Learning Log Week 4

MATH: I've been learning how to build new numbers like you can pack one group of 30 apples or you can pack one bag of 10 apples plus one bag of 20 apples.  You can add things up different ways.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I read 15 minutes a day.  I took my DIBELS test.  I've also been doing ABC Mouse and Reading Eggs this week.  I learned when a "c" is next to an "e" the "c" says "sssssss" like in the word mice.

SCIENCE: We dropped two tennis balls and they landed at the same time and we dropped a cotton ball and a tennis ball and they landed at the same time because gravity pulls the same amount on everything.  We also tried it from the top of my stairs and dropped it, and they landed at the same time.

ENGINEERING:  I built another see saw.  I also built some of my own creations.

HISTORY:  We worked on learning where Alabama is on the map.  They have old Native American bones in Alabama.  Alabama is down towards the bottom.  The US Government makes laws to help us be safe.  We vote for people that hopefully they make good laws for us.

Learning Log Week 3

MATH:  I did input and output.  There's always a rule like add 10 so whatever number you start out with you add 10 to get the output.

LANGUAGE ARTS:  I read 15 minutes a day.  I read to my Uncle Pat and my cousin, Miles.  I practiced handwriting too and ABC Mouse.

SCIENCE:  I went to Lake Tahoe.  If there's not enough rain the lake shrinks.  We could walk really, really, really far out on the lake because the water went down.  Also, because there wasn't enough rain there were fires nearby and lots of smoke.  Sometimes fires can happen from lightening when the ground is dry.  My grandpa taught me there is such thing as dry lightening that can cause fires.

ENGINEERING:  I didn't get a change to work on Engineering this week.  I'm planning on finishing up my first project next week.

HISTORY:  I got a new map of the United States and a new World map.  I am having fun learning new things.  I also went to a museum and learned about old fire engines.  They used to be pulled by horses.  They also had fire grenades that had salt water in glass bottles and they would throw it at the fire.  It was salt water so the water wouldn't freeze.  I also saw a play about the wild west.  There was a sheriff and a bad guy and a good guy.  It was fun seeing how the buildings used to look.

Learning Log - Week 2

MATH:  For math I did dreambox math.  I learned input and output.  If it says 4 + 10 then the output is 14.  I also worked on hundreds charts in the 4 and 5 hundreds.

LANGUAGE ARTS:  I read 15 minutes a day to my mom.  I like reading a book called Chuck.  It's about a dog that eats everything.  Yuck!  Then he eats ham at the end.  Yum!  I worked on Reading Eggs and ABC Mouse.  I did spelling words with the letter A in the middle.

SCIENCE:  I learned about how blimps float.  They use helium, but a blimp used to use hydrogen and that can start fire so it sparked and it made the blimp crash.  Helium is safer.  It's what we use in balloons that float.

ENGINEERING:  I made some of my own designs.  I also made a see-saw.  I like to be an Engineer.

HISTORY:  I love to build new things I have not built before.  I did a puzzle of the United States.  My mom also quizzed me with a map, and I had to find the right states.

Learning Log - Week 1 (2015)

MATH:  For math I did DreamBox math online.  I did math rack.  It's where there are these little beads on it and you can make a number and something else and you can make the same thing, but differently.  They are fun.  For example 6 + 7 = 10 + 3. 

LANGUAGE ARTS:  I read 15 minutes a day to my mom.  My favorite book this week is called Hot Dog.  I worked on spelling and rhymes.  We clapped to Jack an Jill, and I learned how to write it.  I also learned about weather on ABC Mouse.  On Reading Eggs I did some fun painting games. 

SCIENCE:  I learned how to classify objects.  I had a tomato, marshmallow, Q-tip, grass, cucumber, and blocks.  I had to figure out which ones go together.  I put Q-tip and marshmallow because they are both white and partly squishy.  Tomatoes and marshmallows can also go together because they are both soft.  Sometimes animals are put in groups too.  A snake and a mouse can be put together because they're both living creatures...they are animals.  But a snake and a plant don't go together because a plant cannot move as well as a snake can...it goes with other plants.

All living things have to be able to move, eat and make kids.  A rock is not alive because it cannot move, talk, eat or make little rocks.

ENGINEERING:  My brother helped me make a see-saw.  Then later I made a see-saw all by myself looking at the instructions.  At first, one side was longer, and it didn't work.  I tested it.  That side was heavier and fell down, and then I found out I was missing one piece on the other side.

Here's a picture of my see-saw.

HISTORY:  I put a puzzle together of the United States.  I can do it by myself.  There are 50 states.