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This myth is not busted.
We taped a balloon onto a straw, on a string. The string was tied to two chairs. We blew up the balloon and then I said: "Three, Two One, this is old fashion rocket test" and let it go. It zoomed to the other chair and fell off the straw. Then I said: "Dude! That was awesome!"
Then we did it again (and again), probably ten times. Now I'm running the straw back and forth on the string without the balloon.
It zoomed like a real rocket. If you see a rocket blasting off we're going to bring two chairs and our stuff so we can three, two, one countdown and see how fast it goes up into space.
We have some moms coming over soon, I'm going to show this to them.
Thanks for the new science book Grammy Marcia! After it came I found lots of things to make. We made an old fashioned phone out of 2 blue cups and my orange string. Orange is my favorite color.
I talked in one cup and mommy listened. I said: "I love you mommy" and she heard it! When dad got home he tried it too. Now I'm eating breakfast and Carrots (my stuffed bunny) and I are using it.
It works because some kind of person thinks if the string is open like a "V" it can go through the string.
Now mom is making me stop as I'm playing and not eating.
My neighbor, Ms. Pam, has about 101 tadpoles in her backyard. She said there is one frog. Right now they are about the size of a raisin. They will get little legs and long hands and their tail will go away. Then they will be a frog "ribbit, ribbit, ribbit" (I'm hopping on the floor right now). I think this will take a couple of years.
The other day Ms. Pam caught some with a net and we got to hold them. It was slimy. I think Stevie (my cat) wants to kill all of them. I want to go back and see them, but first we have to put Stevie inside or he will follow us and Buster (their dog) wants to eat him. Stevie doesn't seem to care, he just sits on the fence and watches Buster.
I made a drawing of the tadpoles.
Yesterday I learned how to put out a fire without water. I put baking soda in a bowl, then mom lit a candle and put it in the bowl. Mom helped me pour vinegar on the baking soda. It had white bubbles. The candle when littler and littler and had no oxygen left, then it blew out.
Then we did the experiment again, but instead of vinegar I dumped a glass of water on the candle. That made it go out too.
I wore my fireman outfit to make sure nothing went on fire or didn't go on me or mom or anything else.
If you see a fire, make sure every door is not locked. If you have a toy fire suit, wear it when you do an experiment with fire. Do no put 1,000 lighters in your car or it will break your windows and go on fire, and all of them will be broken. I saw this on Mythbusters yesterday. 
Do not put 100 match heads in one big bucket or it will explode like a fireball. I saw that on Mythbusters too. That is my favorite show because it's telling me to not do any of their experiments, only with toys. I will do the toy experiments.
Today my mom and I made it rain. Rain is important. Animals, cockroaches, even humans and my new penguin Skipper need rain. Mom boiled a pot of water, then I put ice cubes in a smaller pot. She held the ice cube pot over the boiling water and it dripped - we made rain. I thought this was sort of boring and prefer The Coke Experiment. We made a video of that but my mom is having trouble getting it to upload.
Maybe we'll try later. Right now I'm busy pulling Skipper, 3 other friends and some tennis balls in a car we made out of a shoe box. I put the string on my mom's new lanyard and I'm towing them around the house.
This experiment is good and safe. It's from our kid science book. I've done this experiment 10 times I think. My mom is going to tell you how to do this.
Mix 2 tsp baking soda in a glass filled half-way with water. Put the glass in a container as this will overflow. Pour vinegar into the glass and watch it foam! The base (baking soda) neutralized the acid (vinegar)
Yesterday my dad caught a cockroach and we tried to feed it to my Venus Flytrap. It did not eat it. I think it was too big and it is hard in it's back.
I wanted to keep the cockroach as a pet and find him something to eat but mom and dad said no. Instead we let him go outside. I told mom and dad he was nature so we could not kill him.
We just watched a video on how to feed the Venus Flytrap. Maybe we should try and find those worms. If we find so much in our yard we're just going to take them all out and send some to Home Depot so they can feed their Venus Flytraps. Otherwise they will get sick and die. There is no Venus Flytrap medicine.
It zoomed like a real rocket. If you see a rocket blasting off we're going to bring two chairs and our stuff so we can three, two, one countdown and see how fast it goes up into space.
