Today in science class we dissected and ate a squid, or know as calamari. It's called calamari when it is cooked,but when it isn't cooked it's just called a squid. So it was very cool because my partner and I were on the projector as volunteers to dissect it, and demonstrate to everyone. The squid was very very squishy, it felt like it was rubber, but the eyes felt like wet boogers or something. 

So after we dissected we were to all take out all the organs, which was very easy. We just had to grab its arms and then pull slowly up. Then we had flip it over and clean, the chromatophores, up by using your finger nails. and scrapping it off. Then we had to give it to our teacher who then out it in a fryer, and then she cut it in two and we shared with our partners. It didn't taste good because I didn't have any seasoning with me so I had to eat it plain, but if you've ever eaten a calamari, post it in the comments box. So now that you guys know how to fry squid and make calamari, I will see you guys next time with another "Free Write Fridays" blog post. 

For the past two days my class and I have been doing a virtual frog dissection. We have to go to a website called frogguts.com, and I will put in a link down below. So anyway we had to do the virtual one before ewe do the real one because we might not know what the heck we're doing. So it was fun seeing the insides of a frog and seeigng them virtually, but I really want to see the real frogs. 

we are going to dissect the real frogs next Tuesday. I think that it will really smell. I know this from experience with dissecting a sheep's eye before. So I think that the only thing that's holding me back is the fact that I will be touching a frog that is dead and squishy and yeah. So now that you guys know what's going on I will see you guys later. 

This Tuesday all the students, well all the seventh grade students will be attending. As you may remember I talked about going to the zoo before in my "Zoo Project" blog. if you don't know where that is it should be in my Free Write Fridays blogs, but if it'd not just find it somewhere in my blogs. While we are gone the eighth graders will be doing a Lip Dub. If you haven't seen the last year's Lip Dub, then go check it out. 

Back to the zoo now, our class has been divided into three groups. In those three groups there are three groups with three different animals. They will go to the zoo with a high school student as their guide, and then they will visit all their animals and then do something else. Any way that's what's going on this Tuesday and I will see you guys later with another Free Write Fridays blog.  Down below is the Chafee Zoo website link, just in case you wanted to check out their website. 

For the past two days in one of my periods we have been launching rockets. In these past two days there have been fails and successes. My partners and I made a rocket and our launch was a success. The goal of this is to carry an egg on it and make it survive. We had to take our plan from our egg drop design but make it smaller so it will fit on the top of a rocket. At first we didn't know how to do it. Our egg drop design was basically a box with a sponge and a parachute. 

We decided to make a smaller box and cut the sponge smaller from our original design and put it in the box. My teacher said that we shouldn't have any flat top boxes and that if someone were to a box design that we should put a pyramid on top so it wouldn't create so much drag on the flight. When we launched our rocket was amazing in my opinion. We  launched it and then at the last minute the parachute deployed. We had one of the engines that had a seven second wait and then it would deploy. So yeah it was fun and I will see you guys later. 

Most of you probably think that chimpanzees are just monkeys that live in trees. Well they're not monkeys and they don't just live in trees. They are our closest cousins in the animal species and they're very intelligent. And most of all they are not monkeys. People just say that for short terms lie oh look at that monkey when it is really an ape. I like chimpanzees because I love to climb, but I can't imagine how it would be like to climb like a chimpanzee

There's one weird thing about chimpanzees because sometimes when they run into other troop they can get really violent. When a troop meets another troop it usually ends up into a fight and then when one member of the other troop dies the other troop will eat it. No one can explain why chimpanzees do this cannibalism, but it just happens. Maybe it's because they are running low on food I don't know. But one thing that people know is that it happens, and that's it. There are still things we find out about them that we didn;t know before. But any way this is it and I will see you guys later with another Free Write Fridays blog.