Month: September 2017

Today I got to school late but I am still finishing early. In Algebra 1 I learned about simplifying irrational numbers. In history we learned about the start of the empire of the Ottoman Turks. We finished learning about Character Bible Study in The BBC Manual. Most of the pages we read were printouts we didn’t really need to read and didn’t. In science I did half the review for Module 2 and some about cost/benefit of keeping to clean the air of pollutants in the US. Modules are two week sections of my science book. We have not done The Ghost of Tokaido Inn yet. We may also have poems. Yesterday I continued North! Or Be Eaten but have not read any books today outside of school. In the real Bible we read about Jesus driving out the demon that threw the boy into fires and water to burn and drown him. I made the Google doc and it looks confusing because most of the normal Friday things are on Tuesday and most of the normal Monday things are on Wednesday. After writing this I will need to do my morning chores because I skipped them to get to school today. I will also do The Ghost of Tokaido Inn at 2:30 and poems then if we have them. 2:30 is our time for Read-Aloud and this year poems. We read the last William Wordsworth poem in the book The Sun Has Long Been Set. It is now about 3 o’clock because we have now read The Ghost of Tokaido Inn and poems. In The Ghost of Tokaido Inn the ghost finally got introduced.

In Algebra 1 I finished early. It was about adding and subtracting irrational numbers. In Bible we read about Jesus feeding the 4,000 and in The BBC Manual we learned about more less common types of Bible Study and more about the common types. In History we learned about the world history of Persia. I did three days of science to catch up and did my experiment. It failed because I could not find a sunny enough place but I read the results I was supposed to get. In four days of Science I only got one experiment. It was lucky I got behind right then instead of later when I may have had many other experiments to do that were built on concepts from the one I was stuck waiting for a sunny day on. I started The Iron Peacock which is my reader and not The Ghost of Tokaido Inn like I thought. The Ghost of Tokaido Inn is our Read-Aloud like I thought The Iron Peacock was. We also started The Ghost of Tokaido Inn. I did not read at all today (in the past, now and in the future when I say this I mean outside of school). I am currently reading North! Or Be Eaten which is the second book of I need to make a Google docs sheet like I had last year to keep track of all my school with the days we did and will take off like Adi’s birthday, Labor Day and other holidays and trips. I will need to make one after writing this and fold some clothes.

We took yesterday off because it was Labor Day and we normally don’t do any school on days Dad has off of work. In Algebra 1 I finished early and started Current Events. In History we learned about the history of Angola and the African slave trade. In Bible Vella and I did not see that we were supposed to memorize two separate verses this week and we had both memorized the first and I had to memorize the second today. Mom is having me momentarily skip my experiment that needs a sunny day and work ahead in Science. I finished The King’s Fifth today. Tomorrow I will start The Ghost of Tokaido Inn. We also finished A Murder For Her Majesty.  Tomorrow we will start The Iron Peacock. I am writing this from tomorrow although we have not actually started those new books yet. Over the weekend I finished The Grave Robbers of Genghis Khan, The Wyrm King, How to Seize a Dragon’s Jewel, The Case of the Toxic Mutants and Knight-napped! and started North! Or Be Eaten. The Wyrm King is the third and final book of The Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles. How to Seize a Dragon’s Jewel is Book 10 in the How to Train your Dragon series. The Case of the Toxic Mutants and Knight-napped are Books 9 and 10 in Dragonbreath respectively. North! Or Be Eaten  is Book 2 in The Wingfeather Saga. I have not done all of my Science but it is easy. My science also proved that there is no significant global warming today. I will need to do the experiment in the late afternoon to get sunlight.

I finished my Algebra 1 lesson in 32 minutes which is two minutes faster than yesterday. The lesson was about multiplying irrational numbers. In the real Bible we read about Jesus walking on water and feeding the five thousand. We read two chapters of But Don’t All Religions Lead to God? In history we learned about the start of tobacco growing in Virginia and the start of the slave trade in North America. We did not do A Murder For Her Majesty or poems yet. We were going to but then Adi, Mom and Vella went to Walmart to get Adi and Mom’s glasses. I still have to wait for a sunny time for science. It is 11 o’clock am now. Yesterday I continued reading The Grave Robbers of Genghis Khan. The Grave Robbers of Genghis Khan is the seventh and last book of The Children of the Lamp series. I have not read at all today. I did not finish my morning chores before school and will have to do them after writing this. Since it is Friday I have extra chores and since it is the first of the month I have even more extra chores. I have to clean the upstairs bathroom, clean the van and do laundry. We are getting together with some more friends today. Today we start a family diet with no grains, processed food or sugar. We will also follow all of our allergies. Pollen is coming back in the air and everyone with pollen allergies is congested.