THE SCIENCE FAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Recently I entered a Science Fair at my school, Mullan Road. I got the best ribbon you can get!!! Hope you learn a thing or two about electromagnet motors!

Motors
(And how they work)

Motors are a not a simple matter, just so you know. They are made up of gears, metal and magnets. First there is an outside body, then there are the gears, and then there are the magnets. The outside body is the easy part to understand, it keeps all of the other parts inside of it. (You're probably thinking, "Well duh.") Lets skip to the magnets okay? Here we go! Well, magnets , just so you know, magnets are the hard part. There is this bar inside of it and there is this axle protruding from the middle of the bar that the bar spins on. It spins because of a little mechanism on the top of the metal motor body. It performs the task of attracting one of the sides of the bar, and pushing away the other side of the bar. This makes the bar start to spin and as soon as the attracted side of the bar is as close as it can be to the little mechanism at the top of the metal motor body, the mechanism starts attracting the side of the bar at the bottom, and starts pushing away the side of bar at the top, so it spins the bar again. It does this really, really, really fast, so you can fly a plane with it. Hey, by the way, we're not through with the tour yet. Back to the gears. Remember the axle we talked about up there? What spins it is a horde of gears on the other side of the motor. (Pretty simple, huh.) But for simplicity reasons, I am only demonstrating a motor with magnets, wires, and a battery. So now you know about motors, (well, you should) and thank you for your time!

The Student,
Britton

My Reading Passion

I love to read so much that I have to read every night before I go to bed. I just love reading-- it's just...my passion! I've read all the Cam Jansen, The Hardy Boys (1-6 and many others), the Harry Potter series (I've read the whole series two times!!!), Where the Red Fern Grows, Summer of the Monkeys, Bridge to Terabithia, Hugo Cabaret 3 times, Erec Rex(1-3 actually),Holes, Charlie Bone, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Eragon series, Tom Sawyer and lots of other books. Even when we're on a plane and it's 1:00 in the morning and we're going back home I never miss a time to read! And I like to read when I have free time at school! I LOVE READING!!!

Hope you missed me--I know it's been a long time! Well now that I'm back let me tell you what's been going on lately. Well, let me start on what it was like when we moved from Tennessee to Washington. I can tell you that in one word "hectic!" Well, my grandma came up to help us move because as you know it was HECTIC! Well, after about the second or third night that she was there with us there was this BIG tornado and it was about to make our car roll over. The rain was like as big as baseballs and was blowing totally sideways. We were driving trying to get home when all of the sudden the power line just EXPLODED!!! Then there were pieces of the stoplight flying at us! So we saw this car dealership and we pulled in to run for cover. My Mom tried to call my grandma and figured out her cellphone busted when the power line exploded so she used the dealership phone instead. Anyway, we were all freaked out so when it was over we drove home and there were trees blown down! Everything was just a mess! Since we were moving our house was totally empty and the power was out for 5 days! Enough about that. Now let's start talking about our new house. One, it's beautiful weather in Spokane. Two, our house is monstrous. Three, I'm getting my own room--yahoooo! I'm also getting a computer to share with my brother, Devin. P.S. I also got a new desk and so did Devin. I also live one hour away from my cousins, that's it! That's the best part of all. Another good thing is that there's no allergens in the air that make my skin lizardy. It's nice to have baby soft skin.

This is me and my brother, Devin, walking home from school in our new neighborhood.

My Summer has also been awesome. I don't know where to start! Well, my cousins have a boat so every time I go over to their house I go down to the dock. And when I sleep over, every single evening I go boating and fishing except Sunday. Then we went to Utah. We had to drive 12 hours! When we got there my grandma and papa came out and greeted us. The next day we went to our cousins house and had a blaaaast! A couple days after that they were going to go to Yellowstone and they let me come! Yellowstone they have all these souvenir places, geysers and I saw Old Faithful but it wasn't as faithful as it used to be. We also saw waterfalls and then went to a river where I lost my glasses lens in the water. Other than that part, it was all fun. I forgot to tell about Bear World. I got to pet mountain goats and roosters and a grumpy, fat, ugly, hairy, gray pig. I also saw WALKING turkeys (they weren't dead like they usually are) We also fed fish and then went to the souvenir shack. My cousin Hunter got this $60 humongous bear. We got back to Utah and we had a family reunion which was lots of fun but then came the dreaded 12 hour drive. Well, that's pretty much my summer.

Valentines Day!!!

I'm glad Valentine's Day exists. This year we had two valentine's party's--one at the church and one at school. First, I'll tell you about the school one. At school we did a word search and who ever had the most words got a prize. The prize was to open their Valentine's bag 3 seconds before everyone else. Of course I won...but it wasn't fair because my Mom helped me. I don't think it mattered to everybody else though. Afterall, the prize was only opening your bag 3 seconds before everybody else!

