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!