Fathers & Sons

This weekend I went to the Fathers & Sons Outing. We had a lot of fun. We went to the lake and rode canoes. It was a blast and my dad even knocked a tree down. Today is my green belt graduation and I'm going to be a purple belt. I also finished my second work & the glory book last night.

Titanic: The Unsinkable Ship

This week we are learning about the Titanic. The Titanic was the name of a popular food court in Brazil and served excellent teriaki chicken. Hee Hee Hee. Just kidding! The Titanic was a luxury cruise ship that unfortunately sunk because it hit an ice berg. More than 1,550 lives were lost and only 32% of the people on the ship survived. The ship is now in the ocean and can only be seen with a submarine. There was not enough life boats to hold every one and a lot of people died. Back then it was like a 9/11. I bet it sunk a lot of peoples attitudes.

The Dunes Pictures

The Dunes

Nothin' but Sand

Kelly's Sand Rail (with Star Wars paint job)

The Gang

Jumping hills

About 5 Ft. of Air

Righteous

Stuck!

Wyatt's sweet moves

Clayton and Weston on quads

Malaria and the Visigoths

Every one knows that Rome was one of the most powerful Empire in the ancient world and that it eventually fell... But! Do you you know how it fell? No, it wasn't hit a meteor or destroyed by a natural disaster but was attacked by barbarians, like Attila the Hun and the Visigoths. The Romans decided that Rome was too big to rule at one time so they split it in half, the East and the West. So the Huns attacked the East and the Visigoths attacked the West. Soon the Visigoths won the West and the leader made his 6 year old son the new emperor. He also game his son a new name, Romulus Augustus. Romulus for the first king of Rome and Augustus for the most popular emperor of Rome. The people of Rome felt embarrassed and called the boy "Momylius" which means Little Disgrace. The East part of Rome never was captured or destroyed, it just had some crazy leaders and was then known as the Byzantines. I never would have thought that Rome would just fall like that.

Did you know that malaria kills up to three million people a year? Today we read The Little House on the Prairie book and the family got sick with malaria. Malaria is caused by mosquitoes that spread the disease. One of the ways to avoid malaria is to sleep with a bug net over you but luckily it is not that common in the U.S only in Africa and South America. The U.S is trying to help people with Malaria. I'm just glad it isn't in the U.S.

Stuff on My Mind Right Now

A lot of stuff has happened to me and I want to put it all in one post so it won't take as long...

1. This week I finished The Work and the Glory: Pillar of Light By: Gerald Lund. It was a really good book that talks about Joseph Smith getting the Gold Plates and the Steed family and their own affairs. It talks about the McBride family and Oliver Cowdry, William Harris, and the Smith family. About how Joshua Steed moves out of the family and tries to steal the Gold Plates with the Murdock brothers. I learned a lot about the church and I can't wait to read the next one.

2. Last month I made a book club and invited a bunch of people, friends, family, neighbors and other homeschoolers. At the beginning we handed out papers that you're supposed to fill out your favorite books and any you recommend. Then we played outside for a while and waited for the others to come. When everyone was there told the our names and talked about what the name of the book club should be. I said we should name it "Lights, Camera, Jaxon!" My friend Wyatt said we should just call it "The Book Club book Worms" or "Jaxon's Book Club". But the my Dad said we should name it "The Papyrus Pirates of Words" and everyone agreed on that. We then discussed what books we should read, so we said the names of the books we liked and put them in a bowl and drew the books we would read. We decided on these books:

May: Holes by: Louis Sacher

June: Wayside Stories from Wayside School by: Louis Sacher

July: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by: J.K Rowling

August: The Hobbit by: J.R.R Tolkien

September: Summer of the Monkeys by: Wilson Rawls

October: Old Yeller by: Fred Gipson

November: Lord of the Rings #1

December: Marley and Me by John Grogan

January: Into the Wild by Eric Hunter

February: Great American Warriors

March: Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

April: Pillage by Obert Sky

3. Next weekend is the Father's and son's Outing for my ward and we have to go on the day of my green belt graduation. We're going to go camping and fishing there. The plan is that if I pass testing I can just get it the next day. When I graduate I will get my purple belt.