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First Week of Home School


On Monday we started home school,
On Wednesday at home school I finished a really good book called
The Best in the West.

It is very interesting.

There is an almost eight foot bear in the book!

The other book I have read this week is
The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
It is on my Battle of the Books list.



My favorite topic this week has been math.
One of the things I learned in math is the hyphen.
You don't use a hyphen in numbers one-twenty or in numbers ending in zero.
(Because those are whole numbers.)
But you do use a hyphen in numbers like twenty-one.

I have finished lesson 51.
I did all of those lessons plus several quizzes.


We went on a walk and saw salmon.
They are getting ready to lay eggs and die.
They were flopping a lot and fighting over who gets to be in the exact spot where they were born.


I got to shoot a BB gun for science.
We learned about inertia.
We were doing science by shooting the BB gun at a can to see what happened.
The can didn't move until it got shot and then it moved a little.

My favorite science experiment was when we had
a bucket of water, a cup and something that floated.
We put the cup of water on top of the thing that was floating.
It went down because the air pressure pushed out all the water.
The floating thing went down to the bottom as the water went out.

And then if you slowly move the cup up, the floating object will come back up.

I also watched a lot of science shows called Beakmania.
Some of the things I learned about were:
that your house shrinks during the night (so you might hear weird sounds)
electricity works in a circuit.

And lots more stuff...


I spent one hour working on this.
I upgraded it three times and on the last time it looks like this.
It is very fragile.
It's so easy to break that it sometimes even breaks just by holding it.

I think Laurie likes it because she keeps grabbing at it.
It holds a car at the bottom (you can see).
It holds people at the top.
I say it's a taxi.
I built some stairs and a ramp for the car and the people.
I also say it's like a vehicle that carries old cars to the car graveyard.



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