Author: Reed Karman

Homeschool Journal 8/18/16

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In Bible we read about the paralytic being let down through the ceiling. I also learned about that David did not take the consecrated bread the priest shared it with him. In The Children’s Bible Field Guide we looked up the same verses in different Bible versions. I looked up the verses in the KJV and Vella looked up the verses in the NCV. We read four more poems today. They were mostly about wishing you could be something else. We did a Science experiment today. It was about cohesion. Cohesion is the attraction between like molecules it also known as a liquids skin. We took water, soapy water, canola oil and cleaning alcohol. We were supposed to use corn oil instead of canola oil but we didn’t have it so the experiment came out slightly wrong. We put a drop of each liquid on wax paper then compared the heights. Then we put 50 drops of each and recorded the the ml amount. The water was supposed to have more ml than anything else but the canola oil had more. I got 22% on my Korean writing quiz.

The Nile Delta is called that because it is shaped like the Greek letter Delta, a triangle.

Homeschool Journal 8/17/16

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I started early today because we watched a four year old and a one year old from 8:00 to 12:00. Most of the day my computer had to be on the charger so I had to be on my knees on a chair to reach it and be safe. We had to write John 3:16 backwards and with no vowels. Like the Israelites did. One of our History books think towns, settlements and cities came to be by nomads staying in the fertile crescent because it was the best place year round, the other thinks it was because people wanted to trade more efficiently. We read four more poems today. I did not like them but Vella did. They were about secret places places that no one should know about.

Homeschool Journal 8/16/16

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Today Math was a repeat Lesson. I Korean I learned compliments. I started school early today because we had to go to the dentist today for Mom’s appointment for about two hours.

Jesus only had four disciples at the point where he healed Peter’s mother-in-law. When he was healing people from demons he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was. In the Children’s Bible Field Guide we looked up a lot of verses and looked at verses that were prophesies and fulfillments of those prophesies. We also looked at verses in the prophets that showed that it was the Lord speaking through the prophets and not the prophets saying what they thought. We started a new book called The Kingdom Strikes Back. It is about the Bible. We read four more poems out of our poem book about places. There was another about John Drinkwater and one by the author of Winnie the Pooh. In Science we learned about people thinking spontaneous generation was true, like thinking that that if you put wheat in a jar with dirty underwear then a full grown mouse will come out a few weeks later.

Homeschool Journal 8/15/16

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We started reading Mark in Bible today. It is the shortest Gospel and the first written. Peter and Andrew were the first disciples. The Bible has been translated into over 2,000 languages. There are no vowels in Hebrew. When someone copied the Torah or Bible in ancient Israeli culture they would check the letter count of the original and of the one they wrote, then the word count then the middle letter of each word. The King James Bible was written in the same year as one of our Lamplighter books, The Hedge of Thorns. We started a new book called the Children’s Bible Field Guide. Another new book we started is called Favorite Poems old and new. We read four of the poems from it today they were all weird and about being yourself. One of them was by a man named John Drinkwater. Another one of our books is called the Story of the World. I read some of it last year. It is very interesting. In 1086 there was a book published that listed all the properties in England who owned them and how much they were worth it was called The Doomsday Book. Historia means investigation. In yet another new book Evolution: The Grand Expirement we learned that 48% of the population in the U.S. believe that the world was created in the last 10,000 years. In Lumosity my scores are:

Speed:-

Memory:992

Attention:292

Flexibility:473

Problem Solving: 801

This year I look forward to our many interesting History books. When I grow up I want to be an inventor.

What I did on my summer vacation

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This summer I did not do school. But I did do Scheduled Summer Learning. It involved Math, Spelling and World Book Reading and questions. I played a lot of video games and read a lot of books. I got a new video game for my birthday and some more controllers which was more of a present to the family. The new video game was called Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It is a game where Nintendo took almost all of their characters and put them all into one fighting game. I played it a lot with the people that came over for my birthday. Now my favorite character is Snake he is a fictional secret agent who throws a lot of bombs and hides in boxes. I also got a new board game for my birthday (which by the way was July 17) it is called Stratego. It is a war game similar to chess but most of the pieces move the same and you can’t see what your opponents pieces are. There are also bombs. The goal of the game is to attack and capture you opponents flag. Our family does a thing where every week we have a subject that we get books from at the library about. We get to choose the subject and most of the subjects I have chosen are different countries. I do the countries by continent and I have been doing Europe for a while now. I did Europe all summer. I went to Boy Scout Camp Rockefeller where I got a lot of Merit Badges. We also did merit badge summer school where I got Chess and Camping (which I had started at summer camp) and almost got Pet Care and Entrepreneurship. We also started a garden back in March. In my section I planted strawberries, watermelon and corn. The strawberries never came up. Of the two watermelon that started growing Mom did not let me pick one because she thought it was not ripe yet, but it became over ripe and burst. The other one we picked early but at least it was still edible. We picked two ears of corn but they had been eaten by bugs. After that a big storm killed everything. Also some friends of ours planted some tomatoes for us but it was killed in the storm too. When we got the plot (it is in a community garden) there was what we thought was lettuce in my section so I watered it and weeded it (ironically) until we harvested it and found out it was a weed! I got to see my cousin and my Dad’s mom about halfway between our cities. We took a train to the middle of the woods and back. I spent some time at my friend Elliot’s house. We played a lot of games.

Summer Journal 6/23/16

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Today I did not do school school because my friend Jeremiah was here. We played on my DS and on the Wii also we managed to play Risk and Monopoly in 24 hours. We went to the pool and invented a new game like Horse but it is jumping off the diving board onto a noodle.

Summer Journal 6/15/16

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Today I learned about probabilities in Math. I learned about the first fleet in Australia reading. I read some Redwall to Mom. I got stung by a bee and it hardly hurt. Dad and I are planning a giant railway system in Minecraft.

Summer Journal 6/14/16

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Today I learned about the trade in Australia of the British empire. Vella left for Summer Camp and Adi is going to a VBS from 9:30-11:30. Today Mom and I went to Target. Saturday and Sunday I went on a campout and came home with 28 ticks and I itch!

Summer Journal 6/9/16

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For Scheduled Summer Learning I read about European settlements in Australia. We went to Kid’s Art at Amanda’s at 10 o’clock. At the pool no one was there for 20 minutes. Then a random grown-up showed up and Luke and Lawson. We go there a half hour everyday. There was no BBQ because the main people did not show up.