Right-Brained Sprittibee... checking in!

You Are 30% Left Brained, 70% Right Brained

The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning. Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others. If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic. Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet. The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility. Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way. If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art. Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports.

Are You Right or Left Brained?

I would have suspected that I was slightly more right-brained than left. I think my husband is farther on the left brained side. He is a math whiz and a methodical person. I'll have to get him to take this test. The quiz seems to be mostly on track, but I believe that I am more of an even mixture between the two than this far on the right. There were many questions that I could have answered either way.

Interestingly, the quiz is right about quite a lot. For instance; it is correct about the items listed below:

• I am OK with math. I always made relatively good grades when I was not lazy and turned in my homework. Math isn't my favorite subject, however. I didn't like geometry.
  
• English was always my favorite... along with art.
  
• I was a daydreamer; that is for sure! I suppose I still am, somewhat.
  
• I always get ideas as I am falling asleep that I have to sit up and write down. At night, it is hard to make my brain turn off.
  
• I almost majored in philosophy in college. However, when I got to my third philosophy class (Logic), my professor was dry and boring and I hated it.... so I switched my major to photography.
  
• The dog statement was interesting. Maybe I am a cat person because my right brain won out?

Anyway... I'm just checking in to let you all know that Spring Break is coming to an end tomorrow. We are starting school back up Monday, and then have our standardized tests for three days (of which I am sure to stop in here to post). The Homeschool Blog Awards will get underway as soon as we have a site up and running (Laura and Heather assure me that they have picked a design theme and are getting together soon to put it together for us). Already we have gotten two homeschool companies interested in offering free gifts for the winners of each category! KEEP YOUR IDEAS COMING!

Love in Him,
Heather aka Sprittibee



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Spring Break in Arkansas

One of the benefits of homeschooling is that you get to pick your own week for Spring Break. I thought I was being smart by taking it the week before the rest of the state breaks. I came to find out that everyone in the surrounding states took this week off, however... and that means all the parks in Arkansas are full of out-of-state guests (like ours). I guess sometimes you can't get everything you want. Our trips around the towns here have been nice, though. Hardly any crowds to speak of. We have been having a lot of fun with our buddies from Texas. Here are a few of our photos from the past few days:

crazy girls hiking up pinnacle mountain

amazingly pretty little star-shaped wildflowers in the woods

River Market pig

me and my girl

Arkansas River

hiking pals

park friends

riding the trolley

As you can see, I'm too busy to blog. I do plan to get back to my regular blog routine as soon as I can, though. Like I said in this post, I have standardized testing next week for the children... so expect delays in here! Today we are off to go camping (despite the fact that there may be some rain).

DON'T FORGET TO BOOKMARK YOUR FAVORITE HOMESCHOOL BLOGS FOR THE HOMESCHOOL BLOG AWARDS WHILE I'M AWAY!


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* Belated 2006 HOMESCHOOL BLOG AWARDS *

Remember this? Well, I'm working on getting you something like this (image below) for your blog's sidebar!



Heather and Laura of Sand, Sea and School (a Floridian Home Learning Blog) have agreed to help me host the belated 2006 Homeschool Blog Awards! Yes, folks, that means that you get to reminisce about all those great blogs you came to love and learn from last year; and give your favorite authors a much deserved pat on the back. It so happens that Heather and Laura are also web designers, so we are setting up a site that will be specifically for the Homeschool Blog Awards and will be taking nominations very soon!

In December of 2005, Spunky Homeschool ran the Homeschool Blog Awards over at her blog. Due to her leaving the blogosphere to tend to her family, she was unable to host the event for 2006 last December. Heather, Laura, and I aim to run the blog awards each December after these belated awards for 2006 take place.

As this is just the preliminary stage of the awards, we are asking all homeschool bloggers to get involved and suggest categories, names for the website, and any other tips you might have. We are really excited to get this project started and look forward to bringing you dates and times soon! I am guessing that if we have the website up and running in a few weeks; we may begin nominations in late March.

Be checking back here for more information!


