other things then wired it up to the battery then tried it.
Here is a spider that I made out of ready cut balsa wood.
All you have to do is sand it then assemble and glue it.
Yesterday a bit of its two front legs broke but its not really noticeable.
This is a axe I carved out of some pine wood that my friend let me take from his wood pile. I carved it with my new chisels and files mum got me and Caleb from B&Q.
Today we watched three readers digest videos that are called the great national parks of the world. They showed you all about different national parks, rainforest's and animals. Yesterday I accidentally cut my finger.
Today we drove down to Portrush to the beach which is called "white rock beach" because it has large cliffs made out of white limestone. After we had our lunch we had a walk along the beach and looked in some small caves that where hollowed out of the limestone by waves when the tide was up. There was also some large volcanic rocks from volcanoes that erupted around the time of the flood. We also looked in some small rock pools. Then we had a walk back to the car then we had a short drive to a castle that was built on the very edge of the cliff. We looked at the castle then drove back home. It was all very interesting.
I think, and I am sure everyone else does too, that it is about time I did more blogging, as I have not done any for about a week or two. Today Caleb and I washed the windows. Our mum has made a blog and there is a link to it at the top of the page. By the way i forgot to do the Friday show and tell last Friday so i think I will just do it next Friday. We are going to some of our friend's house again in about a week. Last time we were there we made potato bread, it was really nice and I had a fun time baking it and watching it cook on a large griddle over the fire and saw the way people cooked in the old days. Potato bread is native to Ireland because Ireland is famous for growing potatoes and it is made mainly out of potatoes. We also made some with some stewed apples in the middle. They let us bring it home, it was very nice and we had it the next day for breakfast.
us holding some frogs we caught that day.
mashing the potatoes before putting the rest of the ingredients in.
Today I did most of my school work and saxon math and now I am blogging. At the moment Caleb and Beth are baking carrot cake and my little brother is asleep. Tomorrow we are going to our friend David's house. Have to go and put the dishes away for my sister because she is doing the baking dishes then I will be going outside.
At the moment I am holding Piglet the ginnie-pig and he is putting a million hairs all over me. I think Elijah wants a hold. Oh no, the ginnie pig has just had a accident all over my leg and now its all wet, I think I better change my trousers. By the way today I did my s&t today and I will probably do it next week too.
This is my first show and tell. I thought I'd show my flag collection of countries I've visited. If anyone would like to trade flags of their countries with me, send me a message. I will send one of either Ireland or GB.
Last night we got a new baby brother! He was born at 00:52. He is really cute! He and mum are coming back from the hospital soon and i can not wait to see him. His name is going to be Enoch seth. Today we are going to go and buy them some presents flowers and a card. I will post some photos of him soon.
In August we went to Rudersberg in Germany for a couple of weeks and did a house swap with some people and stayed in there house. We drove and camped through England on the way there. when we were in England we went to the Coventry transport museum. When we arrived in Rudersberg in Germany we saw the Englert's for a while. They have a very big house and garden. They also have a ping pong table and a game room. While we were there we went to the Bueren open air museum, the Mercedes museum, Tripsdrill (a German theme park and animal park) and lots of forest walks and also went on a bike ride up through Rudersburg and up some hills were you could get a nice view of the vineyards around the place. We went to the Hinderers butchers shop a couple of minutes walk from our house into the village and saw the butchers boys Lukas and Frederik and they invited us for a BBQ and had German sausages and meat, it was very nice. Afterwards we let of fire works and fire crackers with Frederik and Lukas when it was dark.
As I said before I like to do wood working as one of my hobbies and here are some pictures of what I have made. Most of the things are from the Opitec company but I have also carved a wooden boat for my friend David with my brothers chisels and used some scrap cloth for the sail but I can't find a picture of it though.
This is a water mill I made from a kit I got for my birthday last year
I also made a working drawbridge that included a lot of soldering and wiring which was a bit tricky but was very fun.
Hi, my name is Ariel and I have three brothers (Caleb 11, Elijah 2, and Enoch one month) and two sisters (Bethany 9, and Talitha 6.) I also have a guinea-pig and some hens
that only lay some times. I like making things, growing things, wood working, carving, driving our petrol go-cart.
Some of my favourite books are The outdoor book for adventurous chaps, the Trail -blazer collecting (they are based on missionary stories.) (David Livingstone, Jim Eliot and people like that.) I also like the dangerous book for boys that tells you how to make bow and arrows and different things.
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, as I have not done any for about a week or two. Today Caleb and I washed the windows. Our mum has made a blog and there is a link to it at the top of the page. By the way i forgot to do the Friday show and tell last Friday so i think I will just do it next Friday. We are going to some of our friend's house again in about a week. Last time we were there we made potato bread, it was really nice and I had a fun time baking it and watching it cook on a large griddle over the fire and saw the way people cooked in the old days. Potato bread is native to Ireland because Ireland is famous for growing potatoes and it is made mainly out of potatoes. We also made some with some stewed apples in the middle. They let us bring it home, it was very nice and we had it the next day for breakfast.
us holding some frogs we caught that day.
then I will be going outside.
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