Today our principle/dad/substitute teacher/guidance councilor taught us today because our mom is going to funeral out of state today and tomorrow. I miss our teacher/mom/guidance councilor but I did have a lot of fun with our substitute teacher.
In science we learned about enzymes. They are sort of cool, and I like how they make fruits and vegetables ripen, meat be more tender, and make it so we can make cheese. The questions were ok, not too hard but not super easy.
In our new book we started on Tuesday The History of Medicine we learned about a doctor who challenged the teachings of his teachers and an author/doctor of ancient Greece. His name was Andreas Vesalius. He was born just before midnight December 31. The year he published his book about his discoveries was the same year Nicolas Copernicus published his book about the sun being the center of the solar system. It was the start of the scientific revolution. In another book of Science we learned about enzymes. They either break apart or put together molecules. That led to learning that canned pineapple is precooked therefore deactivating the enzymes that break down things.
Tripoli is the capital of Libya. It means natural abrasive. 2,322,000 people live in Tripoli. They have a growing economy.
For vocabulary I had to look up a bunch of latin words. Did you know that the word alien came from a latin word that means other? It took a super long time to look up what they all meant.
I was learning about homophones in word study today. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings, such as two, and to, or there and they’re. It was sort of easy but fun and didn’t take a super long time.
In Bible we read about Sin in the family and priests to be punished. In 100 Gateway Cities we learned about Tripoli, the capitol of Libya. It means natural abrasive. Which indeed it is because the city is named after tripoli which is an ancient replacement for sandpaper.
Yesterday we started a new book it’s name is David Livingstone. It is in a seiries we have read before and he was Mary Slessors hero. It’s a really good book and it’s super duper cool and fun and it all fits together. I really really like this book.
Tunisis is in Tunisia, we don’t know what Tunisia means. 2,100,000 people live there. They have a high unemployment rate and still do child sacrifice. Child sacrifice is horrible, when we prayed for them I prayed especially for it to stop, it is so so sad!!!
In Bible we read about God being angry with the Israelites for giving the blind and stolen sheep of their flocks for sacrifices. In 100 Gateway Cities we learned about Tunis the capitol of Tunisia. Tunis has 2,100,000 people. 98.9% of the population is Muslim. We read two poems about one about an octopus and another about a skunk.
When George Washington had a cold they blood let him and he died from blood loss.
Artery is the Greek word for “I carry air”. Greeks didn’t know arteries carried blood.
In 100 Gateway Cities we learned about Algiers the capitol of Algeria. I has 3,574,000 people.
On Friday I was sick so today I had to do school. It was super hard and took a long time.
Science was about if it is a good or bad idea to choose how your babies look. The questions were super duper hard, but I finally finished them.
I have been reading for the last 150 days one Psalm everyday for my Bible Reading subject. If the curriculum had not split 119 into four days then I would have finished today. In Science we learned about scientists wanting to make “perfect people” also known as elites. If this technology came out only the rich people would be able to get and then these people’s kids would be even smarter so they would make more money and that would take money from the poor so they wouldn’t be as smart as all the rich people.
I had a really hard time with binder work. I was supposed to think of a hook for a paragraph about the pro’s and con’s of having the sabbath. I ended up moving it to tomorrow, because it is past my bedtime right now and I still haven’t finished school. I told you about my prep for this writing assignment yesterday and tomorrow I will do the real thing.
In science we learned about leavening agents, the top three are, baking soda, baking powder, and yeast. Leavening agents work by releasing carbon dioxide, air, or steam when mixed with liquid and those gases make things rise.