Here’s what happened this past week with Ethan…
Hi! This is Ethan! This week, I worked on EMF and brilliant, and I also kept going with swimming lessons, taekwondo classes, violin lessons, symphony rehearsal, and… ROLLER BLADING! (That isn’t really a class tho.) I also started working on World War 2 in history!
Happy Halloween. Did you make a costume this year? How or are you celebrating?
I like teaching kindergarten because it helps me celebrate more, we carved a pumpkin, roasted seeds, had a dress up party in class, told Halloween stories and cut out ghosts.
I love that you are roller blading, I love it. It feels a bit like skiing to me.
This is my plan for my coding. “Coding” refers to my World War 2 project! I’m making a coding project out of history!
I am so curious how you are doing coding about WW2? Now I am intrigued. Tell me more about doing coding for history.
World War 2 is full of topics to cover and since it happened in several different parts of the world and involved so many countries.
So many avenues to approach:https://library.sdlc.selfdesign.org/content-collection/world-war-ii/
from the development of the atomic bomb: https://library.sdlc.selfdesign.org/content-collection/the-atomic-bomb/
To the Holocost: “What is the Holocaust? Who were its victims? When did it occur? What were the ghettos, and why were they established? How did the “Final Solution” evolve? Dr. David Silberklang offers a clear and concise introductory answer to these complex questions.”
I recommend a few films set in WW2, there are many..
Life is Beautiful” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAYEQP8gx3w
Schindler’s List: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG22XNhtnoY
Have you ever read the Diary of Anne Frank?
She was about your age when she went into hiding…
I read it at your age and it was very powerful learning for me.
Anne Frank has so many inspiring quotes:
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.
I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Whoever is happy will make others happy.
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.
As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?
There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it’s actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.
Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery.
The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
Sympathy, love, fortune… We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
I can’t imagine how anyone can say: ‘I’m weak’, and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character?
I think it’s odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.
An empty day, though clear and bright, is just as dark as any night.
The young are not afraid of telling the truth.
Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‘a quiet conscience makes one strong!’
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
To redevelopment and how WW2 shaped the modern world: https://library.sdlc.selfdesign.org/content-collection/world-war-ii-aftermath-redevelopment/
The creation of the United Nations…
To start the week, I learned about the Arrhenius theory in chemistry. The Arrhenius theory is a theory that tests if a chemical is an acid or base.
I learned about Madagascar for my “Color In All The Countries” project.
I hear about the unique flora and fauna of Madagascar, but I actually do not know about its people and culture there. I will have to do some research of my own. I wonder who lives there?
Then I learned about how to calculate a square root by hand. You basically approximate the square root, and square it, and adjust the number you guessed so that it gets closer to the number under the square root.
Makes a lot of sense….sort of the way I calculate approximate square roots.
This is the song I’m working on with piano! It’s the Prelude BWV 846, by J.S.Bach, and it sounds like this: ba ba ba ba BA ba ba BA, ba ba ba ba BA ba ba… oh wait, never mind here is the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToWj_4xvVZA
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/bennu-top-ten
I read about Vesta and Bennu in the news and of course I immediately thought of you. Of course you wrote a blog about it! Well done Ethan.
I like the video you sent with all the sheet music, here is another way to visualize the Prelude in C major. pretty cool!
The animals and plants of Madagascar are some of the rarest and most unique in the world.
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