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.

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.