Tag: week 5

Homeschool Journal 9/22/17

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Today we started reading Luke for our together Bible reading. We are reading through it fast. I am working on getting better at typing, I have to think about  it a lot or my fingers type the words I use a lot instead of the words I was thinking or get them in the wrong order. I hope by the end of the year I will be good enough to transcribe! But who knows, I have a lot of time before then.

I like drawing. I think I would like to make a comic some time. I drew a sort of comic today of a tomato rolling her eyes. Yes, it was recognizable as a tomato. And yes, you could tell it was a girl. And yes, you can tell she is rolling her eyes. (After I tell you, but granted it looks like that after you know.)

I did Writers Inc. today and it was cool. I think I need to make my writing clearer, I am so busy getting all the ideas I have in the story and on paper that it gets a little bit muddled… Well, if you have any other tips on how I could improve my writing please comment.

Homeschool Journal 9/21/17

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Today I didn’t have any LA because I already did it yesterday before we decided to do the day befores’ work. However you pluralize that? Before doesn’t exactly have possesion… If you know please comment! ‘Cause I don’t!

I wrote a current event on an airport making more handicapped parking spaces today. (It is titled “Lend a Hand to the Handicapped” if you would like to read it.) I learned how to spell handicapped. It is crazy the things you don’t realize you don’t know how to spell until you are writing about it on a blog that shows that the word is spelled wrong! Handicapped, I couldn’t spell halloween until last halloween when I wrote about it on the blog. (Speaking of learning how to spell halloween, it is good that I learned it because it was one of my spelling words today! Is that crazy or what?)

Lend a Hand to the Handicapped

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The Clinton airport is one of the biggest airports in Arkansas. They were recently inspected, and it was discovered that they didn’t have the required amount of handicap parking. It was  decided they should put most of the handicap parking in one area as well as adding more. Thirty-four parking spaces were added 34, most of them are short-term in the west parking lot. They decided it works best that way because there is not a lot of street traffic on the route they will take to the doors of the airport. They also voted to give the people parking in handicapped spaces the lowest rate possible. At the moment that is $8. So there we have it folks, we are lending a hand to the handicapped!

Homeschool Journal 9/21/17

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Today I went with Adi to gymnastics. They got to climb the rope today! Adi already knew she could climb halfway up, (and their ceiling is way higher than a school gym) She climbed probably about 6, 7 ft. up. I know! Is that crazy or what! That girl can climb for a 6 year old! Congrats Adds!! (Adds is my nickname for her.) Since we were really busy yesterday I got to just finish yesterday today. We are finally on the right day of the week now! I only had four subjects but math took a while.

I am reading the Psalms for my on my own school Bible reading. That sounds confusing if you are not familiar with it, it really means that I read it on my own, (as in I read it by myself) but it is for school and I don’t get to pick what I read when. See, it’s really simple but it sounds confusing! I am on Psalm 25. That means I have done 24 days of reading, because I have been doing one chapter a day except for the one day I had to do two. (I don’t know why they had me do two, they just did.)

Homeschool Journal 9/19/17

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Today we went on field trip to mom’s womens study. It was fun, we played in there playroom. (It was at a family friends house.) But, between that, playing a game of chess, and going to the library I didn’t get all of my school done. After I got back from ballet, ate dinner, and showered I did more school so all I have left to do tomorrow is math, Bible, and electives.

In English I learned more about character development. I learned about all the ways they make the characters seem real. How they act, react, how others talk about them, and how others act towards them all make them seem more real and add up to make their character. So it is sort of more complicated than just describing them in more detail.

Homeschool Journal 9/18/17

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Today I got a package that had not given me all that was paid for. I got two of the thing! Isn’t that so cool! I am so excited! Mom went for a Khols interview today and she got the job? Isn’t that exciting! And she might not be a seasonal employee! She is going to have a thousand times better work hours though!

Did you know that the East India Company ruled/was the government for India? Crazy isn’t it? I thought they were just the missionary heads!

