It's turned into sick week here at the Hobbit Homeschool. Swine flu is still the most probably diagnosis. It's not so bad. Headache and fever followed by sore throat and cough. And no energy which is very unusual around here! We've been watching alot of movies--The Return of the King, Ivanhoe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, 300 Spartans, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Alarmingly, I'm actually liking this! No dividing fractions or getting our declension endings right! I've caught up with a few (okay, more than a few!) blogs, tackled a couple of house keeping chores I've been putting off (or how thick is the algae in this fish tank??)started online Christmas shopping...I would think we have the makings of unschoolers if I thought the low energy would last but I know soon enough they will be clammering for stuff to do. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the quiet!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Sick Day
I have two hobbits down for the count and one that is not any too lively. The big question is...Is it Swine Flu or not?? I checked online and found these symptoms:
Fever-check
Cough--check
Sore throat--check
Runny/stuffy nose--check
Body aches--check
Headache--check
Chills--check
Fatigue--check
Diarrhea or vomiting--check for one hobbit but not the other.
Hmmm. Maybe or maybe not. In any event today is a day for the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings.
Fever-check
Cough--check
Sore throat--check
Runny/stuffy nose--check
Body aches--check
Headache--check
Chills--check
Fatigue--check
Diarrhea or vomiting--check for one hobbit but not the other.
Hmmm. Maybe or maybe not. In any event today is a day for the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Poetry Monday
Autumn by Emily Dickenson
The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
More Zoo Photos
Or it was dry in the bird house....
This little fellow wanted to come out and play.
And I couldn't resist adding this beauty who posed for us at our local zoo!
This little fellow wanted to come out and play.
And I couldn't resist adding this beauty who posed for us at our local zoo!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Ocular Athletics
A Bucket by Joe
As I'm sure you know (but a friend of my mom's pointed out that not everyone in Britain has a baseball cap so I'm going to tell you anyway) is rather like a pot. Buckets are round and usually have a handle which flips up. There are thousands of kinds of buckets. Some of them are called pots but they are really buckets. An example of this would be flower pots (buckets). I hate it when things get credited for other things work. No one ever calls a pot a bucket but people call buckets pots which is very annoying. Just think that without buckets there would be no syrup, no milk and by extension no cheese, ice cream, yogurt and no pancakes. think how often you use all that stuff especially cheese. Well I gotta do my math, folks. Adios.
Salt by Adam
Today I am going to write about salt, but today I will try a different way to go about it but this is my first try so if I slip back to my ordinary way forgive me. Salt is more valuable than you know. A lot of tasty meals you eat would not be possible without salt. Salt is immaculate in the practicality of its common use. Say if you where to eat an apple it is good but it has no salt. But if you make, say, an apple pie or apple crisp, they both use salt. Most everything uses salt. Look around and see if you can find a food without salt. It's out there though a little hard to find. Well, I will withdraw from the limited section of my mind to this wonderful world of though and idea where my hazardous simplicity is certainly required elsewhere.
Yarn by Ken
Yarn is very useful for knitting. Without yarn you couldn't knit at all. Sometimes, when I play with action figures I use yarn as spiderman web. There's not much else I can put into words about yarn. Except that my cat loves it. Good bye.
As I'm sure you know (but a friend of my mom's pointed out that not everyone in Britain has a baseball cap so I'm going to tell you anyway) is rather like a pot. Buckets are round and usually have a handle which flips up. There are thousands of kinds of buckets. Some of them are called pots but they are really buckets. An example of this would be flower pots (buckets). I hate it when things get credited for other things work. No one ever calls a pot a bucket but people call buckets pots which is very annoying. Just think that without buckets there would be no syrup, no milk and by extension no cheese, ice cream, yogurt and no pancakes. think how often you use all that stuff especially cheese. Well I gotta do my math, folks. Adios.
