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This year Elijah's main focus again was on Linguistics. He spent the vast majority of the year immersed in the world of languages, writing systems, and phonetics. Language Arts: Elijah reads online articles on a regular basis for information and pleasure. He enjoys writing emails, grocery lists, and determining phonologies and pronominal morphologies using Lexilogos.com. He is adept at finding information via online wikis, Internet and Google searches, encyclopedias, and the library catalogue. This year Elijah continue to focus on linguistics, constructed languages, writing systems, and foreign languages. He was mentored by both armchair and professional linguists via online conversations on the web forum Reddit.  E reading to his sibling. E reading to his sibling. E reviewing commas and "its" vs "it's" Mathematics: Elijah continued to practice and gain skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, ...

Watched Let's Play videos - YouTube.com House of Anubis - Nickelodeon The Avengers - movie Special Effects videos - YouTube.com Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - CartoonNetwork.com Battleship - movie Mythbusters - Netflix America's Funniest Videos - Netflix MAD TV - Netflix Super Mario mod videos - YouTube.com Cake - Netflix Sgt. Frog - Netflix Skunk Fu - Netflix Reaper - Netflix A.N.T. Farm - Netflix House of Anubis - Netflix Played Nitrome.com games Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Lego Wii Sports - Wii Homemade Lego board game - board game Dominoes w/ Michele - game Mine Shift w/ Bethany - tile-based board game Rory's Story Cubes - story dice game Angry Birds - iPad App Doodle Train - iPad App Various Online Games - Internet Minecraft - Computer Read/Researched/ Discussed Valve Employee Handbook ( would be a fantastic place to work! ) Ranger Rick Magazine National Geographic Kids Magazine Homophone, Homonyms et al...

So, it's time to play catch up, somewhat. I've got a new laptop, so I can actually type up things, unlike with the iPad! Here's a little bit of what we've been up to since mid February until now. Watched Let's Play videos (Minecraft, et al.) Vi Hart videos Netflix (various animated children's cartoons) Psych Monk Animated Ghostbusters Mythbusters Skunk Ninja iCarly Tin Tin (series) Robocop - Movie Played WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Minecraft - iPad and Computer Physicsgames.com - online Mine Shift - Tile-based board game Angry Birds - iPad Fruit Ninja - iPad Rory's Story Cubes - Dice-based story game Lego Creationary - iPad Whizzball - iPad Doodle Find - iPad Tamagotchi Connection 2 - 3DS Carcassonne - Tile-based board game Bingo - Board game Peggle - Computer Iggle Pop - Computer Plants vs. Zombies - Computer Minesweeper - Computer Various logic-based games - iPad Wand Charades Word With Friends (wit...

Watch Let's Play videos Rounding Numbers - BrainPOP Money - BrainPOP Sgt. Frog Pucca Beatles - BrainPOP Adventure Time Carbon Dating - BrainPOP Play Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 (w/ M & W) WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS Farkle - iPad (w/ M) Read/Research "Poon Trees" (Calophyllum) MadLibs Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2 Rodrick Rules Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3 The Last Straw Discuss How ball point pens work Hyperthermia Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Occupy Pittsburgh (OccupyPgh) 1% vs. 99% Racial inequality in social movements like OccupyPgh & the world in general Fashion Looking Like Awesome Write MadLibs Newspaper Story Listen Voice recordings Create Voice recordings MadLibs w/ W Newspaper w/ W Buttered Toast Little Big Planet 2 level design WarioWare D.I.Y. microgames Illustrated story (marker on paper) Go/Community Burger King Starbucks Burgatory Barnes & Noble Bookstore Java House Trader Joe's East End Food Co-op Heal...

Watch Dude, What Would Happen? Let's Play videos - Minecraft Adventure Time Drake and Josh Pucca The New Adventures of Nanoboy Homestar Runner iCarly Cyberchase The New Electric Company Wizards of Waverly Place Futurama Play Pencil Kids Games - online Farkle w/ M - iPad Scrabble w/ M (beat M) - iPad Electric Box 2 - online Nitrome.com games - online Various online flash games Lego Pirates of The Caribean - 3DS Lego Homemade Board Games Cooking Mama - 3DS Civiballs - online Powder Game - online Scribblenaughts - 3DS WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS Candy Land States & Capitals Puzzle Blocks & Ball Run Read/Research Lego Catalog 3 Laws of Robotics Newspaper GameInformer Magazine Discuss Realities of our family food budget Pricing strategies for E's business W explained to E the circuitry of a contact microphone power supply/amp Why the 1st letters of most words in a show/episode title are capitalized Flooding in Pennsylvania Why cacti ...

Watch Science Nation video - sun spots Adventure Time Mythbusters Let's Play videos Spongebob Fairly Odd Parents Obsessives: Soda Pop Dude What Would Happen? Lego stop motion videos The Super Mario Bros. Super Show Play Doodle Train - iPad Aqueduct 101 - online Pirate Ship Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Various other online games Sand Test Hangman w/ W - iPad Atari Greatest Hits - iPad Make/Do/Art Scratch programming Made a movie about a super hero Drawing Pictures in Photobooth - iPad E doing Edvard Munch's "The Scream" Go/Community Claire visits 1hr Brighton Heights Coffee Shop (Java N Cream) w/ Gyres 1.5hrs Burger King Sushi Tomo Human Motion Center - M's physical therapy Dr. Altman's Office - M's x-rays & check up Music Singing Fingers - iPad Bobby McFerrin Pentatonic Scale video Science NPR: Science Friday (July 22nd) - Exploring The Wild Life of Our Bodies - Yes, We Do Have Bananas, For N...

