Potato Diary - 5

My potatoes are getting really big now.

Here are the new measurements -

Vales Emerald 1 is 37 cm high

VE 2 is 36 cm high

Rocket 1 is 29 cm high

R 2 is 30 cm high

I now think VE1 will do the best because it is the biggest and looks healthy.

How are all your potatoes doing ?

Potato Diary - 4

Remember my potato experiment, well it did not work! But we did not paint the inside of the box black, so if you have a go paint it black and tell me how it goes.

My potato plants are doing really well now. Here are the measurements -
Vales Emerald 1 is 11cm high
Vales Emerald 2 is 15 cm high
Rocket 1 is 8 cm high
Rocket 2 is only 4 cm high!

I have had a few comments questions about why I had carrot and cheese sandwiches, it is because in WW2 cheese was rationed, so they would put carrot in the sandwich to make the cheese go further.

I also had a question about my favourite part of the WW2 day ,my top 4 thing were -

1 feeding baby lambs

2 holding baby rabbits

3 digging for victory

4 was seeing friends!

Also the potato plant that will be produce the most potatoes, I think it will be Vales Emerald 2 because it's the biggest and looks very healthy.

Evacuee Day at Rushmoor Country Park

On Monday I went to an evacuee day at Rushmoor.
We all had to dress up as if we were children in WW2.The first thing we did was write a postcard to our mums about what we were doing and how we got there,we also made a gas mask box( that we had to carry with us all day) Then we planted some seeds (thyme,carrot,parsnip and spinach) then we digged for victory (shown below).
For lunch I had a carrot and cheese sandwich.
In the afternoon we had a tour of all the animals we fed goats and baby lambs,I got to hold a 15 week old rabbit (it was tiny).We saw some baby pigs,a cow,mice,rats and a horse called Silver.
We sat in an Anderson Shelter.
At the end of the day we all got a ride on a pony called Noddy.http://www.rushmoorpark.co.uk/

Potato Diary - 3

17th of March 2009

We planted our potatoes !

Move It at Olympia,London

http://www.moveitdance.co.uk/

6th of March 2009
Move It is a big dance festival held in London once a year.It has classes, stalls selling dance gear and information stalls, restaurants and a stage with fantastic performances.This was my second year of going.
The classes I did were Tap, Street-dance, Jazz and Cheerleading. My favourite was Streetdance.
We left home at 7.30pm and didn't get back until 10.30pm.

Science & Engineering Week - The Air Show at Sheffield Uni

http://www.scienceweeksy.org.uk/index.php 12th of March 2009

Daddy took me and friend F to a show at Sheffield University.
In the show they talked about all types of gasses and then they did experiments with them.
My favourite was when they made a fire ball, they got a candle on a stick and put it to a balloon filled with Nitrogen and it made a fire ball but it only lasted a few seconds.

My favourite experiment of the week was the egg in vinegar.
This is my last post about Science and Engineering week.

Potatoes Diary - 2

Today I set up a potato experiment.
I got a shoe box and put in bits of cardboard then Mummy cut a hole at the end of the box and put the potato the other end.
The roots of the potato will try and find the sunlight, so they should wind around the cardboard maze.


I will tell you what happen soon.