Author: Vwala

Hello Vella Karman here, a homeschooled 11 year old. I am in 6th grade. I like to dance ballet, especially point, and I also write my own stories. I can't see what I am doing in ballet but I can feel the beauty of it, and I praise God with it. Maybe later I will post some of my stories, I want people to see my work but I am afraid they will think it's terrible and say I am awful at writing. But I still want your comments even if that's what you have to say, I'll try not to take it personally, I am looking for constrictive criticism so say what you really think.

journal 8/22/16

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Today is the first day of week two, wow time is passing so quickly. I am having a eaisier time in handwriting. And math is still the same, at least I’m doing simple addition now. All the numbers have zeros in them, it is so easy.

I had to circle all the synonams in wordly wise, it was actully sort of fun. It was easy and didn’t take a long time. I’m glad I didn’t have to do critical thinking today, it is really really hard. And I  don’t like it a lot. I wish that it didn’t exist, but sadly it still does.

journal 8/19/16

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Today I am going to have a sleepover with one of my awesome friends!!!!! It is going to be a awesome day!!!!!! We are going to have cake because it is so yummy.

We read a book in science today named Cool stuff 2.0 and how it works. It was really cool, we learned how smoke alarms work!!! We only get to read it on Fridays though. Boo! but it’s still really cool!!!

Math is still super easy. I am acutuly getting tired of it. Math is so easy it’s boring! Espesally when I have to listen to a lecture.

Marie’s Free Food

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Marie’s is having a officers eat lunch free event on Tuesdays. The customers are buying the lunches for them. After all the shootings people wanted to show that they appreciate police, and the police are coming by the dozens because they consider it a safe place to go and be sure that it is okay to eat and not have to worried about poison. It is a great event and it really honors the police officers, I hope it lasts a long time.

journal /8/18/16

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We did a science experiment about cohesion today. It was very fun, we put a drop each of water, soapy water, canola oil, and rubbing alcohol. Then we compared how tall they were, they were the tallest in this order water, canola oil, rubbing alcohol, and last of all soapy water.

I wrote a whole paragraph about being a gold nugget  in gold rush territory from the rough draft I made yesterday. It was fun but took a while. I ended up as a gold leaf on the queens neckless. My whole family lives on the neckless with me, and we are a very close family.

Journal 8/17/16

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Today we watched some friends for the morning so I didn’t get much done. One was a cute little baby and I got to hold him some.

In binder work I had to write a little story in the point of view of a gold nugget during the California gold rush. I am reading a book about a boy who runs away to California to join the gold rush with his butler. It is the book I am reading for school right now and it’s very interesting.

Handwriting is getting a little bit easier. I only have to write half a page of handwriting a day but combied with everything else and I haven’t been doing about one half an hour of writing a day sense school got out last year my hand cramps.

Journal 8/16/16

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Today was the second day of school. It was okay, not as good as yesterday though. We went on a field trip to the dentist. It was about one and a half hours long, so pretty much it was looooong, and during lunchtime. Math was the same as yesterday, and I got an A in spelling.

In history we learned about Nomads. They are people who move around to find food and stuff. They are kind of like Indians, don’t you think? Did you know that Nomads ate lizard soup? That is so discusting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also I thought that it was interesting that music was first used in Germany.

Science was about spontaneous generation, and there were pictures. I’m just going to leave it at that.

Journal 8/15/16

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The first day of school, first day of middle school, first day of school with braces. Somebody likes the word first a lot. Today was very fun, over the summer I got a chromebook, it’s a computer, made by chrome. Now that we’ve got that covered I’m going to go on to tell you that I got it for school and I am learning to use it. I want to be a ballerina for ballet magnificat and a foster mom when I grow up. I want to go to collage, and am looking forward to reading some awesome books for school this year!!!

Our science is about evelution, I have been told that is because we need to learn about other people”s beliefs and why they believe what they believe. It was okay, and the questions weren’t too hard.

