The Hat Putter-Onner

The Hat Putter-Onner

by Luke Harris

First, to work the “Hat Putter-Onner”, a friend has to drop the marbles down the inclined plane (ramp) which is held in by screws. The marbles will roll down the inclined plane and into the bucket. The bucket is connected to a pulley, so when the marbles go into the bucket, this forces the bucket to go down and make the ax that is resting on the fulcrum slam down and hit the wedge.

This forces the wedge to fly down and make the lever fly off of the wall, and then it will hit another lever, which will cause it to fall down and hit the fulcrum. The lever will go spinning in the air which will cause it to land on yet another lever. This lever has the Mets cap on it, which will get flipped up onto your head. (Hopefully.)

The entire machine is portable because it has four wheels and two axles which allows you to throw your hat on “on the go”!

P.S. Any hat will work with this wonderful machine! Even Fedoras!

Martin Luther King, Jr. by Luke

Martin Luther King, Jr.

     Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15 ,1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He started his civil rights movement after Rosa Parks had been arrested in 1955. This started the Montgomery bus boycott. Then in 1959, the Supreme Court found that bus segregation was unconstitutional. However in many parts of the South nothing changed. The success in Montgomery triggered sit-ins and other protests all over the South. In 1963, adults tried marching through Birmingham, but the police attacked them. Next, the children tried and it worked! After several marches when the police were shown on TV attacking children, they stopped following orders. Also in 1963, King delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech. In 1964, he was the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and the Civil Rights Act, which King had worked for, passed through Congress. Unfortunately, he died on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, shot by an assassin. This was a shame because he was only 39 years old and he could have done so much more.
     He was a good citizen because he fought for equal rights for all people peacefully, and went to jail willingly for the cause even though he didn't like it. He showed people that you don't need guns to change the country.

What Makes America Special

I've been to a lot of countries. Let me tell you why America is cool.

Because it has states like California, Arizona, different places all in one country. Like deserts and forests, and lots of other places. And also it has nice cities, like New York which I've never been to, and Hollywood, which I've been to in California. And the only interesting place there is the Italian Ice store with the lemon ice.

In America I visited icy states like Wisconsin and Minnesota. I like them because they have lots of lakes that you can go boating on, and in the winter you have to walk out on them because it's icy. In the winter, the ice is about two feet deep, and if you want to go fishing in the winter, you have to get a big chainsaw so that you can cut a whole in the ice, get a stick, some string, and a worm, and a hook too. And then you just throw all those in there and catch a fish. Eventually.

America also has a capital which is very close to where live. Washington DC has fancy cars, like Maseratis, Rolls Royces, and Mercedes E and S class. It also has lots of Porsches and a couple Astin Martins. Washington DC is also where they make laws and where the government is. There's also a state government in Richmond. The capital is where they make laws, like freedom of speeches, freedom of religion, freedom of language, and jobs too.

And so there are lots of people here, including Chinese, African, Mexicans, English, Japanese, Scottish, Indians, and Eskimos. There's lots of different kind of music here, and some of it was invented in America like bluegrass, jazz, hip-hop and rock. And we also have some different kinds of food that were invented in America, like a cheeseburger, fried chicken, meatballs (without any sauce please!), and brownies. And pancakes too.

I've been to a lot of countries. I like America the best because I live there.

Field Trip to Blandy Farms

Today I went to Blandy Farms. It's the state Arboretum. What I really liked about it was the dissecting a bean and the long trails. Our bus ride there was very long.

This is a picture from when I was on the bus. I got a little bored. I asked my mom for the camera. One of my classmates was turning around, and so I decided to take a picture of his buttocks.








That was on the bus ride when we just left the school. I decided to take a picture of the scenery because I thought it looked nice.








This is a picture of the sky and some power lines. It's like halfway to the arboretum or something.









This is a picture of Donnell, the same person that I got his buttocks. He looks kind of like an emotional lotion commercial model.











That is a picture of my friend Zach while we are at the State Arboretum. I am not really sure what he is supposed to look like, but it looks like he is kind of chillin' out, even though it is chilly outside.








That is a picture of me looking at a bud of a buttercup.









That is a picture of a very red flower that I cannot recognize. My dad calls it a poppy.









That is a class photo when we are just about to leave the State Arboretum.









The sky was beautiful that day, so I took a picture of it. It's just a gorgeous photo.









Here is Reagan sitting across the aisle from my seat. And so, I think she looks kind of like a vampire. Or something.








That is a picture of my friend Nick who I was sitting next to on the way home from the State Arboretum. That is probably one of my best taken photos because it is very hard to get a good picture of Mr. H. over there.

Memories of Sedona

Luke's "What I Did on Spring Break" essay:


The little shop that Luke wrote about was located off the main street, just outside of town, set beautifully against the backdrop of the Sedona hills.

My Homework

Yesterday, I had homework where we had to make a map of my bedroom. I waited until nine o'clock to do it because I wanted to do it with my Dad and I had chorister practice at church before we got to do it. So we ended up doing it at nine o'clock. I wanted to do it earlier, like at five o'clock, but we couldn't do it until nine o'clock.

This is the map of my bedroom. I used the map key down below the picture. The fan was very hard to draw.

Luke's Schoolwork

Scott's note: I'm cross posting this for Luke's blog. This is such a nice collection of his work.

Here is a collection of a year's worth of Luke's writing that came home from school. There are some real "Luke" gems in some of his writing. ("My [pet rats] are very pretty. But my dog isn't to pretty.")

The pages in here aren't arranged chronologically, yet it's pretty easy to tell which stuff came from the first of the year, and which stuff was later in the year. He didn't enjoy writing at the first of the year, and would only write short declarative sentences, but by the end of the year, well, he was on a roll!

The other interesting thing about his writing is that it pretty well serves as his autobiography for his seventh year!

The Three Days of Fun

The Three Days of Fun are the three days that are two days before the end of school, and we do on Wednesday we read and wear our pajamas to school. On Thursday, we play board games all day that we bring to school. On Friday, it's movie day--we just watch movies all day long. And I am bringing The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again.

Field Trip to Great Country Farms

On Friday, I went to Great Country Farms for my field trip. At Great Country Farms, we got to feed animals like goats, sheep, and horses. We saw a great big ostrich sticking his head out of a gate at us, and he said, "Where's my corn, I want some!" There was also a big slide called the double barrel slide and there were these big sewer pipes, they were like about at least 30 yards long. I went down it backwards, head first, upside down. We also got to go on the big moon bounce things that was actually a whole bunch of pillows with plastic on it. It was a gigantic pillow, at least 20 yards long!

And the strawberries we picked were from a great big field. We saw some that had a perfectly good one, but the big nose was the only problem. And Ben was taking pictures away with his mom's camera and his mom was yelling at him because he was taking too many pictures because it was a disposable camera. Oh, and there was also big duck race where on one end there were these pumps that pumped out water, and you tried to push a duckie across with the water. Whenever somebody finished their race, the water that they pumped would go into our bucket. Whenever we finished a race, the water would go into their bucket. The only colors for the ducks were blue and yellow.

Luke's Class Picture