December 1st 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time:30 min

Grammar and Writing

Reflection

For my grammar today, I worked on rewriting a paragraph about things people hate to wait for. But whoever had written the paragraph had used far too many "and"s, so I had to rewrite it, combining the long run-on sentence full of "and"s into several small sentences. When I was done, mom went through it with me.

Resources

Hot Fudge Monday Grammar Book

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Physical Fitness

Time: 60 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

We went for a walk down the road and through the woods. We saw a lot of red tailed hawks!

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Science

Time: 30

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/NatureJournalDec1.pdf

Resources

My Computer

Anemometer

Wind Direction Gauge

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Elective

Time: 30 min

French Language

Reflection

For our French today, we were supposed to write letters (in French, of course) about a vacation (to wherever we wanted in France, it didn't matter). I decided to continue the saga of Eric le Mouton (Eric the Sheep), in which poor Eric has devoured the entire contents of the town, and all the shops have closed because of it. There is nothing to eat, so poor Eric and his family decide to take a plane to Disneyland Paris, where they are sure there is lots of food, although Eric is hungry enough to eat the rides right now. I looked up the words I didn't know on a french translation website.

Resources

Voila! CD and Book

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Elective

Time: 90 min

A Local Study of Mountain Lake

Reflection

We started our study of Mountain Lake by learning about fossilization. Fossilization can can happen in lots of ways, either by falling into tar, being covered up by ice, or being covered in rock and sand. When creatures are fossilized, their bones are eventually replaced by the stone they are covered in. When we had finished up learning about that, we moved on to making our fossils. We made imprints of shells, shark's teeth, seeds etc. in sand. Then we poured plaster of Paris on top of that and left them to dry. When we had finished that activity, we wrote up our articles of different ways mammoths were preserved.

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/TarPits.pdf

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/babydima.pdf

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/deadlysinkhole.pdf

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/IcePreservation.pdf

Resources

My mom

Books on the Ice Age

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Math

Time: 60

Basic Math and Algebra 1

Reflection

I started my algebra 1 lesson today by working on linear functions. What is a linear function? It is a function that can be expressed by the equation y (y being a dependent variable, meaning it depends on x for the equation to work) = rx (r = some constant rate, x = an independent variable, meaning it is independent from y) + n (n being a number, any number). Let me repeat that, because it's probably hard to get it with all my little notes in there. y = rx + n. That is how you express a linear function. If you put the linear function on a graph, it goes up or down (depending on whether there is a - or a + in the sum) in a straight line. Using this idea, I both explored linear functions introduced in the lesson, and also applied that knowledge to some new linear functions in the supplementary exercises. Dad said I did well!

Resources

My Math Book

Algebra 1 Course

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December 2nd 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I tried playing these songs in different keys and instruments on my electric piano.

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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Elective

Time: 120 min

Current Affairs and World History

Reflection

Today, for our study on Ancient Greece, we traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city. In the Met, we walked along on the ground floor until we came to the Greek art exhibit. Big Dog, our archeology instructor, was there waiting for us. When everyone had arrived, Big Dog began. He explained how the Greeks were like us, that they had to eat, breath, sleep etc. and also how they were different. They basically said to themselves "We are civilized. How are we civilized? We have politicians, mints, treasuries, theaters, art galleries, beautiful and well-designed cities with pipes to carry away waste. All those other people, all those other civilizations, don't have what we have. And thus they must be barbarians." Obviously, the Greeks drew a big circle that said "The Civilized World" and put themselves right in the middle! As we walked around the art exhibit, we were each to choose a certain type of artifact and answer some brain-stretching questions about it. I chose pots with the Attic art style. The Attic style was also called a black-figure style, and is often what you think of when you think of Greek pots. It had an orange background, with black figures painted on it, but it was such a clever technique that they used to make them, using different glazes which were heated at different temperatures, that no one else could copy them! When I finished up that, I took a walk through the exhibit to get a very basic idea of the whole subject, and we finished up with Big Dog showing us a mysterious (mystery in Greek means "not to be spoken of") sculpture. It is mysterious because although we know the names of the two goddesses and the man in the picture, the picture was from a cult whose members were not to give away their secrets on pain of death. It remains unknown to us to this day. With that, we finished up.

Resources

Big Dog

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Other Students

Worksheet from Big Dog

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December 3rd 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 30 min

Grammar and Writing

Reflection

For my grammar today, I worked on rewriting sentences that had too many ands, replacing the long string of ands with commas, and just keeping one and at the end. It wasn't that tricky, but some of the sentences took a while to write out again. When I had done that, I wrote out three sentences separating different ideas with commas and not ands.

Resources

Hot Fudge Monday Grammar Book

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Physical Fitness

Time: 60 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

We went for a walk down the road and through the woods. We saw a lot of bluebirds and the ground was really cold and frosty!

