Category: Journals

Homeschool Journal 8/23/17

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Today I didn’t finish school because I have a fever. We went on a field trip to Adi’s gymnastics, it was cool. We got color-changing cups with their symbol on it.

Did you know that peace means with, something? Well I guess that means with God!!! Isn’t it cool how much the Bible says and how much their is to still learn about it and who wrote it? Whenever I read a good book, (especially when it’s with C.S. Lewis) I wonder about and wish I could talk to the authors, well this book is one I can talk to the author of, and guess what? He’s my best friend!!!

I revised my essay for LA today and I think it turned out pretty well if I do say so myself.

Homeschool Journal 8/21/17

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In The BBC Manual we learned about the structure and different types of books in the Bible. In the real Bible we read about Jesus’ being betrayed, arrest and being abandoned and Peter’s denial. We went to the house we are renting out to sign a contract with our new renters and watch the solar eclipse. It was at 80% in Little Rock. In history we learned about King James I of England and VI of Scotland. He was the one of issued the King James Bible and persecuted the pilgrims who went on the Mayflower. My computer broke yesterday so I did not do Korean while we ran out of vinegar so I have to wait for science. I did one lesson of Algebra 1 exactly. I actually started it in the lecture and finished on the last question. Over the weekend I finished In Too Deep, How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm, Nightmare of the Iguana and The Griffin’s Riddle and started Keys to the Demon Prison. In Too Deep is Book 6 in The 39 Clues. How To Ride A Dragon’s Storm is Book 7 in How To Train Your Dragon. Nightmare of the Iguana is Book 8 of Dragonbreath. The Griffin’s Riddle is Book 5 of The Imaginary Veterinary. Keys To The Demon Prison is Book 5 of Fablehaven. I read two chapters of my The King’s Fifth today. We did not get back from our old house until 3 and we left for it before lunch. I am writing this from perspective of yesterday because it did not get done then along with Korean. Yesterday (which I am calling today again now) I continued reading Keys to the Demon Prison. 

Homeschool Journal 8/22/17

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We went to the library today. It was a lot of fun and I got over 20 books! Don’t worry, I returned all the ones I had already.

In Bible we learned that the word Gospel means good tidings, so the story of Jesus is called good news, literaly. The reason there are five versions of the same story is because they are written to different people, Greeks, Romans, Ect… The reason there are 500 years without a book in the Bible is not because God didn’t do anything, it is because God didn’t do anything through a prophet that He also inspired to write a book. Did you ever notice the Bible is the only book in the world that can actually make you wise? How in the world did the Pharisies not notice they were fulfilling prophies?

Homeschool Journal 8/21/17

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Today is the eclipse!!! Yay! We are going outside to see it when it happens! It is going to be so much fun! I know, you might be thinking why is she writing going to? That is because it is only 11:22 AM, (I finished school early.) We are also renting out the house today! So it is an exciting day, actually it is going to be an exciting week, Adi’s birthday, Adi’s first day of gymnastics, Reed’s doctor appointment, ect… We are taking Thursday, (Adi’s birthday) off from school, so I am going to be doing extra school to make it up throughout the week.

I am going to write another essay this week about the definition of courage. I think I might be writing an essay every week from now on!!! Don’t get me wrong, I love writing essays, but an essay a week sounds intimidating when you are used to one or two a semester!

We over-viewed the layout of the bible today. Did you ever notice that in Matthew it says peter cursed and swore when he was denying Christ? So no only he denied Him, he also lied, and swore!

Did you know that the King James Bible was named after the king who ordered it to be made? He ordered a Bible to be made so that Protestants, Purists, and Catholics would all have the same Bible. History is sad, there is too much killing and wars for me.

Homeschool Journal 8/18/17

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On Fridays I will work ahead because we try to finish before lunch on Fridays. We do not have an extra Bible book on Friday. In the real Bible that we did do we read about Palm Sunday. Vella will start Vocabulary Vine next week which is about Latin and Greek and she is mad at me for reminding Mom of it. We did A Murder For Her Majesty during History and Bible today. It is 11:30 a.m. now. In Algebra 1 I only did what was left of my lesson and worked ahead which is good because Mom did not remember to put Alone Bible into the Friday schedule. So I did it during History and together Bible. I had a Science experiment today involving converting Ancient Hebrew measurements. I only had one chapter in The King’s Fifth. We will be meeting some friends this afternoon and probably most Fridays. Two day ago we got bottles to use a science experiment piece we bought with Adi. I have finished everything today except this. Yesterday I finished The Nixie’s Song and started In Too Deep. The Nixie’s Song is the first in the Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles a sequel series to The Spiderwick Chronicles. In Too Deep is Book Six in The 39 Clues. I have not read anything today. I will eat lunch, finish cleaning the kids’ bathroom and clean my room after writing this. We only had one History book today along with only the Bible in Bible. I am trying to make all my Journals at least 250 words.

