Today we went on a field trip. We went to a church with a really cool playground with tubes and everything where we played with some little kids. Our moms talked while we played. It was pretty fun. I didn’t need to do spanish or science today. I didn’t finish all the work I had to do either.
Math was okish. I had to listen to him explain how to divide. It was not very good because I don’t have all of my multiplacation table memorized so I can’t do short division as easily.
On Sunday, the third of September many people in Huston went back to their homes. A majority of those people are sorting through what to throw away, and what to put out to dry. Officers are going to continue doing door to door searches until they have covered everything that they need to. Churches met, some in their parking lots. They are opening businesses and playing ball games. They are trying to make everything go on as normal as possible while they are picking up the pieces. Several fires happened at a chemical site that got waterlogged and the authorities are warning people to be careful as they are cleaning their houses and to try not to have exposed skin. They are trying to lower the water in overflowing dams. Life is continuing on in Huston.
Yesterday we started a new read aloud and it is sort of good but mostly I don’t think I will like it because the title has ghost in it. It is really scary and I totally will wish we aren’t reading this book soon. It was creepy.
Math was horrible and took forever. I got sent to my room until I could calm down. I was crying. Just let me get it wrong for once. I wish I could go back and not make all the typos ect, and not be so upset by the ones that I can’t get and then it is an obvious thing that I just forgot.
In English I am learning about character sketches. It is supposed to really develop your characters. It will really add depth to my writing if I can get the hang of it. But that’s only if I can get the hang of it. And if I practice it a lot. Well, this probably isn’t helping my writing. There are two many short sentences. I must stop having short sentences. Maybe if I use more commas? Or if I look through and see which things I really need to say. Ok, I am going to stop using as short sentences. If I can help it.
In Bible we read about the less commonly told story of Jesus feeding a crowd. They had seven loafs of bread and picked up seven baskets after they fed the 400. The 400 hadn’t eaten for almost 3 days!!! That is one long sermon! We read about what to look for when you are doing different studies of the Bible so that you can get the most out of it.
Persia was conquered many times. It is amazing how many words we have for conquer, overthrown, invade, defeat, beat, vanquish, overcome, trounce, ect ect ect… It happens so much we need to have a million definitions for it that I haven’t even heard of half of them. It would be so hard to be a king or queen and not know who of your family is going to be treacherous and who you can trust, finding out you made the wrong decision later and regretting it or making the right one and feeling so betrayed. I am so glad I am not a queen!!!
Yesterday was labor day and we took it off because dad got it off. We had some fun and got some stuff done too. We have taken several days off so far, so we are doing Fridays work today. Friday is our half-day, so it is not even lunch yet.
We read about Jesus spitting on a deaf and dumb mans tongue and ears. We also read the story of Jesus sending a demon out of a girl. But the one about the girl was not the common one about the slave-girl who’s master made money off of it, it was another one I don’t remember hearing before. I think it would be gross to have anyone other than Jesus spit in your ears.
Slave trade was a very common thing in the past. I was also horrible. They got them from Africa in two main ways. They took over territories and kidnapped, or they bought prisioners from warring tribes. We read about the trade triangle, that made almost all but the slaves who traveled it rich, and one queen who was raised and later fought during a over 60 year long war to keep her country from being overtaken.
I was “taught” how to multiply with more than two digits on the bottom row. It was incredibly boring. The problems were a little bit challenging though. But I got an A+ anyway.
In vocabulary I looked at a page in a book an tried to find any roots and see if I knew what they meant. It wasn’t too hard. Mostly because there were no roots on the page I chose. But I’m not going to complain about that, or getting to read a page of a book. Don’t worry, I chose a school book, and it was a page I had already read.
Today is the day that I get to know what I am in Nutcracker!!! So, I am… Drum roll please… I don’t know yet!!! Isn’t that great! Let me recheck really quick… Still don’t know. I am ahead in school so all I had to do today was half a math lesson, history, Bible, and spelling. Adi got glasses today. She is far-sighted, so she pretty much needs them for reading. But it is still cool. So that is today so far, (it’s not even lunch yet.) There will be an update almost as soon as I know. (That is, after I text some people and run over to a friends house real quick!:)
So. The final verdict is… drumroll please… I’m a party girl!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I heard I was jumping up and down and screaming!
Today we went on a field trip to the library and our other house. We were going to meet dad at the other house and it didn’t work out. I got some craft books at the library! I also got a gingerbread house book that had a ton of really cool ways to decorate it! There was even a really cool log house type one.
In Bible we learned about the different types of Bible studies. There are word studies, topical studies, character studies and so on. Did you know that a devotional is different than a Bible study?
Today Adi went to gymnastics, she can cartwheel now!!! It is really cool! And after only two classes! I took a video of her doing it, and we will have a ton of fun showing it to her when she is older.
In Bible we learned that if you want to make a habit of reading the Bible you must either choose no Bible, no breakfast, or no Bible, no bed. It is also good to cautiously paraphrase it so that you can remember it, it usually helps people remember things better if they teach it to someone else, or put it in their own words.
I learned about tone in English. You should never use the word that your tone is. Tone is the emotion that it is written in. In writing class I learned that your intro sets the tone for any essay you write. So if your tone is set in your intro, the rest of the paragraph makes more sense.
Yesterday we started drawing and I am better than I thought at drawing recognizable things! Today we went on a field trip to the library. It was fun, I like going to the library on Tuesdays! Reed and Adi don’t think I am writing my journal fast enough, so they are threatening to write it for me and post it on the blog saying that I will do all sorts of things for them. Siblings, you just gotta love em.’
We made hurricane in a bottle today. It was really really cool! It is ironic that we are doing it right now, I am not on good terms with Harvey! BE PRAYING FOR TEXAS, AND HUSTON A TON!!! We are going to try and get a science fair going with other homeschoolers, it is going to be so much fun!!!
In history we read about people who pretended to be loyal to other people when they were really loyal to the other side! I think to many more of the bad peoples stories get told in history than the good.
I had my first quiz in math today, it went fine. I think I got a B at the least. Math isn’t really hard yet.
The little rock police department has a shortage on police. And a rise on crime, at the same time. According to officials, they are not directly related, though they are a bit inconvenient. They want about 80 new trainees to fill the positions, 12 of those already being certified police officers. To get the word out they plan to have a social-network wide call to duty. Including advertisements on Facebook, YouTube, and other social medias. The call to duty will also extend to television. It has been publicized on the front page of The Arkansas Democrat Gazette along with the famous “Harvey picture.” So watch out bad guys, the police are upping their workforce.