Isaac Newton

Today we went to Isaac Newton’s house. Its name is Woolsthorpe Manor. It only took us 15 minutes to get there from Harlaxton. Isaac grew up with a rich family on a farm. Isaac was not a very good farmer and one time he let all the sheep go and his mother had to pay a fine because of it! Another time he rode a horse into town and when he came back he didn’t have the horse with him because he forgot about it! Even though he wasn’t a good farmer he was a really good thinking scientist. I got to see the Apple Tree where Isaac Newton first came up with the idea of gravity. One day when Isaac Newton was home from Trinity College, he was sitting under a tree at Woolsthorpe and an apple fell from a tree. Even though people think it hit him on his head, it didn’t really do that. He just saw it fall. Watching the apple fall made him think more about why it did, and he invented gravity. The Apple Tree was in a huge and terrible storm many years ago and it fell but it managed to keep growing. I thought the Apple Tree looked small and curly. Before Isaac invented gravity, he went to Kings School, a school that is still a school in Grantham where boys go. When Isaac was a boy he made a windmill that could grain wheat and corn, and he made a sundial. Since they didn't have cars back then and it was too far to walk to Kings School, Isaac Newton stayed with a different family in Grantham. Later Isaac Newton invented other things like a reflecting telescope. When he was older he became Sir Isaac Newton. In the photos you see Woolsthorpe Manor and you see the real Apple Tree that Isaac Newton sat under.