How I learned that I can turn Peanut butter into DIAMONDS!

How I learned that I can turn Peanut Butter into DIAMONDS!

This week my reading group read this article: Can you turn Peanut Butter into diamonds. Before I start, I want to ask you a question: 

Do you think that you could actually turn peanut butter into diamonds?

At first I thought, No. This can't be possible. But after reading the article I was amazed! To see that it was really true! It said, that they are created with peanut butter by heating a piece of coal, coating the coal with peanut butter, and leaving it in a bowl of ice through the night. To me it was a real surprise that it was even possible. Because Peanut Butter, it is just nutty, brown, food, and sticky. The next part of the article said that Scientist Dan Frost realized that Peanut Butter contained one of the main ingredients for diamonds, carbon. It said that all organic matter on Earth contains carbon. Earlier on in the article it said that some people claim that diamonds can be made from household items! I wondered if that meant my couch or TV can make diamonds?!!

Do you think that you could make Diamonds of Household items? Or Peanut Butter?

My learning about Polar Ice Caps

My learning about Polar Ice Caps

This term we have been learning about how we can use our voice to help the environment. In reading we are reading articles about ways the environment is getting worse, and how we can help it. So far we have read about, Climate change, Wind farms, Carbon foot, Hybrids, and Going green.

This week, we read about What Polar ice caps are. We read that they are melting and that the animals homes are getting destroyed because of that. It made me feel really sad because our lives don't have any more value then their's. And I know that I wouldn't like it if I lost my family because of humans.

These are the new thing I have learned about Polar Ice Caps,

• When temperatures rise, the Polar ice caps are starting to melt and break apart.
• Satellite photos show that 9 percent of the of the Polar ice caps are shrinking every 10 years
• Some communities have begun to use renewable resources, such as solar energy (from the Sun) and wind power.

This has helped me to understand more what Polar Ice Caps are and how when they melt it is bad for our environment.         

Can you do anything to help save the environment? Because there is no other place to go to.