The Lost Colony (kinda creepy)

The Lost Colony was in action before 1590 and the colony vanished in 1590. The only clue left of the  colony was these words marked on a tree "Croatoan" meaning....... no one knows. Do you know the WALTER Magazines that you get in NC? That was from Sir Walter Raleigh. They went in NC, and Jamestown. They might have thought that "Croatoan" carved meant a type of Indian or people from the Lost Colony was murdered. About 117 men, women and children went missing near the coast of Outer Banks.

The Lost Colony :O

By Jack

117 People of England went to start a colony for Queen Elizabeth I.  The Captain refused to sail them any further than Roanoke island. So the colony stopped there to settle.  Some sailed back to England because of a storm. Then a drought happened. The worst in the state of North Carolina. They went missing. And on a tree there was a word Croatoan. IT IS CREEPY! They were either ambushed by the Croatoan or they went to Croatoan island. The leader's ring was found on Croatoan island. So that is a clue that some of them went to Croatoan or some went inland. Recently pottery has been found that is from the same time as the Roanoke settlement. And some descendants are still alive. It could have been 2 people named James Payne and Michael Payne who share the same ancestor.... James lives in England and Michael lives in North Carolina. This still remains a mystery today. Some Payne ancestors are found all over NC and the UK. People still struggle to find the truth.


                       -Jack

lol

Fransisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján from 1510 - 22 September 1554 was a Spanish conquistador and explorer, who led a large expedition from Mexico to the present-day Kansas through parts of the South western US between 1540 and 1542. Coronado believed that the Seven cities of Gold, paved roads with gold, and other stuff. It wasn't real. Lots of famous sailors hoped to find it but it wasn't true. His name is often Anglicized as "Vazquez de Coronado"







He was born into a noble family in Salamanca, Spain.

The pet I want, and cottonwood trees :D By Jack

         The pet I want is called a blue lounged skink. They are not creepy at all! They are very cute and can live up to 20 years. They are ground reptiles and found in the really far East in Indonesia and Australia. They eat almost anything! Like meatballs, hamburgers, ketchup and mustard hotdog, lettuce, veggies, fruit, insects, and eggs and meat! They will make a meal out of almost anything. They grow to about 20 inches long and have a blue tongue to protect them. They cannot climb. They have great camouflage but if that doesn't help them, their blue tongue can! The color of the tongue means poison to predators but they don't have any poison. Their scales are soft and turn yellowish brown when near shedding. They are not born in eggs. They need to be kept under a light constantly. They are used to warm temperatures. They are one of the most popular exotic reptile pets :D.
-Jack

Cottonwood trees are a type of tree that lives in America, Western Asia, Europe, Eastern and Macedonia. They are known as cottonwood trees because their seeds have soft puffs on them that makes them look like cotton. They are tolerant to floods, erosion etc. Their wood is soft and can easily be chopped. They are common in the southwest of America.

Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked) : Angiosperms
(unranked) : Eudicots
(unranked) : Rosids
Order : Malpighiales
Family : Salicaceae
Genus : Populos
Section : Aigeiros

These are large trees. 25-40 m tall with diamond shaped leaves that are green on both sides of the leaf. The seeds are borne ( idk what that means ) on cottony structures and can be carried far before landing. The petiole is flattened sideways of the tree's leaves, and has a particular movement when the wind blows. The wood is course and a fairly low value. Used for shipping crates, pallet boxes etc.
Cottonwood is a very important tree and still is today

-Jack

cottonwood

Cottonwood or "Populus deltoides" the eastern cottonwood, is a cottonwood poplar that is native to North America and grows throughout eastern central and southwestern USA the southernmost part of eastern Canada and north east of Mexico. It is a dicot.






It is also a large tree growing to about 20–40 m (66–131 ft) tall and with a trunk up to 1.8 m (5.9 ft) diameter, it is know because it is one of the Largest North American hardwood trees. The bark is silvery white and smooth or lightly fissured when they are young, becoming dark gray and deeply fissured on old trees. Twigs are gray-yellowish and stout, with large triangular leaf scars. Winter buds are slender, pointed, 1-2 cm long (.039-0.79 inches) yellowish brown, and resinous.

Lego Mindstorms

 A few days ago I started Lego Mindstorms. Basically, There is a team, and we have to build a robot and program it to do certain stuff in 2 1/2 minutes. It has to be autonomous, that means programmed to do it ON ITS OWN. Remote control is cheating!! I am in a group of 6. (including me)
Finn, I, Frankie, Eva, Arushi, and Eshan. Our robot has to do certain stuff. We had to build things like a compost machine, a lego factory, a building, truck, car etc. I built the compost machine. It is basically a bunch of gears that tick until some compostable trash turns into fertilizer. (Not Really)

We used these sticky things called dual locks to stick them down where they belong.

Finns Elephant


Today Finn built an EL3PHANT EV3 Bot. It really looks like an elephant! But he was crying hard because it took 12 hours of waste. He didn't even know he could fix it. But it works! It is the hardest Lego EV3 Robot with instructions. It has many gears and wires. It took a while for the head to be fixed and the trunk but it works! He did something with the leg though. I think its pretty cool. It is full of all types of gears, wires, motors, parts, and wheels! It is a great engine even if it doesn't work well.


By Jack :)