My Spare Time

            I like to do lots of things in my spare time.  I get a lot of spare time because I usually finish my school work really fast, so I have more time to do things that I enjoy.  Some of the things that I like doing are reading, playing outside, and making crafts. 

            I like reading because it is interesting and it takes me to other worlds.  The first book that I really actually loved is called Moon Dogs.  It’s mostly just a picture book, but it really lit up my interests.  Ever since then, I’ve liked reading books about mythology.  Mythology is magical and sometimes it scares me even though I know that the stuff I’m scared about could never actually happen.  I like hearing the adventures that people have in the different stories.

Playing outside is fun because I get to be in nature, which is one of my favorite playhouses.  I like being there because it’s so big and there are so many things to explore.  I like the animals and plants, and I like the open space to run.  I feel so free when I’m outside.

            I like making crafts because it really entertains me and puts my brain to use.  I like making things that some people would never have thought of.  There are so many different things I can make out of cardboard and hot glue.  I picked these really cool plants from our field and glued little eyes on them and called them fuzz buds.  I made little houses for them out of old cardboard boxes.  This is just one of the many things I like making.  I also like making wire crafts by using these tools to shape them into rings and putting beads on them.  There are so many things you can do with a few tools, wire, or cardboard.

            These are the kinds of things I like doing in my spare time from reading, to playing outside, to doing crafts.  I feel really creative when I do these things, and when I don’t get to do them, I can feel bored or not as excited as I usually am.  I wish everyone in the whole world could have as much spare time as I do.  Some people don’t get any at all.  

Unifying Upper and Lower Egypt

In ancient times Egypt was formed into two separate nations called Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.   The kings of these nations wanted to rule both Upper and Lower Egypt.   Eventually there was a war.   The king of Upper Egypt wore a white crown and the king of Lower Egypt wore a red crown.   So when the king of Upper Egypt, King Menes, won the war he wore a double crown.   Menes ruled for a long time.

art badge portfolio

 These are the pictures I made for earning my art badge for girl scouts.

This is my logo.  

This is my perspective piece that has farther away things smaller.

This is my face with shading.

This is a room in perspective.

And this is a still life of a wire, scarecrow candle holder my mom has with candy corn candles for Halloween.

This is Fall

I wrote this poem today about Fall.  I used the same format as a poem called That Was Summer, but since it's not Summer, I did Fall.

This Is Fall

This is Fall.
The air is sweet,
the sun is shining radiantly
the leaves have changed from green to red.

This is Fall.
The ground is yellow and our eyes are too as we gaze at the mountains.
Just for you, this is Fall.

My Dog: a paper for Language Arts

Have you ever gotten a pet?   I was 6 years old and it was my brothers birthday.   We were going to the store when I spotted a crate of dogs! I was so happy because  my brother wanted a puppy for his birthday. Mom asked dad if we could get one.   WE GOT ONE! 

 We read books about a panda and we named our dog Still-Water after the panda.   Next we got it toys and a crate to sleep in.   We played with it all the time when we left the room she would chase us out so I started to throw a ball and  she would chase it away from us

 

We still have her and we got another dog and  they live in a  extended run and are super nice.   We all love them like lots lots lots.   When I ride my bike I watch them run all the way to the end of the cage .   It reminds me of when  I threw them the ball.   

Anticipating the Beach

Today I am going to the lake in the too hot to be real California.  I am excited because I really badly hope it will be a warm sunny day so I can jump into the icy water and it won’t feel cold.  I want to play in the water, play in the warm sand, and spend a fantastic lunch and dinner there.

            The water will be pretty cold, but I don’t think I’ll mind it once the air temperature gets too warm to cool off at all. We’ll look for shimmering shiny fish in the water and I’ll try to catch one and then let it go once I look at it.  The sun will sparkle off the water and make it look like it’s from a old fairy tale.  Sometimes you can actually live in fantastic fairy tales. 

            Once I get too cold in the water, I’ll get out and play in the nice warm sand.  I’ll try to make a beautiful sand castle and maybe even bury my funny brother and leave only their cute heads out.  I’ll try to build shimmery streams from the water onto the sand to make a mote around my fantastic castle.  Maybe we can even have a sand castle building contest.

            Once we’ve played in the sand for a while, it will be time to eat.  I’m hoping we’ll have sandy beach sandwiches for lunch and for dinner, I’m not sure yet, but I’m sure it will be good whatever it is.  My grandma always comes up with something delicious.  We might have snacks like graham crackers or fruit and then it will be time to go home.

