In Bible Sarah died and Abraham would not take the land to bury her for free. In History we learned about the Byzantine Empire. The capitol, Constantinople, had 14 palaces. We read five poems about trees.
Category: Journals
Homeschool Journal 1/9/17
by Reed Karman •
In Bible we learned about Abraham offering Issac in sacrifice to God. Of the 19 kings of Judah eight were considered good. In 1899 a 2,000 square mile swarm of locusts were being studied. In History we learned about monasteries. We read three poems about trees. In Science we started Physics but we had to skip chemistry for now. In The Children’s Bible Field Guide we read about some kings and had to put it in our Journal how they taught us to be godly, they taught me that you can imitate whoever came before you in this position (if they were good at it).
Journal 1/9/17
by Vwala •
In Bible I learned from the accounts of the good kings of Judea that to be a good God follower you should not let the temptation for wrong be there, so that you will not be tempted. I read about Asa, Amaziah, Azariah, and Jotham. They followed God but bad things happened to most of them because “Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.” 2 Kings 14:4, this is also said in 2 Kings 15:4, and something that is much the same in 1 Kings 15:14. The kings followed God and obeyed God, they didn’t sacrifice. But the people did, and they paid for it, with the exception of Asa because “the heart of Asa was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.” 1 Kings 15:14. But the other kings still did right in his sight as far as we are told, and we are told about their downfalls. So their must be a reason, a purpose deeper than the eye can see, and maybe just maybe that purpose is to teach us the lesson of not letting the temptation be there to tempt.
We skipped the section on chemistry and went strait to physics in science. I thought physics was just gravity and stuff like that but according to the book every single invention from the wheel to modern-day things such as computers and MP3 players are due to the wonderful amazing physics. I personally think it is a bit of an exaggeration, but they can think whatever they want.
We also read some poems about trees. They were crazy, one was talking, one was staring at someone, and the other one I could make neither heads nor tails of it. But I could tell they were all using personification.
Homeschool Journal 1/5/17
by Reed Karman •
Today is Mom’s birthday. We did not do alone stuff. We learned about the Wars of the Kings, Sodom and Gomorrah and broke our personal poem record for a day. 16. They were about boats and their cargo, aliens and airplanes. In History we learned about Britain in the Middle Ages.
Homeschool Journal 1/4/17
by Reed Karman •
Today is Bible we learned about the flood, Abram and the Tower of Babel. In The Children’s Bible Field Guide we learned about Elijah and Elisha. Elijah performed seven recorded miracles and Elisha 14. In Science we learned about the ecology of the world. A niche is how much, when and what for one species uses its ecosystem’s resources.
Homeschool Journal 12-16 (Cat Inventor)
by Vwala •
Some of this stuff I didn’t actually do the week I was supposed to do it but it is still this weeks stuff, so who knows when I actually did it. I had to brainstorm an invention, we just got a cat two days ago so I picked cat toys, I was supposed to write what they do and how I could improve it. I wrote for cats to play with and I thought, wouldn’t it be awesome it the cat toys would play with the cat by them self? I know other people have already tried this. I’ve seen the feather that goes in and out of the holes, the robot mice, and even the mice that spin around. But I wanted to do something else, so I tackled a few problems people have with their cats. Number one, dehydration; cats will get dehydrated just a water bowl and wet food every once in a while is fine, but I wanted something else. So I came up with the idea of the water bowl being attached to them, it would be attached to their collar and it would be breakaway so when they jump it would detach. Number two, getting their collar off; now the only way to really be completely guaranteed it won’t come off is for a non breakaway collar, but you really don’t want that. So I figure the cat won’t try to get it off if they want it on. Now think about that, does it make sense? Of course it makes sense but how would I get them to want their collar on. This sounds a bit cruel but it isn’t that bad really. Take their food bowl away for half a day and give them a treat ball that opens by it’s self if it senses their collar, it might take a couple tries of doing this and putting the collar back on and showing them they get the treat if their collar is on for some cats, but it could work. I have a couple more ideas but they will have to wait because I already have a word count of 359.
Homeschool Journal 12/15/16
by Reed Karman •
We did not do together stuff today.
Homeschool Journal 12/14/16
by Reed Karman •
God called the land earth not the world. We read four poems about fevers, the sea and gypsies. We started Volume 2 of Story of the World today.
Homeschool Journal 12/13/16
by Reed Karman •
We read James, 1 Peter and 2 Peter today. We read three poems about trains. Sap hardens into amber.
Homeschool Journal 12/12/16
by Reed Karman •
In History we learned of the weakening and fall of Rome. The Vandals sacking Rome was the start of the steep decline. The Emperor moved into a swamp. We broke our record of Poems today with 15. A glider went high enough for the crew to need spacesuits.
Nineveh was the capitol of Assyria.