Ten Things I Don't Know... because I do tend to get a big head and humility is a virtue.
1. Whether I'm a "winter" or a "summer". I kinda hope I'm a spring because I like spring and it seems so hopeful.
2. (Warning: Political. Skip this if you are mind numbingly disgusted with politics already.) If I'm going to go republican or democrat in the state elections. I'm wavering. I've made a decision for most of the rest of the election, but I have to decide if my stance on homeschooling outweighs everything else. I'm not worried about a little more regulation, which might be good for us, but I'd like them to keep homeschooling legal. Maybe I should e-mail the democratic candidates and ask them each about their stance. Also, Bond's blog (which I don't have a link for right now) suggests we all vote against all the incumbents. That's a tempting way to look at it too and would mean I'd vote a lot more republican than I had planned. There are all those social issues that I disagree with the republican stance on though. I'm not voting early. I need these two weeks to work this out. (Did you read that? Just wondering.)
3. If the synthetic ingredients that are added to the cotton in my socks would take dye or not. It would be cool to have bright red socks, I think. Pink socks would not be so cool.
4. If I should go low carb or low fat. It seems that low calorie doesn't really work out for me. Low carb is more fun but low fat is cheaper.
5. What my purpose is on this planet. I think I have one and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have anything to do with cut vinyl.
6. Whether the benefits of nuclear energy outweigh the fact that the waste it creates is very dangerous and nobody wants it stored in his/her backyard. It would be much easier for me to listen to both sides of the argument if the politicians didn't pronounce it "nuke-you-lar".
7. The best way to teach a kid how to spell. Do you know of any fun spelling games online? (hmmm... maybe there's an online hangman. I'll Google it later today. She doesn't like hangman, but she doesn't like vegetables either.)
8. What a split infinitive is and if it's important or not. I am pretty sure I do it though and that I probably won't stop.
9. How many eleven-year-olds it takes to change the toilet paper roll. Must be more than one.
10. How to regain the parental authority I had when she was four. Being thought a genius because I know how to make pancakes was fun while it lasted.
8 comments:
I did read your political point.
Low carb or low fat. I do much better with low carb. Just saying.
Have a great day Marilyn. :)
I read your post, every word. I don't see why Democrats would want to outlaw homeschooling.
Well, if your vocation in vinyl lettering isn't your calling, then I know you'll find it (although being a great parent is a wonderful calling!) ~ have you thought of using your Gnomologous creations to illustrate a children's book? If you don't want to write it, you could collaborate with someone and your creations could be the illustrations.
I'll have to find the author of the style of book I'm thinking of so you can google it.
As for spelling, how about giving her a list of potential words (say 40) on Monday, then quiz her (20 on Thursday and 20 on Friday) - maybe your blog readers could suggest words.
Maybe you could do a letter a week. Like this week is A, next week B, etc. Probably combining the weird letter weeks like X and Y.
I think spelling is very important for her to grasp, and if you want other suggestions, just let me know.
Sandee: I do love low carb. The food is just so goood!
Mo: I love the children's book idea. I've been knocking around a picture book idea for a while. I have a copy of Writing With Pictures and I've used it's suggestions to story board the whole thing out. It's kind of an ambitious project, based on the character in my header (for no other reason than you liked him). I think he'd look great in clay and a little space suit so he could be pose-able. The rest of the scenery would be very time consuming, but I've seen some books like that before.
As for spelling, she does great on spelling tests. It's so weird because five minutes later she'll spell one of the same words wrong. I've started just giving her lists of words she has spelled wrong in other assignments as her spelling words. I think it's very much a motivational problem. I have to figure out how to make her care about it more.
Is the legality of homeschooling in jeopardy? If it is, I want to do as much as I can to interfere with whomever wants to interfere with homeschooling!
Whall: It's a state by state thing. California has it so that it's almost impossible to homeschool. Texas has it so that you don't have to even tell anybody you are doing it or how many kids you have or how you are going about it. So, in a state like mine with a high percentage of democrats (of which I am one) we could technically have our rights taken away any time. The teacher's unions don't like it. They want those little minds in school as soon as possible.
Okay, the most famous split infinitive is from Star Trek "to boldly go where no man has gone before." They call it a split infinitive because the adverb "boldly" splits the word "to" from the infinitive (in this case "go"). I'm an editor and I can tell you there is still much disagreement about whether this is allowed or not.
"Fun spelling games"?
Bwhahahahhaha! Well I can tell you this: GEOGRAPHY is George Evan's old grandfather rode a pig home yesterday. And ARITHMETIC is A rat in the house might eat the ice cream.
There! Was that fun?
I always had fun spelling. I never mis-spelled a word on any spelling test when I was in elementary school. But I couldn't tell you why I was good at it.
And I read your political point. I've made up my mind nationally, but still have some studying to do on our local issues.
As for voting out every incumbent, I think it's dangerous. I would certainly vote against an incumbent that I didn't think was doing the job, but there are some who are trying to do the job and are getting hamstrung by other corruption.
I don't know much about the homeschooling issue, but I'm sure you'll do your research.
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