Weeks 24 and 25

Hi, this is Able again. I'm sorry we missed blogging last week. Mommy didn't get to it and we had company. Last week I did three more chapters in Independent Math. Decimals are so much easier than fractions. In Ethics, we acted out a play from Plato's Apology about Socrates' trial. In Science we had a murder mystery. We found 8 slipper shells with holes in them and a clam shell with a hole in it. But they died from suffocating first. We had to figure out who killed them. And the killer left behind an egg case that was a clue. We found out that a guy named Maury Moon Snail did the crime. He strangled them and then punched a hole in the shells. He spit poison into the shell to make the bodies liquidy and then sucked them out.

In History, we learned about the Hittite empire and their discovery of iron and how they were finally destroyed by the Mycenaeans. We went to the Telling Room on Wednesday for writing, and we had Co-op on Thursday. We only have two more weeks before our Odyssey of the Mind competition. We're very nervous. And we're very behind. On Friday I went to Internship and we removed a tumor from a dog. I learned the difference between malignant and benign and how to use an autoclave for sterilizing.

This week I did three more chapters in Independent Math. I am on Chapter 6 now, and I am learning how to use "pi" when trying to find the circumference of a circle. We had Ethics and we acted out Plato's Phaedo which is about Socrates' death. I was Simmeas who is sort of the dumb person. We continued practicing our truth tables in Logic. In Latin we practiced how to put the right endings on masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns. We learned how to make them plural. In History we learned about Old Babylon and how it got powerful and then was sacked by the Hittites. We got to argue about the laws of Hammurabi. In Science we did the anatomy of the Mollusk and had to draw them in our lab books. We finished reading the Odyssey and then we had to diagram some wicked hard sentences. Now we are at the Telling Room again and I'm writing this blog. Tomorrow we are going to Co-op and then Internship on Friday. I think we are removing another tumor from a dog, but it is a different dog. I think the tumor is benign and just has liquid in it. Cytology is when you study the stuff inside a tumor to see if it is benign or malignant.