learning dreams''''A.B

Today, I wrote a lot of things that I want to be good at. We were talking about how to learn things. First, I needed to think about what I want to learn.

Here is my list of things I would like to be good at:

• Animal science
• Art - painting, drawing
• Gardening - flowers, fruits, vegetables
• Programming - make websites, make apps, talk to robots
• Build a house
• Music - flute, violin, piano, drums
• Languages - Japanese, French, Cantonese, Italian, German
• Being a doctor
• Fighting
• Ice skating
• Baking
• Designing clothes

So what do you want to learn? Do you want to learn the same things I want to learn? If yes, send me a comment. So pick three of them that you think are so good to learn.

I want to pick:

1. Animal science
2. Designing clothes
3. Japanese
4. Fighting

I get to pick four because the fighting helps me with bullies and people who say disgusting things to me. I like the first one because I like animals. I like the second one because I like designing clothes. I like the third one because my mom can speak Japanese and Japan is my favorite country.

Also, one thing I don't like for animal science is Adam says the first we have to test is WORMS! and worms are my least favorite animal. Also, Adam said that we might cut worms into pieces to see what is inside.

One thing I don't like for designing clothes is we might use a needle so we need to be careful.

One thing I don't like about Japanese is that it might be hard to remember what is what.

One thing I don't like about fighting is it hurts and Adam might say: "RILEY is a bully!" So I will punch him more.

What should I pick to learn first? If you want to tell me, you can comment! I think I should learn Japanese first.

r.play/actors

I started to write a play today. My play is about a year in a magic school. I need to find actors to be the characters in my play.

Actors wanted!

I need actors for these roles:

• Riley - Riley is a 12 year old girl. Happy, joyful, smart, friendly, cute. Best party creator.
• Merinea - Merina is an 11 year old girl. Smart, talkative, happy, joyful, pretty.
• Adam - 13 year old boy. Less smart, really handsome, big and strong, no beard. Kind of stupid.
• Miss Joy - So joyful. 28 year old lady. Pretty, smart, talks so fast.

If you want to be in my play, you should comment on this post and tell me which part you want. Maybe my Laura can do it. Can you, Laura? Tell me which character you want to be.

Do you think you can do this challenge? Do you think you can be as happy, as joyful, as smart, as friendly, as cute, best-party-creator as Riley? If you think you can do this, then give yourself a round of applause.

So, try making your own play and try doing with your family all day! Now, give yourself another round of applause, but today you need to do a lot better with your applause, just like doing a play. Today you don't know how to spell, tomorrow you will will quickly say "apple." That's how babies work too. Today you don't know one thing, tomorrow you know it already. That's all the practice friends give you all that power. If you don't practice, you don't have a practice power. But if you practice a lot, the practice power will go on and on.

One word I used to know that I made up is "try keep power up tomorrow a big surprise."
:)

Try your best!

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In a Fantasy Land

Adam and I went to a magical land.  First, I had a picnic with Starlilly

Then I went flying on her back.  We flew with other birds too!

I found my friend Rilabunny.  She's my twin.  Wow!  Isn't she cooler than Adam?

So funny!  I almost got eaten by my friend Dino T-Rex.  

Adam didn't do a lot in there.  He's not happy.  But he's happy with just having a minion friend.

Isn't the day fun?  Tell you what.  This all pretend!  Do you know what happened?

We got some of my toys and when we took the pictures, we made the toys look bigger than they used to be.  And we made them look like we are holding hands or riding on them.  You can try at home too.  You can try at the outside because inside doesn't look very good.  Doesn't that make you feel happy if you see some not real pictures that look exactly like you're in a fantasy land?

Which picture do you like the best?  Maybe someday you will make friends with the transformers or go swimming with mermaids or catch a mermaid on the beach.  Your dreams will come true when you look at the pictures.

Hope you will have a good day in Fantasy Land!

.r.a.c Solar Power Car .r.a.c

.r.a.c means a company that I made.  It also means "Riley Adam, Cici."  .r.a.c made two solar-powered cars.

