Merry Christmas!

I bet Grandma, Grandpa, Oma and Opa are really going to like their gifts! It's always so special when one of their favorite grandchildren helps make presents for them!

Santa won't be too confused with those four letters. He's probably used to people changing their minds!

I hope you have the best Christmas you've ever had!

Week 14 Contact

I can't post to much about school this week cause we worked on Christmas presents for my grandma and grandpa and oma and opa.  All I can say is that I helped measure and cut and some other things.  If I say any more they might read this and find out what they are getting.  Its a secret!!!  I also wrote a letter to Santa.  I think this is the fourth letter I have written him.  I keep changing my mind.  Have a Happy Christmas Mr. Brooks and anyone else who reads this!

Yummy House

It looks like you have a regular gingerbread town there! Did you do all those?

The Children's Museum looks like a lot of fun! Have you heard that they are trying to figure out a way to use wave at the ocean for creating electricity? They might use some of the things you were experimenting with on that water table.

Whose your little snowman friend?

Merry Christmas!

Week 13 Contact

I got to go to the children's museum this week.  This is me learning about how  I can make water move in different directions by putting up walls.

I got to build gingerbread houses for art this week and we also made donut snowmen for art.

We also started reading a christmas carol.  I love Christmas time!!!

History where we live

It is a lot of fun to learn about events that happened in places where we've been. The Nez Perce lived in Southeastern Washington, Central Idaho, and Northeastern Oregon. I guess they had some amazing horse herds. I read one of their stories about a monster that Coyote kills. He cuts the heart out. I almost drove off the road when I saw the Heart of the Monster down in Idaho when I was on a trip. It's a small hill that I had only seen pictures of before.

I'm glad to hear that you're doing so well with your math. I bet you'll learn those multiplication facts really fast once you get to them!

That mail car with the skies reminds me of the Christmas television show Santa Claus is Comin' to Town. Have you seen that? The narrator is a mailman who has a car like that one. I never knew they were for real!

Week 11 Contact

I don't have any pictures this week, but I am still reading Kaya from the American Girl Books.  I just finished book 2 called Kaya's escape.  I really liked this one.  I was glad that Kaya got away, but am sad that they weren't able to rescue Speaking Rain.  In my native american unit for history we learned about Kaya's Tribe, the Nez Perce.  I used to live close to where her tribe might have lived in Idaho.  In math I am getting really good at counting money and I am also getting really fast at my addition math facts.  My mom says after I get good at my subtraction facts I can start multiplication.  I can't wait!

Week 10 Contact

We got to go to an old car museum.   There were some really neat things there.  Look at how much gas cost.

Some of the cars were really old.  I think this one was from 1924. 

This one was kind of funny.  They put skies on this car so that they could deliver mail to people in the mountains.  My mom also told me that some of the REALLY old cars were called horseless carriages, because they didn't need to use a horse.

We started learning about Native Americans this week.  This is me doing my vocabulary words.

We talked about the Inuit tribe.  I don't think I would have liked to be in that tribe.  It would have been to cold.

I also started reading Kaya from American Girls.  I  LOVE American Girls.  This is the timeline I did of History with the American Girls.  I can't wait to read the rest of the books.

Yummy experiment

What a yummy experiment with the candy! I guess this is a good time of year to find candy to experiment on. Can you think of anything else you could have used besides baking soda?
I bet you learned the Aztecs had a pretty amazing civilizations. Not everything about it was good, but it was very advanced.

Week 9 Contact

This week I finished our book of Ancient Civilizations.  Our last one we talked about was the Ancient Aztecs.

We did a science experiment with some of our halloween candy.  We tested lemon heads, sweettarts, and smarties to see which one had a bigger reaction.

We put a little baking soda into each glass with the candy.

The sweet tarts had the biggest reaction, but the lemonheads fizzed the longest, just not very big.  The smarties didn't do much at all.

Then I wrote down in my science journal what happened.  I think the sweet tarts were the most acidic and thats why it reacted the most.

Week 8 Contact

I don't have any pictures this week, but I still did school.  I learned a lot about ancient china and made paper lanterns.  They make these to celebrate the Chinese new year.  I also did math and painted pumpkins for halloween.  Hopefully I can put some pictures up later!

Yummy!

The pumpkin patch and cider operation sure look fun! Your pumpkin sure looks good. I bet you already have a face carved in it. I love the taste of fresh cider. We have an old cider press. It looks like you may have used cheesecloth to help strain it. We've never done that, but I think I will try that next time. Apple crisp too? Wow! Recycling the crayons is a great idea too!

