Monthly Home Learning Wrap~Up September 2013

What we read:

·      The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

·      Finished Venom and Song by Batson & Hopper

• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

·      Mystery of History covering

o   Ice Age, dinosaurs, Gilgamesh, Stonehenge, early Egypt, the Minoans

·      Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

What we did:

·      Lots if nail art.  Lorelei started a nail polish swatch & design notebook

·      Researched acrylic nails – pros, cons, how-to

·      Lorelei did her own acrylic manicure

·      Doodling & tangling

·      Played around with photo editing

·      Worked on drawing realistic cats

·      Made banana bread

·      Worked on Life of Fred, Kidneys – Chapters 1 -  5

·      Made lots of flexahexagons

·      Designing outfits on Polyvore app

·      Disappearing egg shell experiment

·      Helicopter tour of Oahu

·      Ivory soap experiment – states of matter, heat, expanding gases

·      Cool Math 4 Kids strategy games

·      Pinterest for design inspiration

·      Researched Vietnamese flying fox – actually a bat, lives in newly discovered Son Doong Cave in Vietnam

·      Journaling, poem writing

·      Iphone upgrade and playing around with it

·      Seterra geography, memorizing North American countries & US States

·      Writing emoji stories

·      Upcycled a jean jacket into a jean vest – ombre dyed in bleach

·      Made Lembas bread for Hobbit week!

·      Made clay props for Halloween costume

·      Learned about diabetes now that our cat has high glucose

What we watched:

·      Vihart video on parabola doodling. Covered how parabolas, dots, lines, cones & cone sections are all related.

·      Latest VSauce videos

·      Vihart videos about flexahexagons.

·      Observed an ant colony invading our mint plant

·      Observed a mud wasp making a hive

Where we went:

·      Sally’s Beauty supply for info about acrylic nails. Had to ask for help by herself. Big step.

·      Tok cat to the Vet. 

·      Trampoline House

·      BIG ISLAND WEEKEND TRIP!

o   Volcanoes National Park

o   Southern most point in the US!

o   Black & green sand beach

o   Top of Mauna Kea

o   Keck Observatory, got a nice mini tour from a scientist there

o   Found a locals beach full of old glass.  Decades old, broken soda & beer bottles. La’s favorite part!

o   Swam with Manta Rays! Incredible!

What we talked about:

·      Government shutdown, how the Congress is designed to function vs. how it functions today.

·      Issues of mind control in government.

·      Facism vs. Communism

·      Idioms and their historical origins