We made cars before, but this car is different because there is no battery (or switch).  Instead, the car has a solar cell that gets energy from the sun.  So if you put in car under the sun, the car will move until it goes into the shade.

The solar cell changes the sunlight (a kind of energy) into electricity (a kind of energy).  The electricity makes the motor move (another kind of energy).  There is a gear with the motor and the axle to make the car go.  The gear is a kind of machine that gives us mechanical advantage that we talked about last week.

In this video, we can see .r.a.c testing the car.  The car goes in the sun, then stops when we put a shadow on it. .a (Adam) said it was a race, but .r (Riley) said it's not a race because we're just testing them.  .r thinks this kind of boy always want to race.  And she also thinks that this kind of boy always wants to win.

Solar-powered cars have both pros and cons.

Pros

• They don't waste energy
• Don't need to carry a battery

Cons

• Can't drive at night.

Going to Japan

The day after tomorrow, I'm going to Japan with Mom.  First we will go on a plane.  Then we will visit our hotel.  Maybe we will go out and eat or do other things, but most of the time we will sleep and play in the hotel until it's nighttime.

The next day, we will go out and find some fun place, and there's the biggest toy store in Japan, so we can go there.  We are going stay there for five nights, so we will come back on the sixth day.  On the third and fourth days, or fourth and fifth days, Mommy and I are going to the hot spring.  We are planning to go to Japan's hot spring for months and months and months.  And now, the time has arrived!

We started planning a long time ago when I was still in school.  This is a storyboard of half of two of my days in Japan.  I didn't do everything because I couldn't make a hot springs picture.  So I just did half of it.

I made lots of things to do on the plane.  And packed lots of things to write a journal.  For example, pencil and even papers!  Isn't that funny?  Most of the hotels have paper.  I hope you hope I will have a good time.  If you hope I will have a good time, read everything I've ever written on my blog right now!

My Lighting Heart

Today, we made hearts that glow.  First we used the hot glue gun to make a heart shape.  We needed to make it really fat, so we had to add glue, let it cool, then add more.  I think we used three-and-a-half glue sticks.

Then we took a red LED light and made a hole in the back of the heart for it to go in.  We used a little watch battery for power, then we used magnets to connect the wires from the light to the battery.  When we completed the circuit, the light made the whole heart glow red.  It looked beautiful!

Then I got more little magnets, and used them to stick the heart on my clothes.  I put a magnet inside my dress, then I put the heart on the outside.  This makes it stick without falling, because the magnets are really strong.  I did the same thing with a real butterfly!

You can make circles and glue them to anywhere.  You can make any shape!

North South

Today, Adam brought some magnets and I tried to use them to stick butterflies to my dress.  I used a very little, very strong magnet and put in on the inside of my dress, then I put the butterfly magnet on the outside.  But sometimes the magnet pushed the butterfly away.

This is because magnets have a north pole and a south pole.  The north pole wants to be friends with the south pole.  The south pole wants to be friends with the north pole.  But two north poles or two south poles don't want to be friends and push each other away.  Because you don't want to be friends with yourself.

Then we talked about the Earth's north and south poles.  If you take a magnet, its north pole wants to point towards Earth's North Pole!  That means that the North Pole is actually the south pole of Earth-magnet.

Earth doesn't just have one north pole.  It has a Geographic North Pole at very top of earth (the point the earth rotates around).  And it also has a North Magnetic Pole, which is where magnets point towards.  They are close together, but not in the same place.

The North Magnetic Pole isn't always in the same place.  Every 100,000 to 1 million years, the Earth-magnet switches its north and south.  The North Magnetic Pole also moves around a bit every year.

We wanted to figure out what north pole Santa lives at.  If he lived at North Magnetic Pole, he would need to move his entire house and workshop and reindeer and sleigh and workers to another place all the time.  So if you were Santa, how hard do you think it would me to move your entire life?