Other Quick Links:
Spunky’s 2005 Homeschool Blog Awards Categories Post
2005 Homeschool Blog Awards Nominees
2005 Homeschool Blog Awards Winners Announcement
Heather’s Personal Blog
Laura’s Personal Blog
My Homeschool Series Posts



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Is it Because She's Blonde?

Estrogen is no respecter of persons. I have found that out the hard way. My daughter's pen-pal letters are between dingy and extremely insane. I try to remember back to those days, and somehow the fog of adult thinking prevents me from memories that might link me to this type of behavior. I'm sure my mother might convict me of dingy-ness like this... but I would deny it. I am much more like my very SERIOUS son. I say this, of course, knowing that there are a few people out there who might disagree (like, ahem... my husband). Luckily, they don't read my blog!

My kids write letters each week to pen pals as part of their writing and communication-skills lessons. They write friends, cousins, grandparents, etc. Sometimes I make them do it neatly and help them with grammar, but other times I just let them go crazy and do their own thing. A few months ago, they wrote one of their grandpas (they have four). They call him Poppy Bee. On this particular letter, I let Morgan go wild... and the letter below is what ensued.

Remember, Morgan is 8... (she was 7 when she wrote this)... and she's in 3rd Grade this year. I have included all of her own grammar and capitalization errors for authenticity. It makes it a little harder to read (sorry). She's a crazy girl!!!! She's 100% estrogen bubble. She drew sweet little pictures all over this letter where she hadn't written something. She drew a person grinning whose smile curves up and up; cheeks that seem to never end until the face almost looks like a heart shape. It was unbelievably cute! She also drew Pooh Bear waving. She did the whole letter free-hand on green construction paper with a brown marker.

Oh, to be a kid again... where the world is wonderful and your biggest problem is that Mom won't buy you Captain Crunch because it will 'rot out your teeth'.

______________________________

Hi Poppy Bee,

You are special missed and loved too! What is your favorite color? Do you wright with your left or right hand?? (I wright with my right hand.) What Is your favorite animal? What is your favorite Bug? My answer to a-lll those questions are 1: Blue. Number 2: right hand. 3: Cat. 4: Spider or moth. Well, STORY TIME! O-k here it goes...

O-k now where do I start..... Oh ya - Well me and my family just went to eat at popeyes and we just got back home, it's bean raining all day and we found a bright tan moth lying down (Almost dead if you want to know.) And we (That day.) found two kitties on the ground probably starving and I wanted to Keep them but momma said "no" bla-bla-bla. And sorry I got off track. Well mommy said "we could keep the moth until (or if) it got better. so we brought him inside. Well before that day KADEN (O-k and me) dumped out his LEGO BOX! And we found some legos to make a house for him O-k it was kind of cheesy I mean not as good as a two story apartment. And we had little tiny peaces of cloth. And a little tube like water thing for LEGO'S. And I loked minga up in the bathroom w/ her litter box and food bowl and kitty-water bowl thing. And while we where asleep she ATE THE MOTH?! What!? yepp . gone. fenito. I'm so sad. It's like I spent most of my life on that Moth.

Well... all you can do is forget him. Huh? Well let's get back on track. *sniffle* Now I do have a brat of a cat. And I mean, A BRAT OF A CAT! Well pray for us to be able to move back to Texas (If you aren't already.) And pray X2 for yourself! Hey, Papa Bee, Ive got a joke :) you might like it!: Why did Tigger (from Whinnie the ___ .) Stick his head in the toilet? (Answer on back) And: What is Santa's favorite Desert?

Love Love! Hug! Potato, squash! Eggs! Anything you want! X BOX! GAME BOY! GAME CUBE! SCRAMBLED EGGS! BOILED POTATOES! FRIED RICE! BYE!

Hope to see you soon! XOXOXOXOXO Morgan

P.S. I AM GETTING A TRIP TO URIKA SPRINGS FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!

(upside down)
Joke 1: Cause he was looking for Pooh!
Joke 2: Ho-hos and Ding-Dongs.

Pray for me. I have a blonde daughter.

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