Elementary School Lessons

Every Saturday, participants post photos based on a theme. The theme for January 19, 2008 is IMPORTANT.

In our home, a significant amount of time is spent in front of the almost outdated pc, whether for working, for gaming or for blogging. Blogging somehow is an interest that is starting to grow with my two older children and I gave importance to internet precautionary measures as well as online ethical standards. Below is Julian, in not so clear photos, short of a few days before turning 6, writing his first post in this blog. It is IMPORTANT to start ’em young, so they say 🙂 Yes, that keyboard has been long gone and we got a new one where dirt from dirty children’s fingertips are not obvious 😀

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Climbing a tree is a bit of hard work but with perseverance and a little support, it can be fun! Except for the ants 🙂

Julian testing his balance and stretching his body on a Thera-band Exercise Ball. He still needs to do these without holding on to something else. When on his own, his body becomes flexible but when I hold his legs for support, his body becomes as rigid as tree branches 😀

Fold some paper to make paper boats. Blow a little air and off go the paper boats on water. This is fun! We love to play!

Below is the partial book report of my first grader son which he encoded last night (January 2) using MS Word and he chose Century Gothic font. Comments would be appreciated.

Midnight on the Moon

By: Mary Pope Osborne

I. By Moonlight

Jack was sleeping Annie wake him. Annie said to him that the moon is bright and they will find the fourth M. Jack wants in morning because its dark but. Jack gets out of bed. Annie is right the moon is bright they go to the tree house. They will go to the moon.

II. Space Model

The room is circle and no windows white floor is called moon base. It has spacesuit, storeroom. There is airlock. Jack look up, Annie is gone. Annie is in the air lock. Moon base is in the moon.

III. Open Sesame

Annie will pressed the open button Jack grabbed her.
They go to the Spacesuit storeroom they dressed like an astronauts so Annie can pressed the open button.

IV. Moon Rabbits.

Jack stand they bounce. Jack read but Annie don’t want to read him they are in the space but Annie found a moon buggy Jack don’t want they had to find the M. thing Jack said they did not had a license. Annie knows how to drive it. Annie knows she pressed the on button the buggy move backwards. Annie pressed the pedal.

Julian said something the other day that hubby and I both looked at each other with amusement:

“Between January 1991 and August 2000, Somalia had no working government.”

Ok, then, so what? I didn’t know that. But he does. He went on to ask what “working government” means and we had to explain that that means there was no President and that there are no laws and that the people were probably very unruly.

Of course, we had to get some information about this and this was what we read:

Political Situation since Independence

1960-1969 Democracy

1969-1976 Military Regime

1976-1991 One Party State (SRSP)

1991-2000 No Central Government, National Fragmentation

2000-        Transitional Governments, National Fragmentation

2007 Freedom House Rating: Political Rights – 7, Civil Liberties – 7, Status: Not Free