We read some poems. I think they are nice, but Reed and Mom didn’t really. Last years poems didn’t make sense but these are pretty good. For history we learned about archaeology. It was interesting, not too bad. We also read an Encyclopedia, it was very very very bad, at least if you’re a christian.

Mark is the smallest book in the bible. It is also a tiny bit confusing. Did you know that John ate locusts and honey??? Isn’t that interesting! “The Lord is my shepherd.” with English letters is “.drphs ym s drL ht” Say that ten times fast. 

Math was super duper easy. They “taught” me what decimals are, and what zeros are used for. I literally answered twenty questions about that!!!

My summer adventures in 2016

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This summer was the first summer I went to summer camp, yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I have to tell you all about my week at summer camp. Booo, I mean yay!!! So first of all let me get this strait, it was only five days and not a whole week, boo!!! But it was fun, and super awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went to a little summer camp up by the Ozarks, in a town named Siloam Springs. This camp is a religious camp that my mom and her sister went to when they were kids and my aunt was also a counselor there in collage. I went with a big group from our church, and all the 5th and 6th grade girls were in a bunkhouse together. The bunkhouse was basicly a big air conditioned room with a bunch of bunkbeds they can house 24 people!!! We had about 15-16 girls and 2 adult leaders from our church, we also had a counselor from camp sleeping with us. On the bus ride up all the kids and adults from our church took up 2 whole buses!!! The ride up was about 3-4 hours long each way with a break for lunch  and bathroom in the middle. the boys stopped before lunch both times and went to the bathroom in the woods, why did they have to do that???On the first night we got there in time for dinner in the dinning hall, witch is at least 50 years old, and has two trees growing inside the building. One is in the dining area and the other is in the kitchen but the health inspectors don’t like that and they have to replace it, booo!!!! But it was cool to get to come before they replace it. This year the thyme was light runners, and it was kind of like star wars. I was on the red team for color wars and that night we had the first game, there was a crobster hunt, we had a redish bean and we had to take it across camp without being caught by one of the leaders, if you got caught by a leader they took your bean and sometimes let you have it back if you did a silly thing they told you to do. I had to sing let it go in my best opera voice, follow a flashlight and then stand in it while getting sprayed by someone with a watergun on a platform in a tree, hop to a tree and back on one foot and do other various things. and if you found a crobster you got bonus points. I couldn’t see the map because in needed a new perscription as I now know, so I was basicly wandering around in the darkness following the sea of people and flashlights, it was still a ton of fun though. The first two meals I had at camp were discusting because I axedentuly got something spicy the first night and had cearyal with cows milk for my first breakfeast. The teaching was really amazing, he was very pasionate. Well the red team won and my subteam won the subteam thing so that is the hilight of my week at summer camp!!!

May, yay national bike to work day

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May is national bike month. The ride of silence gathered quite a few people, and only one known rider has been killed sense the last one. 63 year old, Douglas Alton Foreman died on November 2nd 2015. It is thought he was hit head-on by a car, the driver is unknown. The walk and bike to school day also had quite a few participants, all of the Springdale schools were part of it. So I think that the bike days of May were enjoyed.

Journal 5/27/16

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Yes, it is finaly here, my last full day of school. If you call it full because it is only 10:30, but what can I say? I Finished. I still have math and spelling over the summer as well as a summer assignment of learning about Australia but still. I just have to finnish this and then type up my current event. I might burst with excitement any moment!!! Do you like my pool blue text? But don’t worry, I will still be doing journals during the summer so you haven’t gotten rid of me yet. Mwahahahaha!!!

Math was ok. I was supposed to be learning how to multiply fractions so that you can compare them but I didn’t finish reading how beacause I learned last year. I did 5th grade math last year, but I have to do it again this year because mom didn’t really have enough time to teach me what it meant because it confuses me so it is is hard to teach it to me, so I had to do it again this year.

I am going to make pavlova sometime soon. It is my choose your own adventure for New Zealand. I found a recipe online and figured out what I need to make it today and once we get what I need to make it I am going to make pavlova.