01.29.10
Bloggers Ed 101
Is anyone getting tired of just one story, even broken up like it is? Well, I’ve decided that I’d write about something else — not to say I won’t continue My winter wonder land, I’m just taking a break.
I’ve decided to instead talk about my blogging class. As you know, it’s winter-spring semester at schools, and though I’m homeschooled, I have a homeschool co-op that I go to every Thursday.
At this homeschool co-op, it’s the winter-spring semester, and this semester I’m taking a writing class, a speech class, and a blogging class! I’m going to talk about the blogging class.
My mom teaches the blogging class, she even set up a blog for it — if you want to read it, go to Blogging 2 Learn — where she has everything we’re going to be doing, and what week we’ll be doing it. If you ever want to get a blog, it will be a great place to go. It would almost be like you were in the class!
Besides me, there are four others in the class. They are Climbing Gecko, First Nate, Ben, and Twilie.
Though I already have a blog and don’t need the class as much, it does help motivate me to work on my blog. In fact, I’m planning to at least make one post per week — preferably more.
Well, to my blogging class friends: see ya soon!
01.28.10
My winter wonder land (part three)
My winter wonder land…. CONTINUED (see My winter wonder land for part one, and My winter wonder land (part two) for part two):
Christmas Eve
I laughed heartily as my brother made a joke. It was Christmas Eve. My mother, my father, my brother and I were all sitting at the kitchen table eating supper; my brother, Peter, had arrived earlier that day.
I pushed my chair back from the table and looked at my mother as I said, “That was delicious.”
My mother only laughed and said, “If you think that was good, wait until you taste what I’ve got planned out for tomorrow.”
“Ooh, what is that, Mother?” said my brother, raising his eyebrow. “I can’t imagine anything better than this.” My mother merely rolled her eyes and started cleaning up.
“Come with me, Pete. I want to show you my hideout!” I said happily. I hadn’t seen my brother since the beginning of the school year. His job as a vet in New York kept him pretty busy.
I grabbed my brother’s hand and practically dragged him out to the play yard. My brother only laughed good-naturedly and said, “Okay, okay, Kacey, don’t pull my arm outta its socket. Now where’s this hideout of yours?”
I let go of him and ran to the tree house and called back to him, “Here it is. Come on up.” Then I climbed up myself. He followed, smiling.
When he saw it, he gasped, “Wow, Kacey, this is really cool, and I mean cool in both ways.” He laughed and shivered as he said it.
I smiled and also shivered, “Don’t blame me that it’s freezing. Blame the time of year and the place.” Then I scowled. “At least on the farm, we got snow along with the cold.”
Peter sighed, nodding. Then he rubbed his hand across the latch hook rug. “So this is what you did with this old thing. Beatrice looks almost as beautiful as she does in real life.”
I laughed. “Almost, but not quite. And it isn’t old. It isn’t even a year old yet! So you like my hide-out?” My eyes sparkled.
“Yeah, I love it, except for the freezing cold. I don’t mean to make the wrong impression, but let’s go in before we turn to ice-cubes and can’t open presents tomorrow.” I agreed, and we went in.
12.29.09
The ABC zoo
You like zoos, right? I mean, who doesn’t like zoos? Well, even if you don’t like normal zoos you might like this one: the ABC Zoo!
The ABC Zoo, also known as Bembo’s Zoo (Bembo’s Zoo is it’s actual name, but ABC Zoo works just as well), is a online zoo. When you come in, you get the list of letters from A-Z. When you click on a letter, the other letters will disappear and the letter you clicked will become the name of a animal. Then, out of those letter, it will make the animal, though sometimes certain letters multiply in order for them to make the animal.
For example: W is wolf. If you click the W, it will turn into the word Wolf, then it copies the word wolf and moves the copy down so there are two of the word. Then it makes the letters of the second word bigger; next it rearranges the letters, not to make another word but to make the animal, a wolf! (If you want: look at the picture and see if you can find all the letters!)
Sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? Just click here to go and look at the awesome animals! (The picture is also a link.)
12.01.09
NaNoWriMo
I AM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, so I haven’t been writing for a while, but at least for November there is a reason for that. I’ve been competing in NaNoWriMo’s young writers program. You’re probably wondering what NaNoWriMo is or means. It means: National Novel Writing Month. I have no idea how they came up with November being the national novel writing month, so don’t ask.
Anyway, here is what it is: A writing program where you set a word count goal and try to reach it before midnight November 30. You’re supposed to challenge yourself but not make it impossible. I went for 10,000 words, and I went over my goal by a 100 something.
So I won, but the novel isn’t finished yet, so I still have writing to do. If you want to compete in NaNoWriMo next year click here.
03.30.09
Homeschool Kids Blog Carnival
Cats in fifty words
(For Homeschool Kids Write assignment #50.)
I like — no, love — cats. They are cute, and you can tell when they are happy and when they are mad. When a cat is happy, it purrs. And when a cat is mad, it twitches its tail and puts its ears back. Sometimes they are very funny and cute.
03.23.09
Blooming
(For Homeschool Kids Write assignment #58.)
Beauty is all around.
Lilacs, Daisies, and Roses grow.
Out of ground, the stems proceed.
Out of stems, leaves come to give life to its flower.
Mind your step, lest you crush one by accident.
I do love spring, its fragrant smells.
Now my favorite season has come.
God, I thank Thee so much for the beautiful season of spring.
If the color green was illegal
(For Homeschool Kids Write assignment #57.)
If the color green was not allowed, many things would be destroyed: trees, grass, seaweed, flowers, emeralds, the color teal, and many more things.
If the color green was not allowed, I’d be very sad, because even though green is not my favorite color, it can be very pretty some times.
Anything made of wood would be very expensive, so would paper.
Plus, the only way to save St. Patrick’s day would be to change the color of it. For instance, instead of green maybe blue, or red.
Also the rainbow would be smaller, because it would lose a color, though I suppose we could add some color, like pink for instance, or some thing…..
So, I hope that if anyone was thinking about making the color green illegal, they will decide against it.
