Favourite Memory Of Term 3 2017

My favourite memory of term 3 was when Millie was filming her screencastify and she started talking about decimals, and then all of a sudden the bell rang, and she screamed as she leaned back with fear, it was hilarious, even Millie laughed at herself.

Why Does Popcorn Pop?

                 Why Does Popcorn Pop?

Have you ever wondered how popcorn pops, or why it pops? This document exists to tell you why, and how popcorn pops. First let’s go back in time, to when popcorn was made. 4000 years ago from now.

Long ago, the native americans used to tell a myth about popcorn. The myth was about how the native americans said that there was a small demon inside the kernel. When it got heated, the demon would get so angry that it exploded to make the kernel become popcorn. I feel like some people still believe that this old myth is true. Where was popcorn first found? In the bat cave of West Central New Mexico. I KNOW! A bat cave. That popcorn must have been smelly already because of the bats. I heard that some popcorn was found on a pyramid as well.

Now that you know a bit about the first days of popcorn existence, which was a long time ago, now let’s go back to 2017, and talk about the parts of a kernel. Here’s a picture.

 I actually never knew that there were parts of a kernel. But you know how the pericarp is just one whole yellow piece? I wonder if that yellow green thing connected to the endosperm is a different part or if it’s just the pericarp as well. Huh. Anyways, back to the explanation. A kernel has 14% water in it. Specifically the germ inside the kernel. So the water inside the kernel heats up, and becomes steam. Once it becomes steam, pressure is inside the kernel, and a few seconds later, it pops and becomes popcorn. Just like a balloon, too much pressure, it pops.  Now that I have explained how popcorn pops, I must go now, Bye! -dramatic poof-

Dance With Mrs Dinniss

Dance With Mrs Dinniss

Every Monday, we went to dance with Mrs Dinniss. She taught us three dances. The Seven Jumps, which was from Denmark, the Chicken Dance, which was from Germany, and lastly, Cotton Eye Joe, which was from a Line Dance in USA. Here are my opinions on them all. Let’s start with the Chicken Dance. I like the chicken dance because it’s an easy dance to learn, knowing that every move is only repeated 4 times. Next opinion, is on the Seven steps dance. This one was a bit tricky because some people kept swinging me around as we were skipping, and some people were doing it too slow/fast which made me dizzy.  Short opinion, but now, the Cotton Eye Joe opinion. I disliked it because it got confusing when we were doing the foot thing especially the round and round then swap partners. The song went fast and I couldn’t really work with it that much because the steps were quite hard for me.