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Friday, February 25, 2011
February 25, 2011 Day One-Hundred and Six “Human Body Day”
Human Body Day!
5 Vocabulary
- Physiology: The branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts
- Physician: A person who is legally qualified to practice medicine
- Physiological: Consistent with the normal functioning of an organism
- Cadaver: A dead body, especially a human body, to be dissected
- Anatomy: the science concerned with the physical structure of plants or animals
5 Details/Facts
- Blood: You have lots of veins in your body, blood runs through the veins
- Heart: The heart isn't shaped like a heart at all, the ribs protect it
- Brain: The brain has 3 main parts… The Cerebrum, Cerebellum, and the brain stem
- Lungs: The trachea or windpipe were goes under or through the lungs
- Skeleton: every ones skeleton is somehow different
5 Sentences
1. Anyone can learn Physiology, if they know how to learn.
2. Samuel Fuller was the Physician in 1620, Plymouth Colony.
3. Heart beats are physiological.
4. Cadaver was very important in Colonial times because the medical business was growing which allowed the physician to dissect the
5. Anatomy is usually described for studying the structure of plants and animals, but in this 5x5 we are talking about the human body
5 Questions
- Who is "Gray" from Gray's Anatomy? Name & 1 sentence. A: Henry Gray, He was a Physician who was born in 1827 in England, he was so fascinated with the human body, he wrote Grays Anatomy
- What kinds of jobs can you have that require knowledge of the human body and anatomy? List 5. A: Doctors, Biologist, Dentist, Nurses, and Coroner
- Finish this sentence: The human body is like…..be creative!... gold, it's so valuable
- What are the 5 basic needs a human body requires to grow, heal, and be well? A: Food, Clean Water, sleep, exercise, and fresh air
- What are 5 things you have learned about your human body? A:
5 Important People
Identify date, place, & contribution to the study of medicine
- Hippocrates: He is referred to as the Father of Medicine, he opened the Hippocrates school of medicine, there is also the Hippocratic oath which is an oath sworn by doctors to practice medicine ethically
- William Harvey: He was an English Physician who was the first person to describe completely and in detail the systematic circulation
- William Osler: He was a Canadian Physician He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at the John Hopkins Hospital
- Galen: Galen was a physician, surgeon, and philosopher from Greece
- Virginia Apgar: Was an American Physician who specializes in Anesthesia and the Apgar test, a method of assessing the health of newborn babies
Your Human Body project Part 2 February 25, 2011
Spinal chord
Vertebrae
Backbone
Tongue
Ear
Eye
Nose
Brain-- cerebellum, cerebrum, brain stem
Artery: jugular
Trapezius—neck muscle
Buccinator—cheek muscle
Lymph node
Larynx
Adam's Apple—thyroid cartilage
Suit of Armor—sternum and ribs
Pelvis
Thursday, February 24, 2011
February 23 & 24th, 2011 Days One-hundred and four and One-hundred and five
Activities
Skating Test: Monday February 21: Sophie's Blog: Hi, I am back from skiing! I went skiing at Sugarloaf after I was done testing, here is my dramatic story about my test: 7 a.m, My alarm clock rang and I jumped up filled with nervousness and excitement. Sadie was here, we both got ready in the short time frame we had, jumped out the door, and got into the car to go skating. Once we got into the rink, I was even more excited. I quickly got my skates on and jumped on to the ice as if it was heaven. We had show rehearsals and I had a great time. But once I stepped off the ice, I felt like a super hero, stopping once to get a grilled cheese, thanked Emma for getting it for me, and rushed in to the locker room where I changed and got my hair and makeup done. After that was done I rushed on to the ice again for another rehearsal and then jumped in to the car for testing. I was watching clue on the way up, it calmed me down. I got in to the rink ready for warm up AND ROB WASN'T THERE! Sadie and Caroline surprised me by showing up early to watch and support me, but how could I test without a partner, which is my coach. I got on for warm up, Rob wasn't there! My heart was pounding, What was I to do but skate. Skate like it was the only thing that would save me, skate like it was everything I cared about. I was about to go on and Rob surprised me, by showing up, taking his guards off and hoping on to the ice. I did great on both my tests! But I still was nervous about passing them. Connie said it was not likely, which put my hopes down. I went up to Rob who was smiling to himself and looking at papers that looked like test sheets. When I got up to him he said I didn't pass. But I looked at the papers myself and realized… I DID!!!!!! It was an amazing adventure and I am so proud of myself. Off to Sugarloaf from there! J
Skiing with cousin at Sugarloaf for school vacation week: Sophie's Blog: Off to Sugarloaf from there! That is exactly what I did! Amanda, Ben, and Connie were coming skiing with me. We stopped to get a quick a quick bite at Applebee's where we all played hangman. Then Connie and I went in Emma's car where we finished watching Clue and started watching grease. We got to Sugarloaf, WOW IT IS BIG!!! We went in the pool, watched T>V and went to bed. The next morning I stayed at the condo while A,B, and C went to get their rental equipment. Andy came back for me, and we rode up Snubber chairlift from the condo. We got there perfect timing with A,B,C, and E ( Amanda, Ben, Connie, and Emma!) And went to Whiffletree, skied 2 runs, and then went inside for hot chocolate and donuts! We skied the rest of the day, and Wednesday. I did school each days too. Well anyway….I HAD A BLAST! J
Math Workbooks: Guinness 4 pages, Sylvan 3 pages
Science: Gray's Anatomy 2 pages
Eyes, Nose, & Ear Poem
The eyes nose and ears
Don't give me fears
But they appear
On everyone's face!
The part of the eye that's cool
The vitreous humor, the jelly like pool,
And photocepters which turn light into
Electrical signal receptors!
The smallest bones are in your ear.
The ossicles, the hammer, anvil, and stirrup are near
They're close to your eardrum—
You shouldn't fear them!
Nasal cavities are cool, don't you agree?
I've got a nasal bone septum in me
They are both in the nose
They can help you smell a rose!
