Week 18 Contact

This week for my art project I traced my sister to make a life size picture of her.  She was super giggly and wouldn't hold still!

 Then we decorated our pictures with lots of different colors.  I wish I had a coat with that many colors!

Learning fun!

 You sure have a lot of fun learning! Hands-on activities make things more interesting. You are probably glad to do your painting inside the house, instead of inside a cave!

After using clay to do writing, you probably can see why many people could not read way back then. It would be awfully hard to reproduce or transport reading materials. A clay tablet probably wouldn't survive being put in the library drop box!

Week 17 Contact

My mom got me a new history book to study.  It's called The Story of the World.  I started learning about ancient civilizations again.  We talked about the nomads and the ancient egyptians.

 I made a painting like they did a long time ago on cave walls.  I took a piece of brown paper and crumpled it up a lot to make it rough.  Then I painted a picture of a horse.  I painted the outside of the horse black and colored the inside brown. 

 My mom also got me a new writing book called Writing with Ease.  My sister does the top sentence and I work on the bottom.  I think my writing is getting a lot better.

For history we also made clay tablets.  The clay was really hard.  My mom had to help me to roll it out a little bit.  I wrote my name the way the Sumerians would write.  It was hard and I am glad we can write on paper even if it doesn't last as long!

Conserve that candle

Does your dad ever tell you to turn the lights off when you're not in a room? I bet back in the old days parents would tell kids to blow their candles out when they weren't needed! If the candles take a long time to make, people wouldn't want to waste all that work unless they really needed a little bit of light.

I think dividing a square pan of brownies into eighths would really help you remember your math lesson!

Week 16 Contact

This is me doing my math.  I learned how to divide a square into eighths.   I also practiced my adding and subtracting.

 I finished reading Felicity: An American Girl.  We learned how to make candles.  When we melted the wax it smelled like honey.  It took a long time to make a one candle.  I learned that during Felicity's time in 1778 they would only make candles once or twice a year because it took so long.

This is my candle.  It was fun lighting it.  We got to blow it out like a birthday candle, but it wasn't my birthday.  :)

Sick :-(

I'm really sorry to hear you've been sick. I hope you weren't sick for Christmas or New Year's.

It's good to hear you're still able to do some school, but make sure you get lots of rest too!

Week 15 Contact

This is Hailey's mom!  Hailey is sick today so I am filling this out for her today.  We are kind of getting back into the swing of things after getting back from christmas break, but she has continued to work on her math and is reading a new american girl book, Felicity.  We are waiting for a new history unit and writing as well.