Nigh-nigh– we initially thought this meant she wanted to go to bed, but now believe it to mean “I want to EAT,” an activity that always goes on at bedtime
Nah-nah– a request for the ever popular banana chunks
AND NOW…
Uh Oh– meaning “I just dropped something (again) and I want you fools to pick it up (again) so I can play with your emotions while making a HUGE MESS.
Eli has been attending Ms. Mendoza & Ms. Geddes’s Year 3 class at Laycock Primary School in Islington since we arrived January 1st. Ms. Mendoza told me today that the kids in his class would like to check out our family’s blog. To celebrate their viewing, Eli has recorded a brief introductory video:
Casting directors of the world, take note.
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In associated news, Eli’s blog entries concerning his trip to Dickens World and the Olympic Site should be posted later this week / the beginning of next (i.e. when next I have time). I hope to find a clever way to post his new 12 page epic– “Transportation: On Ground And Air”– but for today, I will post his transport-concerned ‘research paper.’ (This entire semester has been themed with transportation, BTW; Eli couldn’t have asked for better!) As with his themes summarizing the educational daytrips we’ve been going on, I will post an image of his original work, followed by a transcription. To that end, allow me to present Eli’s first ‘research paper,’ entitled “Hovercrafts / Trawlers.” Before you read, all academics who peruse will please take note that, yes, a) this is quoted directly from the source without citation and b) his primary source is Wikipedia. This was per teachers’ instruction, and seems perfectly reasonable for Year 3 (2nd Grade). When he continues to do this in High School, and bases all of his critical response papers on not-so-clever re-wordings of CliffsNotes, please feel free to heap on the derision. This qualifies as Eli’s seventh post in the series.
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Eli's Seventh Self-Directed Theme
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Hovercrafts/Trawlers
Some hovercrafts are big enough
to hold a semi/firetruck.
A hovercraft (air-cushion vehicle, ACV)
is a craft capable of traveling over
surfaces while supported by a cush-
ion of slow moving, high-pressure
air which is ejected against the
surface below and cointaind within
a “skirt.” Although supported by
air, a hovercraft is not considered
an aircraft. BHC SR.N4, the
world’s largest civilian hovercraft,
can carry 254 passengers and 30
cars.
A fishing trawler is a comm
-ercial fishing vessel designed
to operate fishing trawls.
Trawling is a method of fishing
that involves actively pulling
a trawl through the water
behind one or more trawlers.
Trawlers are fishing nets that
are dragged along of the
sea or in midwater at a spec
-ified depth. A trawler may
also operate two or more
trawl nets simultaneo-
usly (doble-rig and multi-
rig).
As recapped many times before, we have asked Eli to summarize the educational daytrips we’ve been going on by writing a short theme. I am then posting an image and a transcription of each theme as a blog post. Allow me to present Eli’s version of our trip to Paris– don’t worry, his is shorter! This is Eli’s fifth post in the series.
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Eli's Fifth Self-Directed Theme
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i WENT TO PARIS
I liked going there! It was
super super super fun! I
went to the tope top of
the EIFFEL TOWER! first, I went
on the metro* to my hotel.
that night, I walked to the EIFFEL TOWER. then i went to the Luxembourg Gardens.
the next day, I went up to the top
of the EIFFEL tower then I
went to a place called ANGELIN -AS, then I went to the louvre.
Next, I went to Sacre Cou -r. Then I went to the World War 2 memorial. Then I went to Notre Dame.
Next, I went to the Musée d’Orsay
then we went to Le Train Bleu
then we went to jardin des plants
then we went to the pairis Mosk.
for tea**. then I went Back
to My hotel and ate
crepes.
I Liked going up in the Eiffel towe -r Because it was fun.
I liked the statues in the Louvre. I thought it was
sad for how many people
died in world war 2. I liked
the Musée d’Orsay Because
it was fun.
* there are 14 metros [lines]. I rode on 4. The metro is like the tube, but numbered [instead of the lines being named].
** I had some too!
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