I like reading Books, like: The Little Book of Knowledge, the Book about Life, and Science or fact books. In the Book of Knowledge I like to read How thing are made.
I learned how sheep's wool is sheared and then the wool is cleaned and spun into long threads called Yarn. Then the Yarn is coloured with dye in lots of different colours. After that it is rolled into balls and people buy it for knitting things.
I learned about silk. The silkworm makes a cocoon and turns into a moth. Some people make different things with the silk cocoons by pulling the threads apart on the cocoon. They can make it lots of different colours and make it into material.
I learned how you make plastic from crude oil. The oil is dug from the ground and take it somewhere and heat it take things from it to use to make plastic.
I learned how you make glass from sand. They put the sand in fire until it melts and it becomes runny glass. Then they put it in a machine to flatten it. It becomes hard glass like windows. To make a shape of glass like a jar, the runny glass gets put in a mold and air pushes the glass against the sides of the mold. Tongs pick up the jar and put it into a big oven called a lehr. This oven makes the glass stronger.
I learned how you make toothpaste. You get silica to polish your teeth,and sorbitol from plants to make it a paste, then get frothy stuff and put mint or other flavours in it. We need water to turn the mixture into a soft paste, and fluoride which helps stop your teeth getting ruined. All those things are mixed and put into tubes.
- Miss Dolly
