Saturday-Friday 10/18/08-10/24/08

On Saturday this week, we went to the Waldorf Harvest Festival. We got to see all the things they do and did there and we also got to do some neat activities. Some of the things that we got to do there is climb on this spider web play set and we could have done this giant slingshot thing, but we didn't because we were to tired.
Here are some pictures of the Festival:


The one on the top left is is a cave that was on one of the playgrounds, the one on the top right is the spider web play set, and the one on the bottom is Wilson and I walking a labyrinth.

We also went to the Renaissance Fair the next day. There were tons of booths selling different things and a lot of activities. We got to see a fake joust, eat Dragon Dogs on a Sword (corn dogs on a stick), we watched a play, and we listened to some music.

Here are some pictures of the Fair:

The one on the top left is us standing in front of a fake pirate ship, the one on the top right is a guy on stilts performing fire tricks, and the one on the bottom is a guy in the joust.

Also this week, we replanted our sprouts.

Saturday-Friday 10/11/08-10/17/08

This week we did some folding with circles to make different shapes. We made a sphere with triangular and square holes in it, and we made pyramids out of smaller pyramids. This week we also started a seed experiment to see if our seeds that we planted will grow. Joey, Wilson, and I each have our own pots. Mine has three wheat seeds and two pumpkin seeds in it.

Here are the pictures of our seeds:

These are all my seeds (from top right to top left to bottom right) from when they first sprouted to (almost) now. Joey's pot has the most sprouts. Mine has three, Wilson's has one, and Joey's has 23-26.

And this week for my homeschool work, I finished most of it on Tuesday and finished evrything (except blogging) on Wednesday.Also I got a new grammar and word root workbooks.

Saturday-Friday 10/4/08-10/10/08

This week, we went to UC Davis to meet my Aunt Stephanie for lunch and to go to the Explorit Science Center. In the Science Center we got to do robotics, wind experiments, and hard puzzles.

I also got to try to put together a closed circuit to light a light bulb.

Here is a picture of me doing that:

Before we went to the Explorit Science Center, we went to the Arboretm, where there is a bunch of different kinds of plants and animals. After the Arboretum, we went to the one of the UC Davis Dining Commons to meet my Aunt Stephanie for lunch.

Also this week, we went on a botany hunt where our Mom gave us clues about the plants that we were looking for, and then we had to do rubbings of one of the plants' leaves or bark.

Here are some pictures of the botany hunt:

These pictures are of (in no particular order) my brother, Wilson, my sister, Joey, and me.

Earlier this week, we planted some seeds in a container. Both Joey's seeds and my seeds have begun to sprout. I planted some wheat seeds and pumkin seeds in my container. I also learned about the biomes tundra and coniferous forest through DVDs and books.

Sunday-Friday 9/28/08-10/3/08

This week we made some more beanbags and we did potato stamping.

Here are some pictures of the potato stamping:

We also used celery to stamp too. So we made designs on the potatos and then painted the flat part of the potato and then pressed it like a stamp onto the paper.

The beanbags we made were pumpkin orange for halloween.

This week for homeschooling I got most of my homescholling finished before friday. We also wrote an alphabet poem and all the words were deserts. We also leaned about what pigments make what colors in leaves, and we finished story of the world and are goung to go onto the next set. We learned about Perseus and the Gorgons, the fall of Rome, we did the science experiment where you put the stem of white carnations into food dye, and we made celtic drawings.

Here are some pictures of the carnations:

The carnation on the right we are mixing two colors.

Monday-Friday 9/20/08-9/24/08

This week we made some beanbags. We each made 3 and we made them from scrap material. Mine were from some jean material, Wilson's were from a soft cloth, and Joey used different clothes for hers.

Here are some pictures:

The one on the top left is mine, the one on the top right is Wilson's, and the one on the bottom left are Joey's, and theone on the bottom right are all of ours.

On Sunday (I know that that isn't on Monday-Friday) I did a recital for the place where I get clarinet lessons from, Music Bloom. I did three songs, two were with a piano accompaniment (my Dad played the piano). The name of the songs were: Entr'acte music from Rosamund, Lullaby, and Going for a Take. The recital was about two and a half hours long. After me, there was only a violinist, and then the rest were piano and guitar players.

Here is a pictures of the recital:

So it was a fun week.

Monday-Friday 9/13/08-9/17/08

This week we didn't do anything special, just the current usual. The current usual is different from the usual of before the summer. The new usual is much busier. There is nothing on Monday, band and fencing on Tuesday, (for Joey and Wilson only) rollerskating, gymnastics and dance on Wednesday, on Thursday we have the most things to do, band, speech, clarinet lessons, and fencing, Friday is only art lessons.

The things that I did for homeschooling this week was my math (I'm doing algebra 1 now), music theory, ancient Greek, vocabulary, and we did this mosaic / collage of a tree for Autumn. I'm going to go to a music recital for Music Bloom (the name of the place that I take clarinet lessons from) on Sunday. I'm going to play 3 songs for the recital, 2 have piano accompaniments.

Summer

It's been a while since I've posted on this blog. This post is going to be about some of the most fun things I did over the summer. One of them was going to video game camp a UC Davis. While I was there I got to make a cool little video game and we got to play this really cool game called Warcraft. I bought Warcraft a couple weeks ago and it's really fun. It's a strategy computer game that's about 7 years old and is still popular. Some other things that I got to do over the summer was find a cool new card game called Magic The Gathering, and I learned how to needle felt. We also went to a homescooling conference. We got to learn some new things, take classes on some things, and one of the classes that we went to was a class ont this ZOM tool thing which is something that you build shapes with.



Here are some pictures of all this:

The picture on the bottom right is me building something with ZOM tools. The one on the middle is Wilson at his new gymastics place (Wilson started gymnastics). The top left is a different kind on ZOM tools. The one on the top right is a warcraft battle. The one on the bottom left is J.R. and I (J.R. is my roomate). The one on the bottom middle is the work room.

I did fencing over summer and just started band again. I'm also taking speech and clarinet lessons.

Overall, summer vacation was pretty fun.