LEARNING LOG WEEK 16

MATH:  I was doing word problems and a lot of division.  I thought I couldn't do division until I figured out it wasn't that hard.

LANGUAGE ARTS:  I did sentence diagramming.  It is fun and hard at the same time.  I had to sentence diagram the ones that were full sentences and the ones that were fragments I just crossed out.  I did spelling and handwriting.  I'm reading The Rithmatist.  I've gotten pretty far into it.  I know something called the basic Easton defense.  You make a circle and put lines through it that connect on the inside close to the end of the circle, then you put smaller circles on the outside.  That's part of the story.

SCIENCE:  The order of the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.  Mercury has lot of craters because it has no atmosphere to burn meteors.  It gets super hot and super cold, so you would either freeze or just disintegrate.  Venus is orange and red and yellow.  It's named after the god of beauty because Venus is really beautiful in the sky.  It's my favorite planet that I know about so far.  I also learned about the moon phases.  We got a ball and we got a flashlight and we spun around to see the different phases of the moon.  The moon rotates around our earth every month.

ENGINEERING:  I built a water gun out of cups, straws and clay.  You take the top part of the cup and you push it and all the pressure builds up and it squirts the water out of the straw.

KARATE:  I have karate class tonight.  I'm working on low defense reverse punch and other defense punches.

LEARNING LOG WEEK 15

MATH:  I worked on division and word problems.  I also added and subtracted.

LANGUAGE ARTS:  I'm reading The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson.  I like it a lot.  I know the basic Easton Defense.  It's the strongest defense I know so far in the book.  The prologue ended in a funny cliffhanger.  I also did spelling and writing and handwriting.

SCIENCE:  The pattern of how close the planets are to the sun goes Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.  We only have one star in our solar system.  It's the sun.  Mercury takes 88 days for a year to pass because it moves faster and it's closer to the sun so it has a smaller orbit.  It takes about 225 days for Mercury to rotate on it's axis one time.

ENGINEERING:  I made a claw with syringes filled with water.  The pressure makes the claw move.  It's pretty cool.

KARATE:  I'm working on my back stance.  It makes your legs sore!  I'm also working on a new form.

LEARNING LOG WEEK 14

MATH:  I'm still working on exponents.  They're kind of hard.  I also did multiplication.

LANGUAGE ARTS:  I worked on writing out the seven continents.  I practiced handwriting and writing.  I read 20 minutes a day.  I did spelling.

SCIENCE:  I'm learning about space.  I learned about the planets and our solar system called The Milky Way.  The sun is in the middle of our solar system.  Earth is the third planet away.

ENGINEERING:  I'm still working on my planetarium.  I'm waiting for my next Tinker Crate.

KARATE:  My brother helped teach class this week.  I reviewed kicks and punches.

OTHER FUN THIS WEEK:  I also learned about the StoneHenge and we made our own with play dough.