Now, I'll tell you about the church party. Well, when we got in there, the first thing I saw was lights and the first thing I heard was music. Second, we went and got our family pictures taken. P.S. Lulu kind of squirmed. Then I heard this song called "I like to move it, move it!" from the movie Madagascar. I kept on asking him to play it again and again and again. During this song I was running and sliding on the floor. One time I even tackled Devin! When it was time to leave I didn't want to leave because it was so fun! I love Valentine's Day! (I can use "love" because that's what Valentines Day is about!) P.S. Lulu kept eating, and eating, and eating!!! I LOVE my baby sister!!!

Monster Mayhem

Last Saturday we went to the Monster Truck show. Let me tell you about it. First, we went down to the pit and saw all the monster trucks. Well, how we got down to the pit was a little bit tricky. Do you know why? Because there were thousands of people in line waiting to get down there at the same time. So since we had good seats that were really close to the pit we were able to sneak into the line that was filing down into the pit. We saw all the monster trucks and four wheelers and the gas powered remote controlled cars. I got lots of autographs on my shirt from the monster truck guys and the four wheeler guys. But not "Grave Digger!!!" (There was too much of a line.) Then we went back to our seats and they did four wheelers, bikes and remote control cars before the show began. Then finally the monster trucks came out! First was "Donkey Kong" and "Full Boar." Then came "Viper," and "Barbarian." Then came "Rap Attack" and "Grave Digger. They all did wheelie contests followed by races. "Grave Digger" always won even though he really lost. (It was rigged.) It was great and when I got home I was all out of energy. I was pooped!

P.S. Two of the monster trucks rolled!

Christmas Wish List

This is a list of things that I want for Christmas. Here we go!

1- Electric scooter
2- Golden Retriever (smooth coat, not rough)
3- Ipod/ mp3 player
4- Mini laptop computer**
5- 3 tickets to Spokane, Washington ***
6- Nintendo DS
7- Case for Ipod/mp3 player
8- Braces
9- Two front teeth
10- To be the nicest and richest boy in the whole entire world.
11-Five webkinz.

1-Turtle
2-Collie
3-Dolphin
4-Panda
5-?

Things I wish I could give to people:

1- 10 friendship bracelets (if I like that person.)
2- A million dollars to Grandma and Papa.
3- 10 remote control cars to Maddie and Hunter.
4- 5 dogs to Christian.
5- All the frienship bracelets in the world to Paige, Harper and Blaire.
6- I would like to give my family a wish fairy so whenever they said they wanted something it would pop up and give them whatever they wanted.
7- I would like to give Jesus another life so he would still be alive on the earth.
8- I would like to give my Mom a new computer screen...don't ask.
9- I would like to give my Dad five of his own Oral Surgery practices so he can teach people how to do surgery like McGuire.
10- I would like to give Santa an extra set of elves to make extra toys for boys and girls and themselves.

My Will

(BRITTON GOT THIS IDEA BECAUSE HE HEARD NEAL AND ME DISCUSSING OUR WILL)

I should have a Will. My will is that:

My Webkinz will go to my cousin Maddie. (She only has a couple)
My magic set and my trophies will go to Devin. (Devin loves magic and trophies)
My books and magazines will go to Christian. (He's an inside boy)
My bed will go to my Mom and Dad. (They can sell it and use the money or keep it to remember me.)
All the money that I have will go to Devin. (He needs the money)
My wallet will go to Devin because he needs a new wallet. (It's obvious)
My camera will go to Elisabeth. (She doesn't have one.)
My friendship making bracelet supplies will go to Paige, Harper and Blaire. (They love making them.)
My tooth flipper will go to Abby who's in my class. (She doesn't have her front teeth either.)
My fish, Nemo, will go to Devin. (It's best to keep Nemo in the family.)
My skulls (from my Dad's work) will go to Devin also. (He likes them)
My clothes will go to my cousin, Hunter, who's about my age. (It's obvious isn't it? He'll fit them.)


My red remote control car will go to Maddie. (She's a tomboy.)
My toys will go to Conner. (He's my best friend.)
My glasses and glasses case will go to my parents. (So they can remember me.)
My bike will go to my cousin Hunter. (I just feel like he's the one to give it to.)
My skates will go to Ashton (Because it looks like he wants/needs them and because they're blue.)
My skateboard will go to Maddie (She's a tomboy.)
My metal detector will go to Aunt Sandy. (she asked for it!)
My soccer ball will go to Aunt krissy. (she wants a new one)