"Inquiries" #2 ,Three Proccesses of Making Candles, June 17, 2009

This was supposed to be for Monday. The three different ways of making candles all use different types of wax. I learned something new! Rolling is when you take some beeswax and roll it up into a candle with string inside. You can't take any old beeswax, however. You have to make a sort of bendy piece of paper, except with wax. Dipping is when you dip the string into melted wax, which is actually oil. We did this, except the candle was already made. We just colored it. Molding it is when you pour wax into a can thing with the string in it. Then you have a candle when it cools. I am getting better at typing with this strange keyboard! That was for no reason (though I am getting better at it).

"Inquiries" #1, June 17, 2009

Today I am having a hard time typing. Yesterday our keyboard broke because the my sisters spilled water all over it. So my mom went to the thrift store to see if she could find a keyboard. She did, but it is totally weird. It is a "split keyboard". On one side is your right hand keys, and on the other side are they left hand keys. The sides are separate. The middle is like a hill because the sides are tilted so that the middle of the keyboard is higher than the ends. You can see sort of what it looks like because I downloaded a picture from Google. The things I have to write today are about inventions, because we are learning about Thomas Edison. I have to choose my 10 favorite inventions from three books we have. So here they are.

1. Frozen food. You can eat things that were grown from across the world!
2. Internet.
3. Video (or computer) games.
4. Cereal.
5. Microwave oven.

6. Teflon. This is one of my favorites. It has an amazing property: it doesn't do anything! Nothing can change it or affect it. Nuclear bombs have it lined inside of them to keep them from blowing up before they are supposed to (that is so cool). Frying pans also have it to keep food from sticking to it. Other things have Teflon, too like, heart and other human body transplants, space suits, and a lot of other stuff where you can't have a chemical reaction.
7. The light bulb.
8. The bicycle.
9. Vaccination
10. The telephone.
After that I'm supposed to choose three of those and explain why I like them best. So my three are:

1. Video (or computer) games. I like that best because I like computer games. We don't have any video games. I am writing in this blog so that I can play a computer game.
2. Teflon. I already stated the reasons for this.
3. The bicycle. Bike riding is fun and good exercise. I also ride my bike to my baseball games and practices to Rotary Park, because we live 1/2 mile away from it.

"Inquiries" #1, Defenition of Chandler, June 15, 2009

The whole point of this blog is to write "inquiries"- things for school I have to write down. My mom told me that if I write them down on my blog, I"ll get 10 minutes of civ. So this is a definition of a chandler. A chandler. A chandler is a guy who makes candlesticks. The professionals (the dictionary) says that a chandler is: 1. One that makes or sells candles. 2. A retail dealer in specified goods or equipment. Since we are learning about candles, I assume that definition 1 would be appropriate.