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Science

Time: 30

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/NatureJournalDec3.pdf

Resources

My Computer

Anemometer

Wind Direction Gauge

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Elective

Time: 30 min

French Language

Reflection

For our French today, I continued the saga of Eric le Mouton (Eric the Sheep), in which poor Eric is on the plane to Disneyland Paris, where he hopes to find food. He is so hungry, however, that he eats the plane before they get there and everybody falls into the sea. I had a lot of fun writing it.

Resources

Voila! CD and Book

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Math

Time: 60

Basic Math and Algebra 1

Reflection

In my algebra 1 lesson for today, we mostly went through different ways of displaying the problems we did in the last lesson. By using the graphing calculator and tables, you were able to get some interesting effects. But it wasn't really what I was looking for, and although there were definitely some useful bits, I didn't find the lesson as a whole as useful as the ones before it. That said, there were a lot of things that were good about this lesson. I learned that on a graph, all the points are basically a step across and a step up, like a stair. When you get the difference between two points, the step up and across, you can calculate the slope of the graph.

Resources

Algebra 1 Course

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Science

Time: 120 min

Physical Science

Reflection

We started our science class this afternoon on matter with dad giving a little recap on what we learned in the last lesson. Then we moved on to learning about substances that mix together in a way that you can easily separate them out afterward. We did an experiment with salt and water to show this. We mixed the salt into the water, and then separated them out by boiling the water off. It works because salt boils at a different temperature to water. Then we learned about substances that don't mix so nicely, specifically sodium with chlorine, and alkali metals with water. They mix with a big bang! This is because the atoms that make up those substances are each needing something. Sodium has an extra electron it doesn't want, and chlorine needs an extra electron. Because they are both itching for this electron, they are highly reactive. When sodium and chlorine atoms hit each other, boom!, that extra electron from the sodium is grabbed by the chlorine. But the process of transferring the electron releases an enormous amount of energy in the form of heat. But even that explosion is relatively tame compared to mixing alkali metals with water. Imagine setting off a depth charge in a bathtub, and you've pretty much got what it is like. After these explosive subjects, we moved on to how things separate out into different colors. We took a marker, rubbed it along the bottom of a small piece of paper, and dipped it into water. The color spread upwards with water, and separated into its color components. We finished up by learning about crystals, and beginning to grow our own.

Resources

My Dad

My Workbook

Stove

Computer

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Elective

Time: 90 min

Art and Publishing

For my art this evening, I worked with my friend Matthew on our entries for the Cray Pas Competition. Since Mr Pete wasn't able to make it because he was sick, we just worked on the backgrounds. I helped Matthew do a gradation from dark to light for the sky on his piece, and I did a dawn sky on mine. We had a really good time, and I think they came out very well.

Resources

Mr Pete

Light box

Bristol Board

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December 4th 2008

English

Time: 15 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for about 15 minutes. It was very good.

Resources

My Computer

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Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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Elective

Time: 30 min

French Language

Reflection

For our French lesson today, we went over to Miss Marie's house, and started by going over the email we had sent to her. In my story about Eric the sheep, there were some things I missed that I really should have known. Apart from that, it was okay. We then went on to learn how to say the different foods of a Thanksgiving dinner in French. When we had learned how to say many foods, like turkey and green beans, we went on to the lesson. While listening to the Voila! CD, we spoke with the proprietor of a bed and breakfast, learned about what the temperature and rainfall level is like in different french cities, and learned about different types of weather.

Resources

Voila! CD and Book

Miss Marie

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Physical Fitness

Time: 60 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

I vacuumed the entire house, ceiling to floor.

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December 5th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time:30 min

Grammar and Writing

Reflection

For my grammar today, I worked on rewriting two sentences and combining them into one with a comma and an "and". For example, "It's Tuesday. It's time to go to work." becomes "It's Tuesday, and it's time to go to work." I had a good time writing it.

Resources

Hot Fudge Monday Grammar Book

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Elective

Time: 40 min

Current Affairs and World History

Reflection

For my current affairs this morning, I studied an article on the effects of overeating, and answered some questions about the article. Written just after Thanksgiving, the article asked if indulging in second, thirds, fourths, etc. at holiday dinners was a harmless indulgence, or actually harmful to your health. The article posed a lot of interesting questions, and really made me think.

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/CurrentAffair-Overeating.pdf

Resources

NY Times Current Affairs website

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Physical Fitness

Time: 60 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

We went for a walk down the road and through the woods. We saw a lot of crows.

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Science

Time: 30

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/NatureJournalDec5.pdf

Resources

My Computer

Anemometer

Wind Direction Gauge

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Math

Time: 40

Basic Math and Algebra 1

Reflection

In my algebra 1 lesson for today, I worked on the workbook activities for lesson six. As you may recall from my Algebra 1 report on Wednesday, I learned about how to calculate the slope of a graph. That's what we were doing today. We took the two equations from lesson 5, Reed's Reasonable Rates (RRR) and Interest Free Loan (IFL), and calculated the slope of the graph. The way you calculate the slope is to take two points of a graph, record the x and y values of those points, and then divide the y values by the x values. The equation for this is y1- y2 divided by x1- x2. The answer you get is the slope, which will be a positive number if the slope is going up, or a negative number if it is going down. When we had finished that, we went on to calculating the slopes for some more equations. I think I really got what we were talking about this lesson!

