6:20AM: Wake up and crawl upstairs. Being downstairs is a real disadvantage in the morning. I have to go all the way upstairs! I am like a slug in the morning. I barely got ready.
6:55AM: Get in the car in the cold to go to intervention. I had to be to band at 7 to practice our band songs with the percussion kids. I also have to pick up Laurel from her house. I’m glad I don’t have to ride the bus though. But Meg insists on riding when mom takes me. Usually it’s dad, and he goes to work right after, but mom has been taking me to school this week because dad had his hernia surgery on Monday and he hasn’t been going to work.
7:05AM: We get to Provo High school. I like being a PUP, Provo Unlimited Program. It’s for 7th-8th graders who are Gifted and Talented. Laurel and I walk to the band room together. When we get there, it’s about 7:08 and we feel really late. But when we get there, the only people there are Sam, who plays euphonium, Brayson, who plays clarinet(like me), and a couple first trumpets. We wait for about 5 minutes for other people to come, and Alec, Isaac, and Kathryn come. There are only 8th grader percussionists. Then we start. Mr. Nix makes us play All Through The Night and Bobsled Run. Those are the 2 of our 3 Christmas songs that I don’t like. I do like the 3 Minute Nutcracker though, but we don’t play that. It’s kind of fun to play with the percussion. Ben Hillam comes in, and he’s wearing his fedora he never wears anymore. He replaced it with a beret. But he wore it because I said yesterday that today was wear your retired fedora to school day. Then he bows. Haha. Ben is funny.
7:42AM: Mr.Nix lets us pack up band intervention.And 8th grader named Tim sees Ben’d fedora and says, “Bad boy! You were supposed to wear your beret!” What? Ben and I both say, “It’s wear your retired fedora to school day!” Then Tim says, “That’s not a fedora. It has a stripe on it.” But all fedoras have stripes like that! Ben and I just look at him like he’s an idiot. Maybe because he was being one. I have to carry my animal cell I made out of candy for science to Doctor Mcpherron’s room. She’s my first and second period class, and since we have A days and B days, I have her first every day.
8:00AM: School officially starts. Kathryn and I go yell at people who weren’t at band intervention. Then I have to sit in my seat. The only girls in Utah studies are me, Oakley, Kathryn, Laurel, and Emma. But I have to sit next to a lot of boys. :P
8:45ishAM: Doc M. Tells us about how we’ll learn about the Mormon Trek in Utah Studies. We’ll be getting into wagon groups, but we can choose our own groups and I’m really excited, because it means I don’t have to be with a bunch of boys! But then she says that there has to be a mom and a dad and some kids, or some other family members, but people can switch genders. No one wants to be a guy, but I volunteer to be a widow. Laurel asks Doc M. if we can do that, and she says yes! :D So, Oakley doesn’t want to be with the cool group of girls and Emma, Laurel, Kathryn and I get into a group. Then Ben comes up and tells me he’s going to join our group, and I say, “No! I don’t want to get married!” But I have to anyways. Dang it. Then I decide I need to show affection to him, so I slap him on the face lightly, and say, “That was a kiss. A punch is a hug.” So everyone does it, but not hard at all. It’s really fun!
9:20AM: The bell rings, and I have to go to band. Again. I don’t really like band, and I have to practice clarinet for 3 hours a week, but I never doing it during the week, so I’ll probably do it all tomorrow. Dang it. I walk to the band room and get ready. Then we play, blah blah blah. Whatever. Then, Mr. Nix says he’s feeling Christmassy, so we watch part of the Polar Express! :D I don’t like the Polar Express much, but it’s way better than playing clarinet. Way.
10:47AM: We leave band and go to math. Mr. Eppich’s class. I don’t like math, but we’re done with the graphing and slope unit, so that’s good. I hated that. We get back our test scores today. When math starts, we get our tests back. I got an 88! That was okay! I felt okay about that! I think! Yeah. Yeah I do. We learn about inequalities, which I learned last year and they’re really easy anyways. We get 2 pages of homework, but in 5 minutes I’m done with the first page. That’s how easy it is. Then Mrs. Cabrera, the teacher’s help, says she likes to spoil kids, so who gives a small treat to people who passed math, a bigger one to people that passed all their classes, and 7 pieces of candy to people that passed everything with straight A’s. I got straight A’s! YAY!
12:07PM: We go to lunch. I ask Laurel if I can put my cell model in her locker so I don’t have to take it to lunch in the line. She says yes, opens it, and I put it in, cause I don’t know the combo. I wish I remembered my locker combo. But Sarah, my locker buddy, and I both forgot it. LAME. I get pizza from the pizza line for lunch. I would’ve gotten pudding, but I’ve eaten so much junk lately. Ugh. My friends and I eat outside today, which I think is a bad choice. I’m freezing! There’s wind and it’s cold. I know it’ll get worse, but I do not want it to! Dang winter, right? So I finish fast, then I go inside with Bailey and Sarah. We go find Laurel to see if she will open her locker so I can get my cell model. She’s writing her NaNoWriMo. She seems bugged at us, so she just gives us the combination. We don’t know which locker it is, so we try a lot of lockers and finally get my cell! YAY! Then we go to the tracking office to see if they can give Sarah and I our locker combo again. They DO! Then we go open it and it’s HAPPY! Yay!
12:55PM: The end of lunch bell rings, so we have 7 minutes to get to science. Ugh, blah, dang. Seriously, I hate science. A lot. It starts, and she does the rhino, which is where she reads out of this book, “How To Be A Rhino”. It’s kind of ridiculous, but it’s about success and it’s actually kind of useful. We learn more about cells and cell parts, I turn in my cell model, and we learn about microscopes so we can use them.
2:15PM: The end of school bell rings! Yay! Then we leave! Yay! Laurel and Meghan don’t come on the bus because they want to walk in the freezing cold weather! Sarah, Kathryn and I talk on the bus while I eat my math candy. Yum. When the bus gets to my stop, I get off and go home and watch TV. For a long time. I’m really tired. Then I realize...it’s Friday! Awesome!
6:40PM: We eat family dinner.
3 comments:
Okay, so she doesn't like band or math or science. I'm curious what her favorite subject is!
Also, question for the parents - how did you guys figure out about her being gifted? I mean, officially. She's obviously super bright and I'm guessing she got bored when stuff wasn't challenging and that she loves nerdy stuff (go, Brita!), but how did you know what to do next? Where did you go? Did you do testing? Who did it? Is it an IQ test or something else?
(Asked like a true homeschooling parent, right?)
Totally neglecting all blogs lately…including my own :)
I know Stace! To hear her talk you'd think she hates school. She loves Spanish and even though she claims to not like her English class she loves Language Arts. And she is really good at math and science. I love being able to get inside their heads a little and read their thoughts!
The school tested her and I think it is just an IQ test, although I've never asked. I don't know how much emphasis to place on stuff like that. All I know is that she's excelling in her program and if she has to be gifted to get in there, then I'm all over it. I know some counseling centers do testing, and even though your kids are homeschooled, I wonder if the public school system might not have an obligation (or at least you should have a right) to do the testing. Call the district office and ask! I've got some great books that have helped me a lot, although you seem to be a step ahead of your kids all the time anyway, most likely because you are gifted yourself and naturally know how to feed their curiosities and fill their needs. I, on the other hand, need a little help :) Ha ha.
Let me know what you're thinking! I still miss my friend :(
So you know that comment was mine, even though I'm logged in as someone else. Some people around here don't know how to click that sign out button…and those are our gifted children. Hmmm.
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