            I’m crazy excited to play in the water, the warm sand, and eat good food there.  I’m sure me and my brothers will have a palm tree counting contest on the way back.  Then it will be time to go to bed.  I’ll dream about the magical and wonderful day as I fall asleep.  It’s a good way to get started on falling asleep because if you start your dream a little early, it helps you fall asleep better.  

My Day With My Cousins

My Day With My Cousins

I am in the blazing hot state of California with my very nice family. I so far I’ve had a pretty good time with my hilarious grandma.  Yesterday I went out my cousin’s new house. We watched an eclipse, played in my cousin’s huge swimming pool, and had red velvet cake and cupcakes.

            The eclipse was cool because it made every shadow a circle pattern.  My cousins said that the circle patterns looked kind of like swirly smoke.  It got kind of dark, but not too dark, like I imagine maybe Snow White’s cottage being in the early evening.  My grandma cut a small hole in a piece of cardboard and held it up to the sun so that you could see the moon in front of the sun on the wall of the house.  You could see the sun shining through the hole and a dark spot in front of it. 

            In my cousin’s big swimming pool, it was very cold but we adjusted fast.  We gave my brothers long rides in big rainbow chair floaties.   We let my brothers sit on them and we held on to the edge and swam around so that it was like they were in a big slow ship.  Sometimes my brothers squirted us with squirt guns, which was kind of fun now that I think about it, even though I yelled at them when they did it. 

            We had dessert around the pool and we could watch the eclipse while we ate.  The red velvet cake was so delicious.  I devoured it very fast.  And the cupcake frosting was a good raspberry flavor.  You could even feel the seeds with your tongue.  Mmm, that was yummy!  

            The eclipse was amazing, the swimming pool was nice, and the dessert was totally good.  My cousins and I had fun getting time to spend with each other.  It was nice seeing my uncle and aunt because we hadn’t seen them in a long time.   Next time we see them I’m sure we’ll have the same amount of fun, but maybe even better.

Lost Colony of Roanoke

Roanoke was one of the longest unsolved mysteries in American History.  It was island off the coast of what is now North Carolina in the New World, that the Queen of England, Elizabeth, wanted to colonize.  Two groups of colonists vanished and I have a theory about why.

There was a group of  100 men led to Roanoke by Ralph Lane, whose attitude towards the natives was one of enemies.  They started building a fort surrounded by little cabins for the people to live in.  They should have been planting crops.  As winter came, they needed food so they sent some ships back to England to get supplies that they needed to survive the winter.  While the people were gone trying to get food, Sir Francis Drake sailed by and the people left went with him back home to England.  Soon after, the supply ship came back and they found that none of the people were there.  Fifteen people from the supply ship stayed behind in search of the colonists. 

Years later, John White led a second group of colonists, this time 150 men, women, and children, back to Roanoke.  When they arrived they found nothing but human bones of the15 people left behind.  Of the three tribes on the island one tribe was friendly, the Croaton.  The Croaton told the English that another tribe had killed the 15 men.  The English were enraged and they went to the neighboring island where the other tribe lived.  When they arrived, the Croaton were already there to help, but the English made the mistake of killing the Croaton that were there trying to help them because they didn't realize who they were.  This did not help their relationship with the Croaton.

Soon John White's daughter had a daughter named Virginian Dare.  John White left for England again to get more supplies.  He was in a hurry to get back because he now had a grandchild  in Roanoke.  While he was there, a war started between the Spanish and the English and the English needed all of their ships to fight so he couldn't get a ship to go back to Roanoke.  It took White two years to get back.  When he arrived, he didn't find anyone there.  He and some other sailors started looking for all of them.  He saw smoke and was hoping it was from the settlement, but it was just from a wildfire.  He went to where the fort had been and it was completely gone.  The people with him couldn't find the cross, the symbol that the colonists agreed to carve if they were in trouble.  He went to where he had put his family heirlooms and he couldn't find them.  They were all gone and all that was there was a book without a cover and torn up maps.  He tried going to the place that the Croaton lived but there was a storm whose wind blew them back towards England.

There are two theories about what happened to the colonists.  Some people reported seeing a settlement on the mainland and others reported seeing fair skinned Croatons, leaving them to believe that the colonists merged with the Croaton.  I believe that they were killed too fast to carve the distress symbol and the Croaton killed them because the colonists had killed some of their people in the big mistake.

