BR 2-14: BONES

Good evening everyone! Today I am going to talk about "Bones". This book is written about bones of our bodies. How much do you know about your bones?

Our bones are active to walk, jump, bend our knees and so on. Anyway we move, our bones are helping to go out. By the way, do you think how many bones we have in our bodies? Actually, we have 206 bones in our bodies. Our bones are hidden under our skin. We are able to feel how they form or shape. When we were born, our bones also small. The smallest bones are inside our ears. As our bones grow up, we also grow up. In the opposite, do you know the biggest bones? The biggest bones are in our legs. Our hearts are protected by flat bones in the middle of our chests. Our ribs protect our lungs and other squishy parts. In head, we have skull. It covers brain like a helmet. Inside of skull, the brain is existing. Today, a skull and crossbones means danger or poison. These are very dangerous, I think!
Bones are hard and strong, but we break them by accidents. However our bones can get well, so our bodies are very mystery.
Some animals do not have bones. If we have no bones, we will not be able to catch, run, stretch, grab and so on. Bones are necessary for us to act.

I can understand the words in my body, so it is very convenient book, I think. You can try it soon!

[260 words]

BR 2-10: What Is the World Made Of?

Hello everyone! I read this book. This book is written about a lot of matters of world. Usually I don't often think about what the World is made of, so this title was interesting for me. I am going to introduce this story now.

Do you know three matters on earth? It can be solid, liquid, or gas. All matter, everything on earth, is either solid, liquid, or gas. Some solids are hard, but others are soft. All solid hold their shapes unless we do something to change them. If a lot of toys are liquid or gas, we don't play them. Suppose to you want to drink soon. If water is hard as a block, you cannot drink soon. When we take a bath, water freeze, and we could not take a bath. So, that solid, liquid, and gas are divided is very important for our life and play an important tole.

I think this book tells us how to explain a lot of process on earth in English. Also we are able to learn many words such as small bubble, water vapor, ice cube and so on... It makes use of any scene. Moreover it is very easy to read. I am going to look for other stories from now.

[211 words]

BR 2-09: Why I sneeze, shiver, Hiccup, and YAWN

I read this book. This book was written about reflex actions. Why do we sneeze? Why do we shiver? Why do we hiccup? Why do we yawn? This book solves out these questions. I thought that reflexes are wonderful for me. I had been thought why these reflexes happen. This book tells detail of it.

Our nervous system is made of two parts. One part is nervous. The other is spinal cord. All reflexes work through your nervous system. When we hiccup, we say "HIC!". To begin with this process, a nerves sends a message to your spinal cord, next an air goes in and your throat closes, so we say "HIC!". In order to stop it, a drink of water may make the hiccups go away. When we sneeze, we say "KA-CHOO!" Why? First, dirt goes in mouth or nose, after that brain gets massage and sends it to spinal cord. Spinal cord gets message and sends it to diaphragm and belly muscles. Then muscles contract. Air is forced out of lungs and into nose and mouth, so we sneeze! Shivering and yawning also reflexes. A yawn begins when lungs have too little oxygen in them. With more oxygen in your lungs, you feels a little less sleep.

We have dozens of different reflexes. I have never thought why these reflexes happen, because these phenomenon are usual things. However our body has wonderful system, I think. I want to know about our body systems more.

[246 words]

BR 2-08: Down Comes The RAIN

Hello! How's it going everyone?

Today, I am going to talk about "Rain". Do you know the mechanism which falls down rain? Maybe you would study when you are junior high school days. However this book explains how to make rain, why wet clothes dry, and so on easily. So I am sure that you will review the air mechanism again and learn how to express it in English.

When wet clothes hang on the clothesline, the water in them evaporates. So we get dry clothes. This process is caused from sun. Sun is necessary for our life, I think. Almost all of the water vapor in the air comes from rivers, lakes, and oceans. The water changes from a liquid to a gas. Let's think about another situation! In winter, sometimes you are able to see your breath if it is cold. That is because the water vapor includes. All living thing can see this phenomenon. From this book, I am able to know how much air mechanism is an important and necessary for us. It is very useful for our life.

That is way this book tells us a lot of things or information. Perhaps you will get information that you have not known. Moreover the pictures in this book are very pretty good and funny, so you are able to read easily, you know. Please read it!

[230 words]

BR 2-07: Ant Cities

I read this book which is written about ants. How much do you know about ants? Actually I don't know so much about ants. I think that ants are very tiny and move fast. They are good at escaping anywhere.

