Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

A few days ago I read the the book: The Diary of Anne Frank. It is about how the Jewish people were prosecuted by the Germans in WWII. It starts out on her birthday and everything is happy. At school she talks too much so her teacher makes her write a story called the incurable chatter box. Her dad Otto Frank receives word that the Germans are coming and also receives this list of things the Jews can no longer do.

1. Jews must wear a yellow six pointed star to distinguish themselves.

2. Jews must hand over their bicycles to the Germans.

3. Jews are banned from trains and forbidden to drive.

4. Jews are only allowed to do their shopping between 3 and 5 0'clock and can only go in the shops that have the placard "Jewish Shop".

5. Jews must be indoors before 8 o'clock and can't even sit in their own garden after that hour.

6. Jews are forbidden to visit theaters, cinemas, and any other place of entertainment.

7. Jews may not take part in public sports, swimming baths, tennis courts, hockey fields and other sports grounds are prohibited to them.

8. Jews may not visit Christians.

9. Jews must go to Jewish schools and many more like that.

The Franks go into hiding with the Van Daans into an abandoned warehouse. They find a secret room that is hidden behind a bookcase and call it the Secret Annexe. Anne's father prepared this living space for them for nearly a year and when he got a notice from the Germans saying Margot was to be sent to a labor camp, they decided it was time to hide. After six months a new person joins them, his name is Dr.Dussel. So he comes and he shares a room with Anne and hogs her desk. Mrs. Van Daan refuses to give up her expensive fur coat so they can have food. Everyone is really annoyed with her selfish behavior. Anne soon falls in love with the Peter Van Daan who is looks and not brains, this gives her somone to share her thoughts with but eventually she is over him. The company building that they hide in is visited by burglars twice and each time they get lower and lower on food. Every day a girl named Meip gives the Van Daans and the Franks fruit from the market place and a girl named Elli gives them school supplies. After two years of hiding and just one month before liberation, the Germans find the them and send them to consentration camps. Anne is separated from everyone but her sister who eventually gets sick and dies. Anne meets up with her old best friend Lies and soon dies of starvation. She refused to eat and had thought her dad had also died, so she hadn't any hope. The only survivor is Anne's father Otto Frank. After trying in vain to find his daughters, he is finally told they died. Meip, the girl who had been taking them supplies while in hiding reveals to him she found Anne's diary. He later had it published and it still is read by many. Anne Frank is probably Hitlers best known victim. I really liked the book and I recommend it to you.

Astronomy

"Houston, the eagle has landed" said Neil Armstrong. "That's one small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind" Buzz Aldrin commented. Astronomy is the study of stars , planets, and pretty much everything in space. Nobody really knows if space ever ends but they do know that it's huge. There are 8 planets in our solar system all with different moons, looks, and names.

Sun: (The sun isn't a planet) The Sun is 92,960,000 miles away from the earth and all planets orbit around it. The Sun is 73.46% Hydrogen, 24.85% Helium, 0.77% Oxygen, 0.29% Carbon, 0.16% Iron, 0.12% Sulfur, 0.12% Neon, 0.09% Nitrogen, 0.07% Silicon and 0.05% Magnesium. The Sun is a Yellow Giant and it is so big about a million Earth's could fit inside it.

Mercury: Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and is also the closest to the sun. It takes only 88 days for it to orbit the Sun and a day on Mercury is only 5 hours long! mercury is so small it could fit inside the Earth 3 times. Mercury was named after the Greek god of Sale Mercury.

Venus: Venus is a Volcanic planet and is mostly made of Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen. It is almost the same size of the Earth and is commonly called Earth's twin. It is the Second closest planet to the sun (you'd think it was the first because it's so dang hot) and is named after the Roman Goddess of Love.

Earth: Earth is home to millions of species of life including humans and was formed 4.54 billion years ago. The Earth is made of Nitrogen and Oxygen and has 6,740,000,000 humans on it, most of which live in Asia. It takes 365 days (366 on leap year) to orbit the Sun and 24 hours for it to spin on it's axis once. The Earth's water covers three fourths of the Earths surface and has only one moon called the Moon.

