Category: Schoolwork

RPC Science Lesson 90

Hello! Today in science I learned how to make water bottle rockets, and an air rocket.

I already knew how to do a certain type of rocket we call the pop bottle rocket It’s technically pretty similar to the rest except we put a egg on the top of an upside down bottle and use the air compressor to put pressure in the bottle once there is to much pressure in the bottle it launches itself into the air the egg normally goes higher because it has more weight but when we put water in the bottle it makes it go higher. We use a fence post holder to hold the bottle before it launches a fence post holder in our version is two pieces of plywood cut about two inches long and one more piece of plywood about 4 inches long then we screw two screws into the edge of the 4 inch piece and under it we put both two inches pieces so there is about an inch of space from the ground to the bottom of the center piece of plywood. Then we drill a half inch hole in the center of the top piece of plywood then we put the lid of the pop bottle in to the half inch hole then we put the air compressor under it. Next we put the egg on top of the bottle after that we start the air compressor and away you go! We only had one egg that did not break doing this because it somehow landed on the trampoline that is about 300 feet away from the shed where we normally launch the rocket. After we found it we threw it in the fire it blew up! That was when I had friend over last summer when I had just finished my first year of homeschool when there was no Coronavirus.

The difference between the water bottle rocket, pop bottle rocket, and Air rocket is very interesting. The air rocket uses string, a straw, a balloon, and some tape. You first attach one end of the string to a tree branch or something similar that is higher than launching point. Then you put the straw in the string next you tape the balloon to the straw then you blow up the balloon but don’t tie it. After that you let go of the balloon then there you have it!

The water bottle rocket uses some pipe, and a big pop bottle and at one end you but an air valve that is on the typical tire. Then you use some tape a few snap ties to the tube without tying them then you use the top part of the snap ties as a holder for your bottle to be held with. then use a bike dump or something close too it to pump air then once there’s enough pressure the snap ties will let go and your rockt has been launched!

That’s it! Maybe I could post a video of us doing pop bottle rocket sometime comment if you think we should!

English Schoolwork

RPC English 5 Lesson 65

Hello! Here is my writing assignment from Mrs Fish here it is: Write one paragraph on the following topic: Who is an influential person in your life and why?

My dad is definitely a very influential person in my life because first of all he is my dad. He is the person who inspired me to be a farmer. And my family comes from a long line of farmers so I want to live up our family legacy. My grandpa’s first tractor was a Massey Ferguson which is the first Massey Ferguson tractor ever. My dad’s first tractor was a Massey Ferguson 270 and mine is a Farmall SW4. I’m not sure what my great grandpa’s first tractor might of been but I’m assuming it could of been a Fergusson, Massey Harris or a old tractor that had metal tires.

My dad really influence me because he is the one who helps me with a lot of things like I remember once he help me replace the chain on my bike. and i’ve done many cool things with him and even grandpa like fix the bailer when a sprocket broke.

In the picture dad is on the bailer I’m on the ladder and granpa is the guy leaning on the bailer.

I remember one of the first times I helped dad fix a few shear bolts that kept breaking over and over again on the manure spreader. He is also the one who taught me how to drive the tractor for the first time and he has taught me how to run almost everything on the farm besides the dump trailer because I new how to run the hydraulics and how to back up the trailer. And I hope he might know how to start my tractor once I fix it up.

I remember early this summer I was raking with the small tractor and I remember one of the pins that hold the three point hitch broke and I called dad and we were able to fix it together.

There was also another time when the belt on the lawn mower popped of and dad called grandpa and asked him if he could bring a belt next time he came so we can fix the lawn then the day grandpa came we fixed the lawn mower!

Last weekend I helped dad but the doors back on the M9540 since the AC broke down early this summer and we weren’t able to fix it and since it’s getting cold again we put the doors back on it. But the AC breaking down is not Kubota’s fault that happened it’s the AC manufacturers fault.

I’m also very glad he kept his photo album because there is many cool pictures in there. Here is a picture of a Massey Claas combine my dad and grandpa where looking at back when does where brand new wich was 1980’s to 1990’s.

Grandpa is in front of the combine in that picture.

Here is a picture Emma took of dad in 2019 without asking to use my phone 🙄.

That’s it!

Schoolwork Science

RPC Science 5 Lesson 85

Hello! Today in science I learned how to make a model rocket although I just watched the video’s and did not make one I also learned that people spend more the 1 year orbiting earth at a time isn’t that crazy?!?!

I also learned that SpaceX’s goal is to get people on mars.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., t/a SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars. Cool right! But I thought Elon Musk was part of Tesla? Did you now Tesla is making tractors now?!?!

