Home School

 

Sound asleep on the dresser.

Today was a home school day.  I sense that Mrs. Hopper has been feeling guilty that I have been missing the first few weeks of school so she started reading Hatchet by Gary Paulson, to me last night.  We stopped at Chapter 3 and she headed to bed.  When everyone had fallen asleep, I very quietly climbed Kase's dresser and picked up reading where we had left off.  I read late into the night under the light of Kase's space ship clock light.  I fell asleep reading and awoke to the giggles of Mr. and Mrs. Hopper as they found me  laying inside the book using the pages as a blanket.

 

Today Mrs. Hopper had several errands to run and as tired as I was I asked if I could stay and nap a little longer to catch up on my sleep.  Mrs. Hopper agreed to my request but she and I both knew that sleep was not in my future until I found out if Brian, the main character, a teenage boy close to my age, could survive the wild and be rescued.  Needless to say I  got my answer and finished the book in record time.  Hatchet has become my favorite book, replacing my former favorite book, The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau.

I spent 30 minutes exploring Mount Everest.

When Mrs. Hopper got home, I told her all about the ending and she recommended that I research true stories of survival.  I got to work right away looking online and researching books.  Right away I came across the book, Into thin air: A personal account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by John Krakauer.  Mrs. Hopper actually has a copy of her own that she agreed to read with me but she recommended that with what little information I have about Mt. Everest that I take a virtual tour of the Earth's highest mountain.  She said it would help me with visualizing where on the mountain the author will be talking about and taking us through.

Click here for Mount Everest Virtual Tour: 
The virtual tour of Mount Everest allows you to explore not only Mt. Everest itself but the trails leading up to the peek.  The graphics are of high resolution and the tour is at the touch of your fingers as you control what route you explore throughout the mountain ranges.  The site provides a 360 degree birds eye view of the mountain of actual photography taken at the actual site. 

-Flat Annie