As you now know, many groups of people tried to build a colony at Roanoke and there are several theories about what happened to them.  No one knows for sure what happened to the people.  From this we can learn to always bring the supplies we need when we go someplace and that we need to be nice to the natives of new places we visit. 

My Bio Poem

Hannah Jane
Happy, loving, snuggle bug
Lover of horses, dogs, and cats
who is able to be a friend
who feels happy because it is a good day
who wonders if I will make a new friend
who fears being alone
who would like to be an astronaut
who dreams everything wonderful.

In Charge of Celebrations

I read a story today called I am in Charge of Celebrations.  It was a poem, actually.  The girl kept a notebook for writing down things she wanted to celebrate and in one summer she had 108 differet celebrations.  I was supposed to write about something I wanted to celebrate.  Here is wat I wrote.

The arches are amazing.  I took a hike to the Delicate Arch.  I was dazzled by how big it was.  Campared to the arch a person looks like a ant.

The Renaissance

             I’ve been studying the Renaissance and I thought it would be nice if I could share a little bit about it.  The Renaissance started in Northern Italy in the mid 1400’s.  It represented a new era in history.  The art, philosophy and exploration was much different in the Renaissance from the Middle Ages.

            The Art changed a lot from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.  In the Middle Ages, art was focused on religious scenes, but during the Renaissance it shifted to scenes of every day life.  Painting in the Renaissance used more colors and shading to make it look more three dimensional.  Music moved from unison to having more harmony.  I’ll bet it felt really amazing to hear harmony for the first time after the Middle Ages had only one pitch at a time.  Architecture in the Middle Ages was intimidating and symmetrical, but in the Renaissance it didn’t have to be symmetrical and it was more inviting.  The Renaissance time changed art forever.

            Philosophy in the Renaissance was quite different as well.  In the Renaissance, people stopped thinking about religion so much and some people called themselves Humanists.  Humanists are people who study the problems facing mankind.  In this time people focused more on making their current daily life like enjoyable than on studying religion and focusing on getting to heaven.  They admired the ancient Greeks and Romans so they would copy their politics and loved their literature.  The Renaissance way of philosophy inspires philosophers today to think the Renaissance way.

Exploration was very big in the Renaissance.   Explorers only went by decorative ships with sails.  People sent explorers farther away because they were realizing that they weren’t the only people on earth.  It benefitted a king or queen to send an explorer out because if they found some place new, then they got to claim it and you would rule more land.  It was dangerous to be an explorer because if you ran out of things and you were too far away to go back you would just die!  On Magellan’s expedition almost 300 people went out on and only 18 people got back home.    Even though it was dangerous, I think that being an explorer is cool because I like things that are dangerous.  

Now you know that the Renaissance art, philosophy, and exploration had changed a lot from the Middle Ages.  Their daily life was much better because in the Middle Ages everything was rigid, but in the Renaissance everything was more free.  Every corner that you went to during the renaissance had something exciting.  Life was beautiful.umHum

Being Sick

I don't like being sick because I feel like my body is being stepped on by a giant. I've been sick for a week. I get a fever, my stomach starts hurting, and I start coughing.

Fevers make me feel like there is a fire burning inside my head. I start to burn up. It makes me so sweaty that I have to roll up my pant legs and sleeves to try to stay cool. When I get cool, I roll them back down and lay down to go to sleep, but after a while I get hot again. I do this nineteen times before I just get under the blankets and fall asleep. When I get a fever I have to take medicine which tastes like sour milk. No one wants a fever and it never makes you happy.

A stomach ache makes me feel like there's a balloon blowing up inside my stomach. It really hurts me so much that it makes me cry. There is not medicine for it, but medicine can taste so horrible sometimes that I'm glad there's not. I hate stomach aches.

A cough sounds so horrible that it is like a sick goose is inside of me. I get a sore throat that hurts so much I could die. Coughing causes a stomach ache. Coughing keeps me up all night and then I'm grumpy in the morning and start yelling a lot, which causes me to get in trouble for being mean. Coughing is the worst thing ever.

A fever, cough, and stomach ache are not fun at all. Being sick is horrible. If you ever get sick, take your medicine every day so that you don't feel like you're stuck in a volcano while it is exploding.

5 W's report on tsunami

Last Friday a tsunami hit Japan and Western North America.  It affected people who live in those regions by flooding towns, crushing houses and apartment buildings.  There was a lot of devastation.  Some people died and some were lucky because they got the evacuation call early enough to leave.  It was caused by an earthquake underneath the Pacific Ocean.  The ground just flew up into a big mountain and the water followed it up.  When it dropped, it pushed the water out like an explosive, pushing waves into cities.  Stay tuned.