Salem Witch Trials Video Quest:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mbcWhaLA8A
- http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Salem_Witch_Trials/70107984?trkid=2734329#height1659
Salem Witch Trials 5 x5
5 vocabulary words
1. Gallows: A wooden frame consisting a crossbeam on two uprights, used for hanging
2. Execution: The project of performing a judgment or sentence in court
3. Allegation: An assertion made with little or no proof
4. Affliction: A state of pain distress or grief
5. Jury trial: A trial of which the jury serves as the Trier of fact
5 facts/details
1. The year they passed the bill was 1711
2. They killed the first witches on June 19, the second on July 19, 3rd on August 19, and 4th on September 19, what a coincidence! J
3. The best-known trials were conducted by the town of Oyer and Terminer
4. Nineteen of the accused, fourteen women and five men, were executed by hanging.
5. One man, Giles Corey, refused to enter a plea and was crushed to death under heavy stones in an attempt to force him to do so. At least five more of the accused died in prison.
5 Sentences
1. There are some Gallows at the Pownal-borough courthouse, right in the front yard.
2. There were 2 different ways for execution, being burned at the stake and being hanged.
3. Almost all the witches were mad because they had allegation.
4. There was a lot of affliction in 1692 Salem Mass.
5. Most of the Jury trials during 1692 were bad.
5 Questions
1. How many witches were tried in Salem? A: 80
2. How many people were accused of witchcraft in Salem? A: 150
3. How many people confessed to being witches? A: 50
4. What does the word "Salem" mean? A: Peace
5. Were there witches in Salem? A: NO!
5 Important People
1. Reverend Parris: The owner of the first witch Tituba
2. Tituba: A slave who was the first believed witch
3. Sarah Good: The 3rd believed witch, who was a witch because she did not attend Church
4. Rebecca Nurse: The second Witch, who's house is a historical site
5. Anne Putnam: Ann Putnam, jr., was a key witness in the Salem Witch Trials; her mother, Ann Putnam, sr., was also involved and gave testimony in the witchcraft trials. Modern theories blame the witch craze, at least in part, on Putnam family feuds with and revenge on neighbors and others.
Video Plan: Jamestown
Colonial Video Template
Location: Jamestown
Date:
April 2nd or 3rd
Theme: Conflict
Spots:
1.Indian Village: Indian Wars
2. Museum: Jamestown survival
3. The fort: slavery
4. Row House: French Indian war
5. Africa to Virginia: trade Triangle
Topics:
1. There were Indian wars through all the 13 colonies
2. It took 3 tries for Jamestown colony to survive
3. Slavery was the largest force to migration in History
4. The French and Indian were not fighting against each other, they were fighting with each other J
5. The trade triangle went on for about 100 years and was one of the causes of the Revolution
Facts & details:
Interview:
1. Native American: Did the Powhatan Indians have wars with the Jamestown Colonists?
2. Colonist: Who were all the governors of Jamestown and who is the Governor now?
3. Colonist Man: What was the name of the ship that you came over here with?
4. Colonist lady: How did you feel about coming to the New World for the first time?
5. Colonist Man: Were you competing with Plymouth colony?
Map & Outline:
http://historicjamestowne.org/visit/
http://www.nps.gov/jame/index.htm
http://historyisfun.org/
Indian Village:
The musuem:
The fort:
Africa to Virginia:
Row House
Introduction & Conclusion:
Introduction: HI everyone, Our first stop through history will be in Jamestown. And look were here! We will be talking about Conflict here in Jamestown, Conflict through Indians and Colonists. There were tons of Indian Wars through the 13 colonies. Come on, I'll tell you about it!
Conclusion: So that was fun right! Jamestown is a wonderful place! We will be having so much fun from here on. Didn't you learn a lot? I sure did! Let's go learn some more in Plymouth Massachusetts where we will talk about Family life in the colonies. Come on I'll show you the way.
Friday, February 18, 2011
February 18, 2011 Day One-Hundred and Three
5 x 5 for 5th Grade
- Vocabulary
2. Representation: The act or an instance of representing or the state of being represented
3. Humor (medicine): There are 4 parts in your body called the humors, in colonial times they thought that all illnesses were related to one of the humors; Blood, Black Bile, Yellow Bile, and phlegm
4. Cochlea: This nerve is in the ear and it changes vibrations of sounds into electrical signals that are carried to the brain
5. Olfactory nerve: This nerve is in the upper part of your nasal cavity where cells detect odors, it also changes the odors to electrical signals and the nerve carries these signals to the brain
5 Sentences
1. The Statue of Liberty was put in New York almost 100 years after the Revolutionary War.
2. You vote on people to represent you, like the President of The United States.
3. You have bones in your body called the humors, that's why they call the elbow the funny bone. J
4. The Cochlea and the Olfactory nerve both are nerves that turn smells and sounds into electrical signals that are then carried into the brain.
5. I did this whole 5x5 without looking at the keyboard, guess how long that took me?
5 Facts & Details
1. The Most Expensive Guitar sold at an auction is 2.7 million dollars!
2. The Most expensive bottle of water sold at an auction is 23,000 dollars!
3. The Most Expensive pet home was 384,623 dollars!
4. The Most Expensive board game is 13,600 dollars!
5. The Most Expensive hamburger is 186 dollars at a fast food restaurant!!
5 Questions from "The New England Indians"
1. Page 5, "Paleo Hunting" (32,000 years ago) what is the motto for the Paleo hunters? A: Kill without being killed!
2. What types of animals did they likely hunt? A: Mastodon's and Mammoth's
3. How did the Paleo hunters make their tools? A: They chip them from stone
4. Page 7, "Spear Launching Breakthrough" Why did the early Archaic Indians (7000-5000 years ago) evolve to use spears for hunting? A: They found smaller targets
5. Page 10, "Other tools of the huntsmans trade" What are 2 other tools used and needed for early Archaic Indians for hunting? A: Scrapers and a channel
5 Math from Fraction Stories, Skill 11, finding the Least Common denominator
1. ¾ + 1/6 = 11/12
2. 2/7 + 5/14 = 9/14
3. 1/10 + ½= 3/5
4. 5/8 + 1/6 = 19/24
5. 7/10 + 2/15 = 5/6
Activities
Math Workbooks: Sylvan, 4 pages, Guinness 1 page
Science: Gray's Anatomy, 2 pages
Colonial Letters Project: Topic: Health & Wellness, Letters 3, 4
February 24, 1636
Dear Ruth,
I am in Jamestown Colony and it is beautiful. My house is nice, it is also really big. The house fits Me and Edward, Rachel has her own room and there are three rooms for children. There is a kitchen garden, and the stove. There is a whole other room for the meals and there are Children down the lane that Rachel can play with.
