Learning New Things This Year

This year I made a list of all the things I've been reading and studying about:


English
The Incorrigible Children Series
The Phantom Tollbooth
100 Cupboards
The Twenty One Balloons
Farmer Boy, Wilder
The Lost World
Harry Potter - the whole series (This was a re-read, but it was just as good the 2nd time)
Kingdom and the Crown Trilogy (Historical Fiction New Testament)
Masters of Modern Soccer
Mister Max

History
World History Course - Middle Ages through Colonial Period
A Child's History of the World V.M Hillye
The Matchlock Gun
Guts and Glory Revolutionary War and Civil War
I Survived Series
The Darkest Hour (Churchill)

Language
Spanish - Duolingo
Bulgarian - I'm Reading Heidi the Classic at about 3 pages per day

Art
Origami - got a great book on some very complex 3D models of animals and dragons. It's amazing what you can make folding a single piece of very thin paper. I have to get my paper from France because normal origami paper won't let you do all these complex folds.
       Art competition (Won an award for an origami dragon I made)
Made Stop motion video  with Origami
        Wrking on starting a business selling origami

Science
Basic Chemistry - Learned about acids, bases, moles and how to balance equations
Put on a Science Magic Show for family and friends
A lot of experiments with Baking trying different flours and mixtures for the perfect consistency of cakes and cookies
Physics - Studied in depth the motion of a ball through the air and why it bends or knuckles based on spin

Physical Education 

Completed first season with the New England Revolution Youth Soccer Academy. This involved going to Foxboro 3 times a week for training and farther than that for games on the weekends. It was a lot of work but I really love it and am looking forward to the next season.

Math & Logic
Watched The Man Who Knew Infinity about an Indian Mathematician in Cambridge
Geometry - Learned how to calculate area of all basic shapes
Probabilities - Learned how to calculate compound chance (i.e. chance of success doing the same thing multiple times in a row).
Played a lot of Mindtrap with family during commutes (Logic puzzles, mysteries, visual puzzles)
The Da Vinci Puzzle Book
The Lady and the Tiger Logic Puzzles
Studied Chess strategy and beat my dad on multiple occasions and the computer on the hard level
Basic Algebra - Learned to balance and rearrange equations using Dragon box
Learned algorithms for new rubiks cube puzzles 2x4, Ghost cubes and others