We baby sat today, and it was soooooooooooooo long. At least when your trying to do school and the kid is crying and won’t stop unless he is eating, so he can’t deal with anything not being perfect unless he is eating all the time. I still haven’t finished last weeks school so it’s a good thing we’re having a quarter break next week, although it might destroy the point if I’m doing school the whole week. But at least then I won’t be behind. Mom and Dad say that we’re so smart we freak out and think it’s too hard if we have to put any effort into school. He said he should really bump us both up a grade so that we will stop getting A’s and B’s all the time, and so that we know how to do hard work, but I already struggle with some things, and I thought it was good to get A’s and B’s, so I don’t know what to think. Why can’t life be easy to understand?
Month: October 2016
Homeschool Journal 10/19/16
by Reed Karman •
Today we read about Numbers and Deuteronomy and the Law. We learned in History about the war between Persia and Greece and Sparta conquering Athens. We read four poems about playing.
Flying birds have non-symmetrical feathers where as flightless birds have symmetrical feathers.
Homeschool Journal 10/17/16
by Reed Karman •
Today my computer forced updates on me and that took about 2 hours. We learned about the Scythians. They built mound graves and were sacrificial of humans. We read four poems about fairies. The first two were by William Shakespeare. In Science we learned about simulators, a game called Second Life and a device that projects other people into your shadow.
journal 10/18/16
by Vwala •
Today we went on a field trip to Bobrook Farms, they have a berry patch, a hay ride, a sunflower maze, animals, a corn bin, a hay maze for little kids, and a pumpkin patch. It is really fun, we went with a bunch of homeschool familys that we know. Mom was also babysitting so I didn’t get much school done, but it was a ton of fun so it was worth having to do more the next day. I really like these types of things but Reed was ready to go before we went in, and Mom and Adi were ready in a little bit.
Homeschool Journal 10/13/16
by Reed Karman •
Today we read seven poems about playing. In Science we read about the teeth of the Archeoptryx. Some scientists think it may be just a unique feature of it.
Homeschool Journal 10/11/16
by Reed Karman •
Today we learned about Athens and Sparta.
A polis is a city-state.
HURRICANE FLOODS EAST COAST
by Reed Karman •
Hurricane Matthew has been hitting such states as North Carolina and Virginia. An emergency state has been declared in four states. The Coast Guard has and will be rescuing thousands of people. 18 have died in the US and over 500 in Cuba. Major flooding is to last for days.
Homeschool Journal 10/11/16
by Reed Karman •
We read four poems today about Christmas and play time. In History we started the Classic Age. In Science we talked more about birds, dinosaurs and the Archeopteryx. Today we went to our orthodontics appointments and made our mouths hurt more but I got out of rubber bands.
Ostriches have claws.
Homeschool Journal 10/10/16
by Reed Karman •
In Science we learned about the evolution of birds and the Archeopteryx. The three “best” proofs of evolution is ape to man, land mammal to whale and dinosaur to bird. We learned about what people think of the last one today. We read five poems about Christmas. One was from the Bible and another was by Martin Luther and was made into the song Away in a Manger. In History we learned about the art, architecture, science and technology of the ancient world.
To sue, or not to sue
by Vwala •
The U.S. senate voted on whether to let 9/11 victims and victim’s families sue Saudi Arabia for the attacks in U.S. courts. The senate vote results where 97-1, they are trying to veto the president. They have been trying to get the vote passed for years, so it might be a while yet.