Cannons, Cannons, Cannons!
My mom told me to "Fire away." Boom! Let's get started on my first blog on True Blue Homeschool.
This isn't the first time I have done a blog. I've been writing weekly posts on our private blog for about a year and a half.
Here, I'll be telling my perspective on homeschooling, travel, and more.
My name is Tom and I am 10 years old. My family and I love to travel - in fact, we have arranged to buy a pop-up travel trailer and at the time I am writing this we are in Australia - half-way around the world from where I live in the Rocky Mountains.
I am homeschooled and I think that homeschool is ten times better than traditional school for me. In kindergarten, I went to a traditional school and ever since then I have been homeschooled. In first grade, I went to an enrichment program where I went half day on Tuesday and Thursday. Then for second, third, and part of fourth grade I went to a different enrichment program where I went once a week for a full day on Fridays. Now that I am in fifth grade, I go to a nature program on Mondays. Other enrichment programs/activities that I do are:
* Nature Day - once a week, on Tuesday afternoons, I go to a program we call Nature Day. I meet up with a bunch of my friends and we have fun playing in nature.
* #TinkerCrates - about one time per month a building project arrives in the mail. Inside there are two boxes - a Tinker Crate for me and a Doodle Crate for my sister. In the crate there is a project with instructions. The projects vary from trebuchets to 3D views and more.
* Prodigy - on online math-based video game. In Prodigy, you are a wizard and you answer math questions to cast spells. I love Prodigy and I am the highest level you can be - level 100.
* #PoetryTeaTime - Once a week, on Thursday afternoons, I meet up with my friends AJ and AH for Poetry Tea Time. In Poetry Tea Time, everyone takes turns reading poems and then we eat snacks and a special drink like tea or lemonade.
* #GamEdAcademy - GamEd is a learning program with six-week courses on various subjects. So far I have completed courses in Science, Geography, Binary Math 1 and 2, and Redstone (more on that in a second). GameEd has more that just online classes, though. They also give you assignments to to build in a fun video game called Minecraft. For the Redstone class they assign "builds." Redstone is basically like electricity that can power blocks in the Minecraft game.
* Minecraft Weekly Meetup - I haven't started going to the MC meetup yet but I will start soon - when I get back from Australia. It is a weekly meetup with other homeschool kids at our local library.
Friends Here I list some of my friends and where I meet with them:
Nature Day - Finn, Des, Serene, Evangeline, Sasha, Kai, Raelynn, Brooklynn, Quinlynn,
Playdates - AH, AJ, Cassidy, Casey, Michelle, Izzy, Lauren.
Nature Class - Garter Snake, Owl, Mountain Goat.
If you want to hear more about me and my homeschool, check out my future blog posts.
Tom
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