At the Y

On monday my friend Caileigh and I went to the YMCA for P.E. We played capture the frisbees. Then we went to the pool and took swimming lessons. It was fun!

SuGO

Yesterday I went to Accident to the GEARS building. My friend Collin and I built a robot out of Legos. It had light sensors and tracking eyes and four wheel drive.  Then all the teams brought their robots out to the arena and put them on a table so they could Sumo wrestle each other.  We fought a lot of battles, but we didn't win the competition.  At the end they put every single robot on the table and had a brawl. We won one of the big brawls.

Summary of The Establishment of the Thirteen Colonies by Don Nardo

What made the colonization of the US unique was the diversity of the people came together: people who came voluntarily and involuntarily as well as the people who were already here.

The first people were the Native Americans who came across the Bering land bridge and spread across the Americas.  The Indians of the Northeastern Woodlands of northern Canada to southern Florida were split into groups based on what languages they spoke.  They started out as hunter gatherers and eventually became farmers and grew many native crops.  

 In 1492 Columbus landed in the Caribbean. However he was not first European to sight and set foot in the Americas.  Sometime between AD 985-989 Leif Eriksson sailed from Greenland to Labrador, but did not return to the Americas.  Columbus' landing sparked a mass migration of Europeans explorers.  These visitors traded with the natives and brought back good to their European countries.

Religious persecution and the desire to escape poverty led many settlers to journey across the Atlantic to North America. They landed in the Northern US and set up towns and trading posts. They learned farming skills from the Native Americans.  Some Africans were forced to come to the Americas to work as slaves.

Colonies were established in Massachusetts, Virginia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Georgia.  Most of the colonist believed that the native americans were inferior. They colonist desire for expansion into native lands brought them into armed conflict. The colonists continually expanded their land and forced Native Americans to move.

Legos

A peaceful day
The townsfolk are
Going about their business.

Then out of no where
An evil mutant bionicle
Jumps into the street.

Sword meets sword as the
Terrible dragon-headed giant
Steps into view.

Cars swerve, people run in
Terror.  A helicopter is
Swatted out of the air and
Crashes in the park.

Houses crumble to dust.
At the press of a button
The bank explodes
Showering tons of
Rubble over the scene.

The battle droids jump
Out of their spaceship
And begin raiding the neighborhood ...

                                                             "Time for dinner" my
                                                                   Mother calls.


                                          Anything can happen when I am playing with
                                                             My Legos.

IPAD!!!!

When we were in Pittsburgh my mom and dad gave me a big surprise... an IPAD!! So far I have downloaded: Solitaire, Lasers, Battle Bears, Warp my Face, Blue Block, NFL sports network, and IBOOKS.

Snow

  It started snowing tuesday night. I ran around jumping of humongous rocks pretending I was being chased. After a while it got boring so I went back and got the push broom. I used it to push all the snow on the deck into one big pile. Then I lined all my action figures up and squished them into the pile. I picked up all my figures climbed up onto the table and threw them one by one into the snow.

Papercutting

Today we are hosting the home school group at our house.  We are going to be doing some simple papercutting, starting with cutting snowflakes. Papercutting is a art form practiced across cultures, in China,  Germany, Poland, and Mexico to name just a few.  Check out these amazing examples!