Isabelle's blog

Cinco de Mayo

Sat, 05 May 2007 15:38:28 -0500

Well, today is Cinco de Mayo and we worked at the Cinco de Mayo festival on the west side of St. Paul teaching pinhole cameras, infared scopes, and thaumotropes. It was fun to walk around and see everything, but i didnt like the weather....cold and rainy:-(. Since the weather was so bad we left early and came back to the Science Museum. We played a game where we each had a balloon tied to our ankle and we had to try to pop everybody else's balloon. It was alot of fun and it was also great exercise!!! Well, thats all for now!

Im SICK!!!!

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:32:19 -0500

I am really sad because i am sick, I have a really bad cold that I got from my friend Taira who got it from our friend Agatha....I hope I get better soon because I hate being sick! Especially when it is nice outside because I like to go outside but when im sick I dont feel like doing anything!!!!:-(

SNOW BALL FIGHT!

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:41:42 -0600

On Wednesday our team had a snow ball fight because we did so well on "Make It Jeopardy" the day before! It was so much fun! We all ganged up on Cameron and got him good! :-)

keng getting ready to throw a snowball

Our snow fight!

Keng walking back in defeat

Reloading!

Naana's HUGE snow ball!

I fell over:-)

Snow ball in mid air!

I haven't blogged forever!!!!!!!

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:19:22 -0600

Wow....I haven't blogged for a while. Im really excited because we have alot of outreaches coming up! We have one next friday at the Rondo Community Library health fair. We have another one on March 1st at Museum Magnet which is also the day we are going to the capital for youth day at the capital, so we get to miss school!!! yay! I am also really excited because tomorrow is Valentines Day! and our winter dance at my school is on friday which will be alot of fun!!! well thats all for now! BYE:-)

On the floor

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:50:42 -0600

Today we went on the floor and taught kaleidoscopes which is something we haven't taught in a while. I think it went really well we actually had a lot of visitors come to our table, it was surprising because we even had adults coming up wanting to make kaleidoscopes. On another note, it is really cold outside, like below zero and its NOT fun, I hope my legs don't fall off on my way home today. But other than that nothing new going on with me, bye for now!!;-)

IZZY!!!

Race Exhibit

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:19:34 -0600

Today Hannah, Cameron, Keng and I went to the Race Exhibit. We didnt really have much time to see everything, but what I did see I liked. I thought it was really cool that they made the exhibit fun but you also learn alot

Fart Machines

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:27:37 -0600

This is how you make a fart machine!

Ice Skating!!!

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:09:07 -0600

This week on Saturday we had to get at least seventy some projects done with visitors so we could go ice skating.....and guess what.....we made about 190!!!!! So this saturday we get to go ice skating and im really excited!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!

Race Workshop

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:44:22 -0600

On Thursday I participated in a Race Workshop for the upcoming exhibit to the museum called Race. There was a play writer there who is creating a play to go along with the exhibit. She had different exercises for us to do asking us to write down our answers. She read off different words like: freedom, culture, race, rights etc.... and we had to write what we thought they meant. We did other activities and I actually got alot out of this experience, because I really dont think about race or culture very often but this opened my mind to really realize how society plays a part in this issue, and I think I changed some of my views about the meaning of some of these words.

THANKSGIVING!!!!!!

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:08:44 -0600

Well, its that time of the year again when everyone rushes out to the stores to get food for Thanksgiving....and lately I have really been thinking about what Thanksgiving really means to me. To me. Thanksgiving is a time where my family can come together no matter what troubles or problems we have had during the year and just share stories, and spend time together. My family doesnt get together alot, so this day really means alot to me. It is also a time to share what you are thankful for....I am thankful for many things; Im thankful for the wondorful family I have, my friends, my job, and my co-workers who make my job so much fun! I am thankful for my health, my education and the teachers who make it possible, and I am thankful to the people in Iraq and all of the people in the U.S. military...I may not agree with the war that is going on right now, but I truely am thankful to them for protecting our country.

Democs!!!

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:10:10 -0600

Wednesday we played Democs again. We first played it at the beginning of the season to learn and discuss nanotechnology, and this week we learned about animal testing. I think it went well, it went a little smoother this time around because most of us had played the game before so we had an idea of how it was supposed to go. I didnt really like my character "LAURA" because she was for animal testing and in real life i am not, so it was difficult for me because i am AGAINST animal testing, and it was hard for me to play a character who's views were so different from my own. Other then that i think the game went pretty well, I found it a little odd though that most of the characters were against animal testing I thought the game would have been a little more equally divided.

Museum Magnet!!!!

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:14:08 -0600

On Thursday we went to MUSEUM MAGNET for their parent day, and I had alot of fun! We taught them how to make vocal chord cups, thuamotropes , and kaleidoscopes. It was really fun to see all the kids having fun and learning some of the sctivities we teach at the science museum ! Well, thats all for now!!! ~*IZZY*~

Halloween!

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:24:19 -0600

Yesterday was Halloween and it was really fun because I got alot of candy...and i LOVE candy!!!!! It was really funny too because when I went home my mom was talking about how we didnt have any trick-or-treaters, so i went and told my brother that we should dress up and trick-or-treat at our house and we rang the front door bell and my mom came out and said "oh great we havent have very many people come" and she gave us the candy. We started to walk away and she noticed the blanket I had around my neck and said "oh my daughter has a blanket just like that!" My brother and I turned around and thought she was kidding....she didnt even know it was us, and when she found out she was freaking out for like five minutes!!! IT WAS HILLARIOUS!!!

ROCKETS!!!!!!

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:24:19 -0500

Today we went up on the floor and taught rockets. I actually had more fun than last week! I was in charge of the launching area and it was fun to see everyone shoot there rockets and to cheer them on. I think I did better today, because on Wednesday we practiced how to teach visitors rockets...that helped me out alot!!

Rockets on the floor!!!!

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:53:38 -0500

On Saturday we went on the floor to teach visitors how to make straw rockets. I think it went really well because there weren't rockets flying all over, the visitors followed the instuctions and only launched the rockets in the launching area. It was really fun to see what different designs people came up with, and the visitors really seemed to like this activity.