Mars: Mars is the fourth closest planet to the sun and is named after the Roman God of war, Mars. It is commonly called the red planet because of the iron in it's soil. Mars has polar ice caps just like Earth but instead of frozen water the ice is made of Nitrogen! Mars has the biggest geyser in the galaxy called Olympus Mons which is 7 times bigger then Mt. Everest and shoots Carbon Dioxide.

Jupiter: Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System and is 5th closest to the sun. Jupiter is two and a-half times bigger than all the planets in the Solar System combined! Jupiter has 63 moons too! It is named after the Roman God Jupiter and the strangest thing about it is a 600 year old storm that could cover the Earth 3 times.

Saturn: Saturn is the sixth planet closest to the Sun and has a huge ring around it made up of asteroids and comets. Saturn has the second largest moon in the galaxy named Titus it is 2x larger than Mercury. Saturn is named after the Roman God Saturitus.

Uranus: Uranus is the sixth planet from the sun and is made of Hydrogen and Helium. Uranus is named after a Roman God just like most of the planets are. The guy who dicovered Uanus was called William Shercael. Uranus is a pecuiliar planet mainly because of it's color, Light Blue which is caused by all the Helium.

Neptune: Neptune is the last of the gas giants and the planet farthest away from the sun. Neptune is named after the Roman God of the sea. Neptune is entirely made of ocean that are made of Hydrosulfide. It is 15x bigger than earth and has 6 moons.

BLACK HOLES THE DESTROYERS OF GALAXY'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Black Hole is a collapsed star destoyed by it's own gravity. This is a picture of a Black hole sucking up a star. I just hope a Black Hole doesn't hit Earth or else there will be 7 planets instead of 8. Iknow what your'e thinking, what happend to Pluto, well it got kicked off as a planet by the goverment they say it's to small to be a planet.

Glad not to be a Gladiator

Rah! The Gory sport of Roman gladiators was considered fun back in old times. The people of Rome just loved it, watching men, women and animals brutally killed or wounded. Julius Caesar was famous because he payed for the fights. Gladiators were slaves, criminals, or just volunteers. To become a gladiator you had to go to gladiator school where you would become tough and mean. After you were done with school you would become a gladiator. Gladiators looked like Romes past enemies but they weren't always like that. There were 11 different types of gladiators all with different names, weapons, armor and clothing.

Myrmillo: Carries a dagger and shield. Wears wide leather belt, leg band and has a fish-like helmet.

Thracian: Uses a small shield and curved dagger. Wears greaves on both legs.

Andabatus: Wears a helmet with no eye holes and charges blindly at opponent on horseback.

Essedarius: A gladiator who drives a horse drawn chariot and carries a spear.

Retarius: Carries a trident and dagger. Has a net and tries to snare opponents. Wears shoulder armor on the left arm.

Women: An uncommon sight but women fought as all types of gladiators too.

Samnite: Wears a crested helmet and carries a sword and large shield.

Dimachaerius: Carries two swords and has little or no armor.

Lequarius: Is just like Retarius except that he carries a lasso instead of a net.

Secutor: A lightly armed and armored gladiator that chases his opponent with just a knife.

Velitus: A gladiator that wears lions skin on his back and carries only a spear.

Sometimes gladiator battles would be against animals with up to 15 gladiators all trying to kill lions, jaguars, panthers, elephants, crocodiles, rhinos, and bears using dogs, nets and spears. At least 5 times in gladiator history they did naval battles. They filled the big Roman coliseums with water then put two ships in them and battled! There is a cool gladiator game on the web if you want to play it click here, (p.s. you might want to read the types of gladiators). I still think it's good not to be a gladiator. =)

The Roman Army

Charge! Was the usual battle cry for the Roman army. This week I learned soooooo much about the roman army and Rome, and we did sooo many activities at homeschool about it. It was really cool!!! The Roman Empire had many enemies like the savage mountain barbarians, the Assyrians, the Egyptians, the Mongols, the Celts, the Arabs and the Persians. A lot of enemies right? I would rather make friends with all of them (except the barbarians). Rome came to have most of it's land because of a cruel dictator named Julius Caesar. One thing I did not know is that the Romans conquered the U.K.!?!? Yeah, that's right the Britons. They all rode over there and attacked the Celts.

This is a Celt.

The Celts went into battle naked! 1. because all of them where big, tall, strong and FIERCE!!!

