12.09.2019

Jonah's Year 1 Term 2 Exams

Jonah did great this term too. For our family term this spring/summer, we studied ancients and when I asked him what he wanted to do this fall, he specifically asked to do extra science and learn about "how scientists learned things in time" so in addition to the AO year 1 science, we've added Berean Builders Science in the Ancient World. We're only doing it 1-2x a week but he's enjoying the readings and the demonstrations/experiments. Lucy doesn't have to but normally choosees to listen in.

Math - I didn't do any math exam questions but he's doing MEP and Beast Academy. We'll probably have to narrow it down to one eventually but for now, he's enjoying doing both.

Bible
     Tell one story about David.
There was this big valley and there was two hills on either side. And the Philistines were on one side and the Israelites were on the other side. And the Philistines had one of their people was a giant and everyone was afraid of him but they were having a war and David, he choose to fight Goliath and he killed Goliath. He took five flat stones from the brook and took his sling and he shot Goliath in the forehead and then he fell over.

    Tell about the shepherds and the angels.
So there were some shepherds in the fields in the same area where Jesus was going to be born. And then an angel appeared to them “There is going to be, in the city of Bethlehem, a baby and he will be called Jesus, the son of God” and then their appeared a multitude of angels and they praised the Lord, the angels did, and then the angels went away and the shepherds said “let us go there and see Jesus, the baby, and then they went there to Bethlehem and they worshipped him.

Tales

Tell a fable.
Ass and salt. So this Ass and his owner, they were bringing salt back home and the donkey, the ass, tripped and he fell into the water and the salt melted and then it was easier to carry it home so next time he fell over on purpose and the master figured out he was doing in on purpose. Then he went to the seashore and brought home two baskets of sponges and the ass fell down and it was then harder to carry.
  
Tell the story of Grace Darling.
There was a ship and it was sailing on the sea and there was a waterfall and it drove over the cliff and half the boat fell down and the other half had people on it and they clung on to it so they wouldn’t go down the waterfall. And there was a lighthouse far away and the lighthouse keeper’s daughter, named Grace Darling, saw the boat and told her father and her father, the lighthouse keeper, he said “No” but then finally she persuaded him to go and then they went and got all the people onto their boat and went back to the lighthouse and then the people that were on the boat went back to their homes. The end.

Tell me the story of the First Letter, or Armadillos or Tell me about how the crickets had to wait.
So there was a mom and a dad and they had one daughter was Taffy that meant girl who does not have very good manners and ought to be spanked and the dad’s name was Tegumai that meant man who does not put his foot forward in a hurry and the mom’s name was Teshumai and it meant, woman who asks a very many questions. And Taffy and her dad always came home late and one day they went out on a fishing trip but before they had caught anything the dad’s fishing spear broke and he was going to mend it when this stranger came from a different country from them and Taffy drew them a picture of, well, it looked like a bunch of people were throwing spears at her dad and then he took it to the mom’s house, the cave, and then there was some other people there and they all put mud in the his hair and were rude to him but then they went there and they saw them fishing, because they were done mending. And then they all laughed and then cleaned his hair and then the mom said “you have made an invention!”

Draw a picture narration for Aladdin and the Magic Lamp OR The Glass Slipper.


So this is the castle that was in the dessert and this Aladdin laying down and the princess in the window.

History
Tell how the Giant's Dance was brought to England, or how Arthur became king.

Arthur became king. Everyone was fighting about who would be king. So Merlin walked in with Arthur and he said, this is the new king and everyone was like “oh no, he is just a boy and Uther Pendragon did not have a son!” and then he brought all the people to a stone with a sword in it and then everyone tried to pull the sword out of it to become king but no one did it until Arthur took and pulled it out. And then that was his sword and he lived a long good life.

Tell about Dick Whittington, Picciola, or Antonio Canova.

Antonio Canova. So there was this boy named Antonio Canova and his father died so he lived with his grandfather who was a poor woodsman and he carved things out of wood and tried to make statues out of marble. And one time he  accidently broke a big statue and he was sorry and he carved something out of butter. It was a crouching lion. And everyone really liked it and then he became a somebody who makes statues and who is good at it.

Tell me what you remember about George Washington.
He was a very good boy at school and he was the best at riding horses at school and he had good manners except he cut down his father’s tree, cherry tree, and when he was grown up, he wanted to be a surveyor and then he was in the army and he went through the river Delaware and everyone wanted to go home and then they won the war and they got home on Christmas day. And they celebrated that he came back and they had a big feast. And his soldiers when he was in the army were just farmers and weren’t really soldiers and all the time they went home to see their children and family. And he was the first founding father and the first president. And his other name insGeneral Washington.

Geography – 100%
1.      Find Lake Michigan and Lake Superior on a map. Where is Missouri on the same map.
2.      Find the continents of Africa and Europe on the map. Find the countries of Canada, United States, United Kingdom. 

Natural History and General Science
Describe your favorite nature study find this term.

It was a big black caterpillar, a little bit longer than a wooly bear, and it was all black. It was a lot faster and I saw it in the middle of our yard on the concrete. And the last place I saw it was all the way over by the wall.


Tell me what do you know about nests? Or Tell me about the woodpecker family?

Woodpeckers tap on trees with their long beaks. And they live in trees sometimes and some of them live on the ground. And there are flickers and red headed woodpeckers and downy woodpeckers and pileated woodpeckers. They eat bugs and berries and one member of the woodpecker family, the top, the very tip of their beak, it can flip up to catch worms in the ground without their whole bill opening.


His Downy Woodpecker drawing

Describe one of our science demonstrations and what it meant.

You take one glass and put vinegar in it and you put some pennies in it and a nail that is not stainless steel or galvanized and you wait. And the pennies should get shinier. The copper ions come off of the penny and that makes it shinier. But if you use stainless steel or galvanized, the nails get shinier because that’s what happened with us. And one that worked was…
You take two cups and put cold water in one and boiling water in the other one. And you put pepper in both of them. Black pepper. And then you watch it. The pepper in the hot water glass will go around and not go straight down but in the cold water glass it just floats down and stays down. Because in the hot water, the ions are moving and they push the pepper up and around. But in the cold water, its not really moving, not as much, so it just floats down.


Picture Study
Describe your favorite picture from this term's picture study.


Now let’s see, my favorite was…the last supper. So Jesus is in the middle and they are all on the same of the table which is kind of odd. And its just at the time that Jesus is telling everyone that someone is going to betray him and everybody is whispering to each other “do you think I’m going to be it?” and things like that. And at one side there is a hall and the side that they aren’t sitting, there is a hallway going down from the table. And its in a big room and I don’t see which one is Judas.

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