Roots Update

English from the Roots up has an update.  We'll need to make some flashcards up to catch up from a few missing classes.  This is the first set of root words.


photos - light
tele - far away, distant
metron - measure
graph - write
e, ex - out of, from
philia - love, friendship
phobos - fear
pathos - feeling
amo - love
felix, felicis - happy
rideo, risum - laugh at
phone - sound
sonus - sound
skopeo - see, look, consider, examine
hypo - under, below
hyper - above, overly, beyond
super - above, over
sub - under
un - not
re - again
digitus - finger
caput, capitis - head
manus - hand
pes, pedis - foot
bracchium - arm     (ask about the song)
dens, dentis - tooth
corpus, corporis - body
unus - one
duo - two
tres - three
quattuor - four
quinque - five
sex - six
septum - seven
octo - eight
novem - nine
decem - ten
centum - hundred
mille - thousand
jacio, jactum - throw
pono, positum - put
cum (com, con, co)- with, together
figo, fixum - attach
jungo, junctum - join

October 31

Today I watched two videos about the Greek culture.

I took the 110 Route 2.20 route to get to the library.

I worked on my math spectrum book for one hour.

Then I worked on poetry for two hours.

After that I signed up for an account for math on online.

The site is called: Khan Academy I worked on that site for two hours.

Then I worked on drafting poetry for one hour.

After that we had a break.

That we talked about our day.

They ran into my friends mom and talked about arts class at their house on Mondays.

Then I worked on my blog.

Also, earlier today I looked at evidence, owls and other fantasies, 12 moons, DreamWorks, bird by bird ,West wind.   These are all books about poetry.

I learned to listen to music while writing poetry I like listening to music while writing poetry and makes it very relaxing and calm.

Listening to music while doing poetry gives me lots of ideas write poetry.  Here's a little sample of my poetry.

Child freely dance in dark velvet devour.