Yesterday

Yesterday, Mom asked me to read a page out of a book that was about manners, because me and my siblings haven’t been getting along very well. We like to fight a lot and we like to antagonize each other, so that is why Mom made me read a section out of the book. Some of the things that the book mentions were that you should be aware of your surroundings and should pay attention to other feelings.

            Some of the ways that I did those two things were that I cleaned the table even though it wasn’t my night for dinner duty, so I think that that was nice. Also I normally do the dishes and yesterday I helped my sister with her side of doing the dishes. Me and them didn’t fight as much as we normally do so that is good. One more thing to wrap it up and that is that yesterday I felt a lot happier than those other days when me and my brother or sister would fight.

            Some of things that I still need to improve is that I still need to stop fighting. It isn’t like we were fighting majorly, but every now and then either me or him would get a little angry at him. One more thing that I noticed was that I like to tease a little bit, so I MUST stop doing that.

            Things that I plan to do for today are trying not to fight with my brother. Even if he jumps on me, I will push him off and walk away. Also I need to stop teasing. When I do that I tend to get others mad. Also my dad made a good point when he asked me,” What do you get out of it”.

Mom's note: I was impelled to switch out Logic studies for what I called Guidance.  I felt Spencer was in need of a little soul-searching and reflection this morning.  The blog entry below is a summary of his lesson.

Today we had a new subject , Guidance. I know that I like to fight with my brother and sister a lot and my mom knows that too. So today instead of logic we did guidance.

I learned that we have to look at our surroundings and we have to look at the people that we are mad at and look at how they are feeling. If they are feeling like they have had enough, then just leave them alone. If they are antagonizing you, then just leave them and tell a parent. Before I used to just fight until one of us was on the ground crying. Now that I look back on it, I really feel bad about what I did.  The book that I read from was Manner Made Easy by June Hines Moore. It was a good book that explained the reason that we should not fight.

Done!

            Today I got done at two fifteen. Even though I’m still writing my blog, I will be done at two thirty. I’m so happy I’m going to do an Irish jig when I get home at three thirty.

My favorite thing today was cross country. We got to play octopus tag. It is like tag but when you get tagged, you stand in the spot you got tagged and try to tag other people. We also took it easy and didn’t run very much. The worst thing today was my right leg. It hurt yesterday and it still hurts today when I walk on it. It is not like I am going to die from it but it just hurts. Today I really tried hard to get my work done and it paid off in the end.

            The most valuable thing that happened to me today was that if you work well, you can get valuable rewards. For example in tech today we got to play games because we got our presentation done. In math, I had to do two rework problems instead of four or five that I missed before. One more thing is that I did my science wrong and I knew. So Mom made me rework it over again. So Do it good the first time and you don’t have to do it again.

Taking Care of Business

           Today I was taking care of business in every way because I got done at thee thirty. Yeah for me. I’m so happy that I don’t have to do anything past three thirty. Today my favorite subject was Math at Smokey Row. Okay, it was going to Smokey Row, but I also liked math because it was easy and a break. Tomorrow is my favorite day of the week because we are almost done with school but not done with it.

            The least favorite thing that I did today was Science. Normally, I like science but there were not any science experiments. Those are my favorite part because they are exciting and I don’t know what is going to happen. Over all today was a pretty good day except that my leg hurt(and is still hurting a little bit) at cross country when we ran.

Two-Thirty

            Today I decided that I would get done earlier that three. Well I did by thirty minutes. Yeah I feel so overjoyed. Okay maybe it wasn’t that big of an accomplishment, but I still was happy that I got done early. Also I happy because yesterday I spent until seven doing homework, but I had the track meet in the day too. 

Today in Technology, we worked in partners and did a history about something. My partner, and me Aiden are doing ice cream. It wasn’t my idea but after hearing the other students ideas, I felt that we picked an okay one. The other groups picked the toilet, the tennis shoe, the boomerang, and one other that I couldn’t remember.

Today in Orchestra we got a new song called Gauntlet. It is AWESOME like awesome can be. We have a concert in a month and we are playing Spy vs. Spy, Gauntlet, Rocky Top (like the one from Tennessee) and Fiddler on the Roof.

Changes in History and First Meet

The change in history is that instead of reading one subject, I have to read two. This week I have to do Islam for my regular reading, but I also have to do Monasticism for a minor reading.

           Today was the first cross-country meet. It was okay, the fun part was seeing my friends and the bad part was were I ran and almost fainted. Okay maybe I didn’t almost faint or faint at all, but it took almost two hours to feel my legs. It was still fun to run with friends against the other kids.

Joyful

Today I am happy because I finished at three o’clock. Yesterday took a while and I was unhappy that I got done at three. Today I learned that if you drop two things at the same height that the shape and the weight matter. Also I learned that when adding decimals you let the decimal number fall down. What I mean is that when you add digits with decimals you line them up and then you bring the decimal down.

            

Struggles today were that I had a doctor exam during the time me and my dad do math. So I had to do math later during the afternoon. Guess what, I still got done at three. I didn’t like how I woke up early this morning. I woke up early yesterday too and by the time that it was noon, I was wiped out.

Do I like homeschool? Well I would say yes and no. The major thing that is awesome about homeschool is that I have freedom because I can move around the house. Another is the fact that I can take a nap(I’m pretty sure they don’t let you do that in school).One of the major downers is that I can’t see my friends. One more reason that homeschool is a bummer is that I don’t get exercise.

I have learned that homeschool is a tiring yet fun and interesting. Although at school school it’s still tiring, so it’s not that bad. I think that during this two and a half weeks that school has been going on, it has been more educational than public school. It is nice that parents can work with the student one on one rather than in a classroom where the teacher has to work with all the students and try to teach that way..