2. because they thought that the blue paint on their bodies would protect them from swords and arrows. Unfortunately for them they lost and the Romans took over the U.K.

Do you know that the Romans actually named London, the original name was Londonium. The Romans had many ways of winning they used advanced weaponry, quick thinking, and strategic formations that made them brutal opponents. The advanced weaponry was something most of their enemies didn't have artillery!!! The Romans had three types of artillery the most famous of them is probably the Catapult. The catapult (just in case somebody doesn't know) is a wooden mechanism that was commonly used in the Middle Ages it used a clever pulley device that launched rocks at the enemy. They also used Ballistas, Giant Crossbows that shot huge arrows or spears that ripped through shields and armor.

The last of the Roman artillery was the Scorpio!!! The Scorpio was an awesome arrow tip shooting gun that looked kind of like a Ballista but shot arrow tips that caused instant death. The Scorpio was used like a machine gun could shoot up to 5 darts at a time. The Romans had really powerful artillery's but the Roman soldier was pretty good too. The common Roman soldier carried two throwing spears, one sword that he carried on his waist, one tall rectangular shield and a small dagger. They didn't have arrows because let's just say it just wasn't their thing. Sometimes the Romans rode horses into battle too. Romans had many sea battles as well, they were mostly against the Persians. Learning about the Roman army was pretty fun, but let's just say I still wouldn't want to be against them!

Nerf Gun Wars

Today we had a play date with a bunch of home schooler kids, no really I mean a bunch about like thirty of them ranging from 3-17 on a 3 and a half acre piece of land . On the invitation they told us to bring any Nerf guns we have so we brought a pretty good grenade launcher (a.k.a ball gun). When we got there there was all ready a battle going on so we hurried and got on our speeders (a.k.a scooters) and hurried and took sides (kids of course) and went to see what our enemy was. Now I had taught Kaden some pretty good moves like the old "duck and roll" but nothing could of prepared us for what was coming. The enemy was on a Warthog (a.k.a golf cart) charging towards us at full speed so I yelled "Code Red" and we both took off running. Bullets were flying everywhere so we both quickly took cover and found our allies who explained to us what we were facing and how to not get shot. Then they handed me a gun and told me to hide in the trees and then shoot as they went by.

The Warthog went away for a while and we planned an ambush. The enemy came back and was wondering where the heck we were, the plan was working perfectly and they started unloading troops and ammo. We caught them totally by surprise and right in the open, while our troops rushed out of the bushes, the rest of us were firing from the trees. Our troops used scary war shrieks to confuse and dismay the enemy. They quickly got on the Warthog again and took off towards the house to retreat because they knew we had won that battle. There was little time to celebrate because we had lost so many men and I knew that now the mission was to put siege upon the house.

I knew that as soon as we went in that house we were walking into a trap so instead we went around the back gate to the backyard. As we sneaked around the back we saw a terrible sight they now had a castle with turrets! They had us trapped so there was two options 1. we could go around the back and face attack from both sides or 2. go through the front and risk getting ambushed, so I sent a heavily trained spy through the front and sadly he didn't come back out.

We slowly went through the front, we could tell that the number of eyes watching us was steadily growing, yet no attack of any kind came from the enemy? As we crept up stairs we checked the East rooms for any clue of the enemy but all we found was ammo so I told my men to help themselves but then I heard foot steps in the halls and went to check and saw a note attached to the gun of the spy I had sent out earlier and it was from the enemy!

Dear Kids,

We are planning an attack on you! Come and get us with everything you've got and we will do the same thing to you.

From, You're worst enemy!

After reading this I gathered my troops and put them in the rooms we controlled and told them to stay there until the fight. I sent out my best man to try and provoke the enemy to run to us so our guys could ambush them again. But the guy went to far into enemy territory and was ambushed as bullets rained on him from every direction I ran into the other rooms and got the troops and told them "Kids of the army, the captain is dead the time has come for us to go and battle the enemy, now who's with me!". We all charged into battle and were immediately in the fight it seemed that the enemy called reinforcements from the castle. Bullets flew every where. I took cover from behind a couch and started shooting as many guys as I could.

