One Year of Sonlight | Second Grade Term Paper

I, Christopher, had a great time this year on my first year of Sonlight homeschooling and I can't wait to start my next one. I had lots of field trips, read alouds, science, spelling, readers and having my mom as my teacher is the best part. (Awww!) You'll find very interesting stuff I learned about in all these groups. They're sorted out in groups so you can't get mistaked about what part you can find it in. You get a new box everytime you're done with your first year. The first year is a surprise beginning. You'll love being a homeschooler, but be sure your mom knows the most important part is to learn funly (Memo to me, emphasize grammar next year.)

History (Sonlight Core B)

We learned about God's creation in the beginning. Like, whoa. We learned about the 'gyptians and how that the white crown of the pharaoh represented the southern part of Egypt while the red part represented the northish part of Egypt. The pharaoh with both parts was in charge of *all* of Egypt. The old kingdom, there were several things, but in the Middle kingdom they built stairs on their pyramids. You could step up higher and higher on the pyramids. In the Old Kingdoms they were flat diamond shapes. We learned about Abraham and Isaac. We learned that Isaac had a servant go back to his father's hometown and find a wife for him. We learned about Joseph. He was thrown into a pit because his brothers were jealous of his father having him be more loved than the rest of the family. We learned about Moses and how he parted the Red Sea. It seems as if it the color is red, but it is actually water. We learned that Tut was the boy king who ruled Egypt when he was a boy. He died a special way and we don't know how. The Trojan War had a Greek carried horse. They fought their enemies across the sea and they ended up winning. They ended up winning because they had a big horse and their enemy's thought it was a gift from the gods, but they were mistaken and they fell for the Greek army's trick. It was a wooden Trojan horse where the Greek army got inside it and the Trojans carried the Greek army in and then they attacked the Trojans. I learned about King David and that he defeated Goliath because God helped him. It wasn't on his own; it was God who did it. God helped him.
After Rome did not want kings anymore they became a republic and different members ruled different parts of the Republic. Then they had an empire. Then different emperors. They did not even like that.
I learned that Alexander the Great conquered most of the human world that people on that side believed, but not America, but they didn't know it was there yet. Alexander the Great when he came back he had a great feast and while the feast was going he died.
Julius Caesar crossed the forbidden line that separated the half of the Roman Empire that wasn't the main empire zone and crossed that to Rome and ended up winning and wanted to end up king. One of his friends, not a true friend, killed him for fun. Would you like that if your true friend killed you?
I learned that John, the cousin of Jesus were born almost the same time. If you examined the dead bones of John and examined the cross they should be around the same age. (You mean they were at the same time?) Yes.
When Mount Vesuvius destroys Pompeii it puts ashes and most of the people were trapped in the ashes and they choked on the ashes in the air and died. You might have never wanted to be there when volcano day came. Volcano day is the day when Mount Vesuvius wakes up. Here's a handy tip: if you're one of the million people who live near Mount Vesuvius look at it and hope it stays asleep and run away if it doesn't. If it's coming after you run. There are no lifejackets if you don't.
Constantine I...mom was there a Constantine the second? (I don't know.) He made Christianity the religion of the Roman Empire and part of the Roman Empire. That means if people preach against it that doesn't count and the empire will say no to killing Christians. Many Christians were killed before he made Christianity a religion.
Remember the guy, mom who has never heard about Jesus when he was born? The barbarian in Rome? (Attila the Hun? Yeah, Mom.) He decided to see the bishops but didn't attack. He marched and had a little conversation and then went back home.
The Dark Ages began once the western part of the Roman empire falls to pieces. The Dark Ages began because all of the people thought their information was lost forever with their dreams for the future. The Dark Ages was a time when people fought each other for lands and for fun and people stopped making castles but they were a main part of the dark ages. The cannons were so powerful they could knock down the walls in a second or two.

Read Alouds (Sonlight Core B)
We also read about in the book Homer Price that they had a donut maker that could make donuts while it can make donuts better than a human being can but you'd need special ingredients. You'd need to have it perfect no mistakes or it would never work properly.

Math (Horizons Math 2)
I learned how to write the ratio in math. Also I learned how to do addition and subtraction and multiply. And also I learned how to write fractions and write time and also how to...remember the end a mysterious number that...No!
Don't write that mom!
Backspace!
Mom what's it called?
Algebra?
Yes.
Algebra.
I want to talk about our Mathtacular buddy. (Justin?) Justin, yes. We learned about how there are friend numbers that keep the number the same while bully numbers from 6-9 they change the number when you're adding. Friend numbers are from 1-5 and they want to keep your good behavior just like how your friends at school do. He helps you understand math and also you can learn all about adding subtracting, multiplication or even "add-gebra" (Algebra?) Yes. And time and inches and more. It's fun.