Watch BrainPop.com - painting, polyhedrons, basic probability, Pi, bruises, Internet, computer viruses, skin, obesity, multiplication, Roman numerals and mean, medium, mode & range Super Mario Brothers' Super Show Hello Kitty Fairy Tale Theatre Spongebob Movie Spongebob Let's Play Videos - Mario ROM hacks Super Why! Attack of the Eraser & Jack and the Beanstalk Rugrats The Fairly Odd Parents Aaahh!!! Real Monsters Play Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Little Big Planet - PSP Super Scribblenauts - DS Parcheesi Taboo Legos Mod Nation Racing - PSP WarioWare D.I.Y. - DS & Wii Various online flash games Scrabble w/ M (beat M) - iPad Casey's Contraptions - iPad Water Works - iPad Doodle God - iPad Doodle Devil - iPad E wins by a point Read/Research/Do Ranger Rick's Just for Fun magazine Chatting w/ Kendall via DS Scratch Programming website for animation inspiration Write/Draw Magnetic poetry w/ M - iPad Grocery List Drew id...

Watch Let's Play videos - YouTube.com   Angry Beavers - Netflix Mysterious Cities of Gold - Netflix Pocoyo ( English & Spanish ) - YouTube.com  Play Lincoln Logs Frontier Logs Blocks Mr. Potato Head Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Physics Games (Sugar, Sugar; Cover Orange, etc.) Wario D.I.Y. - DS Super Scribblenauts - DS Numbskull  Do/Projects Made Mobius Strips (for Mobius Monday) Everything Kids Egypt Puzzle Book Read Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book (read to Violet - 1yr old) 100 Rebus puzzles  Conversations/Research What is a Meme (and here & we both laugh as we were ' RickRolled ')? Is there a list of all the stickers in LBP? Oxymora , Spoonerisms & Palindromes . Spelling Dungeon Go/Community Mad Mex Trader Joe's East End Food Co-op The Gyres' (total 4hrs) Violet & River visit (total 6hrs) Other Helped w/ rearranging living room to make way for the 'new couch'.

Well, as you can plainly see, this blog has been severely neglected. But, that doesn't mean that we haven't been doing things! Here's a recap of the last couple days. Watch "Let's Play" videos - YouTube.com Pi is (still) Wrong Vi Hart videos - Vi Hart The Sound of Pi Math Doodles a la Vi Daily Doodles 09.10.09 Math Class Doodler Julie The Doodler videos - YouTube.com Pi Draw/Write/Art 'Adventure' Stories - pen & paper Screw Portraits The Book Surgeon Play Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Powder Game - OL Super Scribblenauts - DS Read ASK Magazine Game Informer Magazine Lego Club Magazine Do/Projects Helped put together blog post on Uriel Fury for Pi Day Conversations/Research What does 'anachronism' mean?  Why is Wednesday called Wednesday? (What about the other days of the week? And the months too?) Pi One Million Digits of Pi Functions Discontinuity Is 'appreciate' from another language? (Wh...

*playing some catch-up from the last 16 days Watch YouTube.com - "Let's Play" videos for "Little Big Planet", "Scribblenauts" & "Super Scribblenauts YouTube.com - "Robot Boy" Cartoon Network - "Adventure Time", "Chowder" & "Scooby Doo" Draw/Write Comics using stickers, markers & pens Stories & notes using stickers, markers & pens Creating/Designing 'characters' for use in games - pen & paper stripgenerator.com - Comic Strips Build - Towers & Farms w/ River Gyre using blocks Play Potato Head w/ River Gyre Super Scribblenauts - DS Scribblenauts - DS WarioWare D.I.Y. - DS Kirby's Epic Yarn - Wii Various Gameboy Advance games via Jason Wagner (Rachel's boyfriend) Various online flash games from nitrome.com & addictinggames.com Read Captain Underpants Calvin & Hobbes ASK Magazine Lego Catalog Do "stuff to do" binder Cap...

Free Draw - http://www.nickjr.com/games/nick-jr-free-draw.jhtml Jackson Pollock - http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ http://www.crayola.com/coloring_application/index.cfm Wario Ware D.I.Y. (DS) - Level programming, design and creation Drawing - free drawing pictures - pencil, marker and paper Stick Friends - craft stick puppets State flags: Oklahoma & Pennsylvania - state flag poster Dancing - Freestyle dancing around the house Dice made up a game using number dice added up all the sides of a standard 6-sided die and found that they equal 21 made a graph to chart correct guesses of which color a color dot die had landed on after each roll for 2 dozen rolls. Tony-b Machine 3 - http://www.tony-b.org/ make your own music and record your finished tracks as well as programme your beats, patterns and melodies. State Flag - State flag poster The Celery Stalks At Midnight - book