Today we read a story about the forest ponies. I will tell you about it. In elf land there were wonderful little ponies but you would be hiding in the trees. One day the wizard was so bad that the elves were so scared and the wizard left a trail of burnt ash.
Every one was so scared. The wizard was tear everything apart. Then the ponies got up and galloped closer and closer. The wizard didn’t see them but it was too late. The ponies were right there and he went away.

Love and Rain

I wrote this poem all by myself for poetry club today.  My friend Steve gave me a magnetic poetry set this weekend and I got lots of ideas from it.  Plus I don't have to worry about spelling because most of the words I want to use are already spelled out on the frige.  My poem is called Love and Rain.

Rain like sweet honey falling
from her soul with loving care
and with her nightingale
she has love for every creature.

Clara Barton

I think Clara Barton is pretty much the coolest woman who ever lived.   I am so glad I got to read about her.  Here are my favorite facts about Clara Barton.

 She was homeschooled by her brothers and sisters.

She treated injured pets and cared for her brother when he suffered from a fall from a barn. 

 She worked in a patent office like my dad but they wanted to pay her less for being a woman.  She demanded equal wage.

When the Civil War started, she wanted to help the soldiers, so she resigned her job at the Patent Office.

She got permission from the War Department to go to the front lines of the battlefield to care for the soldiers 

Next she joined the relief * effort in the war between France and Prussia. In Europe they had an organization called the International Red Cross.  Later she formed the Red Cross in America.

She was called the Angel of the Battlefield.

 

Friends are Fun Patch

I just earned the friends are fun patch .   I am so excited.   I got to make a bracelet. 

I made stationary and a curly message .  

I made a message in code.

I am going to mail it all to my friend Pablo who lives in Seattle Washington.  I think he will like it because he hasn't seen me in a long time and he won't be expecting a secret code.

Brownies

          I just joined girl scouts.   Saturday I will start selling cookies.   I got to taste cookies blind-folded to know if I could taste the difference.  We had a cookie kick-off party.  It was fun.

My finished report.

I spent a week and a half working on this paper.  First I picked a subject.  Next I came up with questions.  The I looked up the answers and started writing my paper.  I wrote it by hand first and then I typed it.  My mom made me keep my hands in position because I have a typing program now.  It took a long time.

Hannah Jane

December 15, 2010

      The ocean is cool.  The animal that live there are fascinating .  Some animals that live in the ocean are
dolphins , squid and starfish.

     There are so man things that  make dolphins special .  Dolphins squeak to talk to each other.  Some
dolphins hunt by forming a circle, pointing their tails in ward and kicking up sand .Then fish jump out and the
dolphins catch them in their mouths.  Dolphins have one calf at a time and six teen in a life time.
        
     Squid are so awesome.   Squid eat every thing form shrimp to whales.  Squid grow up to be 495kg in
weight and 6m in length.    Isn’t that cool ?
 
     The last animal I will tell you about is the cute little starfish.   They eat clams and snails.  Starfish weigh
about 5 kilograms.  Starfish are almost any color.

     So you see that ocean animals are truly fascinating.  There is so much magic under the waves.  I love the
ocean.

Ocean report

This is what I have typed so far on my first research paper.  I am trying to make my decision of if this is going to be my new lanhguage arts program or if I want to keep using the big workbook from k12.  I'm not sure.  I'm getting tired of the workbook but I think i would miss it.  I am learning how to make paragraphs in complete papers, so i got to pick anything I wanted to lean about.  I have learned a lot of stuff I didn't know.  And some stuff I learned from a video I watched at the Taylors house on my vacation.  Here is my paper.

Hannah Jane
December 15, 2010

    The ocean is cool.  The animal that live there are fasinating .  Some animals that live in the ocean are dolphins , squid and starfish.
    There are so man things that  make dolphins special .  Dolphins squeak to talk to each other.  Some dolphins hunt by forming a circle, pointing their tails in ward and kicking up sand .Then fish jump out and the dolphins catch them in their mouths.  Dolphins have one calf at a time and six teen in a life time.
             Squid are so awesome.   Squid eat every thing form shrimp to whales.

I have to finish typing my squid paragraph, then write my star fish and closing paragraph and then I will be done and I can pick something new to learn about.