Today Connor began going to his homeschooling class at the YMCA. I dropped him off at 9:30 and picked him up at 2:00P. Since I wasn't there all day, I decided to just let Connor type what he learned today. All I know is that he is frantically searching boat blue prints online and printing his findings. After the boat building class, Connor went to a guitar lesson. Here is Connor's blog about the boat building:
Today was so cool. The class is about building boats. We are actually going to build a life size rowboat. It can hold people and everything! In the beginning, we talked about what a good boat needs. There are tons of things. Here are some of them. A good boat needs to float,be hydrodynamic, water tight, and be capable of motion and weight. We started learning about the blue prints.
There were already some blue prints, but we needed to convert them to another piece of paper. I had to measure really closely. If we were off by a 1/2 a cm it would totally ruin the design. We constructed a paper model of the boat that we might make. There were three different types of boats we could make, but we decided that we would make the life size version of the model rowboat. I had to make three models because I always rush and didn't measure accurately enough. To figure out the boat's shape we did experiments in a big bucket of water, using a round ball and also Styrofoam. I got soaked!! We are going to construct our boat out of wood. That's the cool thing about homeschooling. As long as I get done what the state requires, which takes me about an hour each day, I can spend the rest of the day researching the things that interest me most.
Mom's comments (morning of Feb. 26th) Connor woke up this morning and the first thing he said is, "I'm not hungry for breakfast. I can go research more boat blue prints?" Of course, I said ok.
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