Resources

Algebra 1 Course

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Elective

Time: 20 min

French Language

Reflection

For our French today, we worked on activity 7 (or sept in French) of lesson three (trois in French) of our Voila! Book. We each wrote two (deux in... okay, okay, I'll stop now) questions asking whether the towns of Saint Leonard and Peyrat_le_Chateau contained certain locations, such as a beach (une plage) or a castle (un chateau). Then we answered each other's questions. It was a lot of fun!

Resources

Voila! CD and Book

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Elective

Time: 20 min

Current Affairs and World History

Reflection

We listened to our Story of the World: Early Modern Times CD for twenty minutes. We learned about Mexico today. Within that, we learned about how Texas rebelled against Mexico and won its independence, about the Alamo, and about how the United States bought a lot of Mexican land from Mexico. It was very good.

Resources

Story of the World CD

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Elective

Time: 25 min

Economics

Reflection

Mom went through today's section of our Economics course, Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?, with me. I learned some more about the economy and what drives it. When I was done with that, I wrote up a short report to answer some questions the course had posed about the economy.

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/EconomicsQuestions.pdf

Resources

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Economics Course

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English

Time: 15 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

I listened to a Living Books for the Ears program that was an adaption of A Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens. It was so beautiful, I nearly cried. Don't tell anyone I said that.

Resources

My Computer

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December 6th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 60 min

Speech: The Actor and Writer Speaks

Reflection

When we arrived at Growing Stage, we were a few minutes early. So we waited in the car for a few minutes, then headed in for my lesson. Unfortunately, our Actor Speaks teacher, Miss Mary, wasn't able to be there, so Mr Danny took both his class and the Actor Speaks class. We started by doing some fun warm ups, and then moved on to our plays. I thought my play was very understandable this time, and sometimes the actors were laughing so hard we couldn't hear their lines, which Mr Danny soon corrected. Mr Danny thought it was really good, and only needed a little bit of refining. Then we went on to the plays everyone else had written. They were all very good. We finished up by playing a fun improvisation game called Taxi.

Resources

Notebooks

Mr Danny

Other students

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December 7th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down with Mr Tom, and played my song in the technique book, entitled Stretch and Leap, and finished it. We are now moving on to a new one entitled Broken but Busy! After that we worked on my song in the lesson book, Prelude in A Minor. We started to work on it with the pedal, which was fun but hard. Unfortunately, we didn't get to do I Just Can't Wait to be King, because we had to go across to church.

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 150 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/ChristmasMusical.pdf

The show itself was two hours long, and the review took me half an hour. Just in case anyone was confused about the time.

Resources

Centenary College

My Computer

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December 8th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 30 min

Grammar and Writing

Reflection

For my grammar today, I learned about the exclusive or, which like the and, joins sentences together. I went through some sentences with ors in them, deciding whether they contained exclusive ors or not. After that, I wrote some sentences containing the exclusive or. It was fun!

Resources

Hot Fudge Monday Grammar Book

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Physical Fitness

Time: 60 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

We went for a walk down the road and through the woods.

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Science

Time: 30

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/NatureJournalDec8.pdf

Resources

My Computer

Anemometer

Wind Direction Gauge

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Math

Time: 55

Basic Math and Algebra 1

Reflection

For my math today, I was working on slopes again. I had, unfortunately, forgotten what I learned from last week about slopes. So dad had to work through with me again, and when I had got it once more, we began to work on the problems in the book. They were no harder than last week's, but for some reason I was having a real block on my basic math today. Dad managed to explain what I was supposed to be doing well enough that I got most of it, but some of it eluded me until the second or third time I worked through it. However, I think finally got it. Dad says I need to start doing my Mad Minute program again, because I need to constantly work on my basic math or I forget it!

Resources

My Math Book

Algebra 1 Course

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Social Studies

Time: 90

A Study of Physical and Political Geography

Reflection

When everyone had arrived for our Geography lesson (everyone being Amy, Lyn and me, as Matthew and Rachel were sick), we began to learn about cost-benefit analysis. What is cost-benefit analysis? It is where you take the costs and benefits of a decision (duh!) and decide whether that decision is worth it. For today, we learned about the people of San Martin Alto, and how they were deciding whether or not to graze alpacas on the paramo, which is fragile land that holds water above the village. There were a few other options, and we found the costs and the benefits of each one. When we were done, we filled out some worksheets to see how much we had learned in this section of the course.

Resources

Lessons from a Village Called Earth Geography Course

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December 9th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 30 min

Grammar and Writing

Reflection

For my grammar today, I learned about the word but, which as well as sometimes being a preposition, also acts as a conjuntion and joins sentences together. I had to identify whether some sentences with but in them contained conjunctions or not. After that, I wrote some sentences of my own with but in them.

