Test results

Here are the results from my experiment.

This is what happened to the tree, after a few weeks the crystals formed on the branches.

The blue crystal didn't grow, It just solidified at the bottom of the pot.

The white crystal did not go to plan, a layer of crystal grew on the lid of the box and down the sides.

For the tree we are going to put some water in with the crystals at the bottom, and grow it again and add to it to see the result.

Science Experiment

Growing minerals experiment

First we mixed 6.7 fl Oz of water with Chrystal compound (monoammonium phosphate). We allowed the solution to cool while we assembled our Chrystal tree.

Then we placed the glow in the dark moon base into the square container and covered the moon with the warm solution. Next we placed the tub on top of the refrigerator ( the moon Chrystal cluster needs to be above 20 degrees to grow properly.)

For the aqua marine Crystals we poured our Chrystal solution into our hexagonal container, next we  added the blue seeding mixture, mum stirred the mixture before reading that you aren't supposed to, so it will be interesting to see what the final results are like.

For the last experiment we placed the tree into the hexagonal dish and poured in the remaining solution. As an added quirk we decided to add some of the blue solution.

The tree contains tiny fibres within the paper, the saturated solution will slowly creek up these fibres into the paper, this is known as capillary action. (trees and plants draw water and nutrients up from the soil in the same way.) When the water evaporates the small particles dissolved in the water will join together again, forming crystals. 

school holiday summary

holiday topics:

English/History:

For English/History I have been watching a series called Roots, i'm learning about slavery. In Roots we are following a character named Kunta Kinte, the story starts in West Africa where Kunta is training to be a Mandinka warrior. His father, Omoro names him in a naming ceremony and he tells him "You must always honour your ancestors." 

Kunta is captured and enslaved, he is taken on a ship with the other slaves, there is a mutiny where Kunta and the others try to take over the ship. It fails and "uncle" gets killed. The ship arrives in america and Kunta gets sold to a horrible American man. He escapes by joining the 'Red Coats', the English soldiers are fighting the American soldiers. They offer him his manumission papers which means he will be free. During the battle he flees but is captured. The American chops his toes off to stop him running away, he also gives him lashes (whips him) because he wont accept his slave name, Toby, because his name is important to him, he was given it by his father and he wants to remember his roots.
I am also reading a book called 'The Book Of Negroes'

Science:

I have been learning about cells, we did an experiment with agar in petri dishes, after that we took swabs from lots of different things around the house. We were surprised how much bacteria grew in things that we thought should be really clean such as plates, dishwasher and a tv remote! Not quite so surprising was my feet, the swab from my toes went completely black in the end it was one of, if not the worst swab of therm all.

Photography:

I watched a documentary on Vivian Maier.
Vivian was a Nanny, she took hundreds to thousands of pictures during her life but nobody knew that she was such a fantastic photographer until after her death when a man bought a job lot of her films.

My Visit To The Deep

On Wednesday 2nd August I visited the Deep with Barnados, I saw a lot of different creatures and I took a lot of cool photos, I have decided to make a little video with all of them. I really enjoyed the trip and found it a brilliant day out 🙃 My favorite part of the visit was the small jellyfish in the little box with mirrors all around it to make it look like there are lots of jellyfish but actually there was only a few 😁

English

(week commencing 24th July)

Great Expectations

Character summaries

Philip Pirip
I think that Pip is a good person with a kind heart. He sometimes makes mistakes and treats people wrongly (Jo Gargery and Magwitch) but deep down he has a good heart.
Estella
I think that Estella is a good person but then is brought up to be mean, but in the end she is ok.
Mr Jo Gargery
I think that Jo is very nice, for example he said he didn't begrudge Magwitch a piece of pie, but is a not very clever and can be embarrassing.
Mrs Jo
Mrs Jo is Pips sister, she is a very mean person, I think this because she is selfish and doesn't think about anyone else.

