America is Special

One thing that makes America special to me is the Liberty Bell. It is a huge bell that is older than the United States. It was made in London and came to the State house in Philadelphia. Did you know that the first Liberty Bell cracked the first time they rang it? They ordered a new one and it cracked too. I think it's pretty funny!

Another thing that makes America special to me is the Statue of Liberty. In it's left hand it holds a notebook with the date it was dedicated to America; July 4, 1776. On the notebook it's in Roman numerals which would be July IV, MOCCLXXVI. Did you know that it's index finger is eight feet long! The cool part about it is that it's three feet taller than my. That's pretty big finger! LOL!

Another thing that makes America special to me is the White House. Not only does the President work there but he can go bowling, swimming and to a movie theater IN his house! I wish we had that kind of stuff in our house.

Another thing that's really cool is the Golden Gate Bridge. It's almost two miles long and it took four years to build. It's held up by 80,000 feet of cable. It must have been pretty hard to build it. Guess what? The Golden Gae Bridge isn't really golden or yellow, it's orange!

I think Mount Rushmore is a great part of America. Did you know that President Lincoln's mouth is 18 feet wide and that each president's face is sixty feet tall and twenty feet wide. The four presidents are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Our home school program was named after Thomas Jefferson! They used dynamite and jack hammers to carve away the rock and then they used tiny hammers. So that's why Mount Rushmore took 14 years to build!

I learned about Cliff palace in a book I read. Did you know that it has 217 rooms? It was home to the Anasazi people. They lived in caves up high on cliffs. Cliff Palace is the biggest one they built. That's what the book says anyway.

The Hoover Dam is a dam to keep the Colorado river from flooding. It was named after President Herbert Hoover and made from giant blocks of concrete. They used enough concrete to make a sidewalk around the earth! It's 726 feet high and it has 840 miles of pipes. The river is a lake now called Lake Mead. It's 100 miles long. The cool part about it is that it's so gigantic.

My Mom is happy now because I'm finally done and she doesn't have to type any more and I'm happy because now I get to pass off something in my scout book!

awarding

two night ago I went to pack meating. I got three awards two red beads and a basket ball belt loop.