September 2024 Learning Diary

2/09/24

• Set up learning environment, apps on computer ( 2 hours )

• Did research on the history of pizza, Norway eats the most pizza in the world ( 2 hours )

• Did Duolingo lesson, Russian ( 3 mins )

3/09/24

1. Went to the library to discuss learning curriculum. Added more PE, long division ( 2 hours )

• Learnt about library facilities, study area, computers ( 5 minutes )

• Had discussion about discrimination. – distinguish between bias (bad) and discernment (good), ranked statements, such as he was an African man. ( 15 minutes )

• Got a book about psychology, for beginners ( 8 minutes )

• Wrote a short paragraph about what culture actually is, subcultures within countries, across countries.

• Learnt how to replace a door handle and use a drill ( 20 minutes )

• Did meeting study/RE lesson. (Psalms 79:1-80:7) ( 15 minutes )

• Installed Open Office. ( 1 minute )

• Did Duolingo lesson, Russian. ( 3 mins )

4/09/24

• Did walk and talk – discussed why scientists and writers used it, (e.g. helped to oxygenate the brain) planned future topics. ( 20 mins )

• Learnt that I could do long division, I was just taught to use a notation I wasn’t happy with ( 40 minutes )

• Learnt about different ways to calculate percentages, I originally used seven calculations, and learnt about how to do it in 1 – 3 calculations instead. ( 25 minutes )

• Used the previous examples as an introduction to spreadsheet maths, also understood how to simplify calculations – done using Open Office.( 30 mins )

• Installed Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher. ( 10 mins )

• Had period cramps, wasn’t able to do much work because of severity of pain.

• Learnt about affinity programs – vectors and bitmaps, we enlarged the vector layer until the computer crashed but the lines were still clean (x1 billion) and enlarged the bitmap layer, it was very pixelated at around 400%. ( 1 hour and 15 mins )

• Learnt about different paper sizes (e.g. A4=297×210), also learnt that not everything that claims to be A4 is actually A4. ( 10 minutes )

• Went mad when introduced to Bezier curves, had brief introduction to photoshop.

• Did Duolingo lession, Russian ( 3 mins )

5/09/24

• Did research on the pre-Raphaelites and wrote down what I learnt ( 1 hour 15 mins )

• Had brief discussion with mum about King Henry the eighth and Catherine of Aragon. ( 5 mins )

• Social Skills – called leisure centre to find out about Cheltenham Harriers. ( 15 mins )

• Learnt about different types of wood and how to use two power tools, also helped to build a speaker frame ( 2 hours )

• Did some research on a Neapolitan Pizza place and expanded work on Pizza history ( 15 mins )

• Leant the basics of playing the flute ( 10 mins )

• Did family worship/RE lesson ( 1 hour )

• Went to Prince of Wales stadium, joined waiting list to join Cheltenham Harriers. ( 45 mins )

• Did Duolingo lesson, Russian ( 3 mins )

6/09/24

• Did ministry all morning, start of new campaign ( 2 hours )

• Type up pizza project, word processor practice. ( 45 mins )

• Visited old school, collected school books and reviewed them. ( 30 mins )

• Learnt how to use Affinity Publisher, made a presentable piece of work with pictures. ( 2 hours 15 mins )

7/09/24

• Went to Birmingham to learn about the pre-Raphaelites ( 1 hour )

• Ate pizza at Rudy’s (Neapolitan pizza place) ( 1 hour 30 mins )

10/09/24

• Did meeting prep, RE lesson. ( 30 mins )

• Helped Nan around the house, made a salad, watered plants etc. ( 1 hour )

• Was an Nan’s, so wasn’t able to do much work.

11/09/24

• Went for a walk and talk, theme was about Solomon and proverbs, and thinking ability. ( 30 mins )

• Started a quote book, looked up and wrote down some Greek, Chinese and bible proverbs, 4explained quotes, eg. ‘no pain, no gain.’ ( 30 mins )

• Learnt how to simplify algebraic equations, did a test on them. ( 1 hour 30 min )

• Set up studio monitors and speakers, played around with Ableton Live: loops, assigning instruments to keyboard. ( 1 hour 30 min )

• Did lesson about ‘slang through out the ages’ – eg. Slay, rizz etc. ( 40 mins )

• Duolingo Russian ( 3 mins )

• Played a new tin whistle ( 10 min )

12/09/24

• Did an arm workout from YouTube, biceps and triceps, pillates. ( 30 minutes )

• Used Ibis paint to draw an eye ( 50 minutes )

• Set up email ( 1 min )

• Music technology, learnt about different kits in Ableton live, cowbell and 808 music. ( 2 hours )

• Used a spreadsheet calculating how many hours per day a home curriculum should be compared to school, curriculum calculators. ( 1 hour )

13/09/24

• Ministry, offered people bible studies and did carts with Obi’s parents. ( 3 hours 30 mins )

• Drew on Ibis paint and drawing tablet ( 1 hour )

16/09/24

• Did an arm workout ( 15 mins )

• Did the Rudy’s trip recap, what I can do to incorporate their pizza techniques into my pizza. ( 45 mins )