Resources

Hot Fudge Monday Grammar Book

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Elective

Time: 40 min

Current Affairs and World History

Reflection

For my current affairs this morning, I studied an article about Presidential Elect Barrack Obama and who he has chosen to help him with his foreign policy. I studied the article, and tried to glean enough information from it to answer the rather tough questions that were then given to me. I think I managed to answer them all to the best of my ability, although I couldn't figure out a few of them, and the answers for some weren't in the article! After that, I did a little bit of my own research on those positions, and finished up.

Resources

NY Times Current Affairs website

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Physical Fitness

Time: 60 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

We went for a walk down the road and through the woods.

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Science

Time: 30

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/NatureJournalDec9.pdf

Resources

My Computer

Anemometer

Wind Direction Gauge

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Elective

Time: 20 min

French Language

Reflection

For our French today, we worked on activity 8 and 9 in our Voila! French Book. Normally we only do one activity a day, but since we didn't get time to do one yesterday, we were punished by having to do one today. Just joking! For today, we went through an exercise that involved introducing people and asking some questions about a town, and another where we talked about the weather. It was very fun!

Resources

Voila! CD and Book

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Math

Time: 60

Basic Math and Algebra 1

Reflection

I started my algebra 1 lesson today by watching the Algebra 1 Lesson 7 Video. It was very good. Today, we were exploring different linear functions, and what the different parts of a linear function are. The general form of a linear function is y = ax + b, where a is the rate of x and the slope of the graph, and b is a constant. We learned about the rate of x, which is the slope of the graph, and also about b, which is the place where the graph crosses the point where x is zero and y is any number, which is called the y intercept. In case you were wondering, there is also an x intercept! After we had finished the video, we finished up the lesson that went along with it. We finished a whole lesson today!

Resources

My Math Book

Algebra 1 Course

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Science

Time: 45

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

For our evolution this afternoon, we began by watching a video about how tuberculosis and other diseases have become resistant to antibiotics. In this case, it is crucial that we understand evolution, so that we can understand what is happening when we see that these people are not getting well even after treatment. When we had finished, we answered some questions about the video and went over our homework to do over the next week.

Resources

My mom

Miss Maryann

The PBS Evolution Website

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Elective

Time: 125 min

Art and Publishing

For my art this evening, I worked with my friend Matthew on our entries for the Cray Pas Competition. Mr Pete was able to make it this week. He was really good, and introduced some new techniques, like using a blending stick to blend colors together. My T Rex really looked great when I had finished it.

Resources

Mr Pete

Light box

Bristol Board

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December 10th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 30 min

Grammar and Writing

Reflection

For my grammar today, I learned about the word for, which like but, can be a preposition or a conjunction. I went through some sentences with for in them, and deduced whether or not they were conjunctions. After that, I wrote three sentences with the conjunction for in them for Dr Wong's Wacky Book of Wisdom. It was fun!

Resources

Hot Fudge Monday Grammar Book

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Physical Fitness

Time: 60 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

We went for a walk down the road and through the woods.

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Science

Time: 30

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/NatureJournalDec10.pdf

Resources

My Computer

Anemometer

Wind Direction Gauge

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Math

Time: 60

Basic Math and Algebra 1

Reflection

I started my algebra 1 lesson today by watching the lesson 8 video in my Algebra 1 course. It was very good. We first explored the different ways of representing algebraic equations, through words, tables of numbers, graphs and equations. Then we did some exercises to get practiced at going from one representation to another. We worked through the representations in different orders. I always paused the video and tried to figure out the answers to the equations before they got there. When we had finished, we went through the accompanying lesson, which helped me to clear up some things I was a bit rusty on.

Resources

My Math Book

Algebra 1 Course

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Elective

Time: 30 min

French Language

Reflection

For our French today, we learned about the temperature and rainfall in summer and winter in different french towns. We read through the diagrams, specifying if it was just "hot" in one town in the summer, or "very hot". Then we wrote our sentences in a document, and checked through them.

Resources

Voila! CD and Book

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Science

Time: 120 min

Physical Science

Reflection

We started our science class this afternoon on matter with dad doing a recap on what we did in the last lesson. Then we learned about different kinds of bonds, ionic bonds (which is when different elements that collide each share or receive an electron and one becomes positively charged and the other becomes negatively charged, and they stick together) and Covalent bonds (where two elements that collide each share a number of electrons between them). Then we learned about acids, which burn if you spill some on you because they want to dissolve in water and they search for water in you, and alkalies, which are the opposite of acids. We did some experiments with acids and alkalies, and found if you combine both of them and boil them away, you have a salt. So then we learned about salt. After that, we learned about plastic, made a type of plastic (with milk!) and finished up by doing a recap of what we had learned in all the lessons of our course.

Resources

My Dad

My Workbook

Stove

Computer

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Community Service

Time: 30 min

Community Service

Reflection

I started my work at the library by sorting out all the music CDs (not the DVDs this time!). It was much the same as sorting out the DVDs, but it was a little bit more interesting, as I kept seeing the names of bands I liked. It was kind of sad, because most of the bands I knew were old ones.

