LEARNING LOG WEEKS 1-3

MATH:
I did angles.  I'm enjoying reading the math book.  I used a protractor.  I found out if it's a big angle it's obtuse.  If it's small it's acute.  I wrote the degrees.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I did All About Reading.  I did handwriting, and I drew a picture of a horse and a bird in a little square box on the page.  I fixed some sentences and took out the "to be" verbs, like I wouldn't say, "The tree is beautiful."  I'd say, "The leaves flutter in the sky."

SCIENCE: We used pizza boxes and roasted some marshmallows with solar ovens with foil on them, and we roasted some s'mores.  We went to Idaho to see the solar eclipse.  While the moon was starting to barely cover the sun I used the special glasses.  It looked like the moon was taking a huge bite out of the sun.  When it was completely covered, it looked cool because you could see the white flames coming off, and you could take the glasses off too.
Later, we learned about water.  We used a dropper to put water on a penny, and it looked like the water was just turning into a huge bubble and would not fall off because water is cohesive.  Then we put water with green food coloring in a cup next to an empty cup.  We rolled up a paper towel and stuck it in both cups.  One side started to get wet, and the water slowly climbed up to the other side.  It's pulling against gravity because water is adhesive.

ENGINEERING: I built a bottle rocket.  Inside the rocket I put water.  Then I had a scoop ready with baking soda and citric acid.  I dumped it in, put the launch pad on, and then we put it on a hard and flat surface and let it shoot in the air because it would create a gas and eventually shoot off.  We had to be really fast because it would work fast.

KARATE: I'm a purple belt now.  I passed my last test.  I reviewed a one-step.  I know three one-steps.  I'm working towards my orange.  I've learned a lot of kicks and jump kicks.  This is a picture of me with my little brother who just started karate, and my big brother who's been doing karate for three years.  I've been doing karate for about four months.