Homeschool Journal 8/18/17 Day 5 busy as a bee hive

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Last day already! I have officially finished my first week of school!!! Yay! Today is our half day of school so it is only 10:06! I think that 7th is going to be a great year! I have already learned something is almost every subject! I have also started some extra credit! I am doing a unit study and possibly an study of how long it takes to mail something in the US.

I would not want to have been a queen in history, they can’t trust their family and won’t help their family because of the possibility of treason, they are fearing for their lives all the time, and often get held captive/something horrible happens to them. I think there might be a little bit of tension between the Catholics and the Protestants.

Homeschool Journal 8/17/17

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In Bible we started “But Don’t all Religions Lead to God?” In the actual Bible John the Baptist got beheaded, Jesus fed 5,000 people at once and Jesus and Peter walked on water in a storm. In history we learned about the Dutch Rebellion. We read another poem by Shakespeare. I did not quite finish a whole lesson of Algebra 1 but was only required to do two questions because of yesterday anyway. What I did do was about equation systems. The whole chapter I am in will be. I have not finished my Current Events, LA assignment or Wordly Wise yet. After writing this I will do that. Yesterday I finished The Big Book of Spy Stuff, ESP, Area 51 and Ancient Astronauts. Today I started The Nixie’s Song. My reader, The King’s Fifth, is a Newberry Honor Book. In reference to two day ago a Pokemon Card Game deck is made from three types of cards, Pokemon, energies and trainers. Pokemon are the cards that you battle with your opponents Pokemon. Energies help the Pokemon attack and trainers do things like healing Pokemon or looking through the cards that you don’t have access to yet in the game and finding something to take from them. There are different types of Pokemon and their attacks usually require the Pokemon to have been given the same type of energy earlier in the game. A lot of attacks require the Pokemon to have been given multiple energies earlier in the game. Usually not all of them have to be the same type as the Pokemon but some can be any type of energy.

Homeschool Journal 8/17/17 Day 4 more to go

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Some of you may ask “what are there four more of?” and “did I miss something?” The answer to these questions, in no particular order are “No, and there are four more years until I will be starting my last year of school.”

In English I wrote my first (most likely of many) essays. They gave me more direction on what they wanted, and how they wanted it to be done.

In math, they taught me how to add. Seriously this is seventh grade math, people. Well that’s that for math.

We started a new book titled, “But Don’t All Religions Lead to God?” The simple answer to this question is “No!!!!!!!!!!” And that is just what the book said. We also had an interesting discussion due to this book about Protestant v.s. some Catholic thing.

Did you know the Dutch have had only one dynasty!!! That’s a first! The dikes are in the Netherlands, Netherland means “far-away,” so people think that the Netherlands were far away when they named it! Did you know that tulips used to cost about as much as a large house!!!!!

BOOM! -Ottis Amber (Week 1 Day 3, Whoopie!)

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“Boom, boom boom!” You’ll be hearing this noise soon if Trump’s “tough talk” continues. Officials say that conflict is “avoidable” but unless China prevails in getting Korea to stop working on the development of nuclear missiles they have not revealed another plan. According to intelligence, Korea has not succeeded in forming a missile capable of hitting anything closer than the west coast and to our knowledge it has not been properly tested. But they are capable of hitting Guam easily, so who knows what lies in our future.

Homeschool Journal 8/16/17 Day 3, Whoopie!

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Wow! Three days of school already, it is going fast!!! I like making up puns for the number of days we’ve done of school. We went on a field trip to the orthodontist so that Reed could get a wire cut.

LA was easy today. I am writing a essay tomorrow, on the first week! I am probably going to do a lot of fun stuff this year! I actually get to read a bit more than a teeny bit this year for reading, yay! But it does mean that it takes a ton longer to do my reading.

Did you know that the Bible is actually for Christians, not non-christians? It is to tell us how to live, but it is also good for non-christians to learn about Christianity. The word Bible comes from the word “biblo” which means “book,” that really fits because the Bible is The book. The Bible was written in three different countries, with over 40 people writing in it!!!!! Now that is an awe-inspiring book!!!!! We are amazed by Jesus’ miracles but what we should really be inspired by is that He led a completely sinless life, because though He was still God, He was also completely human at the same time, so He was tempted just as much as we are. I know you’re saying “He had an advantage” but no, He really didn’t, He was just as human as we are. I know it’s hard to wrap your head around that concept, but He really was.                                   “I am not afraid of the temptation, I am afraid of the fact that I am tempted to do it”                                                                        -Vella Karman

In history we learned about the Spanish settling in South America. They stole around 15,000 dollars worth of money in gold from the natives!!!!! And thye forced them to mine it for them!!! I don’t know about you, but I would of made a few complaints about that!