Resources

Librarians

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English

Time: 150 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/ChristmasCarol.pdf

Resources

My Computer

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December 11th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 270 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/TheWintersTale.pdf

Resources

My Computer

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December 11th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 30 min

Grammar and Writing

Reflection

For my grammar today, I learned about the words yet and nor, which can both be used as conjunctions. When I had learned how to use each one, I worked on identifying them in some sentences, and wrote some yet and nor sentences of my own.

Resources

Hot Fudge Monday Grammar Book

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Elective

Time: 40 min

Current Affairs and World History

Reflection

For my current affairs this morning, I studied an article on who President Obama has chosen as his Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton). Then I filled out a short quiz that asked me to join the names of the the different white house jobs to their job descriptions. I think I got most of it right, although I'm not sure that I joined up the Press Secretary to his job description correctly.

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/CurrentAffair-NationalSecurity.pdf

Resources

NY Times Current Affairs website

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Physical Fitness

Time: 60 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

We went for a walk down the road and through the woods. It was warmer today.

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Elective

Time: 30 min

French Language

Reflection

For our French today, we worked on finishing up our french sentences describing the temperature and rainfall in different french towns, adding in accents and checking through them as necessary. We finished up by listening to a man describing the weather and temperatures in Paris and other places in France, translating what he was saying and checking off the weather for each town.

Resources

Voila! CD and Book

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Math

Time: 60

Basic Math and Algebra 1

Reflection

I started my algebra 1 video lesson 9 today by working on some linear functions that were designed in three categories. The first problem was a simple algebraic problem which I solved quickly both intuitively and by rearranging the equation. The second problem started with a real-life situation which I'm not sure I would ever encounter. It stated that you have been asked to drain a 15,000 gallon pool. You rent a pump that will drain 240 gallons per hour. How long will it take to drain the pool? This one was a bit harder, but with a little help from dad, I solved it. Then I did a arbitrary algebraic equation, which was a long and mangled string of variables, numbers and fractions that I eventually, with a bit of help from the video, whittled down to a point where it was easy to solve. I really enjoyed this lesson, and I think I learned a lot.

Resources

My Math Book

Algebra 1 Course

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English

Time: 30 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

I listened to Mr Pickwick's Christmas, a collection of stories taken from Charles Dickens' the Pickwick Papers. They were very funny, in a very Dickens sort of way. The part I enjoyed most was when they all went ice-skating and Mr Winkler fell over backwards.

Resources

My Computer

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Elective

Time: 25 min

Current Affairs and World History

Reflection

We listened to our Story of the World CD for about 25 minutes. We learned about the island of New Zealand and how it was annexed, and about the gold miners in California, who became a bit of a nuisance to the farmers and people who already lived there. We finished off this CD in the Story of the World series!

Resources

NY Times Current Affairs website

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Science

Time: 90

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

We went to Mr Rizzo's Reptile Discovery evening, and learned all about lots of different reptiles and even an African pygmy hedgehog! See my review below.

Resources

Mr Rizzo

Miss Liz

The Animals

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English

Time: 30 min

Creative Writing

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/RizzosReptileDiscovery.pdf

Resources

My Computer

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December 12th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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December 13th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 60 min

Speech: The Actor and Writer Speaks

Reflection

When we arrived at Growing Stage for the last Actor Speaks class of this term, we were a little bit early. All the actors that had arrived filed into the theater, parents in tow, and took a seat while we waited for the rest of the troupe. When they arrived, we started off by doing some acting games, like Taxi, and some warm ups! Then, da da dum.... we had our scripts read live by actors in front of our parents and teachers. It went very well. My play was very humorous, while others were less so. I think my favorite part of my play was Bill was asking Joe his name:

Bill: Name?

Joe: What do you mean by that?!

Bill: What is your name?

Joe: Joe.

Bill: What is your last name?

Joe: Joe.

Bill: (Sighs.) No, that was your first name. Your last name is not the same.

Joe: Who says it can't be? Are you threatening me?!!

It was a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed getting up on stage and making a fool of myself. Really. Anyway, after my play was performed, I sat down in the hot seat, and was asked questions about how I wrote the play. I really had a good time, and everyone did a great job.

Resources

Notebooks

Miss Mary

Mr Danny

Other students

Scripts

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December 13th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

For my piano practice this morning, Mr Tom came over to my house. We started in the technique book, and quickly moved on to a new song in there. It seems like I'm going a song a week in the technique book these days. Then we went on to the solo book, and played all of I Just Can't Wait to be King hands together. Mr Tom says I should do one more week on that. Finally, we played Prelude in A Minor in the lesson book. One more week on that too....

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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Science

Time: 30

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

I worked on my evolution for about half an hour. I filled in some extra pages, one of which was very hard! I wasn't able to solve it without going to the internet for help. After that, I completed a little test of my knowledge on the computer.

Resources

Worms Eat my Garbage

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December 15th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time:30 min

Grammar and Writing

Reflection

For my grammar today, I added either/or and neither/nor conjunctions to sentences that needed one of the two. It was a lot of fun, but pretty easy. Then I wrote two either/or, neither/nor sentences of my own.

