Christmas, New Year & Back to School

Christmas

*Christmas is Jesus’ birthday.
*On Christmas, we should give a gift to Jesus.
*Christmas is a holiday to spend time with your family.
*You should thank God for Christmas and for his Son.
*I got many good presents for Christmas; the best Christmas gift I got this year was my cell phone.



New Years

*On New Years, you should think about what you are going to change.
*You should put all the bad things behind you.
*You should thank God for a New Year and another chance.
*You should have fun with your family and celebrate.
*We made a snack tray with cheese, pepperoni, olives, and crackers.



Back to School
*It was hard coming back to school because we stayed up late and slept in during Christmas break.
*When you go back to school, you should try to have a good attitude.
*Sometimes praying before lessons helps.
*You should never give up on your schoolwork.
*I cannot wait until spring break.

Home Economics

Friday I made meatballs. I made them because I had a lesson about them that day.
The recipe wanted me to put 2 pounds of meat in them, but I only had one pound so I had to half everything in the recipe. It was difficult making the recipe, but cooking it was not that hard. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients
2 ½ slices of bread
1 pound of ground beef
¼ cup of ketchup
1 tablespoon of mustard
1 ½ teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce
¾ teaspoon of Italian seasonings
¼ of a teaspoon of salt
A dash of pepper
½ and a 8th of milk
Preheat oven on 350

First, I preheated the oven on 350 degrees.
Second, I took my bread and cut the crust of the bread, Then I cut the bread into cubes then I put that aside.
Third, I put the ground beef into a large bowl.
Then I put the ketchup, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper in the bowl with the meat.
The fifth thing I did was place the bread cubes on top of everything that was in the bowl, then I poured the milk onto the bread.
The sixth thing I did was I mixed all the ingredients together with my hands.
The next to the last thing I did was I took a handful of meat {about 1/3 cup} and shape it into a ball. Place the meatballs on a pan close together, but not touching.

The last thing I did was to bake them for 20 minutes or until they were done.
When they are done remove from the pan with a slotted spoon. Then enjoy.

I also made fried potatoes and corn from a can. It was good.

The Best Vacation Ever!!!

On October 31, 2009 my family and I went on vacation to the Bahamas. We stayed for the whole month of November. Before the trip we had to catch up on all of our schoolwork because we did not take our school with us, instead we took our Summer Bridge Workbook that we had worked on while we were on summer vacation.

For packing, we had to make a list; every body had three swimming suites, one outfit, and two pairs of shoes. We had four suit cases because we had many things on are list to take with us. We had to take a cooler because we do not go to the store until the next day we are there.

The first week we stayed at a resort called [******]. We usually stay at another place called [*****]. At [*****], there is a nice big beach and two pools. One of the pools was right in front of our condo so we could go swimming all the time. There was also a tennis court at [*****]. We have never stayed there before, but I liked it.

The second week we went and stayed at [******], that is were we go every year. This week I had a friend that I met last year. Her name is C***. She was very fun and nice. We played in the pool and out on the beach. She left Sunday.

At night, my mom takes us for night swims. It is very fun because she takes pictures of us jumping in the pool. We do not go down in the ocean because at night, the stingrays come near the beach. I have never seen one, but it happened to my brother once.

The third week we also stayed at [******]. This week some girls came down and we played games and had lots of fun. I had never met these girls before. This was there first time going to the Bahamas. It was very fun because we get to meet people from all over the world. My mom has some friends that go down there every year. They are from Canada. We also meet new people every year.

The last week we were there I had nobody to play with, but it was still fun. This week went by fast. We had to pack every day so we would not lose anything. On the last day, my grandma did not want to come home and she was a little grouchy, but she got over it and now she is back to her routine. We had a very good time and I hope we do it next year.

We did not come back to school until today (Wednesday) because my mom had some things to do, but now we're back in school and we are still learning. Thank you for reading my article and have a nice holiday. I will write again next week.

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Voice Lessons

Today I am going to go get some voice lessons. We are a member of a Home school group. I asked my mom if she could sign me up for voice lessons, so she put a thread on our home school web site to get information about voice lessons. Ten minutes later, four people told my mom that they knew of someone that gave voice lessons.

Therefore, my mom called one of the women and she said she would take me today. Her name is Miss Tessa and I am so excited. The name of the song I am going to sing “Is Open Thee Eyes of My Heart”. The reason why my mom did this is because I have always liked to sing. It has always been fun for me.

A Book Review

I read a book called A Little Princess by Frances Hodges. It is about a girl named Sara who has a very rich dad named Captain Crew. Sara had to go to a school called Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies. The reason why she had to go there is because Captain Crew had to do a very big job. When they arrived, Sara was to have everything she wanted. When Captain Crew left Sara had everything, she wanted. On Sara’s birthday Captain Crew died of a brain fever. Miss Minchin took all of Sara’s presents from her, took all her good clothes, and turned her into a servant. Sara would have to do everything that Miss Minchin told her to do. Miss Minchin would not feed Sara at all. One day Miss Minchin walked in and Sara had food and nice clothes. From a person next door, who saw Sara was being treated badly. Therefore, he gave her meals, clothes, and shoes. When Miss Minchin saw this, she said she was going to call the police and she did call the police. When the police came, Sara was crossing from her houses to her neighbor’s house by climbing on a piece of wood. When she made it to her neighbor’s house, she saw the man who saved her. She and the man lived happily ever after.

I saw the movie version of this and it was good. It was different form the book, because in the book the dad had died, but he did not die in the movie. I liked the movie better.

Home Economics

Today in Home Economics, I baked blueberry muffins.

I had to go shopping. It was very difficult at first, but after I got some help, it was not that hard. There was a woman who helped me a lot to find the blue berries. After she helped me, I was able to do it by myself. I got the batter first then I got the cupcake papers. It was fun.

The measuring was very cool and easy. Measuring the oil was very hard for me because it kept spilling out but that was the only thing that was hard. You have to make sure you do not put too much of the ingredients in the batter because then it will not be good. You have to lay out all of the ingredients before you start cooking. I was scared that I would get burned but I dealt with it. It was very fun.



I have just tasted my muffins they are fabulous! They were very good and I love to cook them.