Sammi's Best-in-the-World Blog: February 2012

Friday, February 10, 2012

The Greek Gods

Topic: the Greek Gods

Questions:
Where do the greek gods live now?
Who were the Greeks?
What do the Greek gods look like?
How many Greek gods are there?

What is my answer?
Where do the Greek gods live now? Mount Olympic.
Who were the Greeks? Not sure.
What do the Greek gods look like? Zeus has a white beard. Uranus - not sure.
How many Greek gods are there? I guess about 5.

The answers:
Where do the Greek gods live now? They lived on Mount Olympus. This is because it was a very high peak.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_Greek_gods_live_on_Mount_Olympus
Who were the Greeks? They lived 4000 years ago. They came up with the first alphabet, and that word is from 'alpha'and 'beta'. They invented lots of the things we do today in science, government, art, philosophy, etc.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Greece.html
What do the Greek gods look like? They look a lot like us. Boys just have skirts and no t shirts, girls have dresses, and some of the girls have the same thing as the men. See picture. Click on link and then on the god, to find out about that god!
http://www.mythweb.com/gods/index.html
How many Greek gods are there? 12.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP_NeirFIkM

Video: http://www.google.co.nz/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ACAW_en___NZ458&q=youtube+the+greek+gods

Reasearch Brainstorm

Friday, February 3, 2012

Games for Sammi

Hang Mouse

Grade Two (US):
2nd grade Number sense learning games

Brainstorm of really cool things to research

-stories behind the stories I know and love
-the story behind Catweazle
-the Greek Gods
-the Wars
-the Maori
-worms and bugs
-Korea history
-kowhai tree
-kauri tree
-animals: how and why they are different
-were did we come from
-my family tree
-the history of the english alphabet and language
-the greek alphabet
-why are countries different?
-how does an electric organ piano keyboard work?
-how does the blood go around your body (and not just down)
-why do things fall down (and not up or sideways?)
-how does glass help your eyes see?
-how can you hear with your ears?
-how does your mouth make you talk?
-how does your mouth move around when your talk or eat?
-how can your arms keep you from going onto the ground when you are doing a handstand?
-how can your legs help you stand up for a long time?
-how do you swallow?
-how does the earth move slowly on its axis?
-how does your arm move?

Rainbow fairies

It was quite late in the morning when Kirsty woke up because her parents were already eating breakfast. So Kirsty got out of bed then she went to the lounge to see her parents to say good morning.

SONGS 4/2/12