MATH
For math I read Mathematicians are People Too with my mom which had lots of interesting stories about famous mathematicians.
I also learned all of my multiplication tables and did math facts practice on Arcademics.
I started a business too this year selling Pasture Raised eggs from my 44 chickens. They are delicious with dark yellow yolks and I sell them for $7 a dozen.
I have to keep track of how much I spend and how much I earn from the eggs since it cost a lot to build the coop and buy the chickens and to get boxes and stickers to sell the eggs in.
Our hens lay about two dozen eggs each day and we eat a lot of them.
SCIENCE
This year for science I have been studying butterflies a lot.
I read The Girl of Limberlost which got me into them then I studied all about the kinds of butterflies and moths that live here.
I raised and hatched monarch eggs and swallowtail eggs and had to learn what kind of plants they ate.
I learned swallowtails like Sassafras trees and you can tell them by their leaf shapes but I fed my caterpillars dill.
I also made a video of the butterflies coming out of the chrysalis.
Other animals I have raised are zebra finches. I started with 2 and now we have 9. They are a lot of fun and beautiful birds.
My favorite animals that were born this year though were my baby chicks. You can read about that in All about Buffy!
Along with animals I also got into experimenting with making slime and putty out of all sorts of things around the house.
I put some in the freezer once and it made everything taste yucky, but it was fun experimenting.
We also planted a garden and I have had fun watching the plants grow and eating them.
ENGLISH
I read a lot this year. I think I read the entire American Girl series of like 40 books which I liked because they are interesting stories and they tell about different times in history like the Great Depression. I also read Where the Mountain Meets the Moon which is a Chinese legend and talks about learning to appreciate what you have. Another book I liked was The Unusual Chicken for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer which was a fun book about a chicken with magic powers and made me imagine if my chickens could do those sorts of things.
As a family we read or listen to classics together and then we would talk about them together. Here's a list of the books. My favorites were the nature ones like Calpurnia Tate,the Girl of Limberlost and Journey to the River Sea.
1. The Chronicles of Narnia
2. The Prince and the Pauper
3. Little Lord Fauntleroy
4. Gulliver’s Travels
5. A Wrinkle in Time
6. Tom Sawyer
7. Huck Finn
8. The Wind in the Willows
9. The Illiad (Portions) - Homer
10. The Inner Ring – C.S. Lewis
11. Lifes of the Explorers – Krull
12. Ben Hur – Wallace
13. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
14. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate - Kelly
15. The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate - Kelly
16. Chasing Vermeer - Balliet
17. A Girl of Limberlost - Sutton
18. Fortunately the Milk - Gaiman
19. The Story of the Amulet – Nesbit
20. The WouldbeGoods – Nesbit
21. The Adventures of Robin Hood - Pyle
22. Journey to the River Sea – Ibbotson
SOCIAL STUDIES
This year I read a lot of those Who Is biographies. My favorite stories were Jackie Kennedy, Pocahontas, Hilary Clinton, Abigail Adams & Teddy & Eleanor Roosevelt.
I also read the big book of History with my mom and we studied the French Revolution.
One interesting thing I learned the other day was that long ago it was the poor people who ate the healthiest since they didn't have money to buy sugar and other unhealthy things that were very expensive.
Now though unhealthy food is really cheap so the poor people eat the most unhealthy while the rich people eat the natural expensive food.
We also learned about art during the Renaissance on Khan Academy.
We also got to travel around this year a little and we went to Washington D.C. and saw the museums and the monuments. I like the Museum of Natural History but I liked the zoo better since the animals were alive there.
We also went to Princeton University which looked very old and we went to 8 National parks over the last year here near us including: Acadia, U.S.S. Constitution, St. Georges Island, Minute Man Historic Park, Cape Cod, Saugus Iron Works, Boston & Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park in Maryland.
ART
I drew a lot of stories this year with pictures of girls in different dresses and I also started drawing more animals since they are my other favorite thing to draw.
The NAA has a show for kids each year and this year I sold a painting I did of a hen with a chick.
I also won an award in an online kids art contest for a drawing I did.
I still love singing and do it all the time, sometimes at home or at church or just outside in my yard. Sometimes even when there are a lot of people around in a store or something and I just feel like singing.
I think I will take a singing class in the fall.
I also love dancing and biking and running and I started taking some junior track lessons which has been fun learning how to run better.
