Day 164 & 165 Geology & Civil War Trip Scrapbook

May 22 & 23, 2012 Day 164 and 165

Math: 2 pages

Latin: Chapter 2 of new book & vocab cards

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LA Book: 2 pages * Finished Book!

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Geology of the Eastern Coast 6 x 6 TWO
Pages 20-24 and 31, 34-top of 36
6 Vocabulary 1. Acidic: from acids, which are chemical compounds that taste sour. Examples are vinegar and lemon juice
2. Carbon dioxide: a gas formed by the rotting of plants and animals and when animals breathe out
3. Old growth forest: a forest that is very old
4. Coal: A dark brown or black rock formed from decayed plants, coal is used as a fuel
5. Oil: a thick dark liquid that occurs naturally beneath the Earth. Oil can be separated into many products including gasoline, and other fuels.
6. New Madrid Seismic Zone: A system of faults right in the middle of the North American plate

6 Sentences 1. Chemical processes break down rocks; an example is when acidic water flows over them.
2. All rainfall is naturally acidic but just slightly, I’s because of the mixture of carbon dioxide in the air and the water creating an acidic chemical.
3. About one quarter of the Great Smoky Mountains is old-growth forests.
4. Coal is a black rock that is mostly made of carbon.
5. There are abundant resources such as coal and oil.

6. The area of the New Madrid seismic zone is in the area where Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee meet.


6 Facts/ Details
1. The Appalachian Mountain trail runs from Mt. Kahtadin Maine to Springer Mountain Georgia, It goes through 14 states!
2. In the Great Smoky Mountains there are over 17,000 species of organisms, over 100 species of trees, 1,6000 species of flowering plants, 66 species of mammals, about 1,500 black bears live in the park!, 200 species of bird and 50 species of fish, and at least 30 species of salamanders
3. Last March, the Japan Earthquake ranked the fourth largest earthquake since 1900!
4. In August of 2011, there was an Earthquake in Virginia that nearly collapsed the Washington monument.
5. The Japan Earthquake measured 9.0 on the Richter scale that is a HUGE EARTHQUAKE!
6. The Appalachian mountains used to be the barrier for people traveling west such as Daniel Boone.

6 Questions 1. What are some of the smaller mountain ranges that make up the Appalachians? A: the Blue Ridge mountains, The great Smoky mountains, and the Cumberland mountains
2. What states do the Appalachians travel through? A: 14 states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia.
3. What are the three major types of rocks you can find in the Appalachians *and describe them? A: Metamorphic rock, originally sedimentary or igneous, Volcanic rock, rocks formed from cooled lava, and Sedimentary rock, formed from the ocean
4. What are the ingredients needed for erosion to occur? A: A rock can rub against another rock which could be a recipe for erosion, or a rock could break down by wind, water, and ice, or by a rock being pushed against a strong tree can cause erosion
5. Describe the two big earthquakes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone: In 1811 and 1812 there were two huge earthquakes that happened in the New Madrid seismic zone
6. What happened in Virginia on Aug. 23, 2011? A: there was an earthquake that almost collapsed the Washington monument.

6 things you think are cool about rocks and geology 1. I like learning about how mountains, volcanoes, rocks, and the Earth were formed.
2. I like this Geology fact: That the tectonic plates under the surface of the Earth create our “landmarks” and “landscape.”
3. I think it’s cool that scientists believe we are going to become Pangea Ultima in about 1 million years.
4. I like that Geology studies everything about the Earth and not just how it was formed but how everything was formed.
5. I like learning about earthquakes and shockwaves.
6. I think it’s cool how underwater earthquakes trigger Tsunamis.

