School Project

Gratefully I have a Mom and Best Friend who are willing to support my craziness and the ideas that come with it or else there would have been no way that I would have got this project done in time for class (at least not form when I started it). 

A month or so ago we took a grammar quiz and there were several areas in which our class did not so well. My teacher divided up those areas and assigned each of us two that we had to prepare a little presentation on each area. We were supposed to have some sort of visual and I didn't want to just do a simple handout. One of my areas was apostrophes, I decided that I was going to have a couple of different sentences, some that needed apostrophes and some that did not.

I put each word on a piece of candy from the sentence and then got mike 'n' ikes to use for apostrophes.  

We made a set of four sentences for each person in my class (there was a sentence on each side of the candy). 

 I wrote on each piece of paper, Brea highlighted the words so we would know what sentence it belonged to and my Mom taped the papers on the candy. 

 Addie so much wanted to be part of the work but sadly this wasn't really a job that she could be involved with. 

My presentation was definitely different then everyone else's. Every time they would put together the sentence I would ask them if there needed to be an apostrophe and if there did where did it belong. After the first sentence when someone answered correctly he asked "because I got it right can I eat my apostrophe?" It made me laugh and I was glad that they liked it. Thanks to Brea and Mom (and Addie) for supporting my crazy ideas. 

Brain Freeze

Do you ever have those moments where for the life of you, you can't remember something? I had that tonight I couldn't remember how to spell exaggerate...I struggled for the longest time. First I tried just spelling it randomly into word and it had no word suggestions so then I tried going to Google but again just started blankly at the screen. Finally I guessed the first couple of letters and then it came back to me.

I hate those moments when you feel so stupid because you can't remember something that you should most definitely know. grrrr!

Spring Break

The 2nd piece of paper that I found has the title "What I Didn't Do During Spring Break." at the top, I'm sure that I wrote it for something and it goes along the lines of many other stories but it still made me laugh.

What I Didn't Do During Spring Break

"Hey Beth, how as your Spring Break? What did you do?"

"Well, my Spring Break was great but can we go with something that is not so traditional maybe like what I didn't do?"
"Okay Beth, what didn't you do during Spring Break?"

"Well, I didn't go visit my Grandma in Tibet."

"Why didn't you go visit your Grandma in Tibet?"

"O, for not big reason."

"Why?"
"I didn't go because my Grandma left Tibet."

"She left Tibet, why?"

"O, because of her house."

"Her house? What was wrong with it?"

"Not much besides it was burning."

"Okay, why was it burning?"

"It was burning because of my Uncle."
"You Uncle? What did he do?"
"Had the Russians bomb her house."

"Why did he do that?"

"Because he was mad at my Grandma."

"Why was he mad at your Grandma?"

"He was mad at her because my Grandma didn't send him any cookies at Christmas time."

"No cookies, how come?"

"Because my Grandma stayed with them during Christmas and made them lots of cookies."

"And that is why you didn't go visit your Grandma in Tibet?"

"Yet, and just like I said before there was no big reason why I didn't go visit my Grandma."

Ahh the super professional writing of when I was younger (not that I'm making many promises that it has improved much since).

I now bid adieu as I am going to bed, I hope to get back on the saddle as they say soon and start blogging and catching up on the many things that have happened in the last month plus. I miss the familiarity of blogging and the joy it brings, but for now I much go to bed.