Religion has caused so many battles, revolts, riots, and even wars! About half the wars fought were caused by the clashing of different religions, and rulers taking sides didn’t help either! The other half were caused by greed. Greed is obviously wrong, but what about religion? Religion is not wrong, but forcing religion on someone is wrong, and that is almost what started all of the wars on religion. We ought to have learned not to do that by now, don’t you think?

Homeschool Journal 9/15/17

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Today we are doing a Mondays work on a  Fridays schedule. I know that seems confusing, and trust me it is. (I keep on thinking it is an actual Monday and then I think well it was Friday yesterday and yesterday I was thinking that if we could skip work that day we could be on the right day then… Today is a Friday!) It is getting me all mixed up! We went on a field trip and saw dad at lunch and then went to the store.

Today I started a brand new reader. It is called homesick and it is the Fictionalized story of Jean Fritz, written, by Jean Fritz, and fictionalized, by Danny Gofer… Just kidding, it was fictionalized by Jean Fritz too. I don’t think I quite like it. It is not… Well… Something that I would read otherwise… Like… It would be a book that I pick up at the library and less than halfway through realize that, as a Christian I shouldn’t read this. Seriously, I am sort of concerned.

journal 9/23/16

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We are learning about Egypt in history right now. The pharaohs were awesome fighters, one pharaoh, Tuthmosis the 3rd led his army into 17 battles!!! The houses in Egypt were made out of bricks as you probably already know because of the Bible, but did you know that they had guards at the gates?

We learned about mice, and new blue tooth pieces in science today. There is a watch that tells you your texts, and who’s calling you, as well as the time. They have wireless mice, I thought that it would be an awesome practical joke. You can click on things, zoom in, zoom out and such from the other room!!! It would be so funny.

Blind Ballet

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A blind singer is taking ballet to help her on the stage. It is hard for her, but she continues on enjoying the challenge. She of course needed private lessons, and the teaching method is very different, her teachers have to move her to the correct positions, even 1st position is a bit of a challenge. So it’s different but 40 year old Elizabeth Whitaker is trying hard, and picks things up quickly. Her teacher has studied at Shuffles and Ballet II, (Where I go!) under Miss Tracy, and Miss Jana, (Two of my teachers last year!!!) and at Ballet Arkansas, (It’s their Nutcracker I’m in!) with Kirt and Linda Hathaway. Mala, her teacher also has a University of Oklahoma degree in ballet performance. All this should help her on stage, may she reach her goal.

journal 9/22/16

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Later today I’m going to get my first pair of point shoes!!! My goal for this year is to be better on the stage, and be the best soldier that I can be in the Nutcracker. Not to brag bu the Nutcracker that I’m in is supposed to be the best in the state!!! Maybe that’s why it costs $75 to be in it, and I don’t even get to keep the costume, but it is way more than worth it, my three life dreams are to be on point, be in the Nutcracker, and get one of my books published, and two of those are happening THIS year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today for Bible we had to think of a way that we are like Moses, it took a bit to find something iother than we both have a relationship with God. But I finally came up with the fact that we both inlove people, and we stand up for what we think is right, when I have strong feeling towards something then you don’t want to mess with me, I was the one who got in trouble in preschool for telling kids that Santa wasn’t real, they deserved to know the truth, they shouldn’t have been lied to, and when they find out that they had been lied to by their parents all those years won’t they feel hurt, and like they can’t trust their parents anymore? But no, I am not allowed to simply tell them the truth and save them from that without getting in trouble with the parents, no less. I just wrote this whole  153 word count thing to find out that it was a mistake, and I was supposed to be writing how I am like Abraham. UUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am like Abraham because I worry a lot and sometimes doubt God’s plan.

The story of the world said that Moses just told Pharaoh to let the Israelites go it skipped him escaping and the 40 years after, and it missed most of the plagues, including the last one.  I don’t know what Bible their reading, but it sure isn’t the same one I am reading! And this hasn’t been the first time they’ve done it, there has been several other Bible stories gone wrong in the book.

I thought The Kingdom Strikes Back was interesting today. It was talking about Jonah being mad at God for not destroying Nineveh, and they had quite an earful to say about it too. It was as I said, Interesting.