Ben Says:
Hi there everyone this is Ben. For todays blog, I will tell you what I know about digging to China. If you live in the USA and dig through the planet you would end up in a very cold ocean near antartica. Antipode means the opposite side of planet Earth. The antipode of Shanghai, China is Concordia, Argentina. If you dig from Concordia, Argentina through the Earth, you will end up in downtown Shanghai. The distance from Concordia, Argentina to Shanghai is 12,445.17 miles through the Earth.
I researched the Earth's structure. There are five different layers. The Earth is made of a crust on the outside like bread. The crust is solid. The next layer is the upper mantle which is between solid and liquid. Then there is the mantle which is between solid and liquid. Then there is the outer core and the inner core which are solid. The inner core is hotter than the sun.
It has a temperature of 13,000 Farenheit.
I hope you enjoy this!
Me and my mom researched this using the internet. We read articles and watched a video on Youtube.
ben
Ayden Writes:
Yesterday I made pottery. It took about fifteen minutes to get to where we can make pottery. Our tutor, Wenyi, met us at the pottery place and then she showed us two different kinds of pottery we could make. One kind was the type you do on a wheel and the other kind was the one you do by hand. I chose the kind you do on the wheel, so did my brother. We had to wear aprons that went around your legs and your shirt.
First, the lady who worked at the pottery studio asked us what we wanted to make. I wanted to make a plate, and my brother wanted to make a mug. Next we put our foot on a pedal that made the wheel spin. Then the lady pushed on the clay, which made it into a bowl. Next I was supposed to push the clay down so it made a plate. For Ben’s (my brother) cup he just had to hold the clay in a special position so it didn’t tip over. I had to start over six times.
When we finished, we had to choose what colors we wanted on our pieces of pottery. We were allowed to paint our pottery ourselves, but the kind of paint we could use did not let us get the piece wet when it was finished. But if we wanted to use the piece, the people at the pottery studio painted it for us with a special glaze. Both Ben and I wanted to use our things so the people at the pottery studio painted ours. After pottery, we went to a couple DVD stores. We found a few more movies that interested us. Then we took a taxi back to the Gaoxin school.
--Ayden
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Well, I guess I'll go out and fill in the hole we've been working on in the back yard and plant flowers instead. Good thing I've been working on my Spanish. If I move to Argentina, I'll make sure to move into a house with a yard...I can try again from there. Thanks for the education, Ben. Great research job! The earth sounds kind of like a souffle that didn't quite get cooked in the middle...crusty on the outside, mushy on the inside, wet in the middle. Or maybe more like baked Alaska? Or maybe like one of those chocolate candies with a liquid-jelly filling. What do you think? Love you, Nechama
Ben, will you help us figure out where our back-yard digging will lead to? We're also looking forward to making dumplings from a few posts down. They looked delicious and sounded even better.
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