Pricilla Annabelle Harris is now born but has small pox. There has been a outbreak of smallpox in the village and she was born she caught it. I am glad to know that your family is doing better with sickness and regular family life. Your descriptions of sicknesses were fairly better than they probably were as so is mine of Pricilla.
I do not want you to think I named the baby because of what happened to your mother and knew you would want me to. I miss your mother as much as you do and I was glad to help out with your family. I see Karen has now taken my place. She seems like a nice women, and in your letters it seems like you appreciate her as well.
It was my pleasure for praying with you, now will you pray with me for Pricilla? Samantha and Patience are both beautiful and kind. There are some girls here that you would like, they are your age and their names are Remember Cooke and Emily Tanner.
From the Jamestown Colony,
-Sarah, Edward, Rachel, and Pricilla Harris
March 13, 1636
Dear Ruth,
As you said in you first letter, thank you for praying with me. Pricilla is much better. I do not think that you got my first letter yet but Pricilla recovered from small pox, The Harris family seems to be lucky. There are lots of things that I have noticed in Jamestown that are different than Plymouth. The governor here is Francis Wyatt. He does not appreciate Edward very much and can't wait for us to come back to Plymouth. It is much more different here than England, I see what you mean about cooking here, you were right it is much harder living. Rachel is two years old and can walk by herself. Oh yes, thank you for letting me use your carriage.
I am sad that I left Plymouth too. It was very nice there. I think Jamestown is different than how I dreamed of. The people in Plymouth were friendlier, however down here it's just working and business. Maybe your family will come down here and stay sometime I would like to meet Karen. I would like it if you called her Karen in your letters otherwise I would get confused.
Thank you for letting me write again, I have to make dinner and have Pricilla and Rachel tae their naps. I miss you as well.
-Sarah
Webquest: 13 Colonies
13 Colonies Webquest
- A: Click on New England. List the colonies *Hint: pause the video if you need to answer questions
1. Massachusetts
2. Rhode Island
3. New Hampshire
4. Connecticut
B: List the Mid-Atlantic colonies
1. Pennsylvania
2. New York
3. New Jersey
4. Delaware
C: List the Southern Colonies
1. Maryland
2. Virginia
3. North Carolina
4. South Carolina
5. Georgia - A: Select, Copy, and Paste chart of 13 colonies here
COLONY NAME | YEAR FOUNDED | FOUNDED BY | BECAME ROYAL COLONY |
London Company | |||
Puritans | |||
John Wheelwright | |||
N/A | |||
Thomas Hooker | N/A | ||
N/A | |||
Peter Minuit and New Sweden Company | N/A | ||
Virginians | 1729 | ||
Eight Nobles with a Royal Charter from Charles II | 1729 | ||
Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret | 1702 | ||
Duke of York | |||
N/A | |||
1732 | James Edward Oglethorpe | 1752 |
- A: Play Game
B: How did you do? A: I got 3 wrong answers - A: Follow red arrow
B: Click on any of the pictures of the Colonial Kids & read their bios
C: At the top of the page are circles, choose 3 of the 7 topics to learn about & summarize
1. Games: the children worked most of the day but when they had free time they would play marbles or the hoop and spear game
2. Clothing: the girls would wear hats all the time to show they were fearful of God.
3. At Christmas time the colonial girls would make centerpieces with apples - A: Follow the link to Ben's crossword puzzle. Using the information from the chart in # 2, try your best to help Ben answer the questions to solve the puzzle. *I have a paper copy for you to fill your answers in.
B: Choose Hangman and follow link to play that game. How did you do? A: No wrong
C: Choose the last Word Search option and follow link to play the game. How did you do? A: I got all 13 stars!
- A: Read article. Summarize it: A lot of the Colonial children died before their first birthday. The Colonists were badly in need of a Physician. Then John Winthrop came along treating people for free! The colonists probably wouldn't of lived if it wasn't for John Winthrop, The
PhenomenalPhysician! J
B: Copy & Paste & Save picture on website here:
A: Welcome back to Colonial House! Click on the green box to take the quiz to find out if you'd have survived in the colony. How did you do? A:
Your life is Comfortably Contemporary.
Your habits, values, and lifestyle are indicative of the modern society in which you live. We hope you'll explore colonial life by frequenting this site, watching the TV series, and reading books. But don't try this yourself.
1. How do you like to spend your free time?You Answered: Reading a bookFact: With few books and no newspapers or theater, colonists relied on communal events and ceremonies for an escape from the routines of agricultural, pre-industrial life. Idle behavior was considered inappropriate, so any free time was put to good use.
2. How would you describe your clothing preferences?You Answered: I like ready-to-wear styles, with new outfits each seasonFact: For most of the 17th century, few homes had a spinning wheel to make thread or a loom to convert it to cloth. Since cloth was imported and expensive to buy, clothing had to be durable enough to pass along to the generation coming up. The fashion for underwear does not seem to appear until the end of the 17th century and possibly even later for women; even then, it passed by many people. The essential item of underwear in this period was a loose linen shift worn next to the skin called a "smock" for women or a "shirt" for men.
3. Which of the following would you most like to eat for dinner?You Answered: SeafoodFact: Early settlers ate what they brought with them from the Old World -- salted meats and fish, grains, and few other supplies. Occasionally, imported foods like sugar and spices could be obtained from passing ships, but mostly the colonists had to produce their own foods -- grow crops, fish and gather shellfish and berries, and hunt. Bread, meat, and beer were considered the best foods; the settlers generally disliked and distrusted vegetables and drinking both milk and water.
4. To quench my thirst, I prefer:You Answered: a glass of milkFact: Everyone consumed alcohol, including children, women, and ministers. English people on both sides of the Atlantic thought alcohol to be helpful in warding off disease, and many colonists harbored doubts about the safety of drinking water; water mixed with a little alcohol was considered much safer than ordinary water. The colonists generally disliked drinking milk, and they didn't drink juice -- unless, of course, it had been fermented into alcohol!
5. Rank the importance of the following hygienic customs:You Answered: Showering daily: Not important, Brushing my teeth: Important, Shampooing/washing my hair: Not important, Wearing deodorant: Not importantFact: The English were not in the habit of bathing, washing their hair, or brushing their teeth. They considered it unnecessary, and possibly even unhealthy and dangerous to do so -- especially in the cold winter months! They washed their visible parts -- faces, arms, and hands -- with water or "dry-washed" by simply rubbing with a cloth. Instead of washing their hair they might apply Fuller's Earth, a fine clay that was good for absorbing grease.
