Someone has a dawning appreciation for action verbs
Captain Science’s essay for today: World War II World War II stabbed terror into the hearts of thousands. Many lost a friend or loved one in this sword of death, and terrible, ruthless Germans crushed...
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Patchfire writes about homeschoolers needing to hear a little bragging, too. I think that the best way to get that for Captain Science is by sharing his poety, which strikes me as quite mature for his...
View ArticleSecular Thursday: Racing our curricula to the finish line
As we reach the end of our school year (10 days left after tomorrow), I no longer feel like I’m homeschooling so much as racing. Will we manage to finish the last of the curricula by the end of the...
View ArticleWeekly Reviewins: T-minus 10 days and counting
Ten days, y’all. Ten more freaking days! I’m so excited, I could practically piddle on the rug. This week, Captain Science went back and redid a few lessons from Paragraph Town using his other reading...
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Building Poems from Pictures
Captain Science’s assignment from Michael Clay Thompson’s Building Poems today was to write a poem based on a photograph. He chose Steve McCurry’s famous photograph of the Afghan refugee girl,...
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Captain Science’s Poem in Three Parts
A Tiger’s Life by Captain Science Hunting Prey Tiger lying on the ground, He makes no mistakes… Watching an unwary prey. Very soon he’ll pounce. Lying low, unnoticed there, He will time it right....
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Captain Science just finished chapter 2 in World of Poetry. This is his end-of-chapter writing assignment: Volcanic Storm Mountain silently smoking, Ground is starting to rumble. Rats and pets act...
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An refresher exercise in iambic and trochaic meters: Seasons A winter morning is a pretty sight A snowman winking in the freezing cold A newborn year is starting in the spring, a garden growing full of...
View ArticleCaptain Science’s first sonnet
Today, for his World of Poetry assignment, Captain Science wrote this currently untitled sonnet: The ground is falling, building crashing down And houses fly like they have never flown. A fire rages...
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