My Raspberry Pi project

This Summer I am going to build a Robot with the GoPiGo Robot Kit and Raspberry Pi.

I am going to be able to control my robot with a Nintendo Wii remote controller. My robot will have three wheels. The robot will be powered by a pack of eight double a batteries.  The materials I will need are, a Wii remote controller so I can control the robot, a robotics controller board, motors, WiFi, Bluetooth, wheels, and a robot chassis.  I will need help from my Dad to code and build my robot. For this project I am going to learn a lot.  I am going to learn how to code better, because I am making a robot.   

After I make my robot I might add sensors, and the sensors might detect if someone or something has come into the room.

Mothers day

Two Sundays ago it was Mother's Day. My dad, Taylor, Camryn, and Deacon, and I made an edible arrangements bouquet. My dad,Taylor, and I got up early while our mom was still asleep, and we started to make the bouquet. We cut up the fruits and then we made little balls with a scooper. Next our Dad melted some chocolate and Taylor and I got to dip cherries in the melted chocolate. My dad and I cut up pineapple in little stars, and then we started to put all the fruit on sticks. We cut up some watermelon and used part of as a vase to hold the bouquet. We also used the top of the pineapple to stick all the sticks in. When our mom woke up me and Taylor went in to tell her that she had to stay in her room until we were done, so she took a shower. While she was doing that we cleaned our dining room. When she came out everyone was awake and we handed her the cards that we had bought at the store the day before. We had a fun Mother's Day.

Reading The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

This blogpost is not as long as one of my other ones, Number the Stars. This time I am writing about the book I had a fun time reading called The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I am working on friendship this block in homeschool and while I was reading the book I noticed that several of the characters showed friendship.

When Lucy first comes into Narnia she find a faun, Mr. Tumnus, and he invites her to have tea by the fire at his house. Lucy falls asleep while Mr. Tumnus plays the flute. Mr. Tumnus was just tricking Lucy because he worked for the White Witch. His job was if he  ever saw or met a Son of Adam or a Daughter of Eve he would kidnap them and bring them to the White Witch. Once he found out that Lucy was a Daughter of Eve he was going to kidnap her, but he fixed his mistake and helped her escape from the White Witch by helping her find the way back to her house. Mr. Tumnus showed friendship by saving Lucy's life.

When everybody comes into Narnia, Lucy is the leader and she leads them to Mr. Tumnus’s house, but when they gets there they find his house is all destroyed by the White Witch. Everybody is hungry and cold and wants to just forget and leave the poor faun, but Lucy says, “No we can’t. We need to help Mr. Tumnus this nice faun." Even though Lucy did not know where to go she was a good friend by staying in Narnia to help this faun.

The first time Edmund went into Narnia he spoke with the White Witch and thought she was friendly because she Edmund gave Turkish Delight. Edmund told told the White Witch about Lucy meeting a faun. Later Edmund found out from Lucy that the White Witch was bad. Lucy said the Witch was pretending to be nice to Edmund, because the second time Edmund came to Narnia the Witch captured him, and Lucy and her brothers and sisters helped Edmund escape from the White Witch. Lucy and her siblings showed friendship by helping Edmund escape.  

Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund find a red robin who leads them to a beaver. The beavers, Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, help the kids by giving them some food and bringing them to their house to be warm. The Beavers also tell the kids about Aslan who could save Mr. Tumnus and find Edmund. When Aslan comes winter will die and spring will come. The Witch can not turn Aslan into stone, and Aslan is more powerful then the Witch. The Beavers were showing friendship by getting them some food and letting them stay at their house and also by telling them about Aslan.  

When the kids find and meet Aslan they camp with him and others. Lucy and Susan can't sleep. The girls go out of their tent and see Aslan walking to the stone table. The

White Witch was there. (Aslan and the White Witch talked the day before and Edmund had to be killed, but Aslan was willing to be killed for him.) Aslan gets killed so Edmund doesn't have to die. When the girls get up from their hiding place they see the stone table. It had cracked and Aslan isn’t there anymore.

"Is this more deep magic?" Lucy asked.

"Yes, it is," said a great voice behind them. They turned around and see Aslan. Aslan gave up his life for Edmund, and that takes a lot of courage and friendship at the same time.

I liked this book and I had a fun time reading it. I can show friendship lots of ways. I can help my friends when they need help or help them when they get hurt. This book taught me all about friendship and I am glad I read this book.

The Tulip Gardens

One Friday evening my family and I went to the Tulip Gardens. I had a lot of fun. We brought our dinner because something we have been doing is having a picnic dinners. We weren't so sure if we could bring our dinner into the Tulip Gardens, so our dad went to go ask. They said it was fine. We had a hard dinner. We had salad, and we didn't want to carry it wherever we went so we left it in the car and we had an orange before we went in, and our mom carried pitas and hummus. Our mom brought her camera and we took lots of pictures. Then we found a bench and some of us were hungry so we sat down to have our snack. We walked some more, and then we saw a bunch of kids playing at a bouncy house. Camryn and Deacon wanted to go and play on it. We weren't sure if it was free to play but we asked and it was. They also said that if you come on Fridays when big kids are still in school there aren't a lot of people playing. A really cool spot I liked was behind the waterfall. It was beautiful. Another fun spot was rolling down the big hill. Once we got back to the car we had dinner, and then Taylor noticed that he had left his sweatshirt on the top of the hill, so he and our dad went back to get his jacket. We had a fun time at the tulip gardens, and I want to go again sometime.

 

My Scratch Project

 A couple weeks ago I made a Scratch project for Maker Day. I haven't named my project yet,  but it is a fun game to play. I've learned more coding so I'm getting better at making games. Some games that I make can be pretty simple to code, but some other games take more coding than others.  I'm always learning more in Scratch. It's one of my favorite things to do on Maker Day. I'm still coding a lot more games, and I help Camryn code lots of things, and sometimes I help Taylor remember some coding that he forgets. Scratch is a really fun maker project, and the more I make games, the more I learn.     

Soccer with the eight-year old club team

On Thursday I started soccer with the eight-year old club team. They cancelled my first day of practice so I got to have game day at Academy.  The next pratice, it was rainy so they cancelled it too! The next practice it was going to rain but we needed to practice so they had us practice indoors. At practice I learned some new turns. We played a game and it was one person on their own team and the other team had two people. I was the person that was on my own team and we were trying to score goals, and I was the one that scored the goal even though I did not have a partner. After that we had a scrimmage. I don't really remember what the score was but I had fun.  Today I get to pratice with them again and I'm excited. In a couple weeks I am going to tryout again and I'm really hoping that I make one of the teams.

Emi Dates

My siblings and I have been having Emily dates every week! Our last date everybody got to go and get snow cones. They were good, and I had three flavors. Rootbeer, orange, and I forgot the other kind, but it was yummy. One of my favorites dates was going to the trampoline place. Camryn and I went together. I practiced my flips and there were lots of other fun things to do there also. There was a pit, tramps, a climbing wall, and lots more. The Emily dates were fun, and I can't wait to go on more.