6. How big a role does religion play in your life? You Answered: Religion does not play a role in my life. I am an atheist.Fact: Religion was a fundamental part of life in this time period and was basically how people interpreted their world. Churchgoing was mandated by law but was more than an obligation -- the Church and worship were at the center of civic and social life.
7. What are your feelings about respecting authority?You Answered: I respect authority only if the authorities have earned my respect.Fact: Seventeenth-century society was ordered on hierarchy, from the king and the nobility down to the vagabonds, beggars, and the dregs of society. Everyone had a rank, and the idea that everyone was created equal wouldn't have made sense back then.
8. How would you assess your feelings about spending time inside versus embracing the Great Outdoors?You Answered: I love being outside -- except when it's too hot, cold, or wet.Fact: The colonists did not idealize Mother Nature. To them, she was often the antagonist, for settler life meant getting plenty of fresh air and sunlight as a result of spending long days at work in the fields. Further, pioneer conditions meant that newcomers had to settle for rudimentary and temporary shelter. Without the tools and technology to take advantage of the abundance of lumber in the New World, settlers knew it would take months or years before they could build substantial houses. Early on they might have copied the homes of the Indians or lived in dug-out caves until they built what the English called "cottages" -- small, one-story, one-room buildings that to us might seem little more than wattle and daub huts.B: Click and follow link to Voice Long Unheard- Choose a theme and follow link and watch video. What did you learn? A: these didn't work
- Choose another theme and watch video. What did you learn? A:
C: Play the Dress Me Up game. Was it fun? A: yes- Search on Google for 13 Colonies image that is not labeled. Copy & Paste & save as "13 Colonies Map" in AA School. Print out map. Label with Names of Colonies, Dates, & 1 fact per colony.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
February 17, 2011 Day One-Hundred and Two
5 x 5 for 5th Grade
5 Vocabulary
1. Appendix: Supplementary material at the end of the book, article, document
2. Bibliography: A list of books or material on a certain subject
3. Tympanic membrane: Another word for the ear drum
4. Photoreceptors: Cells in the retina that change light into electrical signals
5. Vitreous humor: This helps the eye keep its round shape
5 Sentences
1. In the Appendix in the Pilgrims questions and answers book John Alden did not bring any kids with him, which is true.
2. At school we did not get to use the internet so we went to the library when we were studying the Tundra and we found a bibliography on the Tundra.
3. When I was reading grey's Anatomy today I didn't understand that the Tympanic membrane was the ear drum.
4. Photoreceptors sound like a name for a Dinosaur.
5. The Vitreous humor is the part of your eye that looks jelly.
5 Facts & Details
1. The Largest Pizza base spun in two minutes was 33.2 inches in diameter!
2. The World's highest pizza toss is 21 feet and 5 inches!
3. The largest Pizza ever weighed 26,874 pounds!!
4. Most pizza rolls across the shoulder in 30 seconds is 37!
5. The most pizza's made in one hour is 142!
5 Questions from One Hundred and Eleven Questions Concerning the Pilgrims
- On page 53, Appendix A, The Mayflower Passenger List of 1620. Find and list 5 passengers, their birth and death dates, whether he/she signed the Mayflower Compact, if they were a Leiden (Puritan) passenger, and any additional comments recorded.
A: John Alden, 1598/9 was his birth 1687 was his death, he signed the compact, and he was not a Leiden passenger
B: William Brewster was born in 1567 and died in 1644 he had 2 children, Love and Wrestling, he signed the Mayflower Compact and was a
C: Samuel Fuller was born in 1580 and died 1633 he was a Leiden passenger and signed the mayflower compact
D: John Billington was born in 1580 and died in 1630, he was hanged for murder he did sign the Compact but was not a Leiden passenger
E: Priscilla Mullins does not have her birth recorded but died in 1650-87 her father signed the mayflower Compact and she married John Alden
- Page 59, Appendix D, The Mayflower Compact. Read and summarize what you understand in 3 good, complete sentences. A: In the first sentence they are saying that when they go to the new World they are still subjects of the King. But since they are not in Northern Virginia to begin their new Colony and were in Cape Cod instead, they had to make an agreement about how they were going to live fairly together with new laws. The Mayflower Compact was the first legal document of the New World
3. Page 61, Appendix F, Cut-away diagram of the Mayflower II. List at least 5 details from diagram.
A: The forecastle is where the ship's cooking is done
B: The great cabin occupied by Captain (Master) Jones is under the poop deck
C: The steering room is under the quarter deck
D: At the bottom of the ship there were four rooms where the cargo and passengers belongings went
E: The passengers lived under the main deck
4. Page 68, Appendix M. Tell us about the painting. A: It is a painting where the pilgrims are signing the Mayflower Compact in a room
5. Page 69, Bibliography. Follow the link to www.Alden.org and summarize 5 facts and details.
A: John Alden's house is still there from 1620 in Duxbury Massachusetts
B: this is the list of famous Alden descendants
George) Orson9 Welles (1915-1985) Sophie Aileen Calderwood (2000- ?) |
C: John Alden is mentioned in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem the courtesy of Myles Standish
D: Henry Wadsworth is a John Alden Descendent and he is from Maine!
E: This is John Alden's house back in 1620-1687
5 Math from Funny & Fabulous Fraction Stories, Skill 11, Least Common Denominator
1. 1/ 4 + ½ =
2. 2/5 + 3/10 =
3. 2/3 + 1/6 =
4. 3/5 + 1/3 =
5. 3/8 + ½=
Activities
Skating
Math: I page Guinness, 2 pages Sylvan
Science: Grays Anatomy, 1 page, nasal cavity
Colonial Letters Project: Topic Health & Wellness
January 15, 1636
Dear Aunt Sarah,
After you left last week our family was so sad, mostly me. You are so beautiful and Edward is so nice and Rachel is so cute. Thank you for our Christmas presents, my new journal is beautiful and Myles wanted to thank you for getting him the money to go to Dartmouth, it is thirty five miles away. I do not know what mothers skull and crossbones say, nor epitaph.
This week Father proposed to Karen Carter, I was glad of that. There is also some more news that happened this week, five children of the eight are sick. I am sick with a whooping cough, so I drank my medicinal and had poultice wrapped around my throat. Samuel Fuller, the physician here gave me physics at the Apothecary, I pray to God to make me better. Mary is sick with Yellow fever so she got inoculations which are told to cure epidemics like yellow fever which is also called yellow ague and small pox. Anna has Flux and Purge. Which means her stomach is not feeling well.
