Communications

            Yesterday was the first day of the third trimester. My schedule is now Communications first period and Orchestra seventh period. I’ve had Orchestra before, but I have not had Communications before.

            Communications is okay. So far, I had to watch a PowerPoint about the class. Then we got on the computers and looked at our teacher’s webpage. Then we took a survey and looked at PowerPoint. I cannot wait until we get farther into this class because we will get to do some fun things. So far, I have had a good time.

Math

So far this year, math has been a struggle for me. I haven’t been doing very good, but that all changed on Tuesday.

On Monday’s math, I didn’t do so well. See when I don’t get good scores, my dad gets frustrated at me because he wants me to do well in math. See him being the best person at math in his school; he always wants me to do go to. I also get frustrated because I want to do well and I try, but my math scores just turn out bad. So my dad gave me thirty problems for Wednesday. Since I had other work, I decided to that first and that took me up to the end of the school. So I did math after school. So I took my time and it took me three hours. I was very tired of doing math at that point, but I was very confidently that I got a good score.

And I did. My dad checked it right after I got done and I got a good score. I was overjoyed. I have finally gotten over my run of bad luck. And my dad said to do it more like that more often. So now, I am going to try and get good scores.

My Medieval Dinner

On Sunday, we had a medieval dinner for a homeschool project that I had to do. We played games and had a medieval dinner from three to six.

First, we played a game called Fox and Geese. It is played on a board that looks like a plus sign (see below). Anyway, the one fox is trying to capture the geese and the geese are trying to trap the fox. So we played that game until dinner.

Dinner consisted of pottage, a thick stew that could contain just about anything from veggies to meat to fruit, and rye bread. The pottage was okay, but since we were "peasants", we didn't have meat because we couldn't afford it.  In medieval times, the father or son every now and then would bring back a deer or a rabbit and they would eat that in the pottage.

Anyway, I really liked the rye bread. It was very delicious with the butter.

After dinner, we played Nine Man Morris. Nine Man Morris is a game that reminds me of Tic Tac Toe. In Nine Man Morris, you must get three pieces in a row. This game has a bigger board, nine chips and when you get a three in a row, your opponent must take off one of their pieces. So as players lose pieces, it is harder for players to get back in the game. So after eating, we played Nine Man Morris for a while, and then we were done.

This is a Fox and Geese Board.

This is the pottage (below) and a slice of the Rye Bread.

This is a Nine Man Morris Board.

Des Moines

            On Saturday, my family and my grandparents went to Des Moines. We had a great time

            First, we played Skywalk Golf. Skywalk Golf is an eighteen hole miniature golf course in the skywalks. My favorite hole was number 17. It had hundreds of screws that were nailed in to a tilted board. So then you hit the ball down onto the screws and where ever it landed, then you had to putt it in. It reminds me of “Plinko” on The Price Is Right. Even though I didn’t get any hole in ones, I still had a good time.

            After that, we went to Bang Bang, which is a Mongolian place. You can get the grill or stuff of the menus. The grill is basically a round grill that they put your food on.

            After eating at Bang Bang, we went shopping. I got some new shirts from Aerospotle and Elliot got an Orange Julius. Then we went home.

Do I Want To Go Back To School?

              There are going to be some changes next year. My dad might get a new job and my mom might go back to college. There are definitely going to be some changes next year. So I think that this is the big question. Do I want to go back to public school?

            I think that there will be some ups and downs about maybe going back to public school. I will definitely enjoy talking with my friends, although in my opinion that reason wouldn’t be one I would go back to school for. I will also enjoy doing P.E. See at homeschool, we hardly ever have physical education. And I wish that we did because I like to run, but my stamina isn’t going up any.

            Some of the cons about going back to school will be the ability to move around. Last year, I felt so tired of sitting on my butt for 7 hours. This is why I’m so glad about the sitting situation at home. If duty calls, then I can just get up and stretch for a few minutes. One more good thing about homeschool is that I learn a lot more than I would at public school. I have learned logic, vocabulary, geography, writing, history, reading, science and a few others.

            Anyway next year, if I could choose what I wanted to do, I would chose homeschool.

My Biggest Academic Challenge

            I think that my biggest academic challenge is not so much schoolwork, but my concentration. See, I don’t work well with concentration. I like to take extra time on things that don’t need extra time. Like when I’m doing any subject, I’ll just up and stop.

            I like to stop if something ditracts me . If my mom is watching something or my dad has not come upstairs in a while, then I will go see what they are doing. I think that I do this is because I have never had good concentration. Since kindergarden, I have been a bit lazy. Last year was proballly the biggest year for being lazy. It was because I had my first ever study hall. Study Hall is basically a period where you don’t have anything. This is a time for you to work on stuff. But see, I never had anything to do, so I was a bit lazy.

            I must and I will try harder to stop dilly-dallying. I like to be lazy if I’m tired of doing a subject. If I am tired of doing a subject, sometimes, I will play with our cat, Juno. Sometimes, I cannot believe that the day is done and I still have a bunch of homeschool things to do.  I know realize that I need to stop taking those breaks.

Doctor Who

           Out of the twenty-four hours on Thursday, we spent 2 of them watching Doctor Who. Doctor Who is a British television show that started in the 60’s. The main character is the doctor who is a mysterious time traveler. We were only introduced to Doctor Who about a month ago, so it’s still pretty new.

            Doctor Who is a great bit of fun. It had funny and serious parts in it. The first episode that we watched was “Rose”. In that episode, a girl named Rose Tyler becomes the doctor’s traveling companion. In this episode, there is another thing. Rose and the doctor are protecting London from invading mannequins. (It was a funny episode). Then after that, we watched another Doctor Who where there were weeping angels and if you didn’t look at them, then they would move closer and closer and closer until they could touch you in which then you are transport back an amount of years. In one case, it was 90 years and in another, it was 40 years. Anyway, Doctor Who is very very exciting and scary. It is intense and at every part, it makes me afraid of what will happen next. If you like intense, then Doctor Who is for you.