Ummm...this week school was great in general. Mom got us marbles and we learned how to play the game of marbles. And I farted a LOT which made me laugh all the time (hee hee hee!) and I was very stinky (hee hee hee!).
Math
This week's math was SUPER hard but I really liked learning division. By the end of this week, I had learned how to divide problems like 25 divided by 5 equals 5 (I did that without even thinking about it!). I can even do harder ones like 485 divided by 4. I did Adapted Mind this week and it was good.
I also wrote some math word problems for Tian and Cady to solve but they haven't tried them yet. Next week I will make them do those problems.
History
"I love the people and the people love me, so much that they restored the English monarchy." I got that from this website:
We learned about Charles I getting beheaded on exactly the same date the Tehva was born (but like 400 years before). He was beheaded because he dissolved Parliament like four times and he kept saying that God gave him power! Then he also made the Rump Parliament, which made me laugh because the name reminded me of, well, you know (hee hee hee!).
After Charles I was beheaded, Oliver Cromwell came into power and did all the exact same things that Charles I had just done! And Cromwell wasn't even king. PLUS he forbade partying, theatre, singing anything but church songs, and all the fun stuff. But he died. Charles II came into power next and brought back ALL the PARTYING! Party anyone?
We played charades this week, which is always fun. And we started to make lapbooks about New England. That was sooooooo exciting!
Science
Here are some pictures of our field trip we took this week:
We went on a field trip with Greta and Huxley and I found a fossil! 
We went to take pictures of clues that would tell us the type of climate that is here in Muscat. We found lots of pokey plants with itty bitty leaves. We guessed the leaves were so small because of the lack of water. The soil was...well, there was only sand! And there was 0% water where we walked. (But later in the day...SURPRISE! IT RAINED! AND A SANDSTORM CAME!) 
But back to what I was saying, it was a good hike and we put all the clues together and decided that we live in an arid climate, which means more water evaporates than precipitates here. YES IT DOES! LAAAAAAA!
We went to take pictures of clues that would tell us the type of climate that is here in Muscat. We found lots of pokey plants with itty bitty leaves. We guessed the leaves were so small because of the lack of water. The soil was...well, there was only sand! And there was 0% water where we walked. (But later in the day...SURPRISE! IT RAINED! AND A SANDSTORM CAME!) 
But back to what I was saying, it was a good hike and we put all the clues together and decided that we live in an arid climate, which means more water evaporates than precipitates here. YES IT DOES! LAAAAAAA!
Writing and Language
Language was very easy this week. All I had to do was stuff with nouns. La dee da. I wrote a letter this week to my cousin Levi. I hope he gets it before August.
Arabic
I DO NOT like Arabic. I think it is really hard. I don't like to write all the complicated curls and drops that it has. (Ed note--Here are some Arabic words on signs around Muscat, like "Ruwi" and another says "Mumtaz", which means beautiful but it also the name of the kind of tea we drink. Silas hated every moment of Arabic this week, just like he says. He also hated that I put this picture into the blog--what a dweeb.) See what I am talking about? Hey! MOM! I am NOT a dweeb! (hee hee hee!)
I guess that is it for this week. There is nothing else to report.
Signed,
Silas and Mom (who was my faithful servant and typed this)
No comments:
Post a Comment