Latin

Hey, I know I'm a day late on this post but at least I remembered to do it right?! ;)  Anyhow, Latin was yesterday and of course we had a ton of fun, went over the syllabus and such.

Here is what we get to do this year:

~Learn more vocab and grammar stuff
~Make Latin Mad Libs
~Storytime!! This is when we all listen to a cool story about Roman history and then translate it from Latin to English (we get the simplified version).  They usually involve heroes, missing appendages, and fire.
~Do little grammar videos to show next year's sixth graders
~Make a Latin Book as a class

AND FINALLY...
Dun-dun-dunnnnn

~Make a MOVIE about everything we have learned about ROMAN HISTORY!!!!

Am I too much of a Greek/Roman history nerd?  Because I find these things fascinating :D  Of course a contributing factor is that many of you know that in my spare time I randomly act out scenes from books/movies/etc with my friends and make videos starring my cousins.

And, of course, ME.  Haha :)

So of course everyone is in overdrive, and we all want to start rightawaypleasepleaseplease Miss Weight?!

Alas, we must wait.  But I shall be patient.

Oh, can't we start now?!?!

That's all for now, hope you have a good day at school, work, or home!

Happy Homeschooling!

Percy Jackson!!

Ok, am I even old enough to be nostalgic?  I thought that was only for adults.  But the other day I saw some friends and we were talking about elementary school and the subject of Percy Jackson came up.

Oh my word, I swear we didn't think about anything else for the whole entire night.  It was all, Percy this and Annabeth that and remember when??  It was like we were all back in elementary school, but not.  Weird.  And now I know something very important.

Even though I am in eighth grade, I am so not too old to want to play imaginary games again.  I will never, ever be too old to want to play imaginary games.

Laugh if you want, but it's true!! :)

And now I am re-reading the Percy Jackson series once more (Lightning Thief; Percy, Annabeth, and Grover are on their way to Vegas) and loving every minute.  This might explain my random new profile picture, as well.

Officially Olympian-Obsessed right now, haha!!!

Latin starts Thursday, and I'll do a post then.  For now, though, it's same old routine :)

Happy Homeschooling!

Day 2

My mom and I are about to paint little gnomes for my brother and sister :)  Cute huh?  I will post pics when they are done!!

And my second day, of course, went swell.  History, Bible, Math, and English, done by 10:45, then just had cooking class (mom taught me how to make roasted tomato sauce for our spaghetti tomorrow--yum!) a few minutes ago.  It was all in all a great school day!!

Sorry for the short post, but I figured better short than none at all, right?

Happy Homeschooling!

Va-va-VBS!

So I realized I never told you guys what went on at VBS.  Well I made friends, learned A LOT about kids, got asked to babysit, and had a super fun (if tiring) time with all the preschoolers!!  Danielle (the preschool director) is going to ask the children's ministries director if I can help out in the class once a month or so.  The kids seem to like me well enough :)  The girls like it when I play cats or house and read with them, the boys prefer to play Iron Man.

Or Spiderman.

Or Batman.

One of those guys.

As long as there are blowing-up noises and bad guys getting punched and lots of yelling, they are happy.

I found something out about myself that week: Spider (Iron, Bat) Man is way more of my thing than house or cats.  And I thought I was a Barbie type of girl!  Guess not!

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The kids liked that I drew mustaches on myself, let them test their lighting and fire powers on me, and gave us all war paint made of shaving cream.  It was the best fun I've had in a long, long time.

And I got asked to babysit!!  Note to self: take first aid/CPR/babysitting class at Kaiser ASAP!  It's true though, and since then I've been asked again about 3 more times or so.  Better get my booty off the couch and sign up huh?

That's all for now.  Thought you might be interested in how the whole VBS adventure turned out haha!

Happy Homeschooling!

First Day

Hey all!  So today was my first day of school...and it was a pretty good day overall :)  We went to my grandparents' house and learned about physics, force, gravity, slope, etc.  It was pretty fun!

Of course, we don't just do workbook pages around here.  We are unconventional, unusual, and amazingly awesomely creative.  So in order to learn about physics, force, gravity, slope, etc., we went mini-golfing.

Oh yeah.

Tomorrow we get down to business though, doing the school work I'm used to--probably a science or history lesson with an assignment, an English assignment, and some other stuff.  My math curriculum hasn't arrived yet, so we will probably do something on Khan Academy or maybe just some review?

I was thinking doing a post a day or at least 2-3 times a week with updates about school and life.  I did NOT post half as much as I should have last year!!  So tell me what you think please, in the comments :)

Also I would appreciate ideas of what you want to see from this blog.  More random rambles?  More about school?  Thanks!!

Happy Homeschooling!

Pinterest!

Maybe you've heard about Pinterest, and maybe you haven't.  Pinterest is a really fun site where you can "pin" (aka post) pictures that are inspirational, funny, sweet...anything really!

Visit my Pinterest?!

I'm going to see if I can get a pin it button for my blog :)

On a different note, school starts on August 22nd...too soon!!  We hope to have found a math program that I actually understand haha!  I'm excited for eighth grade, it will be so fun!

Happy Homeschooling!