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My favorite thing to do is play with my baby brother, Frank. His favorite thing to do is climb onto my mom’s desk and sit on the keyboard, poking her three computer monitors. He is 14 months old and he is half the size of my four-year-old brother, Chuck. Frank also likes climbing the stairsContinue reading “English Lesson 20 Essay : My Favorite Thing To Do”

1 Johannes Kepler : His grandfather was a mayor and his father was a mercenary. When he was six his mother took him to see a comet, and later in his life he almost became a minister, but became an Astronomer instead. 2 Galileo Galilei : His father, who lived from 1564 to 1642, wasContinue reading “History Lesson 105 Essay”

1 Compound microscope : By the 1500s, the Dutch had applied their creativity to lens making. Several claims for the invention of the compound microscope had arisen by the year 1600. The compound microscope allowed people to see things you couldn’t see normally. 2 William Gilbert : The ancient world knew of magnetism but notContinue reading “History 100 Essay”

My grandparents and my aunt are moving into the house behind us in September. It is almost done. The outside is done (besides the landscaping) and they are working on the inside. Because they are going to live behind us, we are getting gates in the side fences so we can easily walk between houses.Continue reading “My Grandparents’ House”

Last month, I moved into my new house. It’s a custom house that was finished in late May. It has two floors and it doesn’t have a door at the bottom of the stairs like in the rental we were in, so we had to get baby gates because I have a one year oldContinue reading “Moving Into My New House”

1 Heliocentric Theory : Europe was beginning to change in 1500. Ptolemy said that everything orbited around Earth. The Heliocentric Theory says that everything orbits the Sun. 2 Nicolaus Copernicus : Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Poland in 1473. Copernicus was born in the Renaissance but wasn’t inspired by their culture. He gained interest inContinue reading “History Review Lesson 90”

1 Mariner’s Astrolabe : The Portuguese laid the foundation to nautical discoveries, and the Mariner’s Astrolabe was useful in the wind. It became popular because it was put in a book called “THE ART OF NAVIGATION”. 2 Double-Entry Bookkeeping : Italian merchants needed to develop better accounting methods. Luca Pacioli documented this technique in aContinue reading “History Lesson 85 : Review Of This Week”

If I could live anywhere, it would be Florida or California. I want to live in one of those states because I would like to go to LegoLand as a vacation. When I was little and we lived in California, we planned to go there for 4 days. But my mom got sick when weContinue reading “English Lesson 125 : If I Could Live Anywhere”

The English longbow helped the English defeat the French in The Hundred Years War. The spur made it easier to ride a horse in The Hundred Years War for things like jousting. The blast furnace made melting down raw ores like copper or iron more efficient. Plate armor was faster, more efficient, and cheaper toContinue reading “History Lesson 75 Review Of This Week”