Month: April 2016

In our new book we started on Tuesday The History of Medicine we learned about a doctor who challenged the teachings of his teachers and an author/doctor of ancient Greece. His name was Andreas Vesalius. He was born just before midnight December 31. The year he published his book about his discoveries was the same year Nicolas Copernicus published his book about the sun being the center of the solar system. It was the start of the scientific revolution. In another book of Science we learned about enzymes. They either break apart or put together molecules. That led to learning that canned pineapple is precooked therefore deactivating the enzymes that break down things.

Tripoli is the capital of Libya. It means natural abrasive. 2,322,000 people live in Tripoli. They have a growing economy.

For vocabulary I had to look up a bunch of latin words. Did you know that the word alien came from a latin word that means other? It took a super long time to look up what they all meant.

I was learning about homophones in word study today. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings, such as two, and to, or there and they’re. It was sort of easy but fun and didn’t take a super long time.

In Bible we read about Sin in the family and priests to be punished. In 100 Gateway Cities we learned about Tripoli, the capitol of Libya. It means natural abrasive. Which indeed it is because the city is named after tripoli which is an ancient replacement for sandpaper.

Yesterday we started a new book it’s name is David Livingstone. It is in a seiries we have read before and he was Mary Slessors hero. It’s a really good book and it’s super duper cool and fun and it all fits together. I really really like this book.

Tunisis is in Tunisia, we don’t know what Tunisia means. 2,100,000 people live there. They have a high unemployment rate and still do child sacrifice. Child sacrifice is horrible, when we prayed for them I prayed especially for it to stop, it is so so sad!!!

In Bible we read about God being angry with the Israelites for giving the blind and stolen sheep of their flocks for sacrifices. In 100 Gateway Cities we learned about Tunis the capitol of Tunisia. Tunis has 2,100,000 people. 98.9% of the population is Muslim. We read two poems about one about an octopus and another about a skunk.

When George Washington had a cold they blood let him and he died from blood loss.

Artery is the Greek word for “I carry air”. Greeks didn’t know arteries carried blood.

In 100 Gateway Cities we learned about Algiers the capitol of Algeria. I has 3,574,000 people.