Karen is helping our family out with our sicknesses, as well as Rebecca. Karen is nice to Rebecca, I like Karen as our new mother. She takes care of the baby who has a problem with one of his humors. Even though Jacob is sick as well and he is not getting treated at all, Karen thinking he has Consumption, the rest of our family is doing fine.
You helped our family out a lot, thank you Aunt Sarah. I admire you for that. So are you in Jamestown? If so is it beautiful there, how is your house? Thank you again, hopefully our family gets better, Please pray with me Aunt Sarah our family has lost enough.
Thank you once more – Ruth Alden
February 8, 1636
Dear Aunt Sarah,
Thank you for praying with me, our family is better. Only Jacob is sick now. Rebecca is thinking of bloodletting him however Karen does not agree because she knows people who have died that way. Father now wants me to call Karen, mother and I must obey however will say Karen with you.
After I recovered from being sick Myles came back to visit us from Dartmouth. He said that one of us who got sick probably caught the sickness from a kid here and we brought it home and everyone else got it that is called a plague. Myles is learning a lot at school again I wish I could go. He said that we have blood circulating in our body and we are breathing air all the time which is called respiration.
Is your baby born yet? If so is it a boy or a girl? It was very nice of you for praying with me, I have a feeling that Jacob is going up with mother. Pray with me please that he is not. Samuel is still coughing so pray with me to still make our family better. This is one of my shorter letters and I hope that shorter letters are okay however I have to put Mary and Elizabeth to bed now thank you again
-Ruth Alden
February 16, 2011 Day One-Hundred and One
Activities
Skating
Math: Guinness, I page. Sylvan: 3 page Review, 100%!
Science: Gray s Anatomy, 1 page the eye
Reading: Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan. A Dear America novel. Summary: "Catharine, also called Catie, is a young Colonial girl in 1763 in Pennsylvania. Her life was going great. She has a brother named Thomas, a sister Eliza, and a baby named Will. She has a crush on a boy named Jess Owen. She has been hearing news about Indian attacks for awhile and has feared that they will come and take her. Her father is not as concerned as she is and tells her to be strong. But one day as her and Thomas are heading to school an Indian comes and captures her! There's an old Indian and two Indians that looked like they were in their thirties. They bring her and Thomas back to their camp and force her to be like the daughter of an Indian family. The old Indian looks at Thomas and Catie and smiles. Thomas smiles back. He takes them into his longhouse and sit them with his family. She sits next to a beautiful woman with long black hair and she smiled at her. Catie was too frightened to smile back. She thinks she will die and she falls asleep standing in the light."
Revising Letters: All letters to date are edited, revised, and printed.
Video Plan
Colonial Video Template
Location: Plymouth Plantation, Mass.
Date:
Theme: Family Life
Spots:
1. Fort- School and Church
2. House- Family and home
3. Yard/ Garden- Food and Customs
4. Wampanoag Village-Clothing and crafts
5. Entrance-Intro and Conclusion
Topics:
1. School and Church: The benches in the fort are called pews
2. Family and home: The father in the house is the master of the family
3. Food and Customs: They would get the supplies from the Kitchen garden
4. Clothing and crafts: The Wampanoag Indians would make more colorful crafts and clothes than the Pilgrims
5. Intro and Conclusion: HELLO AGAIN! We are here in Plymouth Plantation talking about Family life
Facts & details: the Mother and the Father would call each other Goodwife and Goodman, and the Children, Mother and Father. Tallow is animal fat used to make candles. Being idle is being lazy, The Parents would warn their children by saying no IDLE hands. Whittling is cutting wood and being Diligent is improving and minding your own manners. The Girl children would help prepare meals, make Samplers, and take care of her younger sisters and brothers. The boy children would Get Fire Wood and the water, help the father, and Whittle
Interview: I want to interview a Pilgrim lady
1. Are you grateful for the Indians for helping you survive, especially Squanto?
2. How many Children does the average 17th century woman have and how many survive?
3. Is more of the colony Anglican or puritan?
4. Did any of the Plymouth colony women think it was unfair that they did not have the right to speak their thoughts?
5. What is your name and your husband's?
Map & Outline:
http://www.plimoth.org/
Introduction & Conclusion:
Introduction:
Hello again! We are here in Plimouth Plantation talking about Family Life. We will be visiting four places talking about different topics in each place. At the Fort we will be talking about school and church and at one of the Pilgrims' houses we will discuss family and home. In a yard and garden the topic is food and customs. And in the Wampanoag village it will be clothing and crafts.
Family Life in Colonial America was hard because the colonists were used to cities in England and Europe, not the open-wide spaces of the New World.
Conclusion: See I was right! Family Life was harder in Colonial America. But there were some upsides like you'd get to have lots of siblings, you'd get to make your own clothes, and look at the beautiful place they got to live! Well, thank you for coming to Plymouth Plantation with me. I hope you learned a lot about Family Life.
Teacher Workshop: Planning, make-up work, organizing, updating, etc.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
February 15, 2011 Day One-Hundred
Sophie's Blog: Hello folks today is day one hundred which I am really excited about because we are more halfway through the year! I am going to a 20 sentence blog. My Annie video is videotaped and ready to get posted. I am very proud of myself. I had singing lessons today and we are working on singing Can you feel the love tonight from Broadway Lion King. Beauty and the Beast from Broadway's, well I think you know! J And we also did As long as he needs me from Oliver. Mom had an awesome trip, so I hear, in Texas. I was really glad she came back today, I missed her a lot. On Saturday, Dad and I went to the Valentines Ball here in Brunswick. It was totally awesome. Dad was really funny doing the chicken dance. I met some of my friends from school which was really nice! On Friday night Lily and Dad went to Jokers and a Japanese smokehouse which I here was awesome. I'll be right back I have to eat Lunch! J I am back! I had clam chowder, Apples, grapes, toast with butter and water. I actually think this has been 20 sentences, let me check! 19 sentences! Ok well thank you for reading my blog, goodbye!
