We went to Timpanogos Cave. It was cool and big and fun. I liked how the formations were really colorful. There were a lot of stalactites and they were cool. There were some really skinny ones that are called soda straws and some crazy twisted ones called helictites.
This week we got to go see the Chalk the Block festival which was fun. We also got to go to the Business Card Art Show at the JKR Gallery. There were some really neat pieces of art. It was fun because the chalk art was huge but the business card art was tiny!
This week we started our new science class for this semester. We are learning about biology so the lesson was on how to tell if something is alive. There are some characteristics of living things like responding to stimuli and also keeping a consistent inner state. Fire isn’t alive even though it uses energy (fuel) and can move because it doesn’t maintain a consistent inner state. Here’s a little picture from our workbook that I colored:
My brother and I defeated the Ender Dragon in Minecraft! It was my first time doing it. We also collected a dragon egg.
My dad and mom and I were talking about space travel and how the closest star besides our sun is 4 1/2 light years away. We calculated that with the fastest space vehicle that humans have made, which can travel 5% of the speed of light, it would take about 90 years to get there.
We played Trouble.
We went to the pool a couple times this week. Here is a silly picture my mom took of me. It made us laugh because the angle is so weird.
This week I baked cookies and I also baked brownies. I did most of the measuring and mixing myself.
I also learned about interest and loans. My mom explained them to us because Scrooge McDuck got a loan from a bad guy to get equipment to pan for gold in the Yukon and he had to make payments back. We are reading The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck again.
We went to the park one night and had fun playing keep away and mother elephant and other games.
I did some Turing Tumble with my mom. One of the “machines” we did was one in which each arrow that pointed to the right was worth a number, and it would “count” the balls that passed through. It could count all the way up to 15 because the arrow values were 1, 2, 4, and 8.
I have been doing a lot of animation. My mom helped me find out how to draw on top of videos, called rotoscoping. We added sound effects, too. We bought some, and also recorded some of our own. I use the app FlipaClip to make my animations.