Magwitch is a convict so at the beginning we think that he is cruel and that he is evil but then Later we find out that he was sent to prison for attacking the man that hurt his wife, so we start to realise that he is a good person, he is just a mistaken victim.
He also tells Pip the money isn't from doing anything criminal, he has been keeping sheep, so Pip realises that Magwitch was a  wronged man, he has been unfairly treated, for example the man who attacked his wife got a lean sentence (because he was rich), Magwitch got a long prison sentence because he was poor, which is extremely unfair because all he was doing, was protecting his wife.

Vanelope Von Schweetz

Brampton Raceway

Jack and Harmony came for a visit

Picnic at Saltaire

Salt Mill

Week Two

It's been a busy week with lots of  appointments and classes so I have decided to do a summery for the whole week this time.
Last weekend was really cool, we went to Brampton banger races with Grandad. I prefer the Banger races more than the other races because there's more crashes, there was one car ended up on its roof though, that was pretty amazing, the driver was only about my age!

It was also the village festival so everybody was out doing the scarecrow trail, my scarecrow was Vanelope Von Shweetz from Wreck it Ralf but I don't think many people knew who she was! My last few DT lessons were designing a Disney themed scarecrow and making the sweets from fimo for her hair. I enjoyed making the sweets but we ended up making them 3 times because mum kept burning them in the oven!

In Geography I finished my fact collecting about Scotland, next I will be making a Powerpoint with all the information.
Monday afternoon I had my first proper drumming lesson with Bob which was really fun because we made a little list of things I need to remember while drumming, these where: G-P-L (Grip-Posture-Left foot)
We didn't get to swimming/hydrotherapy this week because I had a physio appointment with James, I did some running and hurt my ankles :(  James is putting an exercise program together for me to do excercises at home, he also told mum that the best exercise he can recommend for hypermobility is climbing wall, I think this would be one of the best prescriptions ever!
After physio I went to Kip McGrath for an assessment, my mum signed me up for Maths and English classes 2 nights a week. its not cool but it is better than school so I don't mind it too much.

On Wednesday we went to Saltaire with mums friends from craft club, we spent ages trying to find a café that was wheelchair friendly, in the end me and mum went for a picnic by the river. Next we went in the Salts Mill, we went around the David Hockney Galleries and the shops and museum bit, we watched a film about the man who built the Salts Mill and all the town houses around it, it's named after a man called Sir Titus Salts, he built the Mill and the village because he wanted to do something about the awful conditions and slums that workers had to live in in those times, it opened in 1853 and produced cloth that was shipped all over the world. Unfortunately for us, most of the village buildings have big stone steps and there are lots of cobbled streets, not good for mine and mums ribs.
I picked a new book from the book shop in the mill about a kid that is blind and I picked a postcard of my favourite Hockney painting, its one of the paintings he made on his ipad. I'm going to have a go at painting on the ipad for my next Art class.

Thursday I started to work on my next Science topic The Human Body, this week I did about bones and muscles. I also read a bit more of my History book about World War 1. The conditions were terrible and some of the things they had to eat were gross, the Germans had to eat fake food like bread made with sawdust and coffee made with nuts and coal tar! They did beetle racing and swimming but it was dangerous because the beaches were being shelled and the beaches were full of dead horses and mules.
I went to my first Kip McGrath class (Maths), it wasn't bad but they also gave me homework :(

On Friday we had to go to the Hospital again because my rash was back on my chest, lucky though because the doctor didn't do the biopsy this time, next time I wont get away with it though and she said I have to have the blood tests again when I come for my next appointment. Mum had an appointment to get her wheelchair seat changed in the afternoon so I sat and read my new book while I waited, it was a bit confusing because I thought the character in the book was a boy at first but it turns out its about a blind girl, she is dealing with a bereavement.

Saturday I went to Coding club at the library and did some work on Scratch, I made an interactive band on a stage, and then I showed mum and Rob the ghost I did moving about on the screen. After we went Bowling, I came second! It was a pretty good day :)