Some Great Things About June

1. No school for half of it.
2. No homework in June--teacher gives us this month off.
3. Warm weather. Can wear shorts every day.
4. Swimming in the club, especially using the hot tub.

Comics

Lately, I've been making a lot of comics. I got a game called WarioWare DIY. Unlike most games, where the main point is playing the game, in this game, the point is building the games. In fact, this "game" is actually a suite of programs for making games, music, and comics---essentially a lightweight object oriented programming language (according to Daddy. I don't know what that is. I only know it's fun.)

Anyway, my comics have mostly been about battles between heroes and evil black goo with fangs. Here's one strip (4 panels): 1. Goo covers the city. 2. It starts eating the buildings with its fangs. 3. Hordes of "clone" heroes descend from the sky and squish the goo flat as a pancake. 4. The city is saved.

I like to share my stuff too. You can upload games and comics so that anyone else with a DSi and this game can check it out.

Play

Did my play last week. As you know, I was the golden goose in Jack and the Beanstalk. The play went really well. One parent said it was the best 2nd grade production she'd ever seen. We all got a bonus score from our music teacher for the quality of the production. Everyone told me I did a good job. I tried to sing in a really cool and interesting way. I used lots of vocal tricks. It was lots of fun. Some of you will be lucky enough to get a DVD of my performance. Watch your mail!

Lemonade Stand

On Memorial Day, we ran a special holiday lemonade stand. We used our usual "secret" recipe. I made a big sign advertising and would let passers by know that lemonade was for sale. We ended up selling through two pitchers of lemonade. I made about 10 bucks.

Parachutes

In another of our science projects, we discovered the art of making parachutes on Saturday. For this project, we cut parachutes out of pieces of paper and then dropped them from off of my play structure. We kept a stopwatch and a notepad to time how long each took to fall. I thought up the idea that we should have some "controls" as well. The controls are regular pieces of paper with nothing done to them. We then replicated the results inside using a stepladder so as to take wind out of the equation. Here's what we learned:

1. The control works pretty well. It was better than all but three of our designs.
2. Circles with scalloped edges work better than glider-like shapes.
3. The wind actually made things fall faster rather than slower. (To determine this, we calculated the height from which we dropped things inside and outside. We had the time from the stopwatch, and speed is height/time).

Bridges

 

This weekend we did something really cool. We designed bridges made completely out of paper. Daddy set up 2 Lego stanchions 15" apart and announced that the job was to build a bridge to connect them. We engineers tubes out of paper to form support columns, the underbed for the road, and cross-braces. We then kept adding cars to see how many toy cars the bridge could hold before it collapsed. In the first round, Daddy's bridge won. But in round 2, my bridge won. At the time Daddy's collapsed, it was holding about 4 pounds of cars on the roadbed.