What Does Thanksgiving mean to me?

                                   

            The third Thursday of November is Thanksgiving. This is the day where we eat turkey and other delicious things. And after the food has been consumed, then some families watch football games. But I have a different approach on Thanksgiving.

            Now how I think and you do may be different. But I think that our Thanksgiving was a good example of how my approach is. To me, Thanksgiving is a time to have fun and socialize with family or friends. Our Thanksgiving started at lunch where we ate very delicious food. Then instead of watching football for a pointless amount of hours, we played a game where everyone laughed. We socialized and laughed. After the game of laughing, we went outside and played a couple of games. Then we had to go home, but my Thanksgiving was awesome despite having to go home.

            If you sat and watched television for a couple hours, did you actually talk very much? You probably didn’t because you were busy watching the game. What if you have family that came down from Hawaii or Alaska and they stayed only for Thanksgiving and then they left without them telling you how they were doing.  All I’m saying is that if you are going to get together, this is a perfect day to socialize and laugh together.

The First Day of the Second Trimester

     Today is the first day of the new trimester. In some ways it feels like a new school year.  It feels like a new beginning. It used to be that I would not start homeschool until 9:20, when I got home from my morning class.  Now, I start at 8:00.

      I am looking forward to vocab. It is fun learning about new words like beseech and impetuous. I also like the stories at the end of the vocab. lesson. I am happy for history because we get to learn about the Crusades, the Hundred Years War, the Mongol Empire, Knighthood, Ireland and more. I love history because it is interesting to learn about the cultures that had good war tactics or good trading. And it is interesting to learn about cultures that invented things like porcelain.

Trimester 1

     Today is the last of trimester 1. There are 3 trimesters in the course of the year. Each one of the trimester are 60 days long. I’m telling you this because this trimester has been an intersiting one.

     This trimester has had a lot of good things and bad things. Some of the good things were watching a movie on a Friday, after I got all my work done early. Also there was the day that I got to play video games because I got done early. Now my intenion is not all screens because I liked when we went out to eat ocassilly. It was a nice surprise. Another was the first day of school. I was pumped up. Even though my ”pumped up” personality dropped a bit, I still like homeschool better than public school. Even though, I have more work than at public school, I think that it is well worth the price. I think that because I have always been excited about having school. Although I like school, sometimes I wish that I didn’t have school because it got boring.    
    Although I think that public school is bad, some of the things that I did wrong in homeschool were that I could not do outlines. I just could not do outlines. But now I am doing much better. Another thing was that on my wiki, I got some stuff wrong that mom did not like. But it is fixed now.

            In this last 60 days, I felt a great joy of the learning that I was getting. It was great.

If I had a million dollars

    Mom's Note: As we are preparing for the end of the trimester, Spencer was given a "light" writing assignment for his blog.  You'll probably notice his blog posts have slowed down considerably...that's because we're hitting editing and revising very, very hard.  Very.       

            Every kid’s dream is to have a million dollars. They could buy so many Hotwheels car or so many Barbies. And then maybe, they could buy some more stuff like a new car and a nice new Wii and Playstation. But that's not what I would do.

            I would keep 100,000 dollars to get a good start in the real world. And the rest I would give to my family and to the people in the world.   For example, to the people in Kenya that have no homes.  I would get a job, because if I quit my job, I would be lazy all day long and get fat. So I should think of other people, and they should all share the money instead of me getting it all and letting my family be poor.

NaNoWriMo

                                                                                                                                                                                    The month of November is NaNoWriMo. In other words, it is National Novel Writing Month. Last year, my mom and I did it and we wanted to do it again this year. In Mom’s division, she has to write a 50,000 story in the month of November. In my division (Young Writers Program) you can have any word count.

Last year, I couldn’t type very well and I was just an amateur, so I got 11,000 words(my aim was 10,000). This year, I’m going for 30,000 words.  My story idea for this year is to have two thirteen year old buddies that get and find treasure in this cave. They accidentally broke a brick in one of the main character’s wall at his house, where they find a map that leads to the treasure that one of the kid’s great-grandfather had found.