-sophie
Music with Kat
Reading
Talking with Mom
Day One-hundred. Wow. Today's "school" was limited because the girls were at my mom's while I took a much-needed trip away from the cold and snow and dark of Maine to see my brother in Texas. It was a lovely trip and a nice break and I returned refreshed and recharged. I also returned to somewhat of a logistics nightmare but we worked it out and decided it was unnecessary to load Sophie (or I) down on this first day home with school-work that we felt obligated and reluctant about and chose to accomplish what we could and feel good about it. I am reminded again that this is the blessed relief of homeschooling. We don't get half-days or sick days or teacher workshop days but we have so much freedom and choice to alter our plan and revise our schedule. Although there is a sense of accountability to the state of Maine regarding Sophie's education, the reality of homeschooling is Sophie and I are only accountable to each other and ourselves. The truth is how would anyone really know if Sophie and I were actually working as hard as the blog reports? How do you know if Sophie is completing the work I report and upload to the blog? You don't. But she and I do. She's learning because she wants to and she is excelling, beyond what I had expected of her when we began our journey one-hundred schooldays ago. The truth is homeschooling is a better fit for us than I planned for it to be. We are all four happier, healthier, smarter, and more loving to each other. Every day is a good day. That's not to say we don't have bad days but with the freedom and choice and reality of being accountable to ourselves and each other, we take the bad with the good and adjust accordingly. Now that I think about it, Sophie is learning another important lesson with our homeschooling model: prepare for a good day, adjust for a bad, and do your best either way.
This is an interesting article—to sum up—I could have written this same blog: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_hi_te/us_teacher_suspended_blog Student rudeness, lack of respect, and sense of entitlement, coupled with an interesting dichotomy of acting both at the same time like mini-adults and spoiled children is one of the major reasons I removed myself (and my daughters) from public school. I feel this woman is a hero and should be acknowledged for bringing this very real problem to the attention of voters, parents, and school staff. Good on ya~
Unit Update: We are doing great! She has completed more than half of her Colonial Letters project—and she's doing an excellent job with them! Her next two topics and eight letters will be about Health & Wellness and Clothing then she's done. She and Gamma did a lot of good work planning and preparing her collage book that will collect and bind the story of Rachel and Sarah together is a really neat project, much like the Griffin and Sabine books for those of you who are familiar. We will be entering in her revisions and edits and printing out the final letters on the nice paper this week.
She and I are up-to-date with her web-quests. She has two more to complete—one this week on the 13 Colonies and one next on the Salem Witch trials. She will complete her Plymouth Village video plan this week on the topic of Colonial Family Life, as well as her Jamestown video plan on the topic of Conflict. Next week she will work on her Yorktown video plan on the topic of Commerce and Trade and also one for Salem on Religious Persecution and the Witch Trials. Her final video plan will be completed the week after on Lexington/Concord on the topic of the Old World/New World transition. Come to find out, most of the video sites are closed until Spring. So…we are planning and preparing to complete the unit and be ready to film a soon as the snow melts and sun is out!
She has completed a great detailed map of the Triangle Trade route of Colonial America and she will complete another detailed map of her own creation for the 13 Colonies. She is reading a book about Indian captivity and will do a book report on that and hopefully we can work in a novel about the Salem witch trials too.
One of the easier projects to plan and adjust has been the Human Body project. She has continued to learn with Gray's Anatomy and we are thinking about the project but we have delayed work on it for the last couple of weeks and now it's time to make up for it. The project is one, however, that it will work to do many body parts all at once on one day. So our plan is to work on the bodies next Friday. We're also going to break into the cool Magic Schoolbus Human Body activity box. Friday February 25th will be all body, all day! We plan to take pictures throughout and Sophie will write a nice, long blog about the project too. The brain poem worked really well as a compendium and we plan to write a few more body poems to go with the project too.
She's doing SO well on Math. I couldn't be more pleased with the workbooks we chose and the work she's doing every day with them. We have, at least for this unit, solved the math problem. She completed a review today and got 100%.
I do plan to have her do a science and math review before our trip to Florida next week. She will also complete a review from the information she learned in the webquests.
Her Portfolio presentation for this unit will be the Colonial Letters book and the video, once it's complete—hopefully by June.
I learned that planning the unit in advance worked much better than just going at the unit with a general idea like I did with the Explorers unit. I will follow the second method for planning the American Revolution unit. While we're gone to Florida we will have a good couple of 5-6 days of school for field trips—Kennedy Space Center, Jamestown, Epcot, and a few cool surprise places we're stopping at along the highway of our drive down. In the car she will have some work to do reading and learning some facts and details about the French and Indian War so that when we return home she's ready to complete her cool song project for that important war. Then, in April, we start the American Revolution unit, our third and final for sixth grade!
February 11th & 12th, 2011: Days Ninety-eight, Ninety-Nine
Farm Fun—"field trip" with farm work like cleaning stables, helping with chickens, fetching water, art with Lily & gamma drawing pictures with crayons, pencils, pastels, puppet shows, building a snow fort and playing outside, cooking with Bo—good fun, good family, good times, good break
Lily School—read, played, taught Lily with her workbooks
Language Arts: edit & revision of Colonial Letters with Bo
Art—worked on Colonial Letters Collage book with Gamma
Science: Brain Poem using vocabulary words from Gray's Anatomy
Poem on the Brain
The brain is a bundle of nerves,
And the brain definitely deserves.
For you to know its three parts,
They're almost as important as the heart's.
The Cerebrum, Cerebellum, and brain stem.
Well the brain stem responds to mayhem,
And the cerebrum helps you not be dumb,
The Cerebellum makes ideas income,
And it also makes ideas outcome.
Your brain is like jelly,
And it helps you smelly,
It makes you nice-nelly,
Doesn't involve your belly.
After years with poking with probes,
The doctors discovered four lobes,
The frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal,
These lobes help moments be more memorable.