Salt by Adam
Today I am going to write about salt, but today I will try a different way to go about it but this is my first try so if I slip back to my ordinary way forgive me. Salt is more valuable than you know. A lot of tasty meals you eat would not be possible without salt. Salt is immaculate in the practicality of its common use. Say if you where to eat an apple it is good but it has no salt. But if you make, say, an apple pie or apple crisp, they both use salt. Most everything uses salt. Look around and see if you can find a food without salt. It's out there though a little hard to find. Well, I will withdraw from the limited section of my mind to this wonderful world of though and idea where my hazardous simplicity is certainly required elsewhere.
Yarn by Ken
Yarn is very useful for knitting. Without yarn you couldn't knit at all. Sometimes, when I play with action figures I use yarn as spiderman web. There's not much else I can put into words about yarn. Except that my cat loves it. Good bye.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Wet Weekend
We had a very wet visit to Washington,D.C. this weekend to visit the hobbits' sister and to see some sites. On the plus side we had the zoo pretty much to ourselves. On the minus side alot of the animals don't like to come out in the rain. Otters were an exception. We had a great time in spite of the rain. Washington is a beautiful city.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Ocular Athletics
A Picture by Adam
A picture, like most things I write about, is just an ordinary, boring, every day object to which I try my utmost best to make as interesting and exciting as I can. A picture can be a simple photo or a grand and articulate masterpiece. A photo is quite astoundingly a frozen image in time, a memory whether happy or sad, like right now I am looking at a picture of my sister Ked and Kevin's wedding. A happy memory, it is strange to think it is the only wedding I can remember ever attending. One of my favorite painters is Leonardo Da Vinci, quite a mouth full, so I will call him Leo. Leo loved to paint horses, mainly ones in war charges. Toward the end of his life Leo made the Mona Lisa, a painting so realistic it looks as of she is looking at you. No matter how much I enjoy writing this I expect you are getting bored so I bring this page to a gracious close with these few words; just because it is ordinary does not mean it is not wonderful.
A Ball Cap by Joe
A ball cap as I am sure you know (but I am going to tell you anyway) is a hat designed to keep the sun out of your eyes. It is shaped like a bowl with a duck's bill on the end. My favorite ball cap is my Cleveland Indian's hat. I have never met anyone who didn't have a ball cap. They are quite inconvenient at amusement parks, however. I once lost a really nice one on a roller coaster and never saw it again. (It was actually my dad's hat that I happened to be wearing.)
Scissors by Ken
Scissors are very useful objects. They cut paper into shapes or whatever you want to do with paper. The scissors I happen to be looking at have orange handles but are really only casing metal handles to make them more comfortable. They have two metal pieces that are pretty sharp. Each one is attached to the handle. They are held together by a very short nail.
A picture, like most things I write about, is just an ordinary, boring, every day object to which I try my utmost best to make as interesting and exciting as I can. A picture can be a simple photo or a grand and articulate masterpiece. A photo is quite astoundingly a frozen image in time, a memory whether happy or sad, like right now I am looking at a picture of my sister Ked and Kevin's wedding. A happy memory, it is strange to think it is the only wedding I can remember ever attending. One of my favorite painters is Leonardo Da Vinci, quite a mouth full, so I will call him Leo. Leo loved to paint horses, mainly ones in war charges. Toward the end of his life Leo made the Mona Lisa, a painting so realistic it looks as of she is looking at you. No matter how much I enjoy writing this I expect you are getting bored so I bring this page to a gracious close with these few words; just because it is ordinary does not mean it is not wonderful.
A Ball Cap by Joe
A ball cap as I am sure you know (but I am going to tell you anyway) is a hat designed to keep the sun out of your eyes. It is shaped like a bowl with a duck's bill on the end. My favorite ball cap is my Cleveland Indian's hat. I have never met anyone who didn't have a ball cap. They are quite inconvenient at amusement parks, however. I once lost a really nice one on a roller coaster and never saw it again. (It was actually my dad's hat that I happened to be wearing.)
Scissors by Ken
Scissors are very useful objects. They cut paper into shapes or whatever you want to do with paper. The scissors I happen to be looking at have orange handles but are really only casing metal handles to make them more comfortable. They have two metal pieces that are pretty sharp. Each one is attached to the handle. They are held together by a very short nail.
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