Here is two of them:

To be completely honest these tractors look TERRIBLE. The cab is way to big for the size of tractor the engine frames look ugly and plus on some of the models they don’t even put actual tractor tires on them. And how in the world will farmers afford them!?!?! There soooo expensive. One of their 100 horsepower tractors cost as much as John Deere’s biggest tractor which is almost a million dollars and John Deere is pretty expensive already.

That’s it!

Schoolwork

Apple Varieties

Hello! Today instead of dad giving me an essay mom gave me a schoolwork essay. Mom wants me to write about all the different varieties of apple’s that the apple orchard we buy apples from called Avalon Orchards grows. Here is the essay:

The 11 variety’s are:

Freedom
Goldrush
Liberty
Novamac
Novaspy
Priscilla
Pristine
Redfree
Trent
Galarina
Reinette Russet

My favorite is probably Novaspy because I’m more used to it.

Novaspy is a very very sweet red apple that is about average size for an apple that ripens around October at Avalon.

I recently tried out a RedFree for the first time. These apples are a happy medium in sweetness and are about average size for an apple that is in season right now.

The freedom apple is more of an apple sauce apple as it has a more orangey look to it and tastes a little more spicy.

Liberty apples are more of a dark red apple with more of a taste like a Red Free but is more pale inside.

Trent apples are dark red like the liberty apple and are late maturing that are very firm and juicy. When I went to real school I had a friend named Trent so this variety reminds me of him.

Gold Rush Is a yellow bronze apple that ripens in October with a crisp spicy taste. The spicyness fades away during storage.

Reinette Russet apples were created in Quebec. It ripens in mid October the skin is greenish white, the apple is very sweet and juicy and the skin is good for russeting.

The Novamac is a firmer textured apple that ripens around the second week of september.

Priscillia apples mature around the end of september. With a creamy color this apple has a sweet licorice like flavor.

The Galarina apple has an excellent shelf life, they mature in early October.

Pristine apples are a very early ripening yellow apple that tastes firm and crisp that mature’s in August before Redfree’s.

That’s it! Thanks for reading!

Schoolwork Science

RPC Science 5 Lesson 80

Hello! Today Mr.Dignam wanted me to write about NASA’s space shuttle programs.

There have been many downfalls and wonder full things happen.

Like in 1986 the Challenger Space shuttle program went terribly wrong when one of the O rings in the full capsells let go witch cause gas to leak out which cause an explosion which killed all 7 astronauts on board.

In 2003 the Columbia space shuttle took flight giving 15 years of success after the Challenger incident when a piece of debris hit the left wing of the shuttle when taking of into space. They crew of 7 successfully made into orbit around earth. Then after a few orbits around Earth NASA decided to return the astronaut’s to earth thinking that the pieces of debris would not be a big deal. When entering the atmosphere of earth the astronauts noticed that the left side of the space shuttle was more hot then the right side. The space shuttle then exploded in Louisiana on its way back to the Kennedy launch pad the space shuttle then went on to crash the remaining parts into Louisiana.

I’m glad no more people were killed during the accident and I’d like to take this as a learning experience.

And thanks to our mistakes of the past we were able to learn from our mistakes and improve our equipement to go to space with.

That’s it!

English Schoolwork

RPC English 5 Lesson 60

Hello! Here is what Mrs.Fish wants me to do today: Write your final drat one on the following topic: What is your dream job? Here is the essay!

My dream job is to be worlds biggest farmer, and I’m already on course as I just bought my first tractor a Farmall SW4 and a W4 to go with for parts. Worlds biggest farm is 22,500,000 acres which is the Mudanjiang City Mega Farm in Heilongjiang, China. Canada is 89 million acres and to be worlds biggest farm but live in canada still I’d rather need to move to Alberta, or south Ontario as where I live right now is in Northern Ontario there is to many rocks and big forest with a lot of rocks so it would cost a fortune to buy the land let alone clearing it. So it would be better to move down south or to Alberta where some of my other family lives to be worlds biggest farm.

Worlds biggest tractor is the Big Bud 747 at 1100HP but by the time I own worlds biggest farm ill be dead, or everything will be run by robots unless you stick to the tractors of today and the past. My dads biggest tractor ever was the Kubota M110X at 110 horsepower, my grandpas biggest tractor he ever owned was the Massey Ferguson 7490 at 140HP, and my uncle Jerry’s biggest tractor is a CASE IH STX 480 wich has 480 horsepower.

Here are some pictures of the tractors I mentioned.

BIG BUD 747

Kubota M110X

Massey Ferguson 7490

CASE IH STX 480

Here is some pictures of random tractors:

That’s it!

