LEARNING LOG WEEK 20

MATH:  I did really big addition problems.  I did some carrying.  I also worked on

LANGUAGE ARTS:  I worked on suffixes and practiced reading a lot of words with suffixes.  I read a story about a wombat health center where they help all these baby wombats so they can set them free.  They're trying to keep them from going endangered.  I also did spelling, handwriting and writing.

SCIENCE:  I learned about asteroids and the Asteroid Belt.  The gravitational pull from the sun makes them circle some of our planets.  Asteroids are kind of oval shaped with bumps.  I made an asteroid with molding clay.  Meteorites are inside our atmosphere, and meteoroids are outside of our atmosphere.

ENGINEERING:  I'm working on some more lamps.  I connect wires to a battery and put a resistor.  The resistor blocks off some of the electricity so the light bulb doesn't blow up.

KARATE:  I have a lot to say about karate.  I was practicing my one-steps which are some defense techniques to protect yourself.  I know 1, 2, 3 & 4 with the advance parts in take downs.  I also practiced my forms in karate.

LEARNING LOG WEEK 19

MATH:  I worked on adding and subtracting fractions.  Once you know how to do it it's easy.  I also added big 4 digit numbers.

LANGUAGE ARTS:  I'm reading a book called "The Rythmatist".  I like it.  I also did spelling and handwriting and writing.  I did grammar.

SCIENCE:  I learned about mass, weight, and gravity.  If I was on a different planet my mass would stay the same, but my weight would change.  On Jupiter I'd weigh almost 300 pounds, but on Pluto I'd only weigh about 6 pounds.

ENGINEERING:  I built another light with a resistor.  I added decorations to the lamp.

KARATE:  I'm getting ready for my test coming up.  I'm going to test for my blue belt.  I'm kind of nervous, but I hope I'm ready.

LEARNING LOG WEEK 18

MATH:  I added fractions.  They have to have the same denominator.  Then on the top you add the numerators.

LANGUAGE ARTS:  I did spelling and handwriting.  I've been reading a book called "A Penny's Worth of Character."  So far it's just introducing the characters.  I've also been reading poems.

SCIENCE:  The moon has phases.  One full phase is called a Lunar Month.  It doesn't have its own light it's just the sun's reflection.  A New Moon is dark...you can't really see it because the earth is blocking the light.

ENGINEERING:  I'm building a new light.  It's hooked up to a better with a resistor.  Then I build a lamp to go around it.  It lights up with an LED light.

KARATE:  I've practiced all of my stuff, and I was having a lot of fun practicing hitting the target in the right place.  I also did some fighting combinations.  I have to come up with two new ones by class tomorrow.

LEARNING LOG WEEK 17

MATH:  I did fractions.  I had to make a fraction and fill in one part of it.  I used a conversion chart to do like how many hours in one day or how many feet in a mile.  Things like that.

LANGUAGE ARTS:  I learned about prefixes and suffixes.  I read a bunch of really big words.  They seem scary, but if you just read them slowly piece by piece it becomes much easier.  I only missed 5 of them out of like 30.  I also did spelling.  I read 20 minutes a day.  I'm reading "The Boxcar Children".  It's getting very interesting.  I'm on the second book chapter 13.

SCIENCE:  We learned about Mars.  We watched a lot of fun space movies, and we made some reddish sand to represent Mars surface.  We threw rocks at the sand to represent craters on Mars.

ENGINEERING:  I a lamp.  I was going to use it last night, but I forgot...I was so tired.  I used copper tape, wires, resistors, lights, batteries and a lot of other fun, cool things.

KARATE:  In karate I learned a new form that I need to know for my next belt.  The belt I'm going for is my first blue belt, then I'm going to go for my second.  I'm having a lot of fun in karate.  I hope I can get the blue belt.