Category: Journals

We learned about how pharaohs lead their armies into battle even though we learned that they didn’t in other places. We also learned about Egyptian gods. They almost all have animal heads. In the Golden Age of Egypt they made Amun the king of the gods instead of Ra. We also learned about the Canaanites and the Hebrews although I already knew all we learned about them. They had a picture of a cedar tree that does not look like a cedar tree. We read three poems about fairies. In Science we learned about different computer mice, a bunny that tells you e-mails and texts and a new type of E-book that has more memory and a new type of screen. The screen uses electric currents to push objects inside capsules to make different shades of gray as well as black and white. One of the mice was wireless and was charged by it’s mousepad. Another raised dots on itself to do Braille so blind people can read on computers.

In History of the World we read about Moses they messed some stuff up. For example they said that after he killed the Egyptian he went strait to Pharaoh and told him to let his people go instead of saying he fled because of his death warrant. Moses’s story was during the Golden Age of Egypt. We got to read out our second portion of the year of The Kingdom Strikes Back. It was the entire Old Testament encapsulated. We learned about the Hebrews whole history from a non biblical standpoint today in one of our History books. We read five poems randomly about things and the first was by Shakespeare and it seemed uncharacteristic for him. We had to put in our Journal how we are similar to Abraham and since Mom won’t let me do breathing I did feelings. In our experiment we cut and folded pieces of paper with pictures of water molecules on it so it looks like water but 167 million times bigger and on a paper background.

After the Pharaoh Amenhotep IV who changed his name to Ahenaten died Tutankhamen was the pharaoh. He was foremost in deleting Ahenaten from history. We read four poems about months and seasons.

In History we learned more about New Egypt. It is considered the Golden Age of Egypt. We read three poems about random things like time being a gypsy man. In Science we learned about the fossil record of fish. The supporters of the fossil record of fish for evolution said it is “shrouded in mystery” on how it supports evolution.

Abram means “Father” and Abraham means “Honored Father”. That is why God changed Abrams name. I wonder why people named him Abram in the first place. We read five poems about night and sleep. The last was Wynken Blynken and Nod. We started a new read-aloud called God King. It is in the times of King Hezekiah. In Science we learned about the fossil record of invertebrates, including coral. We also learned about the fossil layers.

In Cool Stuff 2.0 we learned about artificial retina’s for blind people. But it does blurry crude pictures and the brain has to learn to fill in the rest of the pictures. We also learned about different types of watches. One of them uses binary code, another uses internet time. A worldwide time that has 1,000 bits per day and it has no time zones so there is no confusion over that. Another receives constant radio updates from an atomic clock. We only had two books to read together because Mom accidentally read ahead yesterday. We had Science and a weird read-aloud about the Trojan War.