Category: Journals

Homeschool Journal 5/8/18

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In Bible we started Neamiah. We also read a poem in Rudyard Kipling’s section. In Math I learned about more radical equations and in Science I learned about the electroweak force.

Homeschool Journal 5/7/18

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In Bible we read the part of Revelation with the dragon that is Satan and the woman and baby that is Mary and Jesus. In history we learned about post World War 1 Russia and the rise of Josef Stalin. In Algebra 2 I learned about “more complicated” radical equations.

Homeschool Journal 5/7/18

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Hey! We’re back with journals again. Today in Bible we read starting at Revalation 12. I am not perticulary fond of Revalation. It is a little scary and confusing, and sometimes just plain weird. Today we read about a pregnant woman and Satan, who was trying to eat her baby as soon as it was born. (FYI, the baby made it out safely.) In Bible I also finished my book study on Ruth and did a character study on Josiah. (The child king who found the Book of the Law and started to follow it.) And guess what? Although he was a child when he became king, (he was eight) he wasn’t a kid anymore when he found the Book of the law. (He was in his twenties!)

I did two math lessons today. I am learning about Geometry right now. I like geometry, shapes are a lot more fun than numbers. I have a trick for remembering what you call the angles, it goes like this. When you have a angle that is smaller than a right angle it is called an acute angle. (Because it is small you call it a cute angle. Get it? A cute, acute.) Right angles are easy to remember and the last one gets narrowed down.

In history we learned about the rise of Joseph Stalin. How sad. If you combine him and Hitler you get a perfect picture of tyranny. Did you know his real name wasn’t Stalin? He changed it when he joined communism. Stalin means to steal, and he did. He stole human rights. While he was in charge 6 million Russians died of starvation, and 15 million went to prision. Most of those 15 million died while there.

Homeschool Journals 12/11-12/15/17

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12/11/17

In Bible we read about Pentacost, when the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples. I forgot what Pentacost was and I was going to ask mom what it was to see if there was a hidden meaning behind the Holy Spirit coming then. But when she told me I laughed so hard at myself. Ohh well, it was a good thought, it just didn’t turn out too well.

We read a poem by Edwaard Lear. He was one of the youngest of 21 children!!! He was lonely as an adult. Probably because he was used to so many siblings! His poems are lonely too.

12/12/17

We read about Sual becoming Paul in Bible. He barely escaped from people who tried to kill him several times. I am glad that God can change people so much, or else a lot of people wouldn’t be saved! I didn’t realize that Paul stayed about two years in the place where he got back his sight before they persacuted him, that explains how he had people to help him get out in a basket so soon!

We learned more about Napoleon in History. Today he won all of Austria’s land in Italy. I personally do not remember that Austria had any land in Italy. They probably won it in another war. We read about Waterloo too, the Battle of Waterloo is very famous.

12/13/17

Today we started watching our neighbor’s chickens. She has four hens and she asked us to watch them until Sunday. We get to keep the eggs that they lay during that time. I like the chickens, I am slightly afraid of them, but then again when I first met our cat, Lava I was afraid of him too. (And he is a ‘fraidy-cat)

12/14/17

In history we learned about South America becoming free. And then getting recaptured by the Spanish. And then getting it’s freedom. There are no more ups and downs, sorry. We learned about Simon Bolivar, he is who they named Bolivia after. They are spelled very differently, nevermind, that doesn’t matter very much. Bolivar wanted South America to be run like the US. Although he accomplished much in his lifetime, sadly, his dream was never a reality.

12/15/17

 Today we stopped early to go to a thing at about 4:30. We fed the chickens today. They are loud. I am sad that we only have two days left. I hurt my back on Wednesday. It still hurts today. I didn’t get very much school done.

Homeschool Journal 1/8/17

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Today was a long day. I did two spellings. (Which took almost an hour) I did a math lesson. (Which took longer than an hour) I found that two of my school books were in Reed’s locker. (I can read again now!) I also learned more about the outbreak of blue death in London. (Our read aloud) I did a lot of Bible memory, and heard more about climbing in Sweden. I also read a lot about weird and cool machines. Including a boat that is supposed to sink, (it is for studying purposes) a taxi that has no driver (it runs about 20 ft. above pedestrian level) and a plane where you have to work to stay conscious.

Homeschool Journal 11/29/17

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Today I tried to finish up yesterdays school but I ended up going to the store with mom and then youth group and so on. In Bible we learned that Jesus has overcome the world, but He has also made the world. So I don’t know if that really means much, well I guess it does mean that He still has power. It’s not like He lost all his power long ago and now He’s just hanging around, unable to do anything. Luckily for us He’s not like that. Or we would be in huge trouble.

Homeschool Journal 11/28/17

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Today was a busy day. I didn’t get much school done. I did language arts, science, some Bible, and some English. That was all, but we did have a busy day. We started with mom reading “How to Stay Christian in High School” out loud to us. Then I did spelling with mom, after that the day started to get crazy. We went to the eye doctor so I could get contacts for Nutcracker. (Go Nutcracker!) Then we went to the dance store for me to get tights, for Nutcracker. (Did I mention Nutcracker is next week?) And we checked out the leotards while we were there. (They were on a buy one get one half off sale.) Then we went home and ate lunch. We left again to go to the library. We were at the library until it was time for me to go home and get ready for ballet. I went to ballet, dad picked me up and we went to meet somebody at the library. We got home at eight ‘o six. We ran over to our neighbor, N’s house to give her something I found in my room and then we went home and I had dinner. So you can’t blame me for not getting much school done because I was gone for most of the day. I brought school with me to the eye doctor, did some after I ate lunch, and brought science to the library and did that there. So, that was “Vella’s Busy Day” by Vella M. Karman, be sure to read the rest of her little children’s collection.