Month: February 2017

In Bible we read about Israel blessing sons and dying. They went back to Canaan to bury him. In History we learned about medieval art, architecture, science, technology and war. We also learned about knights and reviewed castles. Guilds were like business government. We read six patriotic and about bird poems. In Science we learned about the Skywalk which is a glass walkway over the Grand Canyon. You can get motion sick in a skyscraper because of the wind rocking it.

In Bible the people of Egypt ran out of money to pay for the food in the famine so they sold all their cattle and the next year sold all their land and themselves into slavery. In History we learned about the feudal system, castles and Song dynasty China. We read nine poems about hills, the sea and rivers. In Science we learned about magnets and space.

Russia was named for the Vikings living there who were called the Rus meaning red-haired. We read five poems including the famous one about Paul Revere and the others about the sky. We did Cool Stuff 2.0 today. In The Children’s Bible Field Guide we learned about John the Baptist, Jesus’s baptism, his temptation and his ministry. The wine in Jesus’s day was 1 part wine with 4-10 parts water. In normal Science we learned about currents and current diagrams. The longer the wire the more resistance and the thinner has the same effect. We are working ahead in Together Stuff this week because Mom and Dad will gone next week. We might do three read-alouds later but Mom’s throat hurts.

In Bible Joseph’s brothers went back the Canaan and brought back Benjamin. In History we learned about the Battle of Hastings. I thought that Normans came from the North and not South from France. We read six poems about stars, the night and the moon. In Science we learned about sound and electricity. I did not know the difference between current and static electricity but current is electricity in a conductor flowing through and static is electricity storing in an insulator and then breaking through when their is enough of a charge one way or another.

Today we finished pretty early, next week we go to camp, this year we are’t going to camp D again, and Reed is going to a different camp than us. He is going to camp S and Adi and I are going to camp K. If you’re wondering right now, why in the world are they going to camp in the middle of spring? It is because our dad is going to be taking the pictures for the FamilyLife, love like you mean it marriage cruse, and mom is going as his helper, also because it is free and it would be weird if dad went by himself on a marriage cruse. So us kids get to stay for a week at camps. Only four days left before we leave for our camps!!! I haven’t even started packing yet!!!

In Bible we read about Joseph’s silver cup trick, but we haven’t gotten to the part where he reveals himself to them. In history we have been learning about England. More than half of history is wars in my opinion. Every single country has been invaded at least five times. England and France just joined. The English buried their Kings in ships, so “they could get to the afterlife.”

In science we learned more about sound waves and SONAR. Did you know that ultra-sound is the name for waves above 20,000 Hz, and that is what they use to see the babies in an ultra-sound. Electrons do relay races, they bump into each other passing their charge on down the line so that it moves. Today we were supposed to make our own batteries, but we don’t do the experiments from this book and we also already did it.