LEARNING LOG WEEK 8

MATH: This week was complicated.  It was fun, but hard and it took awhile.  I had to write out all the problems and it became a little hard.  I multiplied big numbers like 45 x 56 then you separate it on a rectangle to be (40+5) x (50+6).  Then you add up all the boxes.  A fun thing that makes it easier to do is when the numbers have zeros at the end you just take the first numbers and multiply them and then add the zeros and there's your answer.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I did handwriting and drew a picture of a dog and a little baby chicken.  I read 20 minutes a day.  I did All About Reading worksheets too.

SCIENCE:  I went to the museum and learned about fossils and dinosaurs.  My favorite bones to see were the Brachiosaurus ones.  We also made pictures of the water cycle this week.  The water evaporates to water vapor and goes up into the clouds where it cools off and turns back into a liquid which is condensation.  Then it rains down called precipitation.  I also used play dough to create an island with a river, an ocean, a bay, a gulf, a straight and a lake.  Most of the water on our earth is salt water.  We looked at a map that shows that.

ENGINEERING: I built a basketball hoop.  First we looked at the instructions.  I already built a sling shot.  Then we put the basketball hoop together.  It would tell you how to print out certain things that you would need for it.  We also cut out cardboard to make it a strong basketball hoop and glued it all together.

KARATE: Next I am testing for my orange belt.  Today I got my last stripe so that means I'm ready to test.  One of my friends in karate is a white belt and wants to be a purple belt but doesn't know the first form so I helped him out with it.