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.
Author: Reed Karman
Homeschool Journal 8/30/16
by Reed Karman •
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.
Homeschool Journal 8/29/16
by Reed Karman •
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.
Homeschool Journal 8/26/16
by Reed Karman •
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.
Homeschool Journal 8/23/16
by Reed Karman •
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.
JUPITER AND VENUS WILL BE CLOSEST ANY PLANETS WILL BE IN 2016
by Reed Karman •
This Saturday Jupiter and Venus will be the closest any two planets will be this year. (In perspective from Earth.) It will be easily viewed 30-40 minutes after the sun sets in the direction the sun sets.
Homeschool Journal 8/25/16
by Reed Karman •
We read 7 poems mostly about moms. We all feel sick today so Mom took out a lot of our stuff along with because we took some time off yesterday because of Adi’s Birthday. I learned how to spell allot.
Homeschool Journal 8/24/16
by Reed Karman •
Today was Adi’s birthday. We went to a big park across the river and to the store to get supplies to make rock candy. In Bible we read about the man with a legion of demons and the woman who touched His robe on His to the officials house to heal his daughter. I learned about banking in Math today. We read 7 poems mostly about children’s thoughts. We learned about Sargon building the first empire. He was the cup-bearer for a city-state king. He convinced the army officials to murder the king and make himself king. After that happened he took over all of Mesopotamia.
Homeschool Journal 8/22/16
by Reed Karman •
In Bible today we read about the parable of the seeds sown on the road. Later when all his followers asked him about it I did not realize that it was not only his 12 disciples but all of his other followers too. We also did a Bible Highway in The Children’s Bible Field Guide. We read 5 poems today. They were about being things in different months. We learned about the Law of Use and Disuse. It is the theory that if you don’t use a body part then your offspring will not have that body part. A man disproved it by cutting off 20 generations of mice’s tails. Their children still had tails.
Joshua was a General. In ancient times copper was mined by hand. Darwin thought whales came from bears.
Homeschool Journal 8/19/16
by Reed Karman •
Today I started school early because we have some guests over tonight and we are going (maybe) to a hot dog stand called the Wienermobile that is shaped like a hot dog. We started a new book called 12,000 Years of World History. In it we learned about Chatul Huyuk. It was the largest town of early ancient history. We read two poems today. Another new book we started was called The Trojan War. It is a somewhat non-fiction (mostly fiction) book about the Trojan War. Another new book we started is Cool Stuff 2.0. We learned about smoke detectors and a crazy fancy new toilet. A smoke detector is 85 decibels.
In the third chapter of Mark the Pharisees are already trying to kill Jesus. When Jesus was healing everyone his family tried to get him because they thought he went crazy.