In History we learned about the second rise of the Assyrians and Ashurbanipal. Ashurbanipal built the first library. We read five poems about wind and other things. In Science we learned about the fossil record of pterosaurs. The largest they found was bigger than a F-4E Phantom II fighter jet.
Homeschool Journal 9/26/16
by Reed Karman •
In Bible we started 1 Corinthians. In The Children’s Bible Field Guide we studied the last half of Genesis. In History we learned about the Phoenicians and Carthage. We read five poems about months and Valentines Day. In Science we learned about the fossil record of pinnipeds. Pinnipeds are things like seals and sea lions. Seals can dive 5,000 feet and sea lions 800.
Muslim men can have four wives because Jacob did.
journal 9/26/16
by Vwala •
Today we learned about sea lions, and seals. Did you know seals can dive six-times deeper than a submarine, and it can also hold its breath for two whole hours!!!! What amazing animals God has made!!!!!! If we were at church somebody would be saying amen at that, because you really can’t disagree.
I was learning about demonstrative adjectives, and indefinite adjectives. I had to find the demonstrative adjective in my dictation passage for this week. I also found the demonstrative adjective in their sentence, it’s underlined. Then I had to write a sentence or two using both a demonstrative adjective, and an indefinite adjective. It was pretty easy, and it didn’t take long. Now I am going to go play chess with Reed.
journal 9/23/16
by Vwala •
We are learning about Egypt in history right now. The pharaohs were awesome fighters, one pharaoh, Tuthmosis the 3rd led his army into 17 battles!!! The houses in Egypt were made out of bricks as you probably already know because of the Bible, but did you know that they had guards at the gates?
We learned about mice, and new blue tooth pieces in science today. There is a watch that tells you your texts, and who’s calling you, as well as the time. They have wireless mice, I thought that it would be an awesome practical joke. You can click on things, zoom in, zoom out and such from the other room!!! It would be so funny.
Blind Ballet
by Vwala •
A blind singer is taking ballet to help her on the stage. It is hard for her, but she continues on enjoying the challenge. She of course needed private lessons, and the teaching method is very different, her teachers have to move her to the correct positions, even 1st position is a bit of a challenge. So it’s different but 40 year old Elizabeth Whitaker is trying hard, and picks things up quickly. Her teacher has studied at Shuffles and Ballet II, (Where I go!) under Miss Tracy, and Miss Jana, (Two of my teachers last year!!!) and at Ballet Arkansas, (It’s their Nutcracker I’m in!) with Kirt and Linda Hathaway. Mala, her teacher also has a University of Oklahoma degree in ballet performance. All this should help her on stage, may she reach her goal.
Homeschool Journal 9/23/16
by Reed Karman •
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.
LONE ISIS MEMBER ATTACKS IN MINNESOTA
by Reed Karman •
Last Saturday night at a mall in St. Cloud Minnesota an ISIS “soldier” stabbed nine people with a kitchen knife. He was shot and killed by an off duty police officer who was shopping at the mall at the time. No one was killed except the attacker in the incident. It was in coordination with two other attacks in NY and NJ.
journal 9/22/16
by Vwala •
Later today I’m going to get my first pair of point shoes!!! My goal for this year is to be better on the stage, and be the best soldier that I can be in the Nutcracker. Not to brag bu the Nutcracker that I’m in is supposed to be the best in the state!!! Maybe that’s why it costs $75 to be in it, and I don’t even get to keep the costume, but it is way more than worth it, my three life dreams are to be on point, be in the Nutcracker, and get one of my books published, and two of those are happening THIS year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today for Bible we had to think of a way that we are like Moses, it took a bit to find something iother than we both have a relationship with God. But I finally came up with the fact that we both inlove people, and we stand up for what we think is right, when I have strong feeling towards something then you don’t want to mess with me, I was the one who got in trouble in preschool for telling kids that Santa wasn’t real, they deserved to know the truth, they shouldn’t have been lied to, and when they find out that they had been lied to by their parents all those years won’t they feel hurt, and like they can’t trust their parents anymore? But no, I am not allowed to simply tell them the truth and save them from that without getting in trouble with the parents, no less. I just wrote this whole 153 word count thing to find out that it was a mistake, and I was supposed to be writing how I am like Abraham. UUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am like Abraham because I worry a lot and sometimes doubt God’s plan.
The story of the world said that Moses just told Pharaoh to let the Israelites go it skipped him escaping and the 40 years after, and it missed most of the plagues, including the last one. I don’t know what Bible their reading, but it sure isn’t the same one I am reading! And this hasn’t been the first time they’ve done it, there has been several other Bible stories gone wrong in the book.
I thought The Kingdom Strikes Back was interesting today. It was talking about Jonah being mad at God for not destroying Nineveh, and they had quite an earful to say about it too. It was as I said, Interesting.
Homeschool Journal 9/22/16
by Reed Karman •
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.
journal 9/21/16
by Vwala •
Today I got to read a bit about Abraham from the Bible and then I wrote a interview with questions that I would ask him, and answered them the way that I thought he would. It was hard, I had quite a time trying to figure out how I thought he would answer some of them. Including; Was it hard tying Isaac up?, Did you ever doubt God’s plan?, and Did you have a religion before you left Ur? So, I/m going to let you ponder over that and deside what you think he would say for yourselfs, because my answers aren’t very good, though my questions are, if I do say so myself. Please comment what you deside on the matter, thanks. Vella