I am going to talk about content in this story.

Ants are always moving. They are very active. To make their nest, they are always moving. In a nest, there are miles of tunnels and hundreds of rooms. In the rooms of the nest, worker ants do many different kinds of work. For example, some ants bring food from outside into a nest and crack the seeds. Then the ants chew the seeds to get the juices. Other workers store seeds. Moreover ants lays eggs and grow these.

In the nest, there is a Queen ant. The queen is bigger than the other ants. Anyway ants work very well.

This book describes the nest, kind of ants, how to make something.

I think that each of ants have their own work. You think ants cities are very wonderful, isn't it?*haha* There are over 10000 kinds of ants in the world such as Formica ants, Cornfield ants, Carpenter ants, Thief ants, Leaf cutting ants, and Army ants. Maybe that ants work harder than human, I think. To be honest, I don't like ants because the groups of ants are very strangely and not so good. However, I am able to know about ants.

[242 words]

BR 2-06: The PLANETS in Our SOLAR SYSTEM

I read science book this time too. I want to overcome this series.
Now I am going to talk about the planets in our solar system. How do you understand about our planet? Can you answer the names of some of the planets? I am sure that maybe you know all of them. How far is it from Earth to the sun? Is it only the Earth that we can live? So these questions are solved completely by reading this book.

We live on a planet. Our planet is called Earth. In our solar system, the nine planets exist. These are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. We need a telescope to see Neptune and Pluto.
Asteroids are big chunks of rock. It goes around the sun. Comets are collections of ice, gas, and dust. Meteoroids are bits of rock and metal. A shooting star is a meteoroid.
Earth is a middle-sized planet. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto are smaller than Earth. Pluto is the smallest planet all of the nine planets. However, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are larger than Earth. Jupiter is the biggest of all the planets. Over 1000 Earths could fit inside Jupiter.
We people can't live on Mercury or Venus. We would burn up. Contrary to the former, we can't live on Neptune or Pluto, because we would freeze. Jupiter and Saturn are very cold. The planet that we can live on is only Earth!!!

I think that Earth is a precious planet for us to live. I can't believe that Earth disappears. I can enjoy and study our solar system with reading this book. The good points of this book are two. First is that there are many pictures and diagram, so we can image easily. Second is that we can know the words about our solar system. Is it like a kind of TOEFL test isn't it??? So I recommend you to read it!

[325 words]

BR 2-05: How Mountains are made

I read this book. This book is a science book. I read this series. This series has many science books, so I intend to read it from now. This series convince me, so I can study science by reading this book. And this book clear up what we have questions. I will talk about this story briefly.

This book "How Mountains are made" is written about process of being made mountains. It is a kind of geography. I have studied geography when I was high school days, so I can review a content now in English. The way how to make mountains relate with Plate, Magma, Rocky Mantle, and so on. Mountains have four types. These are Folded, Dome, Fault-Block and Volcanic. Moreover, present mountains relate with sea.

By the way, Mt. Everest is a younger mountain, and it is still being pushed up higher. Millions of years from now, there will not be mountains. It will be like a desert.

I think that it is good chance to learn a lot of science in English. And it is written in easy English, so everyone can understand this content and you can enjoy it! A lot of pictures in this book are pretty and this book includes many pictures. So try it!

[212 words]

BR 2-04: The Moon seems to Change

I read this book "The Moon Seems to Change". It is a science book. Do you know this series? I found this kind this time. Maybe we had studied science until high school days. When I found this book, I was very interested in it and I began to want to read it, so I chose it. Also I wanted to know how to explain changing moon in English.

Do you know that the moon seems to change? The moon goes around the Earth. It takes about four weeks to go around and we can only see parts of the moon. Anyway, there are six patterns of the moon. Can you say the name in each of them? The moon changes... New, Crescent, First Quarter, Full, Third Quarter and Crescent. I was surprised to know names of "First Quarter" and "Third Quarter". These are questionable for me why both of them are not "half".

By the way, do you know that we can do own experiment to show the phrases of the moon? We can do it easily. Please read and try it.

I think that it is very useful for us to read, because we can review the science. Moreover we are able to recall the knowledge of science. There are many pictures in this book, so we can understand words, process and content easily. This science book reminds me of junior high school days, because I studied this content in my junior high school. Please try this book!

[250 words]