6 Cool Rock pictures from garden/pond or walk

Civil War Trip Project: Plan, Prep, Start, & Finish Scrapbook

Sophie’s Blog: I made my scrapbook out of an old binder and binder sheets. We collected brochures and maps on our trip and took lots of pictures. I started my scrapbook with the first day of our trip, at the visitor’s center. I have pictures from the museum and cyclorama. Then I moved on to the second day of our trip, the first day of the battle on cemetery hill. Lily and I love cannons so we took lots of pictures with them, they needed their own page! On the second day we had a guide named Jim that took us around through the battle field and he was really nice. I have a page talking about him. Then I have 7 pages from my 6 x 6’s about our Gettysburg. Then pictures of us on little round top when Jim told us a story about Joshua Chamberlain and Little Round top. Then I have my Fredericksburg map and 6 x 6 on Fredericksburg. I have two pages about Fredericksburg and then one page with brochures of Civil War battle sites that we drove by but didn’t stop at.

Gifts: Made some birthday & “miss you” gifts thanks to my new found obsession/inspiration: Pintrest

These are melted "pony" or plastic bead suncatchers--arrange beads on cookie sheet using tin tops, free-form shapes with foil, or cookie cutters. Oven set at 400 degrees--these smell so open a window and use a fan to ventilate!
Ours took about 20 mins to melt all the way but start checking at 10 mins.
Very cool, fun, cheap project!

Next we did a coffee filter Spring wreathe for Emma's birthday!

Day 163 Maine Studies: Joshua Chamberlain Presentation

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: "The Hero from Brunswick, Maine" Presentation by Sophie Calderwood

Please follow link to view Sophie's awesome presentation!




Here's the work that went into the presentation:

 Joshua Chamberlain Bio Report Power Point Presentation: MAINE STUDIES PROJECT 1

*Complete with 3 Saved images for each section

1.       Born & Childhood

1. Born on September 8, 1828 in Brewer Maine

2. His parents were Joshua and Sarah Chamberlain

3. Joshua was Born Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain but changed it to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

4. Joshua Chamberlain grew up on a farm in Brewer, he went to school and was a very good student, and he loved music and became an excellent singer

5. Joshua Chamberlin climbed Mount Kahtadin as a young boy and learned about Native Americans

6. Joshua Chamberlains father wanted him to be an officer in the army and his mother wanted him to be a minister in a church

2. Married & Children

1. Joshua Chamberlain decided to go to Bowdoin College, but he would have to study a lot before he could get in.

2. Joshua Chamberlain attended First Parish Church and became the director of the choir. He met a woman there named Fanny Adams but decided not to marry until Joshua became a minister.

3. Instead of becoming a mister Joshua Chamberlain got offered a job as an instructor for Bowdoin College, now he could marry Fanny and be making enough money to support a family.

4. Chamberlain studied for three additional years at Bangor Theological society in Bangor, Maine.

5. Joshua Chamberlain met Harriet Beecher Stowe at Bowdoin College.

6. Joshua Chamberlain had five children, but two died in infancy and one whom prematurely survived

3. Education & Work

1. Joshua Chamberlain had no military education

2. Joshua Chamberlain was a student at Bowdoin College

3. After Chamberlain studied at Bangor Theological Seminary he became a professor at Bowdoin and the head of the Modern Languages Department. 

4. Chamberlain not volunteer for the Civil War at first, he waited for a year because Fanny did not want him to leave

5. In 1861 Chamberlain continued to work in Bowdoin as a professor

6. In 1862, all of the men in Chamberlains class had gone off to war; he had no choice but to leave to

4. Civil War & Military Accomplishments

1. Joshua Chamberlain became lieutenant colonel of the 20^th Maine regiment

2. Joshua Chamberlain and the 20^th Maine regiment were assigned to fight at the Battle of Antietam but did not make it in time

3. Joshua Chamberlain is in my sight, considered an American Hero because if he didn’t stand up for the Union line and if he didn’t win Little Round top, our country might have had a different fate.

4. After Little Round Top General Ulysses S. Grant made Joshua Chamberlain a brigadier general lieutenant colonel and gave him a medal of honor.

