Ex-barbarians

So there were these barbarians that went close to Rome and then they saw how they built houses and they bathed and they did a lot of stuff. Then the barbarians started doing this and called themselves the Gauls. Then some other barbarian tribes came and settled there. One of the barbarians tribes names were the Franks. Then they heard that the Huns were coming. They were afraid of the Huns. So they didn't like each other but they liked the Huns even less. So they joined together and the Leader was a Frank and his name was Merovius. He led them into battle and they defeated the Huns. But then they separated again. Then Merovius's grandson Clovis wanted everyone to be together and he wanted to be the leader, so he married a princess Clotilda. She was a Burgundian. He killed all of the romans in Gaul and made the Franks join alliance with him. Then he was ruler of all of the barbarian tribes. Clotilda was a Christian and she wanted Clovis to be a Christian too. But he refused and one day in a battle he saw that his men were being slaughtered. But then he asked God to help him and he would do anything if he won the battle and then his soldiers started fighting amazingly and he won the battle. He went to a bishop and he became Christian.

Blender

So Blender is a 3d animation course for kids. They can animate objects to move and to bounce and roll, do flips, and also jump over pillars. It is really cool. They first show you how to do something then they have a review then they have a troubleshooting thing which you have to fix the broken animation and you also get points which you can get characters and stuff in the background to make it look really cool. You also have to put a lot of key frames to make it move. Also rotation key frames to make it rotate. You also have to go into something called the half and graph to make him jump. You can also animate the cameras that are in it. You also can make the main character Nobbie get away from a big rolling ball. You can also do some cool keyboard shortcuts. The you can render it which is a really long process but it makes it look so amazing. It only takes about 2 days for a 1000 frame thing. You can also make different scenes.

Bernini

So Bernini was a Italian sculpture and architect. He wasn't as famous as Michelangelo but he was still really good. He sculpted David and I think it is better than Michelangelo. But he has his own style, it is called the Baroque style. It was a medieval style and Michelangelo's was a reconnaissance style. The Baroque style was more action and it makes you like have to duck and makes you think that you are in the scene. Michelangelo makes it more beautiful like you just want to look at it. He was born in December 7 1598 in Naples Italy He died on November 28 1680 In Rome Italy.

The Pheoenicians

So the Phoenicians were really good sailer's that lived to the north of Canaan. But it was hard to plant wheat where they lived because it was all rocky and sandy and dry. So they used there boats and sailed the Mediterranean sea, and became traders. They started cutting down trees to build homes. The Phoenicians were famous for making glass. Making glass in the ancient times was a long hard complicated process. So they started out by making a chemical called lye by putting water on the ashes that were left over from the fire. Then they collected the liquid that oozed out of it. Then they mixed the lye liquid with sand and then put it over a fire to melt it and to get it really hot. But it was hard to melt sand so they had to use these bellowing machines tat got it really really hot which melted the sand. Then they cooled it down so it turned into glass. Other ancient people made glass so they weren't the first people who invented glass but they were the first who invented glass blowing. It works like this, instead of putting it into a mold they would put it into a pipe and then they would blow gently and it would form a bubble, then they could twist it. They also put dye into it so they could color it.

Rome vs Carthage

So both Rome and Carthage were both hungry for more land. So they fought each other for it. So They went in the water and both fought on the water with ships. But it was stalemate the whole time so one of the Carthage generals named Hannibal. He led his Elephants to the alps where the roman soldiers were camping. They heard strange noises and then saw the elephants. Some of the romans had never seen elephants and ran in terror. The elephants started burning some of the roman cities and the soldiers ran to Rome. One of the roman generals was smart though and led the best roman troops straight to Carthage. The people at Carthage were not expecting this and got scared, they called for Hannibal to come back and help them. But it was to late Hannibal's troops were to tired and to worn out burning cities that they couldn't fight the romans and they were defeated.

Bones

So one crazy thing about bones is that there are 50% of all of our bones in just our hands and feet! And also 10% of our body is broken and then rebuilt every single year. Also if we didn't have bones then we would be like blobs. There are also four parts of the bone. The fibrous outer lining, spongy bone, compact bone and the bone marrow.

My mean dad

My mean dad won't let me go shovel the high school soccer field. I was trying to do something nice for the high school and for the country. But he doesn't want to. I also wanted to play soccer there but he says nooooo! I think he doesn't like soccer. I also almost got a concussion and he says I should rest, what a rude compliment. I think it will be amazing for my soccer skills because I can shovel out paths and then dribble and pass threw them. He hasn't even seen the soccer field yet and he says IT IS SNOWED IN! He is very mean.