Our resolve sticks--at least for this week.
Tian
At co-op we have been following a class on Decopage, taught by Ms. Annie. It's when you take water and white glue and mix them together. Then you take napkins, wrapping paper, or scrap paper and make them into thin layers. You then dip the paper/napkins in the glue and coat the item that you are doing Decopage on.
This week I worked on a plate for Christmas. When it is finished I will post a picture of it on the blog.
Zara
Oh my gosh! Then thing that was so frustrating this week was that my collage of Enkidu, the monster-man from Gilgamesh, did not turn out like I wanted. As a matter of fact, my cats ate it! I know that is such an old excuse, but it's true!
Cady
All I can think about is math and it STINKS! I am working on calculating area and circumference of a circle. Each and every time I did the assignment I got ALL THE ANSWERS wrong! Now I am hating myself for having to do it all over again. Even at this moment, I am still correcting my work. I am able to correct it, though (ed not: and that's a good thing) thanks to a brand new concept called scrap paper and another list I have of eight steps to follow to find the circumference or area of a circle. So I guess that means that I am actually learning it.
Silas
Okay, we made little clay Enkidus. Enkidu is a monster dude from the story of Gilgamesh, which was written in Mesopotamia over 4000 years ago! My Enkidu was really tiny and he had so much hair that he ended up looking like he was pregnant.
I have also learned a frustrating new unit in math about place value up to trillions. There is a way to look at place value where there is multiplication like five times a trillion. Like that. It is amazingly hard, mostly because the lines on the paper are too small.
The best thing I have been doing is writing a story called Super Cat Harry. I have already finished the first story. Now I am writing a sequel.
Jensen
So this week we started studying Hammurabi's Code. The rules are very interesting. When Tian and I discussed punishments that we thought would be appropriate for the crimes that took place in Babylon, it was very funny. The best one was when we had to decide a punishment for a nun who drank alcohol (which really happened in Babylon). We decided that the people would all gather around her and watch her get drunk and then she would feel ashamed for what she had done. In actuality, they burned her.
Tehva
Today I read Sam the Minuteman and I read the WHOLE book and after I finished I was so tired. It had 62 pages! Then I answered questions about it and I got them alllllllll right. Even the hard ones! The book was about a boy named Sam who went to fight the British during the Revolutionary War. The first time he went out to fight the British, the English soldiers won, but the second time he went out to fight the Minutemen won. His friend John got shot in the leg, too. In this book, Sam learned to fight really really well even though he is like nine or ten years old.
We also listened to Gilgamesh the Hero while we made our Enkidus. Jensen's Enkidu had a stick right through its body and balls of clay stuck on the end of it. It was really really funny.
We will add photos later. Until then the question is, "Will we be able to do this again next week?"
Tian
At co-op we have been following a class on Decopage, taught by Ms. Annie. It's when you take water and white glue and mix them together. Then you take napkins, wrapping paper, or scrap paper and make them into thin layers. You then dip the paper/napkins in the glue and coat the item that you are doing Decopage on.
This week I worked on a plate for Christmas. When it is finished I will post a picture of it on the blog.
Zara
Oh my gosh! Then thing that was so frustrating this week was that my collage of Enkidu, the monster-man from Gilgamesh, did not turn out like I wanted. As a matter of fact, my cats ate it! I know that is such an old excuse, but it's true!
Cady
All I can think about is math and it STINKS! I am working on calculating area and circumference of a circle. Each and every time I did the assignment I got ALL THE ANSWERS wrong! Now I am hating myself for having to do it all over again. Even at this moment, I am still correcting my work. I am able to correct it, though (ed not: and that's a good thing) thanks to a brand new concept called scrap paper and another list I have of eight steps to follow to find the circumference or area of a circle. So I guess that means that I am actually learning it.
Silas
Okay, we made little clay Enkidus. Enkidu is a monster dude from the story of Gilgamesh, which was written in Mesopotamia over 4000 years ago! My Enkidu was really tiny and he had so much hair that he ended up looking like he was pregnant.
I have also learned a frustrating new unit in math about place value up to trillions. There is a way to look at place value where there is multiplication like five times a trillion. Like that. It is amazingly hard, mostly because the lines on the paper are too small.
The best thing I have been doing is writing a story called Super Cat Harry. I have already finished the first story. Now I am writing a sequel.
Jensen
So this week we started studying Hammurabi's Code. The rules are very interesting. When Tian and I discussed punishments that we thought would be appropriate for the crimes that took place in Babylon, it was very funny. The best one was when we had to decide a punishment for a nun who drank alcohol (which really happened in Babylon). We decided that the people would all gather around her and watch her get drunk and then she would feel ashamed for what she had done. In actuality, they burned her.
Tehva
Today I read Sam the Minuteman and I read the WHOLE book and after I finished I was so tired. It had 62 pages! Then I answered questions about it and I got them alllllllll right. Even the hard ones! The book was about a boy named Sam who went to fight the British during the Revolutionary War. The first time he went out to fight the British, the English soldiers won, but the second time he went out to fight the Minutemen won. His friend John got shot in the leg, too. In this book, Sam learned to fight really really well even though he is like nine or ten years old.
We also listened to Gilgamesh the Hero while we made our Enkidus. Jensen's Enkidu had a stick right through its body and balls of clay stuck on the end of it. It was really really funny.
We will add photos later. Until then the question is, "Will we be able to do this again next week?"
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