Month: August 2015

homeschool journal 8/31/15

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Today was the first day of school this week /day one and the terrible busy monday. ; ‘ ( But today was okay, other than getting a late start.

We started a cool new book today, it is about missionaries in china. I had the hiccups today.

Binder was easy, and sort of fun. I keep on worrying that I’ll do a bad job but it’s still sort of fun.

Critical thinking  was really hard I had to make certain amounts of money using nickels and dimes.

I had to do spelling late because we had a late start, and there where no free tables so I had to not use a table.

Today I started making a lego chinese fashion timeline, it was lots of fun, but took a lot of time.

In science today we learned about how your cells make energy.

The House of Sixty Fathers

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The House of Sixty Fathers is about a boy named Tien Pao. He lives in China during WW2. His village is destroyed by Japanese fighters. He and his family are the only survivers. Taking someone else’s sampan found floating on the ocean during the attack they rowed upstream as far as they could go. And there his parents found work. On only the second day, while his parents were out at work with their baby, he and the family pig are yelling and running around in the sampan it becomes untied to the mooring and the river takes him all the way back to his village, being guarded by Japanese soldiers. He makes his way slowly back to the city he came from.

Along the way he saves and travels with a soldier. With and without his friend he makes his way back to his city. Which at the moment he gets there being attacked by the Japanese!

Homeschool Journal 8/31/15

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We did Bible first with Dad today. I was so behind on Math I did it all day. I had test 2 today. It was the end of the disk!

We read about Tianjin in 100 Gateway Cities today.

We started a new book about a missionary to Cathay called Mission to Cathay.

Everything vital seems to support cells. Eating, breathing and your heart beating all support cells.

I read ahead in my book so today I wrote a book report on it.

current events: The yuan’s worth changing

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China changed how much the yuan is worth, it dropped 1.9% on Tuesday, 1.6% on Wednesday, and 1% on Thursday. The yuan is now 2% less than the dollar. The Money Times says. “The fear is that China’s economy is slowing more than expected and that U.S companies that do business there would be hurt by a stronger dollar related to the yuan depreciation, which makes U.S. products sold in China more expensive.”

homeschool journal 8/28/15

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Today we were suppost to go to the musiem of discovery, but because Reed was feeling sick we didn’t get to go and instead we decided to go on sunday and postpone a puppet show that I had planed and it is probubly going to be very werth it because dad gets to go with us, and I still get to do the puppet show later that day.

In school today I didn’t have much to do, I did a bit of reading (about indians) and it was fun but took a long time. It was mostly about they’re homes and how it’s changed from tippis to log houses.

In current events I had to write my report and I am going to type that up after I finish this journal. My report was about china changing how much the yuan (they’re currency) is worth.

Today I also did a bit of china, I had to quote a chinise person and explain what I thought they meant by that quote.

 

Current Events Week 3

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ROCK REGION METRO: NEW NAME AND NEW BUSES

The former Central Arkansas Transit Authority (CATA(CAT) has been experiencing some reorganization. After changing their name to Rock Region Metro they hired Jarod Varner to reconstruct the system.

First step ride the bus. He started by talking to people after a little research he found people didn’t like the diesel buses, so six months later there were 15 brand-new eco-friendly buses with wifi and GPS system online so riders could see in real time where they were.

Today

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Today I felt sick. I woke with gas and ran to the bathroom. I went back to bed. Then I got out of bed to eat breakfast and do school which I could not stay focused on. I tried to do school until lunch. I ate lunch and did most of what I could in school. I went up to my room to take a nap. I woke up and Pokemon battled myself a little bit (I was winning), sat up to long and laid back down. Mom came up and talked with me. Then I made a magic labyrinth course and ate dinner. Then I wrote this.

homeschool journal 8/27/15

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Today Reed and I had spelling at the same time. It was fun, Mom gave Reed two spelling words and then gave me one.

In the little bit of china that I did I had fun, I was making a time line of china and I wrote about china nowadays and they have made a lot of improvements like joining the world wide trade thingy, and making the three gorges dam.

In binder work I took a story I wrote earlier in the year and added a simile, shortened it, and improved the wording some. It was really hard but also fun and afterwards I felt accomplished.

In search of the source

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We just finished reading this book and I thought I’d give it a review.       I give  it a four out of five star review. It is about a missionary and his wife and  they’re struggles to translate the bible, learn a new language, and do all this in a different culture. It’s an awesome book but there are some gross and a couple of ugly things described in it.         I don’t suggest it for 4-6 year olds because of the cultural difference, and no lack of adjectives in it.

homeschool journal 8/26/15

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Today science was realy fun we learned about IQ tests and how scientists know that your DNA controlls part of how smart you are. The way they proved that was twins seporated at birth got the same test scores. We had alot of fun doing the simple IQ tests they gave us it was so much fun and the questions for science were mostly easy and fun.

I finished this weeks math today, and it was ok, not very fun but what can I say, it’s math. I learned alot because it was about adding more than two numbers at the same time, like three.

In history I read alot about china nowadays, and did you now that in the early 2000 they’re were alot of presidents resining in china, and that china became a republic because the people wanted and fought for one?