Resources

Hot Fudge Monday Grammar Book

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Elective

Time: 40 min

Current Affairs and World History

Reflection

For my current affairs this morning, I studied an article on who Obama is picking to help him with his foreign policy, then answered some questions about the article. It was very good. I was able to answer all the questions but one today.

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/CurrentAffair-NationalSecurity2.pdf

Resources

NY Times Current Affairs website

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Physical Fitness

Time: 60 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

We went for a walk down the road and through the woods.

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Science

Time: 30

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/NatureJournalDec15.pdf

Resources

My Computer

Anemometer

Wind Direction Gauge

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Elective

Time: 30 min

French Language

Reflection

For our French today, we worked in our Voila! Book. We each had a chart with the temperatures and weather for summer and winter in different french towns. We asked each other questions to learn the temperatures and weather types that we didn't have on our chart. I really enjoyed doing it!

Resources

Voila! CD and Book

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Math

Time: 45

Basic Math and Algebra 1

Reflection

I started my algebra 1 lesson today by working on some pretty tricky problems from the video for lesson nine. Armed with my knowledge of algebra and algebraic manipulation, I took out the tricky problems and moved on to the investigative problems. Those also had some tricky parts, but I also solved these. Then I rearranged some algebraic equations in order to find out what the x variable was. I finished off with one final and quite hard investigative problem involving both the amount of money you are paid per hour and the amount of money you need to spend on gas.

Resources

My Math Book

Algebra 1 Course

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Elective

Time: 90 min

A Local Study of Mountain Lake

Reflection

We started our study of Mountain Lake by reading through what we had typed up in the lesson before. Matthew and I had written an article on the La Brea Tar Pits, Ashlei and Rachel wrote about ice preservation, and Amy and Lyn wrote about sinkholes. Then we had our pictures taken with our fossils we made two weeks ago. When we had finished, mom told us what we were going to write about for this week. Ashlei and I wrote about the mastodons found in the area. We wrote our reports like newspaper articles, and introduced ourselves as reporters. I wrote about the Bojak Mastodon. When we had finished that, we practiced some things for our winter solstice class on Wednesday.

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/AmazingFindMastodons.pdf

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/extinctionpart1.pdf

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/Pleistocene_extinction_part_two.pdf

Resources

My mom

Books on the Ice Age

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December 16th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time:30 min

Grammar and Writing

Reflection

For my grammar today, I worked on some sentences with holes in them. I had to figure out what conjunctions went into those holes. It was a lot of fun, but surprisingly easy. Maybe tomorrow's will be harder.

Resources

Hot Fudge Monday Grammar Book

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Elective

Time: 40 min

Current Affairs and World History

Reflection

For my current affairs this morning, I studied an article on who Obama is going to choose as his Foreign Policy Advisers. Then I picked a country, Afghanistan, and discussed what the current relationship between the US and that country is like, and how it may change in the future. It was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot about what is going on in Afghanistan.

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/CurrentAffair-NationalSecurity3.pdf

Resources

NY Times Current Affairs website

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Physical Fitness

Time: 60 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

We went for a walk down the road and through the woods.

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Science

Time: 30

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/NatureJournalDec16.pdf

Resources

My Computer

Anemometer

Wind Direction Gauge

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Elective

Time: 30 min

French Language

Reflection

For our French today, we wrote down the sentences we worked on yesterday, which were about temperatures and the weather in different places in summer and winter. When we had finished writing them up, we read through them and sent them to Miss Marie.

Resources

Voila! CD and Book

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Math

Time: 60

Basic Math and Algebra 1

Reflection

In my algebra 1 lesson for today, I watched a video about modeling real-world problems with linear functions. Whoa! Big words! But don't worry, it really wasn't all that hard. What we did was: 1) Take some real-world data (in the first activity, the diameter of an ink blob for the number of drops put in), 2) translate that data into a chart, 3) use the chart to create a linear function and a graph, and 4) use the linear function to answer some questions and predict things. I learned that the data you gather doesn't always create a perfect linear function, so you have to choose the best fit. I really think I learned a lot about linear functions and how you can use them practically. This was the last lesson in the series, too, so next time we will go on to new and exciting problems!

Resources

Algebra 1 Course

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Science

Time: 30

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

For our biology class this afternoon, we were studying worms! Worms, worms, worms. Specifically, we went over our worm homework from last time, and then moved on to learning about common names for different animals. All the common names had one thing in common, they all had "worm" in the name. We had to figure which ones were actually worms, and which ones were insect larvae. Once we had figured that out, we looked at the worm's cocoons under the microscope. It was great fun!

Resources

Worms Eat My Garbage course

Worms and worm cocoons

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Elective

Time: 90 min

Art and Publishing

For my art this evening, I worked on my Gargoyle painting. This time we worked on the castle behind the tower, adding stonework to the previously flat surface. It took a while to mix the paints, but once we finished that and painted it on, it looked really good. Next time we are going to work on the gargoyle itself.