*Art project: illustrate your poem*
Annie Audition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-UtREurk1Q
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
February 8th & 9th, 2011 Day Ninety-Six-Seven
5 x 5 for 5th Grade
5 Vocabulary
1. Commerce: An interchange of goods or commodities on a large scale between different countries; money
2. Smuggling: To import or export goods *illegally usually
3. Cerebrum: The largest part of your brain made mostly with nerve cells
4. Cerebellum: Located at the back of your brain behind the brain stem the cerebellum helps your hand eye coordination
5. Brain Stem: The part of the brain that connects the brain to the spine controls your heartbeat, breathing and other body functions
5 Sentences
1. Commerce was a big part of the Mercantilism economy because the trade triangle made a lot of commerce for England.
2. A lot of the richer apprentices higher in station would get in to the smuggling business.
3. The nerves from the 5 senses go to the cerebrum.
4. The cerebellum is the smallest part of the brain.
5. The brain stem connects with the spine forming the Central Nervous system.
5 Facts & Details
1. The brain weighs 3 pounds.
2. Your brain receives most of its blood from the Thyroid cartilage or Adam's Apple.
3. A 150 pound person has approximately 11 pints of blood through his or her body.
4. The cerebellum is on the right side of the brain.
5. The cerebrum is on the left side of the brain.
5 Questions
1. What has been the most reliable source of information about the Pilgrims? A: A manuscript written by William Bradford
2. Who is eligible to join the General Society of Mayflower descendants? A: Anyone, but someone who is able to prove they are a Mayflower descendent
3. What is the meaning of the word "Plantation" as used in Plymouth Plantation? A: A colony planted in the New World
4. Why have the Pilgrims been more revered than the sellers of other earlier colonies? A: The men brought wives and children with them on the first English trip
5. Are you a Mayflower descendant? From who? A: Yes, John Alden
*Bonus* What do you think about that? A: I think it is really cool because John Adams was also a descendent of John Alden
5 Math from Fraction Stories, page 33-34
1. Is the hat of Stink's unknown partner larger or smaller than Stinky's hat? Explain. A: it's larger because Stinky's hat is less than half of 30, which is 15, so his partner's hat has to be 15 inches or more
2. Forker and Spoon both claim they have a hat size of 14 5/58 inches. Could either of them be Stinky's partner? Explain. A: No, because the hat size has to be 15 inches or larger
3. What's the hat size of Stinky's unknown partner? A: 16 5/8
4. What is the sum of Stinky's and the Sheriff's hat size? A: 30 (duh!)
5. Who do you think is Stink's partner? Why? A: The Sheriff, 16 5/8 is the closest thing that is more than 15 that adds up to 30
Activities
"Annie": almost ready to post audition!
Gray's Anatomy: 3 pages on the Brain
Math Workbooks: 2 pages Guinness, 1 page Sylvan
Colonial Letters: Topic: Customs
Colonial Letters, Family Roles: Topic Food & Customs Letter 3
Dear Ruth,
Yes I am in Quebec colony and I think you will be glad to know that I will be spending the Advent days and the twelve night with you and your family. I am so sorry about your mother, I hope by the time I come to visit your father will be remarried. I do know what it is like because your father is right. My mother passed away when I was about 12 and my father remarried to your grandmother Rose Alden. It will be my pleasure to bring you some furs. Here in Quebec the French put a Christmas Wreath on their door do you have that? If not I will also bring you it.
I must know, what does your mothers Skull and Crossbones say? Does she have an Epitah, if so what does it say? I am lying in again waiting to have another baby. Rachel is learning to walk but I am still go carting her for now, do you have a carriage in your home?
The Indians are friendly here. They will trade with us, give us food and help the baby. One of the Indians here healed me from my cold and they also healed Edward. Edward says we will be stopping by Plymouth twice in the new year for about a month.
Our little family is still at health. I thank God. I will name the baby Percilla or Timothy, I hope you agree. I will see you soon
- Sarah, Edward and Rachel Harris
Dear Ruth,
I am getting ready to leave for Plymouth, I will arrive on the twelve night. I hope you family is doing better. I am so glad you are learning to cook and I think it is the same difficulty as it was learning in England.
The Nocake sounds delicious and so does your dinner you had. When I come to visit I will help Katherine, Anna and you with cooking. Thank you for giving me the names of your family. You need to show me where the Kitchen Garden is and the smokehouse. These places we do not have back at England. I am glad to know you still have fish day. I hope your fever gets better as well.
We will have fun when I come to visit you, I brought gifts from England for Advent. Do not tell your family this but here is what I got for your family. Your father, A new church outfit. Myles commerce to get to Dartmouth, Anna a new dress, Edward and Jacob new church shoes as well, Katherine, A new coif, Mary and Elizabeth dresses, Samuel a teddy bear, and hopefully your new mother a dress.
I have to put Rachel to bed now, I will see you soon. Let God find your family a mother as good as Percilla.
- Sarah, Edward and Rachel Harris
Skating, skating, and more skating!
Monday, February 7, 2011
February 7, 2011 Day Ninety-Five
5 x 5 for 5th Grade
5 Vocabulary
1. Abduction: The act of taking someone away by force or cunning; kidnapping
2. Captivity: The state or period of being held imprisoned, enslaved, or confined
3. Trachea: Below the Thyroid Cartilage is the Trachea also called the windpipe, the trachea allows air to travel in and out of your lungs
4. Brain: A vital organ that your skull protects allowing you to see, feel, hear, smell, and taste things through nerves
5. Central Nervous System: The brain and spinal cord together are called the Central Nervous system
5 Sentences
1. During King Phillips war there were a lot of women and children getting abducted by Native Americans.
2. A lot of English men were held in captivity by the Native Americans.
3. The trachea is called the windpipe because it carries the wind from the lungs and to the lungs.
4. The nerves that bring messages from the brain to your organs are called motor nerves.
5. The nerves traveling back up to your brain go through your spinal cord this system of teamwork through the spine and the brain is called the Central Nervous system.
