Ben Franklin & Thomas Edison

Ben Franklin is an inventor, as well as Thomas Edison.  Tom had many other jobs before he became an inventor.  He was a railroad news butch, telegraph operator, and then he decided to experiment with electricity and built the light-bulb.  Ben was mostly an inventor, but he always had great ideas and never stopped experimenting. Thomas Edison created a very important invention that was very helpful, the light-bulb.  Ben Franklin made a great tool as well, the lightning rod. The two inventors I think helped their community with problems from what they invented, and helped fulfill global goal #11, Sustainable Cities and Communities.

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What do you think about when you hear the word peace?  When I hear it, I think of a peaceful world with people working together on everything and solving global problems, like goal #16, Peace, Justice, And Strong Institutions.  Some people are even scared that they might not be able to buy or get enough food to survive, or are scared enough because of violence, to not even leave their home.

Another way to think about what peace means, is when people are surrounded by safety, love, and friendship.  If someone is poor, hurt, or suffering, we as a part together should help each other and be peaceful and calm.  War is one of the things against from peace, which we should stop together because war is created by us, people.  When something is created and forms into a fight among people, others join their side and that causes war.  We want our world to be peaceful and our people need to think about themselves rather than accusing someone else that they might not have even done, and create wonderful peace.

Global Goals!                   

Our world has many problems and most of them are caused by us (people) and so we can help to fix them.  The problems include Climate Change, Poverty, Inequality, and much more.  It is possible to help keep our world safe, comfortable, and healthy with the 17 global goals that the United Nations got together for and made solutions.

These goals are a very good idea, but our world isn’t going to fix it’s own problems that we made in the first place, so we are the ones to bring our world back and keep it safe with the 17 global goals.

There is one goal that I think is the most important, and it is goal #6, Clean Water & Sanitation.  The reason why I think that this goal is the most important one is because if somebody has water that is full of lead, dirt, or chemicals they could get sick and possibly die.  There is another goal that this would cover, Good Health & Well Being, because if someone is drinking that kind of polluted water, they wouldn’t be healthy.  This means that if we help and stop polluting and littering, then we could save and be finished already with two goals!

If you want to learn more about each of the global goals go and check out this website:  https://www.globalgoals.org/

When you find which one you think is the most important, tell me about it in your comment!

Help Save Our World!

  Hawaii                                                        

    The Big Island

In 2017, I went to Hawaii in October.  While I was gone for 2 weeks, I took a journal with me and this is what I wrote.

Mon 10        When I went onto an airplane on my trip to Hawaii, me and my family had to fly from Baltimore to Los Angeles, then from Los Angeles to Seattle, and finally Seattle to Hawaii.   My family traveled all day and on the second flight, I said already that I didn’t want to go in any other planes because they were very long flights accept for the one from Los Angeles to Seattle.

Then once we got all of our bags and luggage, my mom went to get our rental car.  This took forever, but once she came back with the car, my family went to our hotel, checked in, and set up our room and then we fell asleep and went to bed.

Tues 11       The next day in the morning from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m., me and my family rode the shuttle bus to the clubhouse because my parents had to go to see if they wanted to be owners by Hilton.  After the tour, we went back to our hotel room, and put on our bathing-suites to go swimming at the hotel pool. At the pool, there was a mini water-slide and a hot tub. I went down the water-slide lots of times and did different tricks when I went down. Then soon enough it was time for bed and I slept in one of the big beds.

    Wed 12             After Tuesday, early in the morning, me and my family went to a place called Kealeua Bay to go snorkeling, and we traveled on a boat.  This was my first time snorkeling and it was really fun!

When I was in the water I saw seven parrot fish which are blue, green and purple.  I think that they are very pretty. Also I saw a black and white spotted eel on top of a piece of corral.  Then I saw four different pipe fish which are really long and skinny fish. Then I wanted to go down the steep water-slide from the top deck of the boat but it looked very very steep.  Finally I had the guts to go down, but I didn’t like it so I didn’t go on it again.

After I went snorkeling, me and my family went to pick up my Mom’s friend and her son at the airport.  Then we drove back to our hotel, and all of us went down to the pool.

When I was at the pool, I got to use my Uncle’s Gopro when I went down the water-slide.  Then everybody drove to an area with lots of places to shop. When we were there, we got food and brought it back to our hotel and we ate there.  Then my family went to bed.

   An Extra Hour Of School?

