Abe Lincoln

I just read the Magic Tree House book Abe Lincoln at Last.

In it Jack and Annie go to meet Abe Lincoln to give him a message of hope and get a special feather.

I learned that :

Abe was not famous when he was a kid.

He grew up in a log cabin made by hand and was very poor.

Life was very hard for him. He had to do a lot of chores like making corn bread, cutting wood, getting water from the stream and the last thing was grinding the corn for the corn bread.

He also taught himself how to read and liked learning from his sister Sarah.

When he grew up he was very honest and he believed slavery was wrong. When he became President he stopped slavery and freed the slave but some states didn't like it so they left the country and then there was the Civil War.

The Perfect Day

If I could do whatever I wanted on one day then these are the things that I would do. I would read a lot I would play a lot of soccer and I would watch a movie and I would play some wii and civ and I would play lots of fun games like dixit and settlers of catan and I would play Gubs and stratego and I would play an I touch game called settlers.

Now i’ll tell you what will happen when I do all of these things. I would do an amazing goal in soccer and an amazing save. I would cook some food and the food I would cook would be over easy eggs and meatball soup.

I would read all day but the day would be 38 hours and I could play outside with my family and I would go to the library and get Tin Tin and read it in one day or less. I would do math in Khan and I would get everything mastered and I would have the best soccer game in the world and play professional soccer and I would score a hat trick. I would also be a chef and cook all my favorite foods and the last thing I would do is go to bed.

Legionaries

Legionaries have big shields. If they all stand together and put there shields up in the air and a catapult fires at them and falls on there shields nothing  happens because all the shields are together and the rock falls on there shields.

They call it a tortoises shell because nothing can break through it. Legionaries are also good because they can build and fight. Like they can build a fortress and the guys that are fighting them can not get them easily.

The  legionaries also need to know science to know how to build a catapult and tents. Legionaries cut down trees to build weapons.

Railroads

Today I played Ticket To Ride a game about building railroad tracks in Europe and in America. You build them by getting cards that are different colors and if you get like 4 of the same color as the track you are trying to build then you can put it down it is worth seven points.

Tracks were originally  made for horses to pull carts faster where the ground was bumpy.

Later steam engines were invented that made the train move faster.

Back then it took them six months to travel across the U.S.A. but after they built the transcontinental railroad it only took them six days! 

The railroad's usually carried coal, steel and other material that are used for making things.

the people that built the railroads were super super super rich. Some of them used their money to help the poor and also to build schools and universities.

Seattle to New York is my favorite route to build.

Hot and Cold

Do you know why your teeth chatter when you are cold? Its because are body tries to keep it 98.6 degrees. When your body gets colder than that, your brain gives a message to your muscles to start shivering so it will warm up and your teeth start chattering. 

When you your body is too hot, then your brain tells your skin to start sweating. The sweat cools us off in two ways:

1) It Evaporates and carries the water that got heated from your body and it takes away the heat.

2) When you sweat and the wind starts blowing the sweat it acts like an air conditioner.

When you sweat you lose water so you should keep drinking since our bodies are 60 percent water.

TinTin The Prisoners of the Sun

I'm going to tell you a part that i remembered. it starts when Captain Haddock, Tin tin, and a little boy are going to the Temple of the Sun. They go past a waterfall and the little boy made a rope to get across. The boy went first then Haddock And then Tin tin but when he was about to get across the rope broke and he fell into the waterfall. They were so sad but then they herd a voice. It was Tin Tin and he told them to get the rope tie it to a rock and go into the waterfall. They went in and it was very dark. They went to the end of the underneath of the waterfall Tin Tin found some mummy's. Captain Haddock and the little boy went with Tin Tin. They pushed this heavy rock when it fell down they saw tons of guards and a prince. He said they would die but the little boy wouldn't because he has a medallion so they went in jail. A newspaper that Captain Haddock had to light a fire. Tin Tin read it. It said that there would be an eclipse at 11:00. Tin Tin didn't tell the Captain. When they were going to die Tin Tin said to the gods that the sun would not shine and the eclipse came and it was dark the prince said that he would do anything if Tin Tin would Make the sun rise he could have what ever he wanted Tin Tin said sun rise and the eclipse ended. Tin Tin chose to go home.    

Red Rakham's Treasure

Today I read a book called Tintin.

Tintin, Haddock, Thompson and Thompson and Calculus are the main characters.

In my book they are looking for Red Rakham's treasure.

They go on a ship first to go looking for the treasure. Tintin went diving and he found a golden cross and a golden sword. After that Haddock went in and he found some old rum he first drank it all and told Tintin the rest was for him he went back in without his helmet.

Then Tintin went in again and he found something that looked like the treasure. He wanted them to pull him up but a shark came and he ate the thing that looked like treasure.

Tintin found another bottle of rum and threw it at the shark and the shark got drunk. They lifted the shark and Tintin up and they opened the box but there was no treasure inside there was just old documents.

Captain Haddock was sad that they couldn't find treasure when Calculus noticed a cross, so they went to the cross and dug and dug and dug until Tintin said "Why would Red Rakham bury the treasure right at the cross?"

So they went back to the ship and Calculus rebuilt the documents. Tintin saw what Calculus did and so did Captain Haddock and then they read the documents and knew they needed to go back the house that the Captain used to live in. It was for sale so, Haddock wrote on the sign Not For Sale and they went into the basement and found the treasure.