5. Chamberlain helped during the siege of Petersburg

6. Chamberlain gave a speech at the Appomattox Courthouse during Lee’s surrender

5. Post-war & Bowdoin College & Politics

1. After the War Chamberlain came home to find four of his five children dead

2. Joshua Chamberlain ran for governor of Maine 4 times and won all four times after the Civil War was over.

3.  After Chamberlain decided not to run for Governor of Maine again, he got a letter from Bowdoin College asking him if he would like to become the president of the college, and he (of course) replied yes.

4. Joshua Chamberlain ran for governor as a republican  

5. Chamberlain made a revolutionary decision as president of Bowdoin College, he allowed women to be admitted

6. Chamberlain bought a boat called the wildflower and used it to sail his friends and family around Casco Bay

6. Later-Life, Death, & Legacy

1. Joshua Chamberlain was living in a tiny little house when he was president of Bowdoin College, he decided he wanted a bigger living quarters and took a crane and moved it from Potter Street to Maine Street.

2. In 1880, Maine was convinced that it was going to have a Civil War because the results of an election were disputed and it started the idea of a civil war, however, Chamberlain went to Augusta and gave a talk that stopped the idea

3. Before Chamberlain started a new job in Portland Surveyor of the port Joshua went on an extended trip to Italy and Egypt, He loved it.

4. Fanny Chamberlain died in 1905 from a broken hip; she died at the age of 80

5. Joshua Chamberlain died of old age, illness, and an old wound from Gettysburg that caught up to him on February 24, 1914

6. I remember Joshua Chamberlain for Little Round top, and Bowdoin College, I was very interested in learning about him and I loved it

Day 162 Geology 6 x 6

May 20, 2012 Day 162

Math: 2 pages

LA Book: 1 page

Library Visit: chose books about Rocks & Minerals, America 1870-1915, and Joshua Chamberlain

Geology: Geology of the Eastern Coast by Cynthia Light Brown and Kathleen Brow
Amazon link to book

pages 8-17
6 Vocabulary
1. Current: A constantly moving mass of liquid
2. Divergent boundary: where two plates are moving in opposite directions
3. Rifting: when the lithosphere splits apart
4. Metamorphic rock: rock that has been transformed by heat or pressure or both into new rock, while staying solid
5. Subduction: when one tectonic plates slides under another tectonic plate
6. Transform boundary: where two plates slide against each other

6 Sentences
1. The heat in the asthenosphere causes the magma in a huge rotating current called convection cells.
2. Divergent Plate boundaries happen when the magma beneath is pushing upward.
3. Divergent plate boundaries cause rifting; the hot liquid comes out and forms in to a new rock.
4. Just like metamorphic rock is transformed by heat and pressure, some rocks are transformed by the ocean and become smoother.
5. When oceanic plates and continental plates collide it forms a volcano, since the oceanic plate is thinner than the continental it is subduction.
6. I thought it was interesting that there is a transform plate boundary that runs from New York to Alabama; we probably drove near it.

6 Facts/ Details
1. The oldest rocks in the U.S are in Minnesota and Michigan; they are between 3.5 and 3.7 billion years old.
2. The oldest rocks on Earth are in Canada, they are 4 billion years old
3. A good synonym to explain how tectonic plates act is like a giant conveyor belt
4. When the Appalachian Mountains formed a long time ago, they were probably as high as the Himalayas are today; since then wind water and ice have eroded them
5. The Atlantic Ocean spreads apart about ½ inch every year
6.  During the Ice Age, there were glaciers in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; As the Earth warmed they became into lakes and rivers

6 Questions
1. What does elevation measure? A: height above the sea level
2. How much wider now is the Atlantic Ocean than when Columbus crossed it and why? A: 33 feet
3. How are plate tectonics like a giant conveyor belt? A: because they are used to move people or things across a long space,
4. what is an orogeny? (page 13) A: The process of continents colliding together
5. What was happening on the East Coast 240 million years ago when dinosaurs were roaming? A: Pangaea was rifting apart
6. List and describe the 3 main types of rock:

Sedimentary rock: formed when small rocks are pushed tightly together

Igneous Rocks: rocks formed from molten rock that has entered the air and become cool.