By Elise Krock

Just imagine if you were walking down your school hallway, come up to the poster board, and find out that your school board is telling you that your day of learning is having an extra hour. They are saying this because they want you to get as much education as possible, to achieve in all of your learning. Would you like that, or not?

I don’t think that my school should have an extra hour of school because, I know that we get recess and plenty of breaks from learning, but I still woudn’t want an extra hour!  Many schools only have 6 hours of school, like I do, but if you add an extra hour, than you would have 7 hours of school. Lots of people already don’t really enjoy school for the most part, but why do you need more time for learning? That is my question.  

Having an extra hour of school would mean more reading time, more math, more special time, but possibly even more recess.  I think that I would much rather be able to be at my house enjoying my time, instead of more school. What if people have after-school activities that they have to get to?  I am one of those people, and have to go to softball only 30 minutes after I get off the bus, and I am the first person off of the bus, so what if other people need to do that to, but they get off of the bus much later?

Also, the school board would have to send out papers to the parents of the whole school saying that there is going to be more school time.  Some people might argue about this because their kids need to go to bed at a certain time, or they might need to go to sports or something. Maybe their kids need to get off of the bus at a certain time.  How is the school board going to make all of these argues and papers work for the kids that they want to be successful in life? I just say no. Too many changes, too many answers to figure out, and students could also be tired, or not focused when they have more school time.

These are all of the reasons why I think that my school board, or anybody else’s, should not be having an extra hour of school and learning time.

Bunni & Chicki                      Vacay Buddies                                               Picture  Link    

Bunni and Chicki are best friends and they always go on fun adventures together.  Bunni loves to go skydiving, and he goes the craziest ways ever.  Chicki is a little bit more cautious. She likes to hang out in the grass outside, or on the beach, building sand castles. Her favorite thing to do on their fun adventures and events, is taking pictures with her little camera.

For there adventure this time, they are in their vacation costumes, so Bunni and Chicki decided to go to a peach orchard.  Peaches were their favorite snacks, and they loved going to the orchards.

They for sure had to pack for their vacation, and Chicki always took a lot longer, because she was a girl, so it took her a long time to pack, and she also had to clean and charge her camera to get it ready for their vacation. When Bunni was getting ready he had to make sure that he had his hat, clothes, and the water.  Bunni also tried to remember to pack money to go to the gift shop!!!

Once Chicki and Bunni both had everything packed up, they knew that the orchard was pretty far away, so Bunni got into his car with Chicki in the front with him, and he drove them to the orchard.

By the time they got to the peach orchard, Chicki had fallen asleep in the car, and Bunni decided to let her sleep and then he accidentally had fallen asleep then too! Chicki woke up first because she had a much longer nap than Bunni did, so she just woke him up because she saw that they were already there.

Chicki woke up Bunni from his nap, and they headed down to the orchard.. When Bunni saw the orchard, he got so excited and ran to eat the peaches as Chicki got out slowly and sighed at Bunni, but then Chicki saw that they had sweet peaches and those were her favorite, she took a little bite and loved it! She kept eating small bites while Bunni was eating whole peaches!

Then after they ate all the peaches, they saw the gift shop. Bunni got super excited and ran inside as fast as he could. Then Chicki walked slowly after him. Bunni found a chocolate fountain with peaches to dip in, that was $5, when he went to buy it, he had no money! Luckily there was a lady  that thought they were cute, so she let them have it for free and some peaches too!

They kept thanking the nice lady for giving them such nice gifts from the shop for free, but Bunni was so confused because he thought that he had packed $10 from home. He realized that he must’ve forgot, so he just pushed all of those thoughts away and knew that he and Chicki were having a great time.

Chicki decided that now it was time to take some pictures with her favorite little camera, so she angled it as a selfie, and took a really cute and fun picture of her and Bunni next to all of thepeach trees.  The picture taking is usually at the end of their trips, so after the photos, Bunni and Chicki headed home.

Once Bunni and Chicki had unpacked all of the bags, both of them ran into the house with barely any energy left, and plopped down onto their beds and fell fast asleep.

By Kayla, Elise, and Sarina  

                                                                          Bat House Magazine

                 Bats are very helpful, kind, and they are getting killed by a terrible, deadly disease called the White Nosed Syndrome.  Many people just think that bats are little pesky things that are just so annoying and disgusting, but you are very very wrong.

