The First Monday, August 30th 2010, (in which I briefly study Marco Polo)

Do you know who this is?  This is Marco Polo.  Today in history I read about him. He was only 17 when he took his first journey to China in 1271!  He was a great storyteller and he told a man his adventures. That man wrote them down, and so now there is a book called,  The Travels of Marco Polo.  Today in history I also read about Richard the Lion-hearted, (whom everybody loved,)  and also his brother John, (whom nobody loved.) I read a little bit about the Crusades and an even littler bit about Robin Hood. To explain the " little bits",  you've got to realize the title is,   A Child's History of The World, and they are  are trying to recall the  beginning of the world through World War II  in 470 pages.

In math, today, I took  my first test of the school year.  One thing I really enjoyed  at school, was getting my report cards and progress reports. I liked seeing what I did well  and what I should work on in the next quarter. I will probably not get report cards this year, but, now, the fun of seeing my test scores will increase.  The test took barely half an hour, and the content was all review, so I spent the rest of my assigned hour in another lesson on estimating, bar graphs,  and rounding to the nearest 10, 100, or 1000.

              In English,  where I am using a  Shurley English Grammar curriculum, I reviewed the contents of a sentence and what defines a noun and a verb. 

I have not yet started studying science yet, for I do not have a textbook format to use.


                                                        WRITTEN ON AUGUST 30


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