Metamorphic rocks: rocks formed from heat and pressure

6 things you learned/ observed about Geology in cave to Ruby Fall

1.  The rock formations that we saw took a long time to form because it takes a year just to “grow” about an inch

2. The rock formations felt smooth and sort of slimy
3. The rocks in the cave were creating some of the puddles and pools that were in the cave
4. Some of the rocks had like, ripples in them, the ripples were created by the wind and how it has to funnel because of the other rocks.
5. Some of the rocks were formed to look like animals such as the turtle, the donkey, and the fish formations; they were created by dripping water and wind which kind of sculpts them.
6. All of the rocks in the cave was limestone

6 Pictures of cool rocks you find around the gardens and ponds--take your camera and go outside!

May 8, 2012 Day 161 Monticello

May 7, 2012 Day 161 Monticello

6 Vocabulary
1. Eclectic: not following any one system but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems; noting of pertaining works of architecture
2. Architect: A person professionally engaged in the design of certain large constructions,
3. domestics (as referred to a person or job): devoted to home life; a household servant that cooks, cleans, sells
4. Mulberry Row: Where Jefferson kept his slaves that worked in the fields
5. Plantation: A usually large farm or estate on which cotton, coffee, tobacco, etc, is grown
6. “Sanctum sanctorum”: Holy of Holies; when Jefferson retired to his private room in the late evening, a guest called it his sanctum sanctorum

6 Sentences
1. Both Thomas Jefferson and Monticello would have been described as eclectic or like a museum.
2. Jefferson taught himself to be an architect, relying on observation and books; he also helped get the designs from some of the buildings he saw in France.
3. During the time of Jefferson, the slaves would be his domestics, now a domestic is a household servant not a slave.
4. We did a slavery tour on mulberry row and got to see the foundations of where the slavery houses would have been, only one original house was still standing.
5. Monticello was a plantation because Jefferson grew crops there.
6. The Guest that called Jefferson’s chambers his “Sanctum Sanctorum” was a regular guest.

6 Facts/Details
1. The word Monticello means “little mountain” in Italian
2. James and Dolly Madison had their own little bedroom at Monticello because Jefferson and Madison visited each other regularly; even though Montpelier is close to Monticello it still took about a day’s worth of travel
3. In the hall there were Lewis and Clark artifacts and Native American “merchandise” that they brought back from their journey
4. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on July 4^th 1826, the 50^th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of Independence!
5. Monticello took forty years to design, build, and furnish
6. After Jefferson died the slaves were all sold and the Levy family took over Monticello


6 Questions
1. How large in acreage and how many slaves reside at Monticello? A: 5,000 acres and 155 slaves at Monticello
2. What was the primary crop at Monticello? A: tobacco for his primary cash crop and Indian corn for primary food crop
3. How many slaves did Jefferson inherit? A: 155, he never bought slaves
4. Who are the trinity of the “three greatest men” depicted in paintings in the parlor of Monticello? A: Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and John Locke
5. What are “dependencies” and why are they unique at Monticello? A: The storage beneath the main house was the dependencies. They were unique at Monticello because the guest wouldn’t be able to see them
6. What was your favorite part about visiting Monticello? A: Seeing the house and all of the rooms

6 People
1. Thomas Jefferson: The third president of the United State, Author of the Declaration of Independence, Governor of Virginia, Father of the University of Virginia,  Owner of the plantation, Monticello
2. Martha Jefferson Randolph: Thomas Jefferson’s only wife who died in 1782
3. Uriah Phillips Levy:  the man who bought Monticello after Jefferson’s death
4. James Hennings: A slave that went to Paris with Jefferson and trained as a chef. He was supposed to make wonderful dishes
5. Sally Hemmings: DNA tests prove that Jefferson was the father of her children. Sally Hemmings was a slave at Monticello
6. Issac Granger Jefferson: A valued enslaved artisan at Monticello, he worked as a nailer, tinsmith and blacksmith