Resources

Mr Pete

Paints and Paintbrushes

Painting

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December 17th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time:30 min

Grammar and Writing

Reflection

For my grammar today, I worked on a page of my grammar which asked me to combine some nouns from a list into sentences that contained the conjunctions I had learned about. It was a bit harder today, but still very fun!

Resources

Hot Fudge Monday Grammar Book

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Elective

Time: 40 min

Current Affairs and World History

Reflection

For my current affairs this morning, I studied an article about Presidential Elect Barrack Obama and who he has chosen to help him with his foreign policy. I read some articles that were provided as extra reading and used the information from those to make my write-up better. They were very interesting, and told me a lot more about Bush's, Mcain's and Obama's foreign policies.

Resources

NY Times Current Affairs website

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Science

Time: 30

Evolutionary Study of Life on Earth

Reflection

For our Winter Solstice celebration today, we started off with a walk around a labyrinth. What is a labyrinth? The one we walked was a spiral path, although others are more complicated. You walk them to reflect and quietly contemplate. It was a wonderful start to a wonderful day. When that was done, we learned a bit more about labyrinths, and then we did a small puppet show about different ways that animals survive the winter. Then we were set loose to do each others' crafts. It was great! Everyone did great crafts, and my and dad's idea, using poke weed ink with quill pens to write on paper, was a real hit. Everyone had a great time. When we finished the crafts, we finished up with a reading by me and Ashlei, and a story by Miss Kathyann.

Resources

Other Students

Crafts

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English

Time: 60 min

Creative Writing

Reflection

I wrote out a page on my Boomo and Co story, introducing some new characters and advancing the plot.

Resources

My Computer

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December 18th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 30 min

Grammar and Writing

Reflection

For my grammar today, I worked on a page of my grammar which asked me to write a quick story about a visiting celebrity singer using all six conjunctions I learned about. It was a lot of fun, and I wrote about a rock star named Doowop Badoo!

Resources

Hot Fudge Monday Grammar Book

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Community Service

Time: 70 min

Community Service

Reflection

We went to Warren Haven, Warren County's community nursing home, for about an hour this morning, and when we arrived, we were all given several sheets of songs. We walked through the halls, singing carols to the residents of the home. It was nice to see how their faces lit up as we came and sang to them, and how some of them clapped or sang along. I had a great time!

Resources

Staff at Warren Haven

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Physical Fitness

Time: 60 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

I vacuumed the entire house, ceiling to floor. When I had finished that, I did some cleaning with mom for a while.

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December 19th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 30 min

Grammar and Writing

Reflection

For my grammar today, I worked on a page of my grammar which introduced me to a new conjunction, although. I really enjoyed the lesson, although it was easier than yesterday's.

Resources

Hot Fudge Monday Grammar Book

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Elective

Time: 150 min

Current Affairs and World History

Reflection

For my current affairs this morning, I studied an article on who Obama is picking to help him with his foreign policy, then worked on a worksheet comparing Bush's foreign policy to Obama's emerging foreign policy. I also read all of the articles that the lesson recommended on the website.

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/CurrentAffair-NationalSecurity4.pdf

Resources

NY Times Current Affairs website

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Math

Time: 60

Basic Math and Algebra 1

Reflection

I started my algebra 1 lesson today by working on some of the topics introduced in the last lesson. We worked on some extra material for the exercises in the lesson, which was really hard today because my brain was all fuzzy. It was even having trouble with my basic math. Anyway, I managed to stumble through the activities, find the slope and y-intercept of two lines, and plot some points onto a graph. When we had finished all of that, I worked on one supplementary activity, and then finished up for the day.

Resources

My Math Book

Algebra 1 Course

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English

Time: 60 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

I listened to a living books for the ears production of a Christmas Carol. I enjoyed it immensely, and it was very true to the book. What I felt was very interesting was that it had many of the same details and lines as that of the two-person Christmas Carol play we saw a while ago. Then again, they were both about an hour long!

Resources

My Computer

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English

Time: 90 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

I read the book Hoot for about an hour and a half. It was very good.

Resources

My Computer

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December 20th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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Physical Fitness

Time: 45 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

I shoveled the steps and walk by the church for about forty-five minutes. It was hard work!

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December 21st 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), Stretch and Leap, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano. I also made up a song of my own!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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Physical Fitness

Time: 60 min

Lifetime Fitness

Reflection

We went for a walk down the road and through the woods. It was very snowy!

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December 22nd 2008

English

Time: 45 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

I read The Chaos Code for about 45 minutes. It was very good.

Resources

The Chaos Code

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Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), A Minor, Naturally from my Technique book, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano.