Week 7 Contact

This week we got to go to the pumpkin patch and visit an apple orchard.  I had a really hard time deciding which pumpkin I wanted.  I chose the really round one in the middle of the picture.

This is one of the apples I picked.  It was one of the juiciest apples I have ever seen.  When my mom made apple crisp from them juice kept running and squirting all over her.

After we picked some apples we got to go make apple cider.   First we had to pick a bunch of apples.  They were really heavy.

Then we had to wash them.  The water was really cold.

Next we put them in a REALLY loud machine that ground them all up.  My dad did it first cause I was kind of scared.

Then we put the mushed up apples into some cloth and tied up the cloth with a string.

Then you put it into this thing and turned the handle to get out all the juice.

It was fun to watch the juice come out of the machine.  I couldn't wait to try it.  

Here I am helping my dad pour our juice into the bottles.  We got to taste it and it was so good.  

This week I helped my mom make cookies for the neighbors.   I read the recipe all by myself.

We got to recycle some of our old crayons this week for art.  I tore off the paper and then sorted them into paper cups.  I think there was a red, blue, pink, yellow, brown, black, orange, and green cups.

I got to watch them melt in the oven.

My mom poured the hot wax into the mold.

Then we got to pop them out.  Now we have pumpkin crayons for Halloween.

This week my mom started reading us The Chronicles of Narnia.  I really like it when my mom reads to me.  In this story we have met Polly and Digory and have read about some magic rings.  I can't wait to see what happens to them.

Week 6 Contact

My Daddy went on a trip this week to Connecticut.  I got to find it on our map.  Here I am getting closer to finding it!

I found it!  Connecticut is a long ways away from home!

In science we learned about gases and carbon dioxide.  I learned about chemical reactions.  We mixed a base with an acid.  I was kind of nervous  to do the experiment so I let my sister go first.  She is very brave!

After my sister did it I decided I wanted to do it.  We first tried just regular temperature water.  Than we did really hot water and then cold water.  The hot water was the coolest because it made the most bubbles.  The cold water didn't do very much.

We learned about ancient Rome in History.  We made these wreaths to go on our heads.  I think they are called laurel wreaths.  My mom had to help glue on the leaves.  They were kind of tricky.

Only the guys wore the wreaths.  I think  it looks neat, but I am not a guy so I don't really want to wear it.   

Treating others the way we want to be treated

I wonder what the world would be like if everyone just treated others the way they would want to be treated? I bet our world would be much friendlier!

• That was very nice of you to help your brother with his shapes!
• It's strange that the Greeks would only let boys act. It reminds me that in many performances of Peter Pan the main character is played by a girl.

Thanks so much for sharing! It looks like you're doing great in all your subjects.

Week 5 Contact

I taught my brother about shapes this week.  There was a diamond, hexagon, moon, heart, and others but I can't remember all of them.

We learned about ancient Greece and how the would act out plays.   I learned that only boys would act.  Sometimes they would wear a mask on the front of their face and one on the back of their head so they could change parts really fast.  They would have sad masks . . . 

and happy ones.

I also learned about the parthenon.  It was a Greek temple.  We made our own parthenon.  The pillars are called Doric pillars.

Inside the parthenon was a statue of the goddess Athena.

This week we read a story about the fox and the stork.  I learned that we should only treat people the way we want to be treated.

This is one of my math worksheets.  I am working on odd and even numbers and getting better at writing the time on the clock.  

Blog is looking good!

Nice going on the blog, and thanks for posting all the great pictures.

• Panda heads! I'm glad that's only a game.
• It's super to see you finished your first chapter book! I bet you are going to be reading all the time now.
• Learning a moral through a story is a lot more fun that getting a lecture!

Week 4 Contact

This is me playing Wii Fit.  This is soccer.  You hit the ball with your head.  They throw shoes and panda heads too.  You are not supposed to get hit by those, but sometimes they hit me.  I thought it was pretty funny!

This is a picture of me when I finished The Boxcar Children.  This was the first chapter book I ever read on my own.  I really liked it a lot.

We just finished our unit on Ancient Egypt.  I made a pyramid and we read a book about it.  I learned in the book that the Pharaohs thought they could take things with them when they died so they were buried with them.

This is a picture of my spelling words for the week.  I don't know why the picture is sideways.

This is the Aesop Fable we are reading right now, The Fox and the Goat.  The moral of the story is to look before you leap.  Sometimes I have a hard time thinking about what I do before I do it, like the goat, but I am trying.