I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for.... Pie???

Math

We are almost finished catching up on the things we didn't learn last year at school. We are learning division with fractions (Kaylee) and division with large numbers (Landen). It is fun when I (Kaylee) teach Landen my math and he does it with me. Landen thinks my math is cool and wishes he was my age, learning my math. Soon we will begin this year's math! 

Emberly got a new book from Costco because she was getting tired of computer school. She practiced lines and shapes as well as counting.

Language Arts

Halloween is in the air! I (Kaylee) wrote a poem about Halloween.

"The sky is black and

the lights are low.

The moon as big as a peach.

Witches and vampires and skeletons

running 'round.

Phobias darken every corner.

I watch from the bushes

as a group gathers at a door.

A ghost, a werewolf, a princess.

They knock.

The door opens with a creeeaak.

They open their mouths to scream.

'TRICK OR TREAT!'

It's Halloween."

Also, Mom typed this week's passage onto the computer and misspelled (on purpose) some words. She also left out some punctuation and some other grammar things. Then she printed it off. We corrected it, using red pens like a teacher.

Emberly is getting so good at reading. She loves books about princesses and she wants to read and write everything!

Mom surprised us and took us to the Library this week. We all got to pick up a couple of books!

I am reading Ogre Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (one of my favorite authors).

Science

Spa Chemistry (Kaylee):

This week I finished making candles for our pumpkins. As part of my photography class (below), I made a video of me making it. Landen was the cameraman. We recorded it on our Fire tablets and on our cameras and placed them at different angles.

Elementary Science (Landen):

This week I did some more Tiny Science. I dissolved Epsom salt in warm water and then painted my mixture onto a piece of paper. When the salt cooled, it formed little crystals! It was so cool!

First I wrote the word "awesome" on a piece of paper with my Epsom salt mixture, then I realized I'd make my letters too big and I started over with another paper.

I wrote the word "awesome" and drew stars and hearts below it.

This is what it looks like up close! You can see the salt crystals!

Technology

Digital Photography (Kaylee):

This week I made a video as I said previously. I also watched more videos on Creative Live. I learned about how the aperture setting affects the depth of field (DOF) in the photo. Then I experimented with DOF on my camera.

Digital Art (Landen):

This week Kaylee gave me a tutorial on how to use Scratch, her favorite drawing and coding website. I drew a little man and animated it to walk and change color. When I first made it walk, it didn't move it's legs. The second time, it stuck it's leg out at a funny angle. Next week, I will make it look more normal.

Elective

Culinary Arts (Kaylee):

This week I made some yummy Ice-Scream pie! I made a chocolate syrup from scratch (no, not the website, 😉) but it didn't thicken up enough. I scooped the ice cream onto the pie crust and flattened it out with both a piece of plastic wrap and a spatula. Then I drew a spiral of chocolate syrup onto the ice cream and used a toothpick to make it look like a spiderweb. Because the syrup was runny, it doesn't look perfect, but it tasted perfect!

PE (Landen):

This week it rained a lot and so I stayed inside and did yoga- Star Wars version!

My siblings had fun doing it with me!

Arts and Crafts (Emberly):

This week I traced my hand on some white paper and folded the fingers to make joints. It's a skeleton hand! Kaylee did it too.

The hands on the top are Kaylee's, the hand on the bottom is mine!