In First LEGO League we have finished our first program!!! Mike and I spent about 10 hours making it. (over the span of three days) The robot does three differnt programs.

this is similar to our robots design

it goes Bowling, it turn on the TV and it brings a broken chair the the base. Mike and I are takeing a brake while the other kids work on another program.

this is the board that our robot does




Our compation is on the 8th of December. Hopefully we will have all of our programs made by then and will be a competitve team.

Plans for the weekend!

On Saturday I have the "State Homeschool Cross Country Meet" in Milwaukee. It is a race that I have never run this race so it should be fun.

On Sunday I have the last game of my soccer season is in Davenport. Sunday is also my birthday so I am excited for that!

Book Synopsis #3


A Wrinkle In Time


There is a storm and Meg can't sleep so she goes down stairs to get some hot chocolate, when she gets to the kitchen she finds her young brother Charles Wallace already there. After a while their mom comes down also.
Than a strange lady named Mrs. Whatsit comes in from the rain and tells them that the tesseract is real, and shortly after that she leaves. The next day Meg and Charles Wallace meet a boy named Calvin. The three of them go to find Mrs. Whatsit and her two friends Mrs. Which and Mrs. Who. They take Meg, Calvin and Charles Wallace on an adventure to find their missing Father. Their Father was captured on a planet called Camazotz. The planet of Camazotz is controlled by IT. (you will have to read the book to find out what/who IT is)

On a completely different note, I am supposed to talk about this art class I am taking. The first week we drew a picture of our self and what we think our alter ego would be. The second we did plaster gauze (which is basically ultra paper mache ) It was very cool.

THE FLAMINGOS FLY IN CASSVILLE!

We (the Flamingos) had a great meet yesterday,
for the Middle School boys we got 1st, 4th, 9th, 10th, and 15th. (Me, Andrew, Ezra, Jacob, Luke and Seth)
For the Middle School girls we got 4th and I think 12th.
For the High School girls we got 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

  And for the High School boys we got 2nd and 11th

the start of the race

Andrew and I trailing the first two kids

My sprint to the finish in first place!

Oh yeah I forgot... It was raining and COLD!!

First Lego League

Right now eight other kids and I are doing a thing called "First Lego League."
In " First Lego League" we do lots of nice stuff which includes building a mindstorm robot and programing it to do an obstacle course, we also have to give a presentation about some of the problems people have as they age, than we have to give a solution.

ERAGON

Book synopsis #2

My next book selection was Eragon by Christopher Paolini



      Eragon lives with his uncle and cousin in a town called Carvahall the town is right next a ravine called the spine. One day Eragon is hunting in the Spine and he find a big beautiful blue stone.
      He takes the stone so as to sell it but no one will by it. after a while he finds out that it is a dragon egg! (only as it is hatching) Some creatures called Ra'zc discover him and kill his uncle, Eragon is than forced to flee which he does with the town storyteller Brom.

Last weekend I had a cross country race AND a soccer tournament!
I got 11th out of about 45 runners in my race with a time of 9:30 (it was a longer race than the last one)
My soccer team won the first game 8-0, lost the second 2-0, won the third 6-0 and won the last 6-2.
We got second. The team that won was the team that we lost to. However they only beat the team we beat 6-2, 2-1 so we should have beaten them and won the tournament.
oh well