programming robot

-1. this is snapee
0. I built snapee
1. snapee gos in to the kings library
2. snapee stops to tac A picture
3. light sensor finds black ring
4. snapee raps A piece of twine or A piece of string around the black ring
5. snapee coms back to me

What we are reading

We have been reading aloud a variety of books. Two nights ago we finished The Arabian Nights retold by Neil Philip and Illustrated by Sheila Moxley. This was not a complete set of the tales, but included the favorites Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Aladdin. Maia's favorite tales were The City of Brass, Princess Nur Al-Nihar, the Three Princes, and Peri-Banu, The Speaking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water, and The Ebony Horse.

We have also started reading stories from Greek and Roman Mythology. We read about Hades taking Persephone down to the underworld to be his wife, the minotaur and the labyrinth, the Trojan horse, and various others. Stories explaining the start of the world seem to be fascinating to Maia right now.

Last night we resumed our reading of The Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer. We backtracked a little so the various stories and time periods would be equally well remembered.

art from art class

I liked art class becus I did new things

I played with tonal value

Here are my beutiful pictures

My favorite is the sculpture

my 2nd favorite is the colourful painting on the top right

my 3rd favorite is the painting on the top left

my 4th favorite is the prited out picture on the
bottom left

Today's Questions (and Answers)

Q: When was the sleeping bag invented?
A: Freydis Eiriksdottir, daughter of the famous viking Erik the Red, invented the sleeping bag by using an extra sail on of her expeditions to Greenland.
http://www.ehow.com/about_4603769_compressing-sleeping-bags.html

Q: When was the scuba tank invented?
A: Experimentation happened for over 100 years, then Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan developed same tank and regulator used today in 1943 (the Aqua-Lung).
http://www.reefscuba.com/inventors.htm

Q: How deep can divers go using scuba gear?
A: World record dive with scuba gear is 1,083 ft/330 m. Recreational divers are highly encouraged to stay shallower than 100 feet/30 meters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_diving

Math problems

1502 ÷ 2=751
6586 ÷ 2=3293
6586 ÷ 3=2195
10575 ÷ 15=705
27 + 66 = 93

I yseds the bed ematreouls

Cribbage

Walter taught Maia to play cribbage. In cribbage you score by making totals of 15 with combination of cards, as well as pairs and runs. In addition, three and four of a kind score as 3 and 6 pairs, which is the number of distinct pairs you can make. Similarly, a hand such as 2-3-3-4 scores as two runs (and a pair). So it is an introduction to combinatorics (the mathematics of counting was of combining and ordering things) as well as simple counting and addition.

Reading About Narnia

So Maia has been immersing herself in the Narnia stories. We have finished reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe aloud. We finished reading the first book in the series - The Magician's Nephew. We are in the middle of The Boy and His Horse now. We have also been watching Prince Caspian a lot. She is comparing the characters in the two stories. She is comparing the storylines, the ways the kids entered Narnia, the different relationships between the various main characters, and much more. Many lines of the movies have been memorized. When there is dialog in the movie and not in the book, she points it out. We talked about ruins, preserving objects for a long time, how to handle a wild animal encounter, and much more.

Yesterday, we picked up an I Can Read! #2 book entitled This Is Narnia. It is based on the Prince Caspian movie. Maia sat down and read it cover to cover immediately. Here are the words she asked for help reading: waited, amazing, queens, sparkling, clothes, behind, beautiful, trouble, soldiers, Trumpkin, challenged, bedsteads, greedy, evil, sounded, adventure. Of course, after reading the book several times, she has got those words down now.

bag sowing

in this blog I will tell you about my sowing I sowd A bag with A 32 inch long strap & velcro



Mom taking dictation now:

first picture: This is me with my strap. cutting and taking the pins out.



second picture: Me sewing my bag. The black case in the background is my violin case.



third picture: Me sewing with the keyboard on the left of me.

Favorite Parts of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

1. the bigg battul seen
2. crosing the melting ice ice river
3. edmmid and horse named Philip
4. knight of NORnnoa
5. Faun droping parcels

A New Violin!

We recently made a one for two violin trade and Maia benefits! We traded Evan's pricey half size violin for a quarter size instrument for Maia and a full size instrument for Evan and Mom. Now we can all play the violin when we choose. Maia is beginning lessons at home while she figures out how much she enjoys this new activity.




Dictated by Maia:
I like playing my new violin.

beginning

in this blogg I will tell you about my learning