Home School Jules

 Over the past few weeks I have been working on a hand knitted tank top for me to wear and a few days ago, I finally finished it.  As I was working without a pattern I guessed on how wide it needed to be by measuring  my stitches to a t-shirt, which came out to about 60 stitches. A friend kindly gave me some stitch counters so I used those to mark every 10 stitches. This is important later for forming the V-neck and it helps you with dropped stitches.  I started knitting the front half first and tried a new stitch (ribbing 2x2) for the edges of the tank top so it wouldn't curl up as stockinette stitch often does. With the help of a youtube video explaining how to make it and a few re tries I got the new stitch under my hands and successfully made the hem. The next challenge was how to transition out of the ribbed stitch into the stockinette stitch, the way you do this is by slip stitching all of the knit stitches and make the purl stitches knit ones.  After I had transitioned out o

Yesterday I had the honour of talking to a man who worked at the Globe Theatre as an actor about Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. Over zoom, we acted out some key scenes of the play and talked about structure and origin of verses and prose. It gave me alot of insight into how structured verses and unorginised prose can help the audiance and the actor. We first talked about the difference between verse, blank verse and prose.  Verse has a meter (e.g. iambic pentameter) and rhyming, whereas blank verse has a meter (almost alwas iambic in Shakespeare) but does not rhyme. The difference between blank verse and prose is that prose does not have a meter.  Meter is the way certain lines are stressed, the "pent" in pentameter means five and relates to how many beats or feet there is in the line. A famous example of a verse using iambic pentameter in Romeo and Juliet is the opening prologue. The prologue is a sonnet, a 14 line poem consisting of two stanzas with an AB rhyme sc

Post Card Competition  In March I participated in a Post Card competition and won my design to be put on post cards. I made it around my experience with home education: The globe with the star is the logo of my Education Centre Epic Quest and the text at the bottom in Spanish is their moto "Learn to Love to Learn". The Keyboard shows my musical learning as I play the Piano along with a few other instruments. The papers between the globe and keyboard are my art work and the pieces of work I am most proud of.  Finally the green owl at the top of the world and the text in Spanish shows my work with languages, I use the Duolingo App to study Spanish and French and the text reads "Learning looks different to everyone" to express the individuality of learning. 

Today me and my family are participating in the Sleep Easy 2021, a Southend YMCA charity event to raise money for the homeless community.    To participate in this you can donate money to the link below, share the message and you can set up a sponsor page for yourself and sleep anywhere besides your bed. To sponsor my family click the following link: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Emily-Harris55

Today we have had some fun with glacier fruits and made some stained glass biscuits and attempted to blow bulbs like proffessional glass blowers. We followed a biscuit dough recipe and cut out our shapes and filled them with crushed glacier fruits, and with the left over sweets we tried to create blown glass spheres. After seeing The King Of Random's video (insert link here) on blowing jolly ranchers, an American sweet similiar to glacier mints/fruits, we melted our sweets and wrapped the now melted sweets around our reuseable straws. We were not very successful since we kept on bursting but we could see how the experiment would have worked with more practice.  I have been looking at bonds in science and was wondering how the bonds in sugar. So we found a Candy making website to see how candy is made and the different bonds. The bonds between the molecules in sucrose (what sugar is made up of) are covalent bonds, which means the two atoms share one electron. Shown by this diagram:

Since Christmas is around the corner, we decided that we should learn a few songs to celebrate, after enjoying playing in the Preview's concert so much. Dad and I have already started practising and are attempting to add bells into more upbeat carols like, "Jingle Bells" and a few others.