Ihomeschool: Days 113 & 114

7 x7 Seven Subjects & 7 things I learned Days 113 & 114 March 18 & 19, 2013

1. Math

a. Today in math, I learned how to evaluate math expressions. I learned to use cross multiplication and count how many negative signs there were to figure out if the ending total would be positive or negative.

b. –(5) (-2)/ (3) (-5) – 3/ (-9).

To begin, I only focused on the first problem. I used cross multiplication and crossed out the 5’s to equal 2/3. Then I reduced the second problem, 3/9 = 1/3.

. –(5) (-2)/ (3) (-5) – 3/ (-9) = 1/3

c. (-1) (-1) (-1) (-1) (-1) (-1)(7) =7

d. – (-8) (-4)/ - (2( (6) = 2 2/3

e. – (-1) (-1) (-2)/ (-3) (2) = -1/3 (I knew that this answer would be negative because of the amount of numbers in the problem that were negative.)

f. – (5) (-3)/ (3) (-5) + 9/ (-9) = 0

g. I learned that in algebra multiplication signs aren’t used. Mostly it’s parentheses (), boxes [], or . that indicate multiplication now.

2. Science

a. In Newton's third law, he explains that forces always come in pairs, when an object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite force back on the first object.

b. Newton’s third law can be seen when a bird flies: When a bird flies, its wings push air down; the air reacts by pushing the bird up. The sizes of both forces are equal and both forces re in opposite directions.

c. This law works in water too, when someone is rowing a boat they push water in the opposite direction of travel. The water pushes back on the oars causing the boat to move.

d. Newton explained his laws of motion by thinking about gravity: “If there were no air around Earth, what path would a cannonball take if fired from a very tall mountain?

e. If the cannonball were fired at low velocity, the cannonball would travel in a straight line until the law of inertia kicks in and gravity send the cannonball back to Earth.

f. A cannonball fired at higher velocity would travel farther before htting the ground.

g. If the cannonball were fired at the right, high velocity, It would orbit Earth. The cannonball would try to travel in a straight line towards Space but gravity would keep it going in a circle, like it does with the moon.

3. History

a. I History today, I learned that the demand for nurses became go great during the war that the US government provided free education to nursing students between 1943 and 1948.

b. Just six months after the attack of Pearl Harbor, the Army Nurse Corps had grown from less than 1,000 to about 12,000.

c. About 16,000 woman joined the Navy nurse corps and in the army alone, about 60,000 American woman eventually served as nurses during the war, in both Europe and the Pacific.

d. The United States was the greatest producer of weapons; they were really good at mass production. Four allied inventions that helped with the war were the C-47 transport plane, the bazooka, the jeep, and the atomic bomb.

e. I learned that the nicknames for the atomic bombs dropped on Japan were, “Little boy” which was the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, and “Fat man” which was the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki.

f. Some nicknames for the jeep were the peep, bug, puddle jumper, midget, pygmy, blitz buggy, and Quad.

g. I learned the definition of an amphibious DUKW. What does DUKW mean?

D = First year of production code D is for 1942

U = body style; U is for utility truck

K = All wheel drive; GMC still uses this on trucks today.

W = Two rear driving axles.

4. Language

a. In Spanish today I learned a couple new vocabulary words. Todavia = already.

b. Dark = Oscuro

c. Pesado = heavy

d. Escuchar = hear

e. De repente = suddenly

f. Empezar = start

g. lleno = full

5. Reading

a. Today in reading, I read a journal entry from a young boy who waiting for Christmas Vacation.

b. I learned about settings in this story and how a story can have a main setting, and many different less important settings.

c. What are the two different settings for the story? What was the main setting?

The speaker’s classroom and house. The classroom was the main setting.

d. Write a one-sentence description of each setting, based on details from the story.

The classroom was decorated for the holidays, with large paper snowflakes and red and green table clothes.

e. The speaker’s house smelled like Christmas with pies and cookies and turkey baking for a feast on Christmas Eve.

f. In what month is the story probably set? December

g. Write a sentence or two about the party that will occur on Saturday. All of the speaker’s relatives would be coming to spend Christmas Eve with the speaker and his/her family. There would be a great feast and they were going to watch a holiday movie.

6. Writing

History Review--next post

7. Art

To prepare for her Art Review, Sophie looked back through her Art-isms books and also through her collected art-isms image folder.

a. I think one of my favorite art styles that I learned about in my isms book is pointillism. I love t because it looks really cool with all the individual dots that come together and make a painting:

this is a good example of pointillism because you can see it uses primary colors and has individual dots.

b. Another one of my favorite styles was impressionism. This is a good example of impressionism because it doesn’t look quite realistic but it does look pretty.

c. I also really liked the art style of surrealism, because it is like art from your dreams: This is a good example of surrealism because you can see it would be like something you could see in your unconscious mind.

d. I really liked the style of romanticism: This is a dark and fantasy like painting which describes the art style romanticism well.

e. I thought eat the art style photorealism was really cool: this picture is a good example of photorealism because you can’t tell if it is a painting or a photograph.