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Everyone, this blog is going to be fun for you to read, and for me to write.

First, for the past two weeks, I have been ending school at hours later than I should, sometimes seven or eight o'clock at night! I have tried to work faster, but for some reason, it just took me forever! My mom came up with the perfect solution! A schedule. When I first started homeschooling, I wanted to be able to do what I wanted when I wanted, but now that's not the case. My mom created a schedule so that at 9:00 I do this, at 9:15 I do this, and so on. That way, I know when I will finish school! Or at least an estimate. If I am not done with the subject at the right time, I have to bump it to the end of the day for 'homework'. So far, I’ve been finishing school at early afternoon hours, which gives me time to do what I want! It's great! This is my last subject today, and it's only 2:30 on the dot!

Another exciting thing is that my sister came last weekend! Together, we went to see the Broadway show The Lion King! It was fabulous! I can't even begin to describe how fascinating it was! The costumes were absolutely stunning, the set work was out-of-this-world, and the actors were extremely talented! There wasn't a minute during the play that I thought “that part could have been better.” I loved it! They had great effects as well. There were times actors were up in the air on wires or even swinging on 'vines' across the stage. Sometimes, when you are an actor, set worker, or even director, you watch plays differently from before you were in the theater. You look for things like “how does that work”, “how did they make the costume”, “where is the sound coming from”, and “that person is projecting their voice well”. That's how I watch plays now. I still enjoy watching them, but I don't only watch it for entertainment. This show provided great entertainment and a chance for me to figure out how they made the things. It was a wonderful experience.

This week, I've gotten much better at my handwriting. I used to have very sloppy cursive, but now some of the letters my mom mistook for the ones in the book!
click on the picture below to see a page from my book

Can you tell which ones are mine and which are the book's?

Well, I’ve had fun writing this blog, and I hope you've had fun reading it, but now I am going to sign off and enjoy my weekend! I hope you enjoy yours! Here we go.....till next time, BYE!!!!!!!!!!

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 Baby put together quite the outfit

petting me!

getting ready to "cut" my hair

 

a little "sofa " I made for Baby

cupcake

written Fri, Aug 23

Hey everyone! It's the second blog of the new school year! Today is also Saint Rose of Lima's feast day! We made cupcakes and made roses out of fruit roll-ups to put on them! 

We also had a celebration for the Queenship of Mary on Thursday. We made crown cookies! So we have lots of sweets in the house! Baby also made a craft on Thursday.

In grammar, I am learning about pronouns-a word that takes the place of a noun, nouns-a person, place, thing, or idea, articles-a, an, and the, and adjectives-a word that modifies a noun. It is very boring. Oh well, that's school for you.

For poetry, I am working on memorizing a poem called “The Tiger” by William Blake.  Here it is:

 TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

  

Cool, huh? I have to memorize ALL of it! Now, I could tell you about all my other subjects and bore you to death, just for the sake of a longer blog, but I chose to keep it short and interesting! There is one more thing: my sister E came home from college today! Yay! Well, I'm off to welcome her home! Till next time, bye!

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baby in a bag (pillow sham)

1st Week of School

Hey everyone! IT’S THE FIRST BLOG OF THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR!!! Are you excited? This is not only my first week of 8th grade, but it’s baby’s first year of pre-school! How exciting is that? So far in school, I haven’t had projects or anything really interesting to write about so, this blog will be fairly short. However, today I wrote my first poem of the school year! Here it is:

The summer sun that danced
In the skies above
Shown down on the wonder
In my hand that I love.

My wonder was too brilliant
To leave out in the open,
So I wrapped it in a golden case
Pointed at the end.

Such a splendid thing, my wonder,
The shade of freshly fallen snow.
It deserved a better wardrobe,
So I adorned it with rainbows.

I was admiring my wonder,
Cause I loved it oh so much.
You’ll never guess what the sun did;
It happened in a rush.

The sun wanted my wonder,
I guess he was jealous of me,
Because in just a few moments,
I felt a drop on my knee.

A second drop soon followed,
And three drops after that,
And then I was appalled
To hear a horrifying SPLAT!

I looked down to the granite
That lie underneath my feet.
And when I saw what was there,
A tear rolled down my cheek.

My pretty little wonder
Lay deformed upon the ground.
I was so heart broken,
That my tears let out no sound.

I cried out in agony
And people gave me weird looks,
But they’ll never know the wonder
That the sun’s heat took.

I tried to save my little wonder
In its triangular bed,
It was now just a liquid;
My precious wonder was dead.
 
I’ll never forgive the sun
Who my wonder did take,
The agony claws me
Like a sharp metal rake.

So beware my little readers:
If ever a wonder you do keep,
Hide it from the sun 
Or it shall fall forever asleep.

Did you like it? If you couldn’t guess, it was about an ice cream cone. 

Baby’s school is so much more fun then mine! She’s been learning about shapes and numbers so far. She also got this book called Corduroy, which is about a stuffed bear who finds out that he’s lost his button to his overalls, and goes around the store he lives at in the night trying to find it. Baby got to look for buttons around the house, and then she sorted buttons by color and shape and sizes.  It was way more fun than my school. During history, I got so distracted with her school!

I guess sometime during the school year I’ll get excited for school, but right now, I am SO not in the mood! I mean, it feels like summer began only a month or so ago.  Oh well, I guess not everything can go the way you want.  On the bright side, my grandma is coming soon, and we will be going to the beach for a few days! It’s going to be great! We are going to stay in this awesome condo on the beach! I can’t wait! So at least I still have something fun and summery to look forward to!

There really isn’t much else to write about…I mean, this is the first week of school, so nothing big has taken place.  By the next blog I should have something more interesting to write about! But, until then, bye!

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Baby's first 1st Day of School photo

 

Fun (working) with numbers

 

 "I'm the best gift ever!"

Feast Day Celebration for
The Solemnity of the Assumption

grammar - blah     shapes "work" - fun!

 

Baby's telling me how she made Our Lady
the rope is the veil
the shapes at the top are eyes & nose
the middle shapes are the belly & belly button
the little white shape is Baby Jesus
the two shapes at the bottom are feet

"These are flip-flops, and I'm going to the pool."

weeeeeeeeeeeeee