As some of you know, I’ve had braces for four weeks as of today. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!! Only 100 left to go, and then a retainer during day and night exept when eating for about a year and then a nightime retainer for the rest of my life. Wow, that sounds a little bit intimidating.
I wrote an outline about going to the beach, I an A. B. C. and D. two a’s and b’s, and it was three layers deep. It took a while but was pretty fun. I had groups on all the capital letters.
We started early today and did extra Bible. We learned about Assyria and Gilgamesh who is an ancient mythical king who had all the power in the world. We read 4 poems about babies. In Science we learned about similarities in animals and how it can be deceiving about if animals are related. In Math I learned about negatives.
I tried out for the Nutcracker on Saturday, and I might get to be a bonbon!!! Yay, but I won’t know if I get a part and what it is if I get one until this Saturday or next Wednesday. It is driving me crazy!!!!!!
The persentige of chance that a land animal could become a whale by acidentule mutations is probably about 1/364 followed by 1,625 zeros/ IMPOSIBLE.
We have only Grant over today because Timothy is sick. Because I worked ahead today it is only 11:00. In Bible we read about Jesus walking on water. In The History of the World we read about Hammurabi. He made the first set of rules everyone from kings to peasants had to follow. We read 4 poems about children helping their dads, a dad falling into a pond and a dad talking about his toddler. We calculated the likely hood of a hyena mutating into a whale. It is 1 to 364 followed by 1,625 zeros.
The Hittites introduced horses to Europe from China.
Today we went on a field trip to the dollar tree. It was fun!!! I got some molding clay, three little pots, and a bag of plastic medals. We went in the afternoon, then the locksmith showed up 45 min. early and we had to rush home to have him tell us he couldn’t do the job, at least we found another locksmith who can, but he needs to order a part.
I was learning about pronouns in school, it was pretty simple. I had to circle all the pronouns in the paragraph they gave me and then do a couple practice questions. Basicly, not much to write about.
In Bible we read about Jesus feeding the 5,000. In The Children’s Bible Field Guide we reviewed creation. They say the first three days were preparation and the last three days were decoration. In The History of the World we learned about Joseph they thought when Joseph got his coat Benjamin was already born. We read two poems, they were about parents telling stories. In Science we read about scientists thinking whales came from various land animals from bears to deer. In Math I learned about the rate of change. The other Math I did today was a test. I did extra school because we have the Ferris’s over tomorrow again.
We read about some really fierce warriors and there was a picture of them and they looked like tall toddlers still in diapers. I have written this journal 2 other times and my computer has deleted them. So that’s all that I remember
Eleanor Holmes Norton is a U.S. House of representatives delegate, from the district of Colombia. And she was also the first woman to place a chair in the U.S. Equal Employment Oppertunity Commision, plus she has been elected for congress 12 terms. And now Eleanor Holmes Norton has been awarded the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award.
In History we learned about the first cities, they were in Sumer which is in southern Mesopotamia. Nanna was their moon god. There was no stone or metal or strong wood in Sumer. In peacetime they had no leader. They only had leaders in war and they elected them. But then they were always at war and they decided to make a permanent leader and have him pass down his leadership to his son. We also learned about early European villages. Some of them had stone houses and furniture.
Ruth lived in the time of the Judges. In the last period of Ancient Egyptian history they did not use pyramids but buried them in underground tombs.
Today we learned about the Matsuba tombs. We read six poems about beauty. We watched the Fairris’s today. I learned numbers and months in Korean. We learned that the pharaoh during Moses’s time was Thutmose II and he lived in the third period of Egypt.