Homeschool Journal 2/8/17

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We finished pretty early today too, and I am doing some of next weeks stuff because we are doing extra together stuff this week and extra alone stuff next week at Camp K and Camp S. I am doing this because I want to be free next week because this year I have a friend where we are staying!!! Only Three day left before we leave for camp K, I can’t wait but I will miss Mom and Dad too.

We read a poem about Paul Revere today. In Bible we read about Joseph revealing himself, and then Israel and Joseph’s brother came to Egypt.

Did you know that the vikings played chess? They did, it is supposed to be a civilized game. But they did, we saw a picture of one of their chess pieces. Some vikings lived in now-a-day Russia,  Greenland, and they lived in America before  the indians attached them. Leaf the lucky found North America way before Columbus even tried.

In science we learned about cool buildings in science. One was shaped like a wave, another looked like it was made of water, and one other one had levels that would spin around with the wind!!! Isn’t that crazy!!! We also learned about Pneumatics. The questions were okay.

Homeschool Journal 2/7/17

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In Bible Joseph’s brothers went back the Canaan and brought back Benjamin. In History we learned about the Battle of Hastings. I thought that Normans came from the North and not South from France. We read six poems about stars, the night and the moon. In Science we learned about sound and electricity. I did not know the difference between current and static electricity but current is electricity in a conductor flowing through and static is electricity storing in an insulator and then breaking through when their is enough of a charge one way or another.

Homeschool Journal 2/7/17

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Today we finished pretty early, next week we go to camp, this year we are’t going to camp D again, and Reed is going to a different camp than us. He is going to camp S and Adi and I are going to camp K. If you’re wondering right now, why in the world are they going to camp in the middle of spring? It is because our dad is going to be taking the pictures for the FamilyLife, love like you mean it marriage cruse, and mom is going as his helper, also because it is free and it would be weird if dad went by himself on a marriage cruse. So us kids get to stay for a week at camps. Only four days left before we leave for our camps!!! I haven’t even started packing yet!!!

In Bible we read about Joseph’s silver cup trick, but we haven’t gotten to the part where he reveals himself to them. In history we have been learning about England. More than half of history is wars in my opinion. Every single country has been invaded at least five times. England and France just joined. The English buried their Kings in ships, so “they could get to the afterlife.”

In science we learned more about sound waves and SONAR. Did you know that ultra-sound is the name for waves above 20,000 Hz, and that is what they use to see the babies in an ultra-sound. Electrons do relay races, they bump into each other passing their charge on down the line so that it moves. Today we were supposed to make our own batteries, but we don’t do the experiments from this book and we also already did it.

Homeschool Journal 1/6/17

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In Bible we learned about Pharaoh’s dreams, Joseph’s interpretation of them and his promotion to second in command. In The Children’s Bible Field Guide we learned about Jesus’s birth and childhood. In History we learned about Vikings. Both of the names they are called by today are not their real name as a people. Viking was their word for sailing and Norseman was Frank for North-man. Lief Ericsson was really Lief Eric’s son. We read 10 poems about the earth and creation. In Science we learned about visible light, mirrors and lenses.

Homeschool Journal 2/6/17

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We read about pharaoh’s dreams, and Joseph was just set over the land of Egypt. Joseph just had Manasseh and Ephraim, and his brothers came to see him. Herod was a bad and power hungry ruler, he killed his own wife and sons because he thought they wanted to have his throne. An emperor once joked that it is safer to be Herod’s pig than his son.

The Norse people are attaching the Franks in history. They were sometimes called vikings, they’re boats had flat bottoms so that they could go right up to shore. We also read about Eric the Red, and Leaf the Lucky.

In science we learned about concave and convex lenses, did you know that our eyes can change between the two? Our eyes are cool, I wonder if contacts lens got the name from convex lenses.

Sky High

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The Little rock police department just got a new sky high surveillance tower. They were using it to lower stolen car rates and to keep watch over large crowds during the holidays. They hope to use it for those things in the future as well. They say it was unmanned a lot over the holidays but hopefully that will change in the future. So watch out criminals, here they come, sky high.

homeschool journal 4/11/16

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Algiers is the capital of Algeria. 3,574,000 people live in there. Algiers means the islands. They have some very poor areas in Algiers.

In math I learned about how you can have zeros in your answer when you’re doing long division. It is really easy once you understand it. Although I barely got an A, even though out of twenty-seven questions with only twenty-two counting and I got two wrong.

Homeschool Journal 1/2/17

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We read more about Joseph in Bible today. We got to the part when he is in jail but not to when he interprets the servants dreams yet. We read poems about the theater, the circus, city lights, and one weird one about wanting to be a tool or part of a building or something like that.

Did you know that they called the Frankish empire the holy Roman empire, which really makes no sense at all because first of all; they weren’t holy, holy means set apart for God, and that’s what the Jews are, second of all; they aren’t roman, so I don’t know what to think about that. Charles The Great was a Emperor of the Frankish empire, I am going to call it what it actually was no matter what they called it. He tried to have a christian empire, which is good and all except for the fact that he forced everyone to do it, there is a reason God let Adam and Eve sin, He wanted to be loved but if people are forced to love Him then it is not actually loving Him because you are being forced to do it. That was an extremely long sentence that it seems as if it should be worded better but that is the only way I know how to word it.

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Homeschool Journal 2/3/17

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We read about Joseph telling the cup bearer and bread maker the meaning of their dreams. We also read more about Charlemagne in history. I didn’t really think the stuff about Charlemagne was interesting. We read more poems today. They were about George Washington.

In science we learned about nuclear fusion. Two energy types smash together and fuse, then one of the neutrons falls out because it is an extra one. Fusion reactors make the conditions that are needed for this to happen and then it adsorbs the energy that is made when this happens, I may not be all sciency or anything but some of the stuff we learn is cool. We learned how concrete is made, did you know there are crystals in it? There are 10-15% cement, 60-75% sand and gravel 5-9% trapped air and 15-20% water.

Homeschool Journal 1/3/17

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Today we learned about Joseph interpreting the baker’s and the cup-bearer’s dreams. In History we reviewed Charlemagne. We read two poems about George Washington. In Science we learned about hydrogen fusion and concrete. Plasma is made when gasses are so hot that their atoms fall apart. I did not know there is a difference between concrete and cement. Concrete is 15-20% water, 10-15% cement and 60-75% sand.