• Researched pizza ingredients, planned pizza and looked up ingredients Rudy’s uses, totalled prices of ingredients and planned food shopping trip. ( 1 hour 30 mins )

• Explored different types of paint mediums, poster paint, oil paint, acrylics, and watercolour paints. Drew overlapping circles and split canvas into four, used different mediums in each section. ( 3 hours )

17/09/24

• Walk and talk/sprinting training, ran 50 meters about 5 times. ( 1 hour )

• Arm workout from YouTube and pull ups on pull up bar. ( 20 mins )

• Research on Ian Murphy, architectural artist that used oil paint. ( 1 hour 15 mins )

• Watched videos on waves with dad, microwaves, amplitude, frequency/hertz ( 1 hour 30 mins )

• RE lesson, meeting prep ( 15 mins )

18/09/24

• Arm workout, on YouTube ( 15 mins )

• Culture definition and researched differences between Spain and Portugal. ( 1 hour 30 mins )

• Watched a Ted Talk, Derik Paravicini, pianist. ( 15 mins )

• Looked for a vocal coach ( 10 mins )

• Worked on animation, ball going into net, did anime eye practice on paper ( 2 hours )

• Researched about slang through out the ages, Gen X: Chill pill = calm down. ( 45 mins )

19/09/24

• Learnt how to cook bacon ( 5 mins )

• Learnt about sound waves, how they are transmitted, energy and transferring force, how to make a speaker crossover and listening to frequencies. ( 2 hours )

• Geography lesson on google maps, navigating home from random areas in Cheltenham ( 1 hour 20 mins )

• Helped myself scale and understand the width of a country road using a ruler, 2 tape measures, masking tape and myself. ( 30 mins )

• Learnt about A B and M roads, traced the path of A46 and the M5. ( 1 hour 30 mins )

• IT – introduction to computer hardware ( 30 mins )

20/09/24

• Drew an animation and a drawing ( 1 hour )

• Wrote letters for not at homes, bible studies ( 1 hour )

• Character development for book ( 2 hours )
  

23/09/24

• Drew an optical illusion on paper and learnt about shading, light sources. ( 15 mins )

• Added 3 poems to poems book, IF, Tornado Warnings and Refugee ( 45 mins )

• Started a word of the day dictionary, added two words, derogatory and opsimath. ( 20 mins )

• Science experiment – testing ways I could alter the speed of which sand reaches the bottom part of the timer. ( 27 mins )

• Working out the area of a circle using triangles and squares. (a²=b²+c², formula for working out the hypotenuse) ( 1 hour )

• Media studies introduction, discussed the question ‘what are media?’ – media is a plural, medium is singular, medium of film, why the director is the most important person in the film, not the actor. ( 30 mins )

• Why we were going to look at the films of Akira Kurosawa, how to watch films to learn to create and not just be entertained. ( 5 mins )

• Watched the first half of Yojimbo. ( 1 hour )

24/09/24

• 5 minute discussion on the day text – RE, Isiah 30:21, listening to the directions Jehovah gives us.( 5 mins )

• Geography lesson on GPS and satellites, measured the length, width and height of satellite in lounge, 29625 objects in sky – N2Y0.com, drones and satnav ( 45 mins )

• Media studies, film review on Yojimbo, watched 2 videos about aspect ratios, ( 1 hour 15 mins )

• Watched 2 YouTube videos on breaking the fourth wall, it originated with box sets on theatre stages, as there was an invisible wall, if the actor spoke to the audience then they were breaking this invisible wall. ( 20 mins )

• Geography – navigation lessons on google maps, Stoke-on-Trent to the motorway, where cities are, four parts of the UK (Wales, Ireland, England and Scotland) ( 1 hour 30 mins)

• First driving lesson, acceleration, break, clutch, how to start the car, what different buttons do ( 30 mins )

   

25/09/24

• Watched 3 videos on how to make a Turner inspired painting, line and tones. ( 15 mins )

• Painted three and a half mountain paintings using watercolours. ( 4 hours )

26/09/24

• Acted as an assistant photographer when doing work experience with Dad, taking photos of new piece of robot equipment. ( 5 hours total )

27/09/24

• Filled in words of the day, hypotenuse, Foreshadowing, foreboding. ( 30 mins )

• Added 3 quotes to quote book ( 5 mins )

• Watched second half of Yojimbo + wrote film review ( 1 hour 30 mins )

• Made a formula calculator on a spreadsheet, ( a²=b²+c², how to work out the hypotenuse) and how to make a calculator that works out the area of a triangle and a rectangle. ( 45 mins )

• Other film references in MHA, for example there are multiple star wars references, like One for All having a very similar character design and past to Darth Vader. ( 1 hour 30 mins )

30/09/24

• Used watercolour paints to create 2 self portraits, one using a reference and one from memory. ( 3 hours )

• Made a pizza using home ingredients (bread flour, yeast, oil, water, sugar, salt, canned tomatoes, garlic, onion, stock cube, peperoni, olives, cheese) all from scratch. ( 2 hours )