English

Hank was asked to give examples of:
A noun:  Hank (my name)
A verb:  Crash
An Adverb:  Slowly
An Adjective:  Red

An Exclamatory sentence:  The house is on fire!
An Interrogative sentence:  What now?
A Declarative sentence:  I hate school 100 percent.

History

In history Hank has learned about the pilgrims, the revolutionary war, the civil war.  We have created a wagon train and made hard tack.  We also went to Ft. Clatsop.  So I asked him today what he remembered and here it is.
The pilgrims found this place. The came from England because they hated the rules there.  The Boston Tea Party started a war.
The Constitution is the rules.  George Washington was the first president.
Lewis and Clark were sent by Jefferson to find the Pacific Ocean.
The civil war was between the north and south.  Lincoln was the president.  He died.  They were fighting over slaves.  The slaves won.
Reconstruction moved the slaves north to bring the country together
The flag has 13 strips for the colonies and 50 stars for the states.

For Hanks 'research paper' we did a lot of reading and watching you tube videos.  He had to choose the things he thought were most important then write his own sentences about them.  Then he had to decide what went together to make paragraphs. He typed the paper himself and posted it to his blog all by himself.  I was going to get his sister to help. 
Last night after he posted to his blog he found a website that told him all the Thomas and Friends character names in Hawaiian.

Hawaii Paper

Hawaii

Hawaii is a chain of islands. It is the 50^TH state. It became the state 52 years ago on 8/21/1959. Honolulu is the capital.
Hawaii is the largest island. It is called the “ Big Island “. It is the widest state. It is the biggest mt. range. There are underwater volcanoes.
The newest island is Loihi. Kauai is the oldest island.
Some areas get rain & some don’t. The temp. is mild all year.
There are 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet. It has its own time zone. It is the only state that grows coffee. The Kilauea volcano has been erupting since 1983.
　
　
　
　
　

Sources

Oregonian
go Hawaii.com
Wiki.com/Hawaii
Funfacts.com
Answers.com
you tube.com
Hawaii by Jim Ollhoff

Halloween

Me & Callie carved a pumpkin its a kinda sorta sirprised face.
I just need to type up my research paper.
The cat house STILL NEEDS TO BE PAINTED!!!!!! & we still didint buy paint.
Anyway this is finished so bye bye adios!

Hawaii

Hank is researching Hawaii and will write a paper about it. Today we watched 2 videos about the new Hawaiian Island, Loihi.

Third grade!

I've started third grade. Started a research paper. I have a new math book.
Callie has a new Kinect / Xbox 360.
We still havein't painted the cat house. The cats kinda like it...







That's about it bye-bye!

Second Grade

As part of Hanks school we use the book Everything Your Second Grader Needs to Know.  There is a test in it that we use at what I think should be the end of each grade.  Yesterday he took the test and got 81% on it.  He did a little better in math than reading but still good enough to go on to third grade.

The States

Hank has now drawn a map and flag and read about each state.  My thought was to cut them out and put them together to create the map of the U.S.  Not sure if that will really work.

The Last 10 States Including Washington D.C!

We Did Ten / Eleven States The 11TH One Is Washington D.C! Anyway

Cat

Me, Callie & dad are building a cat house for the stray cats. We're gonna paint it soon blue with the stray cats and our cats and fish and birds and maybe something else, I forgot. But only one cat went in it! But it is finished besides the paint.

Hanks' Poem

I like to play
trainz all day
Callie has stray
cats she feeds them in the day

School

Today I did a lot of states I don't know how many I did. North Carlina, New York, New Jersey, & New Mexico. Me & my mom made cookies! Im starting time / x in math. We're working on states uh... we have like 12 or 10 or 11 more. We read a cars 2 book but its finished now.

Moms turn

Today Hank wrote his first journal entry.  Not sure how this is going to work out.  He was to write about what he did in school today.  We are reading about each state and drawing a map and will eventually put them together to create our own map of the U.S.

By Hank

Today i did two states. MO & MS.

New School

Hank is homeschooled.  He is finishing the second grade.  He is learning about different types of books and today will learn about journaling and will be posting his journal as part of this blog.