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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Math

Time: 90

Basic Math and Algebra 1

Reflection

I started my algebra 1 lesson today by working on the relation between bottle caps and pins. Specifically, how many pins per bottle cap. Now, we knew that not all the bottle caps we had would weigh the same, as they were from different makes, and that not all the pins would weigh the same, but we figured that it would give us an approximate linear function. We weighed the bottle caps and pins, and wrote down the numbers we got. Then we wrote them down in the spreadsheet program, on the computer. We used the numbers from the spreadsheet to create an approximate graph, and then used the regression curve tool to find the straight line that best fitted the data. We printed this out, and used the formula we got from it to answer some questions. When we had finished that, I worked on magic squares in my Go Figure! and Penrose the Mathematical Cat books. It was a lot of fun, but there was one type of magic square, called a knight's move magic square, that I couldn't quite get. Maybe I will tomorrow!

Resources

My Math Book

Penrose books

Go Figure!

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English

Time: 30 min

Creative Writing

Reflection

I worked on adapting an adventure for dungeons and dragons for five players, which needed to be changed so that it could be played by three players, which was all I had.

Resources

My Computer

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December 23rd 2008

English

Time: 15 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

I read the Chaos Code for about an hour, and finished it. It was excellent. Now I will write a review of it.

Resources

The Chaos Code

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Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), A Minor, Naturally from my Technique book, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano.

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 20 min

Creative Writing

Reflection

I wrote a review of the Chaos Code, a book I had read.

Resources

My Computer

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Elective

Time: 60 min

Art and Publishing

For my art this evening, I worked with my art teacher Mr Pete on a painting I have been doing of a gargoyle. I filled in the windows of the tower in the background with a lighter blue than the surrounding tower. It really made them stand out without detracting from the gargoyle or the moon. Then I filled in the moon with yellow paint. Lastly, I began to fill in the gargoyle with green, as a base for the limestone pattern we are going to put on it.

Resources

Mr Pete

Light box

Bristol Board

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December 24th 2008

English

Time: 90 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

To pass the time before Christmas, I read my Horrible Geography books, and my 3rd edition D&D manuals. It was very fun, and gave me some ideas for the session I am planning with my friends on New Year's Eve!

Resources

Horrible Geography Books

Dungeons and Dragons books

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English

Time: 40 min

Creative Writing

Reflection

I wrote two and a half pages on my Boomo and Co story. I introduced some new characters and had a lot of fun writing it. The evil accordion is still plotting world domination (although it will settle for the town if it has to!).

Resources

My Computer

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Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), A Minor, Naturally from my Technique book, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano.

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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Math

Time: 60

Basic Math and Algebra 1

Reflection

In my math lesson today, we learned about the knight's tour magic square, where consecutive numbers were a knight's move between each other. It was very cool, but I got stuck on the part which told you how to make a knight's tour. It was kind of confusing, so dad decided that we should make a computer program to help us with it. And so we did. It was very cool, and I learn a lot about the formula. And best of all, when we set it free to figure out our problem, it worked. Not without some tweaking, I admit, but we managed to get it right and the program figured out the problem that had us stuck. When we had finished that, we had a little look at some more magic squares in the Penrose the Mathematical Cat books. Then we finished up. It was a fun lesson today!

Resources

My Math Book

Penrose books

Go Figure!

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December 28th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down with Mr Tom and started by playing A Minor, Naturally in my Technique Book. I finished that, and then moved on to A Minor, Harmonically, also in the technique book. We finished off by doing a lot of work on the song in my lesson book, prelude in A Minor. It was fun!

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 170 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

I read The Tales of Beedle the Bard, the Manual of the Planes (a manual for Dungeons and Dragons), and a book called Science Fair.

Resources

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

The Manual of the Planes

Science Fair

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December 29th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), A Minor, Naturally from my Technique book, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano.

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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English

Time: 90 min

Creative Writing

Reflection

http://www.freeunionschoolhouse.com/twiki/pub/Main/JackEduLogDec2008/FrostytheSnowman2.pdf

Resources

My Computer

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English

Time: 240 min

A Study of Classical and Modern Literature

Reflection

I read some books for about four hours. I read the Never Ending Story, Science Fair, Manual of the planes and some other Dungeons and Dragons books.

Resources

The Never Ending Story

Science Fair

Manual of the Planes

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December 30th 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), A Minor, Naturally from my Technique book, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano.

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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Elective

Time: 180 min

Art and Publishing

For my art this afternoon, I worked on creating tight sketches from my rough sketches for Terror of Porridge, a book I wrote when I was about eight. I took two very rough sketches and put them on my lightbox. Then I traced the lines to create a clean, final sketch. When I had finished each one, I pulled it off the lightbox and filled in any details that needed filling in. I completed two clean sketches in about an hour and a half. When Mr Pete arrived, we inked both sketches and he helped me with the details.

Resources

Mr Pete

Light box

Bristol Board

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English

Time: 40 min

Creative Writing

Reflection

I wrote a book review of a book I read, entitled Science Fair.

Resources

My Computer

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December 31st 2008

Elective

Time: 30 min

Music Practice and Music Theory

Reflection

I sat down and played the songs I Just Can't Wait To Be King (from the Lion King), A Minor, Naturally from my Technique book, and Prelude in A Minor, from Alfred's Piano Library Level 4 on the piano.

Resources

My Piano

Alfred's Piano Library Level 4

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-- JackW - 01 Dec 2008