Schoolwork Science

RPC Science 5 Lesson 75

Hello! Today Mr.Dignam wanted me to write on this subject: Write a short article on one or two of the space pioneers.

John Young and Wernher Von Braun shall be the two space pioneers I shall talk about today!

Wernher Von Braun was a German–born American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States. Who made several rockets in Huntsville Alabama.

John Young was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.

And that’s it hope you enjoyed!

History Schoolwork

RPC History 5 Lesson 115

Hello! Here is what Mr.Livingston wanted me to do today: Summarize each of the inventions you studied this week and how they impacted history. Also, explain the most interesting thing you learned this week, and why.

I learned about the mercury barometer, the vacuum pump, pendulum clock and Robert Boyle.

The mercury barometer. The mercury barometer was invented around 17th century in Pisa, Italy. The creator of the mercury barometer Evangelista Torricelli, was Galileo Galilei’s apprentice the year before he died. The air from the atmosphere lets out Mercury into a bowl the more mercury in the bowl the more atmosphere. It was important so that scientist and forecaster’s can tell if a major natural disaster is coming.

The vacuum pump. Otto Von Guericke invented the vacuum pump around the 17th century somewhere in Greece. The Vacuum pump removes air and liquid from a place and move it to somewhere else. The Vacuum pump is important because it removes water from mines so miners don’t drown.

Around the 17th century Christiaan Huygens invented the pendulum clock in the Netherlands. The pendulum clock was so important back in it’s day because it was the most accurate clock around in it’s time. The pendulum clock use what most clocks used to function but it’s got a weight which makes minutes go slower which makes them more accurate and if you remove weight goes faster.

Robert Boyle was born sometime in the 17th century in England a few years after the 30 year war. He is important because he was a big part of the invisible college which became the Royal academy which still exists today and has done quite a few cool things! like he discovered Atoms while teaching there and studying.

And that’s it!

History Schoolwork

RPC History Lesson 110

Hello! Here is what mr.Livingston told me to do today: Summarize each of the inventions you studied this week and how they impacted history. Also, explain the most interesting thing you learned this week, and why.

The four inventions I learned about (and one inventor) are : the Mersenne’s laws, the Cartesian Coordinates, the Mechanical calculator, and Blaise Pascal.

Mersenne’s laws are laws describing the frequency of oscillation of a stretched string or monochord, useful in musical tuning and musical instrument construction. The equation was first proposed by French mathematician and music theorist Marin Mersenne in his 1637 work Traité de l’harmonie universelle.

The coordinate system we commonly use is called the Cartesian system, after the French mathematician René Descartes (1596-1650), who developed it in the 17th century. Legend has it that Descartes, who liked to stay in bed until late, was watching a fly on the ceiling from his bed!

The 17th century marked the beginning of the history of mechanical calculators, as it saw the invention of its first machines, including Pascal’s calculator, in 1642. Blaise Pascal had invented a machine which he presented as being able to perform computations that were previously thought to be only humanly possible.

Blaise Pascal was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and theologian. In mathematics, he was an early pioneer in the fields of game theory and probability theory. In philosophy he was an early pioneer in existentialism. As a writer on theology and religion he was a defender of Christianity.

And that’s it!

History Schoolwork

RPC History Lesson 105

Hello! Here is what Mr.Livingston wanted me to do today: Summarize each of the inventions you studied this week and how they impacted history.

So here is the essay!

I learned about Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, The Slide Rule, and John Napier.

Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571, in Weil der Stadt, Württemberg, in the Holy Roman Empire of German Nationality. He was a sickly child and his parents were poor. But his evident intelligence earned him a scholarship to the University of Tübingen to study for the Lutheran ministry. He became very interested in astronomy when his professor encouraged him.

Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa in 1564, the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a musician and scholar. In 1581 he entered the University of Pisa at age 16 to study medicine, but was soon sidetracked by mathematics. He left without finishing his degree. Galileo was best known for all of his time spent through a telescope that caused him to make plenty of discoveries. Like he discovered the moons orbiting Jupiter.

The slide rule was invented around 1620–1630, shortly after John Napier’s publication of the concept of the logarithm. In 1620 Edmund Gunter of Oxford developed a calculating device with a single logarithmic scale; with additional measuring tools it could be used to multiply and divide.

John Napier, Napier also spelled Neper, born 1550, Merchiston Castle, near Edinburgh, Scotland died April 4, 1617, Merchiston Castle, Scottish mathematician and theological writer who originated the concept of logarithms as a mathematical device to aid in calculations. logarithms also spared a lot of time to people who used this invention to multiply.

That’s it!