5 Facts & Details
1. The most baseballs held in one baseball glove is 22 baseballs!
2. The largest in the world is 12 feet in diameter!
3. A guy from Ireland lifted a 51,324 pound barbell 1,058 times in one hour!!
4. Girls from England vaulted 6,250 times in 1 hour!
5. The Girls also vaulted through rings of fire performing for 10,000 people, these girls must not have stage fright!
5 Questions
1. How many Mayflower families are known to have left descendants? A: Twenty six families
2. How many U.S. Presidents have been Mayflower descendants? A: Eight, including John Alden who's descendant is John Adams
3. How many living descendants may there be of the 26 Mayflower Pilgrim families? A: there have been estimated to be 35 million descendants of Mayflower passengers
4. Which of these families may have the most and the fewest descendants? A: Brewster, Howland, Alden and Bradford
5. Which paintings of the Mayflower Pilgrims may have gained the greatest recognition? A: "The Embarkation of the Pilgrims", "Pilgrims going to Church", "The First Thanksgiving", and "The landing of the Pilgrims"
*Bonus* Search, Find, Copy & Paste each of the 4 paintings here.*
5 Math from Fraction Stories Page, 33 Subtracting a mixed number from a whole number
1. What is the sum of Tex and Woovis's hat sizes? A: 20 1-2
2. How much large is Tex's hat size than Woovis's hat size? A: 6 3-4
3. How much less than 30 inches is the sum of Tex's and Woovis's hat sizes? A: 9 1-2
5. Describe "One way to do it" in the "Go back" method for solving fraction problems subtracting a mixed number from a whole number. A: Subtract the improper fractions and whole numbers separately
4. Could Tex and Woovis be the rustlers? Why or Why not? A: They're hat sum did not equal up to 30
Activities
Colonial Letters: Topic: Food
Colonial Letter Topic: Food & Customs Letter 1
Dear Aunt Sarah,
Again I would like to start with answering your questions. Yes I have been learning about the Gospel especially the songs on the day of the Sabbath we sang the songs lined out. Well the names of the children are, Myles, Edward, Mary, Elizabeth, Anna, Jacob, Katherine, and me of course. Mother is pregnant with another baby hoping to name it Samuel or Amy. Thank you for naming the baby after me. I told Myles to tell everyone a dinner tonight. For Dinner we had, Corn, bean, a biscuit, Hasty Pudding and Nocake. Nocake is made with Indian mortar which makes cornmeal.
Meals here are not like meals in England. We have to eat with treen. And mother gets flip only on Friday, Fish day. We also have to stand below the salt and mother and father stand above the salt. We have the Iron lug pole over our fire to hang the kettle. Mother has taught me to cook and we have to cook on the hearth, everything we cook we do on the Hearth. We get our cooking supplies from the kitchen garden and we only get Apples and peaches once a month. When we have game we go down to the smokehouse. We have to roast the game from the smoke house on the spit. We have a cone of sugar, so we use a knife to scrape it off. It is hard cooking in Colonial America.
I would much rather learn to cook in England, I bet it's easier. The most pleasant meal that we made was Johnny cake. It is made with corn flour and bread cooked hard. Myles taught me and Katherine who is my age now how to get Maple Sugar from the trees. Myles also taught me and Katherine to carve pumpkins.
I hope you get better Aunt Sarah, Can you tell me how it was when you learned to cook in England. Thank you for sending me the fabric for the dress.
Your niece, Ruth Alden
Colonial Letter Topic: Food & Customs Letter 2
Dear Aunt Sarah,
I think you will be sad to know that when Samuel Alden came into the world God had to say goodbye to another person as he said hello to Samuel. That person was Percilla Alden, my mother. Father said he will remarry another person as soon as possible but I do not want that to happen. Father said your father remarried another women so I am writing to you because I know you know what is like. Father said Mother's body could not deal with another baby, so that's why she is away. I know that she is watching our family and Satan will not get us now because she is watching us.
I hope that anything that I cooked sent mother away. Father said that my Hasty pudding that I made last week could have been better, but I didn't know it was that bad. New settlers here say that what happened to mother was not that bad compared to the famine happening in England but I am still sad.
We have an indentured Servant in the house, her name is Rebecca Logan. I think she is nice even thought that she is a servant. She sleeps in the room with Katherine, Anna, Mary, Elizabeth, and Samuel. Of all the young woman in our colony, I think Father should marry Karen Carter or Hope Hopkins, both Anglican.
I hope you understand what our family is going through. Are you in the Quebec colony yet? If you are can you bring our family some furs? Thank you
- Ruth Alden
Vocabulary Review #1 Sophie got a 100%! How well can you do?
Vocabulary Review Unit 2: Colonial America, # 1
- You are studying your ________________ when we're learning about John Alden and the Plymouth Colony.
- A __________________ refers to a region of land that is claimed, populated, and settled in a distant continent (usually) on behalf of another or "mother" country.
- The _______________ is the word for your "skull" that protects your brain.
- The King appoints a __________________, who is the person responsible for governing the King's lands and colonies. Today people elect them.
- Before important national events, people say the Pledge of _______________ because we're promising to be loyal and faithful to our _________________.
- The mandible bone is also called the ________________.
- This muscle is the largest and strongest and allows you to chew: ________________.
- Many Native Americans and other people die in epidemics of this terrible virus called ______________ or sometimes called the flu.
- The small but powerful "A" word is the formal decision or law prescribed by a King or government. It is an ______.
- Girls in Colonial times would never be __________ when heating ____________ to make candles. If they were ___________, they would get burned.
- This is the dome-shaped cavity of your mouth and there is a hard and soft one: ___________.
- People sit in the church __________ based on their ______________ or position in the Class Triangle.
- An ___________is an important person in the congregation. Now it is a word for old people.
- These ring-shaped bones make up your spine: ____________. How many are there? _______
- You become someone's servant for about seven years when you sign an _____________, or contract.
- Mercantilism is an economic theory that the power of a country is directly related to the power of the country's _________________.
- This "pulley" allows your eye to move diagonally: ______________.
- These supply blood throughout your body: _____________.
- You are _______________ if you believe you are right in all your beliefs, especially when you are religious.
- The ___________ are the poems and songs in the Bible. In the Puritan church they would ______-Out when the congregation repeated them back to the minister.
- The ____________ gland literally makes you cry.
- The ______________ is sometimes called the voice box.
- Boys became _______________ when they wanted to learn a trade like blacksmith or cooper.
- Sunday is called the ______________ or the day of rest.
- Mom calls the cheek muscle the "buccaneer" but it's really called the ___________________.
Science: Gray's Anatomy, 1 page
Math Workbooks: Guinness 1 page, Sylvan 1 page Prime Numbers maze
Sophie's blog: On Last Monday I got my new skates at the ice house. They are the same kind of skates but they got sharpened by different people. Last time these guys sharpened my skates I had a bad experience. I first tried my skates out and I liked them, i could even do an axel with them. I wore them on Thursday and I did 2 doubles! On Saturday I wore them and got blisters but that's ok everyone does with new skates. On Sunday Night I went on my Left outside edge and fell down. I did a more last night and started to realize something was wrong. I skated at noon today and I went on my left outside edge and fell down again. I did some spins and when I did my camel I fell right down on my stomach. It hurt! Linda put my program on and I fell on my stomach in my axel. I did my program again and in the middle of it when I went in my flying camel, I flew and landed right on my stomach and sprained my hand a little bit. I don't think I want the ice house to sharpen my blades again!
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