What I've been doing in school

I've been doing a lot of history. I'm learning about the hundreds. We're learning about Vikings, who thought it was going to be the end of the world by 1,000 A.D. We've learned about Charlemagne and Alfred the Great.

Here's a story about Alfred the Great. One time he went to a shepherd man's house and he asked to have dinner there because he saw his wife was cooking. And so he asked her if he could have dinner there and she said yes, if you watch the food while I go get vegetables from the garden. And he didn't watch the food while she was gone so she shooed him out when she didn't realize this was a king she was doing this to.

And in science we've been learning about atoms. We played a trick on my Daddy and Grandpa. We put together water molecules. We made them out of these plastic circles — red is oxygen, white is hydrogen. And so we put together one oxygen and two hydrogens and made a lot of those and put those in a glass and told them to drink it. And I thought it was kind of funny. They really didn't get it, it seemed like, but they laughed pretend.

We've been doing language lessons and we've been learning pronouns. We've been copying poems.

And in math we're learning double-digit numbers.

With reading we've been doing a Pizza Hut thing called Book It, and my goal was to read 40 chapters every month. I'm doing really good. I'm five into week 4 for October.

Science Jim

I did my first online class. It was called Astonishing Atoms. I learned what was smaller than an atom. I learned that if you took the energy out of a golf ball it would probably power the whole earth. I really don't know what I learned; I learned a lot, but pretty much I learned what an atom is.

Atoms are like little building blocks. All the building blocks that you were made out of could have been from the sun, from a tree, from a jumprope — could've been from a woodchuck.

There's matter and energy in the universe. As Einstein said, matter and energy is the same thing. [She's referring to E=mc2.]

Note from Mom: Addy did well with her first online class experience, which supplemented what we were learning about atoms with our NOEO Chemistry I curriculum. She had a couple great questions for the teacher that told me she was really understanding it. I registered for the class through CurrClick.com and it was well taught by Science Jim.