6 Images

Sophie & Lily with Tom

The gardens and view over the valley of Monticello

Sophie, Kevin & Lily out front of Monticello--no picture allowed inside

Our awesome tour guide Hannah, graduated from UVA, and very sweet & smart~

Side view of the back of Monticello

Sophie & Lily sitting under tree near fish pond and flower gardens of Monticello

Poster: Using 6 x 6

Lily's Poster about the Knoxville Zoo

Day 160 Walt Disney World

April 30, 2012 Day 160 Walt Disney & Disney World

Read: Who Was Walt Disney? By Whitney Stewart

Write a review of this book: The book, Who was Walt Disney? By Whiteny Stewart

Whitney Stewart explains the life of Walt Disney and many other facts and details about his career. I very much enjoyed this book and recommend it for other people of all ages. I have looked up some of the interesting facts in this book and realized that some of them are inaccurate. There seems to be a controversy between Walt Disney and his old partner UB Iwerks about who created Mickey Mouse. It comes to find out that Walt Disney did create Mickey and UB co-created him. Who was Walt Disney the book tells about the rollercoaster of Walt’s magical career and all of the ups and downs. I admire Walt for being the man who sat down and said that he wanted to have fun with his daughters and not just be parents on the bench watching his kids have fun. I admire Walt for being the man who created stories and characters that came to life in moving pictures. And I admire the mouse and the man who started it all.

List 36 things you learned at Walt Disney World:

1.       I learned how to draw Tigger from Winnie the Pooh

2.       I learned that the first week of May is one of the least busiest weeks of the year in Disney World

3.       I learned that Lily doesn’t like rollercoasters

4.        I learned that Caca was coming down for two days

5.       I learned that Disney changes things for each ride in less than two days

6.       I learned that the Haunted Mansion isn’t scary at midnight

7.       I learned that they are putting Zebra’s in the Kilimanjaro Safari

8.       I learned that Walt Disney married a woman named Lillian Bounds

9.       I learned that there is a great American show at Epcot

10.   I learned that there is a make your own rollercoaster ride at Epcot

11.   I learned about Frederick Douglas in the American show

12.   I learned that Harriet Beecher Stowe is considered one of America’s greatest heroes

13.   I learned that Walt Disney had an animated bunny character named Oswald before Mickey that he lost ownership rights of

14.   I learned that the It’s a small world song gets really annoying after eleven years

15.   I learned that Walt Disney drove an ambulance in France during World War 1

16.   I learned that I am tall enough for every ride at Disney World

17.   I learned that Pirates of the Caribbean was an original ride designed by Walt Disney

18.   I learned about fast passes and how they work

19.   I learned that Walt Disney had an older brother named Roy who helped him with his work

20.   I learned that Walt Disney never got to see Disney World

21.   I learned that Walt Disney died of Lung Cancer

22.   I learned that sitting in the front part of the log on Splash Mountain gets the wettest

23.   I learned that there are hidden Mickey’s on some of the rides that people try to find

24.   I learned that there is an interactive quest at Magic Kingdom that we did this year; it is called Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom

25.   I learned that the best way to see all of the Disney Characters is to go to the Epcot Character spot during the fireworks

26.   I learned that you can trade pins with Disney employees

27.   I learned that Walt Disney loved to play practical jokes

28.   I learned that I love to draw animated characters

29.   I learned that I love all rides at Disney World and I love rollercoaster’s

30.   I learned about Susan B. Anthony in the America show

31.   I learned how  animation works

32.   I learned how they color characters with a computer

33.   I learned about how they make movies at Hollywood studios

34.   I learned how they do stunts with stunt extras

35.   I learned that it is fun to go to Disney with just my family not just all my cousins and grandmothers

36.   I learned that I love Disney World

Create Poster incorporating these sentences and pictures

and this is Lily's poster!

Math: 3 pages in workbooks--learning to measure and calculate volume and also about the standard and metric measuring systems