Mr. Dunk's Blog

I chose Dallas Seavey as my own musher to follow and try to beat to the finish line.  He is a veteran musher, and he grew up helping his dad with the dogs.  He was the third generation of dog racers in his family.  He was the Iditarod champion last year.  I chose Dallas because he was a champion, and I think he can be a champion again.

Thank you for coming to visit with us, Mrs. Guertin.  I thought those dogs were some of the best-looking dogs I have ever seen.  I also loved the way you hooked the dogs onto the truck and the design on the dog’s crates.  I loved how the dogs always crawled through your legs and looked at us.  I guess you take really good care of those dogs because they look like they really trust you.  I bet you would do anything for your dogs.  If you ever enter a race, I will be cheering for you.  I just love those dogs!  I hope you can come again!

I blast through the wind,

I speed through the snow.

I am unbeatable.

I push my sled through the wind.

I take care of my cute little mammals.

I swoosh through the terrifying wild wind,

Scattering through the jagged woods.

I go over the smooth hills,

Feeling the sparkly snow.

I go through the frostbiting snow.

I am a racing, rampaging musher!

 

Ice Cube Keeper Engineering Challenge

Ask: Will having a peeking hole work?

Next, we imagined what our ice cube keeper would look like, planned, and created it.

I predict that my ice cube will stay frozen 7 hours.

My table:

Time:   9:30	Measurement:   4 cm.	Observations:   It is already getting wet.
10:11	4 cm.
11:33	4 cm.	It’s looking good still.
12:08	4 cm.	It’s still looking good.
1:12	3 cm.	It is starting to melt more.
2:32	3 cm.	It’s getting more melted.
3:00	3 cm.	My keeper is awesome!

 

I might try this to keep my ice cube from melting as soon as it did. My reflections: My idea was really good. It did everything I needed it to do by keeping the ice cube alive all day. I probably shouldn’t have put so many holes. I also like that I did put holes because I can imagine the ice cube in all sorts of ways.

After reading The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs, a folk tale where a young boy searches for seven wonders in his own ordinary little country town, we went hunting for wonders in our own lives.

The Quechee Gorge is a wonder near my house.  A railroad track used to run across the Quechee Gorge.  I wonder if the Quechee Gorge is ever going to flood out.  I wonder if someone has ever fallen off the Quechee Gorge.

Three facts I learned while I was reading:

Antelope ground squirrels get their water from their food.

Temperatures can go all the way up to 120 degrees!

The kit fox is mostly nocturnal.

 

Two questions I have for the author:

Why is there snow in the desert sometimes?

Why do plants drop their leaves to save moisture?

 

One thing that I thought was the most interesting:

A cougar may eat mice or grasshoppers.  A cougar is a type of cat.  It’s like a panther but not black.

erupting lava

frosting mountain

gossiping dinosaur

growling dinosaur

waving tree

I feel like a flame

I feel like a volcano

I’m really thirsty

Dribbled at basketball practice

Launched a snowball

Created a snowman

Baked Christmas cookies

Ate Christmas cookies

Opened my Christmas gifts

Played on my tablet

Played in the snow

Ate a big Christmas dinner/meal/supper

Worshipped the Lord

Played and laughed with my brothers

Went to bed

I put two cups at the bottom and then I flipped one cup over, and I just kept flipping.  My prediction was that slower things have more energy. I think that because you are using more energy because it’s slower, but you are using energy while it’s going and it’s still going slowly, but it’s still using energy, so it’s using more energy.  We found out that even though the ball knocked a lot over when it was slow, the faster ball had more power to it.