Saturday, October 27, 2012

Learning Log #600,000


This week I learned how to Sew a cape, about Sewing lace, Spray Painting, Painting, and Using duct tape.

in "Physics lesson one" we learned  about Galileo and his Experiments with motion and how he experimented with a pendulum. And if two pendulums have the same length of string no matter how long each swing from left to right is it will take the same amount of time.   He also experimented with falling objects. But since things fall to fast he used a ramp and rolled balls down a ramp.  And he proved Archimedes long believed theory wrong. Which is that an object will fall faster if it weighs more and fall slower if it weight less.  But actually (I learned about this in the genius files) an object will fall until it reaches its "terminal velocity".  And then it will stay at that speed and not get any more speed.  And if an object is wide and flat it has a lower terminal velocity then an object that is shaped like a ball or a cube.  

Last week in speech and debate we had a really interesting class. First he lectured us about how we are all murders 'caus we all agreed to this statement "not saving a life is the same as taking one."   And then he started rambling on about how we should stop buying expensive stuff and buy the cheaper stuff because then we could put more money to charity.  And then later on in the class he tells us we are nobodies.  And that no one is going to want to listen to us and what we have to say and what our opinion is.  Without facts to back it up because we don't know anything about anything.  So at the end of speech of debate we were all taking about how "I feel so depressed because I'm a murder and a nobody," in whiny voices, it was really funny.


And I am really excited because soon we are going to have auditions of who we are going to be in as you like it (which is the play we are doing this year).  And I really want to be Adam who is the old guy that warns Orlando of Oliver's (who is his brother) evil plan to set his house on fire while he is sleeping.  

Nature walkMovie on Mt Nemrud

Friday, October 26, 2012

what I learned lest week

the Ancient Sumerian's built all their buildings out of mud bricks, Sumerian Scribes wrote in cuneiform (which was not as complicated hieroglyphics but was still pretty complicated).

Ancient Sumerian Trade revolved around the the Tigress and Euphrates rivers, whenever they wanted to travel south they would build a little boat that was shaped like a bowl,(I can't remember what it was called) and float down the river, but  when they needed to go north, east, or west it was a totally different story they had to walk in thief infested deserts (as a result nobody traveled east, or west and only traveled north when they absolutely had to).

   I also learned about; Hunter Gatherers vs Farmers, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Mount Nemrut, The very earliest maps, Drawing Mesopotamia, Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh ,Even and Odd numbers, Counting up to ten, Doubling, Review of Epic of Gilgamesh, Ancient Lyre Music 

Monday, October 15, 2012

We Lost a Learning Log

At some point in time I learned about; Cleopatra(who was pretty strange if you think about it), Pocahontas(the Disney movie is not that historically correct), Dolphins, the french revolution, Cats, Dogs, Animal Kingdoms, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, the titanic(which I think is pretty cool), ocean,
Six kingdoms, fish, Inuit's, and Black Holes(which are super cool).

Sumerians first for many things including the wheel.

And there's this one documentary I watched about the television, (who invented it, when there became a market for them, stuff like that) and apparently the first ever program shown on TV was a show that happened in the middle of winter.  And the lights that were required in order for the cameras to capture anything were so hot that the very first commercial which was of a couple of fish swimming in a fish bowl in front of a car, the fish died because their water boiled in like five minuets.  The actors had to wear winter clothes.  And it was so hot that the fake snow they were using kind of melted and stuck to the actors.

Mama and Papa found this one guy on KSL, and we nicknamed him the computer guy, they ordered a very special computer from him, it was like a mega computer, as strong as five computers.  They chopped the big computer into lots of little pieces, and made lots of little virtual machines, and each of the kids have a little virtual machine.  I have learned how to download things and how to deal with files and stuff like that.

Hugs and I have decided to write a book about a family that goes into a black hole.  And we decided that they go into a black hole and come out a White hole like a straw.  And it took a while to develop that theory. It took at least thirty minuets of Hugs and I talking and thinking our hardest.

There is this one park that we went to. And when we were driving there, looking for a place to park, there were so many Canadian geese that they were all over the road and running every which a way. And they stayed there and mama had to honk at them in order to get them to move, because knew we would not run them over because they had allot of experience with cars driving by, which is really funny.



Is this funny?

This week I learned how to change the background on my computer. how to multiply fractions, the difference between tons, pounds, ounces, cups, gallons, feet, inches, yards, and miles.
I also learned about cuneiform writing, how to give the dogs a bath, that the Mesopotamians built all there buildings out of mud bricks, and that trading back then was very dangerous.
As well as what a noble gas is, about the periodic table of elements, that iodine deficiency causes goiter, that neon lights are really made with neon, helium is named after the Greek sun god Helios, and that chlorine was used in the first world war as a poison gas, interestingly about the same number of soldiers died regardless of who released the gas.
For 3D modeling I learned how to put a hat on Suzanne.(and that if you push the Z key it makes her turn into only lines) 
At speech and debate I learned how to use a timer.
At Shakespeare I learned how to tell story's with our body's.
you know back when people were writing on cave walls, they worshiped women (or somthin like that) which in my opinion is really weird and kinda creepy.
And I learned about Gilgamesh

Saturday, October 6, 2012

my learning log number . . . . .uuummmm. . . . . . I forget

This week I learned about the X axis, and the Y axis on ALEKS which is my math program.
In Shakespeare I learned about the words juxtaposition, and Irony, I also about expressing emotion while acting.
in Speech and Debate I learned about what it’s going to be like at tournament (which is a speech and debate thing).
And some random things I learned about this week were; about digital computers, about the seven wonders of the ancient world, zipping and unzipping files, the difference between a credit union, and a bank, that 4x+3x=7x, that this is the not equal sign;Not Equal, why people in Europe drive on the wrong side of the rode, that when an archaeologist finds a coin(gold or any other materiel) it is not necessarily as valuable as a piece of poetry, and that paying attention is very important, especially during general conference, that according to this one reporter guy(I do not know his name) "Florence Nightingale could very well be the greatest woman to walk the earth sens Joan of arc". and about this crazy lady, and this crazy guy who were in love, as well as brother and sister, but got married any way, there names were Mausolus, and Artemisia.
and that the shortest verse in the book of Mormon is probably 1Nephi 2:15;
"And my father dwelt in a tent"
And our friends told us about these videos on you tube.(there called "kid history", and some of these videos are so weird you may need to watch them two or three times) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80entLldZOg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXChsJCHNVM&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD2RO0Cws1Q&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVlaZfLlWQc&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yy7AP7Dh6w&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh0NLQJfAYU&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AvzaGkekDE&feature=fvwrel 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNqdRiJIqII&feature=fvwrel 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3yMCOE8nNY&feature=fvwrel