The enemy then retreated deeper into their territory, we chased after them into a room and then stuff happened so fast that I don't know what happened. A bucket full of stuff rained from above and knocked a guy out cold! Bullets were hitting my guys like crazy. While the enemy charged from out of a closet they were also shooting us from above and behind a bed. It took a while to shoot the guys down but eventually we did it. There was very few of the enemy and we were winning it only took a few rebellions from the enemy to make it so we won. It was so awesome and it was also a true story. Luckily me and Kaden made it out okay after that war.

Dino Jokes

Q: What do you call a dinosaur in a cowboy hat and spurs?
A: A Tyranosaurus Tex

Q: How can you tell if a dinosaur is a meat eater or a plant eater?
A: Climb on to a plate and see what happens!

Q: What do you call a sleeping Dinosaur?
A: A Stego-snore-aus

Q: What do you get when you cross one T.Rex with another T.Rex?
A: Don't do it, T.Rex's hate to be double crossed!

Q: When did the Raptor cross the street?
A: When the sign said "STALK"

Q: How did the stone age wrecking crew blast through the mountains?
A: With Dino-Mite!

Q: Which dinosaur plays a mean boogie-woogie?
A: Pianosaurus Rex!

Q: What do dinosaurs put on their valentines before they mail them?
A: Stomps!

Q: Why was Stegosaurus the star of her volley ball team?
A: Because she could really Spike the ball!

Q: Where does Triceratops find the best fries in town?
A: At the Dinersaur!

Q: Which dinosaur never quits?
A: Tryceratops

Q: What did the dinosaur do at the rodeo?
A: He rode a Bucking Broncosaurus

Q: What did the little dino get for her B-day?
A: A Toyranosaurus Rex

Q: What's the best way to raise a baby dinosaur?
A: With a crane!

Q: What did the Raptors say when the volcano erupted?
A: What a lavaly day!

Q: What do you get when you cross a dog with a flying reptile?
A: A Terrierdactyl

Q: What did the little dinosaurs say when their mother went into the pond without them?
A: Wade for us!

Q: What do you get when you cross a dinosaur with a bunny?
A: A Tricerahops!

Q: What do dinosaurs have that no other animals have?
A: Baby dinosaurs!

Q: Which dino won 1st place at the Jurassic Costume contest at Halloween?
A: The Terrordactyl

Q: What do you call a T.Rex who tries to find out secrets?
A: Spyrannosaurus Rex

Q: What Kind of Bed Time stories do dino's like the best?
A: Tall Tails

Up to NO GOOD

Quotes of the week

Spongebob and Patrick are trying to sell chocolate.
SB: we need to try a new approach, lets try flattering the customer make him feel good.
They ring the door bell and the customer answers.
C: hello
P: I love you

Mom asks kaden what his favorite word is.
K: Devour, Devour means to gobble down food.

Squidward is sad and leaves the room when his band does horrible and spongebob says.
SB: what type of monsters are we, Squidwards always been there for us when it was convenient for him.

Indiana jones shows off his skills in defending himself in front of Mutt.
M: your'e a teacher?
IJ: part time.

Spongebob is skiing on a mountain with freinds and decides to show off.
SB: this one's called "the dirty Squidward"
SW: quit naming moves after me!
Spongebob mimics Squidward
SB: every one's an idiot except for me
SW: well it's true

Sandy tells everyone about how land creatures are better than water creatures.
S: climbing, singing, running, you guys have swimming but we also have flying, building and fishing.
Squidward steps in and says "and drowning don't forget drowning"

Caesar Salad & Confucius

Today in our Story of the World history book me and my mom read about Confucius and Julius Caesar. Confucius was a Chinese Philosopher who taught how to be good and not to be mean to animals and bugs. Here are a few of his most famous sayings.

1. Do not unto others what you would not want others to do to you.
2. If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
3. It is the wiser person who gives rather than takes.
4. He who aims to be a man of complete virtue does not seek to gratify his appetite for food.

I'm sure everyone has heard of Julius Caesar. He was a Roman General and a dictator and was very power thirsty. When he was a young boy he was captured by pirates when he was crossing the Mediterranean Sea. He later came back as a General and executed them all! He later married Cleopatra, a female Pharoah in Egypt. the Senete of Rome didn't like this very much so they stabbed Julius to death. Caesars last words were Et Tu Brute which in latin means You to Brutus. (Brutus had once been Caesars freind).