Monday we started out with a Math worksheet and then we did our Trophies and Handwriting. Afterward, we did a test on our Reading. Me and JR are above grade level and JT is right at the end of his grade. We did our art project on doing a pastel drawing of the Earth from outer space.
On Tuesday we completed all of our subjects including Science. For Science we did experiments. The first one was where you take one third cup of water, put an index card on top, and turn it upside down. It won’t dump the water out because the index card stays because of air pressure pushing it. The next experiment we filled a bucket with ice water and a coke can with 4 tablespoons of water. We heated up the can on the stove in a saucepan until it had steam coming out of it’s top. Then we took it out of the pan cause we are trying to crush it without touching it. When you are done cooking it you put it in a pie pan upside down and cool it down fast with the ice water, then it should crush and it worked for us. The can crushed itself into a cube because a little of the steam escaped when we poured ice water on it. Next time, we will hold the can down a little better. The air pressure on the sides of the can did push it in tho.
Wednesday everyone was groggy and really wanted to play outside. We did our Math, Language Arts, and Trophies. I have memorized my 9′s multiplication facts and now I am moving onto 3′s and JR is moving onto 6′s. JT is doing 2′s. We were so groggy we only did 25 out of a 100 math problems on our five minute fact practice.
Thursday we went to Grandma’s house because she was sick. While we were there, I helped to clean up Grandma’s house. Pop-pop and Grandma bought us McDonald’s when they got back from the doctor. I am reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and JR is reading Prisoner of Azkaban and JT is reading Sorcer’s Stone. I have read all three now. We watched JK Rowling’s speech to college kids that were graduating. It was funny but sad when she talked about a guy that lost his Mom. We also played on Mom’s Ipod Touch, practicing our math facts on PopMath and a monkey’s feet. Also, on Mr. Swallow’s Fabulous Links site I discovered Coffee Shop. It’s really fun and if you don’t put the right formula together people puke and you have to get your ratings up really high or else you go bankrupt.
On Friday, we had JR’s 10th Birthday. We made a delicious cake and he had alot of presents. Grandma and Pop-pop bought him a year membership to the Atlanta Zoo and we are going to go on Tuesday. On Saturday, yesterday, we went to Sweetwater Creek State Park. We met two people that had never seen Osprey’s before. They were old people, probably in their 50′s, the guy wasn’t too old, around in his 40′s, and when they saw the Osprey hit the water they shocked. I told them “I bet you’ve never seen that before!”. They looked at all our pictures and they liked them. They said that they were going to go up to Maine next week because they heard about all the Osprey’s on the buoy lines. They said last week they went to Alaska and they saw Bald Eagles everywhere. They got lots of pictures.
Last week, when we were at Sweetwater Creek State Park, I got a picture of an Osprey soaring. The park ranger liked it so much he asked me if he could put it on the park website. They said that they were going out on boats trying to get a picture of them soaring and they never even got any good ones because they were going so fast. I emailed it to him last night. We will watch for it to show up on their website.