Language Arts (Sonlight Language Arts 2)

I learned how to write cursive and in print and that's not all! I also learned how to do math. I learned spelling in language arts. I really like the book called that I read that's called "POMPEII...Buried Alive!" It talks about how that Pompeii buries them and also how they found Pompeii. That was about more than a thousand years and they also found a few skeletons of the people who were trapped under the ashes and died. I learned in "The TITANTIC Lost...and Found" I learned that the Titanic's weakness was where like people thought that it couldn't ever sink. They put very few lifeboats, like not enough to hold all of the passengers so they would think it was a safe boat. That is how people learned how to put enough lifeboats for everybody on every ship and a safety drill, so that whenever there is an emergency you can get away and escape. A man several years ago found the Titanic and did not tell anybody else about it because he did want everything to be safe where it was so people could enjoy the view instead of having some other people's stuff for fun, which is called stealing.

Science (Sonlight Science B)

We learned about how that octopuses live in the upper section of the oceans. I learned that the best things that to navigate through the dark are big ears and big eyes. Bats use their feet claws to hang upside down so they can stay upside down to push against the gravity of Earth. See How It's Made is where we learned how LEGO bricks are made and how they'd need more than a thousand LEGO bricks to build all the way up to the moon. You would have to start with one piece and once you've got enough bricks you can start being part of the LEGO Club team and if you're six and under you get different types. (Duplos?) Yeah.
We learned about that your brain controls your body and how you catch a body is first you see the balls with your eyes and then your brain sends a message with all kinds of fast cells and tells your arm to move and then you catch the ball! I also learned that there is only room for one baby in every mommy's uterus. (What about twins?) Twins are the most babies you can have at the same time to be healthy. If you have triplets they're not very healthy once they're born, because every mommy's uterus is very small and just barely enough space for two. We learned that without your heart you wouldn't be able to breathe well or send oxygen to the rest of your body and also white cells are made to defend your body. So if red cells get the germs the white cells can get the red cells germs eaten up. Babies don't like getting shots but they help a baby learn to fight back and learn about how it looks like. Like the cells that are in it are okay. But every baby doesn't like it.
We learned about that black holes are left over pieces of a star once it's out of fuel and it makes such a stuff that it can only have one black hole and one new star during your life, because it takes like a thousand years. It takes about a thousand years to make a new star. In space they have to eat all sort of foods that we don't eat on earth that are frozen because space is cold. When they're sleeping they need eye covers and bed holders and a pouch cover cause they need the light on always. They have to exercise hard in space to stay healthy.
People eat stuff like macaroni and cheese and oatmeal and carrots and soup. There are people who eat stuff like they eat pig ribs and turkey sandwiches. There are also other people called vegetarians. They don't like to eat meat. They like to eat vegetables and macaroni and cheese and cheese pizza and oatmeal. No pepperonis. Last of the groups of eaters, there are vegans who can't eat meat they eat stuff like vegetables, egg replacer, peanut butter sandwiches and also oatmeal, but no meat. They like peanut butter sandwiches instead of cheese or meat sandwiches, because if they eat meat they will have something like a stomach ache or bumps or there are some people who can't eat wheat so they have special bread that is not made out of wheat. Also the bread they eat is kind of like egg replacer but is not labeled bread replacer but it is called gluten free.

Jedi Training Academy counts for PE, right?

Field Trips (Adventures in the Great Wide Somewhere)

I really liked going to the zoo for a field trip. it was awesome and there was a lot of animals like lions tigers bears and giraffes. Much more fun stuff like that. We also went to the Houston Museum (ETA: Natural History Museum) near the Houston Zoo. It has items where it shows you false mummies to make it where it looks like it so you can see how the coffins were put on each other. I learned about the T-Rex bones that were stacked up to form a T-Rex. They were around a long, long time ago. Near the beginning and their was also a very big point of caves and an old time clock the way every time it's an hour it knocks one of the stacked things down. About energy and how we dig holes with sharp items so all starts of stuff and oil comes up out of the mine. I also got to learn how deep it is by getting in a machine that would put us down through the mining machine.
At the Space Center I got to meet a *real* astronaut. He only got to do three missions before he went to Space Center. Remember mom, remember how long it takes an astronaut to get to the moon and back? Why aren't people exploring the moon. Why don't people visit on the moon and head back?
Remember I learned other stuff from caves when I was going spelunking down under the highways (I-30 in Georgetown) under a cave. The deeper we went, the hotter it got and the higher we got the colder we got. Also, it was very, very deep. We found cave kissers which are little peephole things that drop water on your head from the ceiling.

Epcot Rocks!

I've done enough for today. To find out about my Disney World and U.S. Territory field trips, read my mom's blog.

(Mom's comments are in the parentheses.)