                  Maybe more amazing facts about bats would change your mind about them.  Bats can live almost anywhere except for isolated areas.  Also, bats are the only flying mammal because flying squirrels don’t actually fly they glide, and the sugar glider also glides, but bats fly. Every night, a bat goes out for dinner and eats more than 1,000 insects!

                   There are also other ways that people have reasons to not like bats. They believe in many myths.  A big one that people believe in is when bats come and get tangled up into people’s hair. This is not true, they are usually just detecting a bug around your head if it would ever happen to you. Also, people think that all bats bite and carry rabies and diseases.  This is also not true, because bats may get a disease, such as the White Nosed Syndrome, but that doesn’t mean that every single bat that you see, has those things.  The last myth that a lot of people know of, is that all  bats drink blood, this only really occurs to vampire bats, which blood is their food source and they pretty much always get the blood from cows and animals like that.

                    When people say that bats are pesky little things hiding in cracks of their houses, well no, bats are actually very helpful to humans.  Bats eat mosquitoes and bugs so people don’t get annoyed by so many bugs and insects all of the time, and they don’t have as many mosquitoes pester people and their skin.

                       Lots of humans think that bats will just keep coming because there are no dangers to them.  This is very well false because diseases can kill bats just like White Nosed Syndrome, and they are also being killed by wind turbines.  WNS is killing lots of bats’ wing skin, so they are not able to fly, which then this wakes them up in the middle of winter, and then they grow fungus from being so cold. When all of this happens, it is during the middle of winter so the mammals cannot find food, like fruit or insects, so soon enough they will starve to death.  Wind turbines are also a big threat to bats. Bats are being killed by the blades from a wind turbine and are slowly decreasing bat population.

                        One way that people can help to protect these animals is by building bat houses outside in your backyard, or by putting them in your local park.  These bat houses will really help the bats because the bats that will live in the house, will be less likely to get the disease of WNS, because they won’t be all shoved up in a cave that will have bats with the disease, and then that would just spread to the rest of the colony. Another way that we can save bats from wind turbines is by putting sounds that the bats will hear onto the blades or in the middle of them, to chase or keep the bats away from the blades.

                          According to all of this information, it is really helpful to save our bats from diseases and wind turbines and make sure to go out, and make some bat houses!

At my school, we did a project about entrepreneurs and how you would run a business using the idea of a food truck.

Tell me in the comments what was your last big project at your school!

Holiday  Break

By Elise                                                                                                                                       Pictures from https://pixabay.com/

I had a great Holiday Break!  I am really excited that it is finally 2018 and a new year!  I also really enjoyed my Christmas celebration.

Saturday, the one before Christmas, I went to my Moms parent’s house (Grandma and Grandpa) for their celebration and my Uncle Fritz, Uncle Stosh, Aunt Margaret, Aunt Michele, Barbara & Barry Weber, Avery, Peter, Alan, Emmett, Mom & my Dad are all of the people who came to celebrate, so it was a pretty big crowd!  My Grandpa LOVES to cook so he always makes so much, so every time, there is a bunch of leftovers.

On Christmas Eve, I went to my church in the morning just for church, and we came back aroumd 7:00 pm to do chiming, piano and to stay for the Manger Scene with all of the little kids dressed up as animals, angels, wise men, and sheperds.  We stayed until, all of that was over, and then we went home to get ready for Santa Claus.  Once we got home, every year we put out cookies and eggnogg for Santa, but also  my Mom always gets us pajamas for our (before) present, to wear for that night and the next whole day because we weren’t going to go anywhere because it was Christmas the next day so why not?

Christmas day was amazing because of all of the presents and the best breakfast ever, sticky buns!!!  I got a LOT of presents, and so did the rest of my family!  This is my favorite holiday ever so every year, Alan, ( my brother) and me have to go wake up my parents by jumping all over their bed!  It took forever this year for them to wake up because my little brother Emmett had to sleep in just today, on Christmas!  I had to wait atleast two hours before everyone woke up, I was so bored… and then I had to wait for them to brush their teeth and get ready, so that took another couple of minutes, and FINALLY we got to go downstairs!  I was so excited because I knew that there would be so many presents under the tree, and I was right!!!  After we had opened up all of our presents, we went into the kitchen to the amazing smell of our breakfast, sticky buns that my Mom had starting making the day before, Christmas Eve.

I hope that all of you have had a great holiday too and please comment what you did over the Holidays of Christmas and New Years.