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Jessica B.

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Chelsea F.

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Solo Stress Relievers (Spend Time With Pets)

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Solo Stress Relievers (Spend Time With Pets)

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Chelsea F.

Today I spent time with my three cats, Chico, Oliver, and Milo. I gave them cat toys, belly rubs, and I scratched their chin(They love being scratched on the chin). I felt very happy and relaxed while spending time with my cats, and I'm pretty sure they felt the same.

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Writing Prompt #3 (Write About What Your Average Day Looks Like At Home Right Now)

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Writing Prompt #3 (Write About What Your Average Day Looks Like At Home Right Now)

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Chelsea F.

Every morning, I wake up, eat breakfast, and get right to doing schoolwork. (I wake up around 9:00 and start school at 10:00.) I look at all the things I need to do that day, and then I choose which to do first. And then second, third, fourth, and so on. I work until noon, and then I start on my chores. They're usually just refilling the cat food and water bowls, taking out the trash, emptying the dishwasher, etc. When I finish the chores that I do alone, I start on the ones I need to do with my sister, Chloe. She has her own chores, too, but she always does hers when I'm doing schoolwork. The chores I do with Chloe are pretty much walk the pugs, play a game together, stuff like that. When we finish those, we're all done until 5:00. 5:00 is when everyone in the house (my stepmom, dad, Chloe, and me) participate in an exercise challenge. We do one thing such as, a plank, airplane pose, and wall sits for as long as we can. If you win by being the last person left, you get an ice cream cone. For the rest of the day, I get to relax. At 9:00, I take a shower and go to bed.

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Jessica B.

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Jessica B.

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Jessica B.

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Reading Choice Board (Setting) Chelsea F.

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Reading Choice Board (Setting) Chelsea F.

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The book I'm reading is "Pretties" by Scott Westerfeld. The setting at the moment is a reservation of early humans found by the Specials. They use it for the study of early humans(before the Specials established the city, operation, etc.), called Anthropology. The main character, Tally Youngblood, is stuck in the reservation. This is because she was running away from the city, and the reservation "villagers" found Tally and thought she was an outsider. But then they saw her face. Pretties to the villagers are the Gods. The villagers brought her into the reservation. Also, nobody but the Specials know about the reservation and that it even is a reservation. The way Specials keep villagers in is these small machines disguised with leaves and flowers that hang in the trees. When you get close to them, you get a terrible buzzing noise in your head, and you start to get dizzy. The villagers call these "the little men" and they are the end of the villagers' world.

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I would like your feedback on my writing.

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I would like your feedback on my writing.

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Thanks Jessica Banar

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Chelsea F.

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Jessica Banar

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Screenshot_2020-04-21 Find out how strong your vocabulary is and learn new words at Vocabulary com 

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I'm sorry its so small I did it in ms paint. :l

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Jessica B.

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Jessica B.

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This song I have been listening to a lot lately. If you are struggling with fear or anxiety I encourage you to listen to this song and the words. It is about how God can still split the sea like he did many years ago for the Israelites in the Bible. Remember Jesus loves you and things are going to get better!!!

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Hannah Kerr "Split the Sea" Official Lyric Video

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During this time I have been listening to a lot of worship music. Some of you might not be religious but for my family and I we believe it is about relationship not religion. If you are struggling with fear or anxiety I encourage you to listen to this song: Split the sea by Hannah Kerr. It is about how God can still split the sea like he did with the Israelites in the Bible years ago. He is still the same God and he never changes. Waymaker by Michael W. Smith is another song that I have been listening to. It is about how God is the way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, and light in the darkness. Jesus loves you and things are gonna get better!❤️

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Vocabulary practice

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If there’s one gift I’m trying to appreciate during all of this, it’s the gift of extra time. My dad has been sorting through pictures, a task he has been dreading for a long time. I think it was something he always hoped my mom would take care of on her own, but after she died, he just stuffed the boxes of unsorted pictures into a closet in the basement. While they are out of his sight, they are not out of his mind. He would often bring it up when visiting me or my sister: “I really need to start sorting through those pictures,” he’d say with a heavy sigh. He sent this picture to us this morning.

It’s my first day of kindergarten. I really do still remember the day. That’s my little sister next to me (I’m still taller than she is here!) and she was excited to pose for pictures with me, but she cried and cried and cried when she realized she wouldn’t get to go to school with me that day. She took all her rage out on my Cabbage Patch doll, coloring over her whole face with a magenta crayon. On the subject of Cabbage Patch dolls, I also had a Cabbage Patch backpack. It was blue, and a little creepy because it just had this doll’s head attached to the outside, no body at all. I loved it though.

Much of that first day is a blur in my memory, but what I remember most was walking up to school. It had never crossed my mind that I should feel sad or afraid. I was simply excited! I felt so proud of myself wearing a dress I loved and carrying my backpack like a big girl, but as we approached the school, it was pandemonium! Kids were screaming and clutching their parents’ legs, tears and snot pouring all over new clothes, and I just froze for a moment. Why were they crying? What was I about to get myself into? Was my teacher going to be horrible? I looked back at my mom, and she just sort of winked at me. She didn’t reach for my hand. She just said, “You’ve got this.” I’m sure we hugged and said I love you, but that’s not the part that stands out to me. It was this calm she always had about her. We would go on to share a similar moment the day she helped me move into my dorm room when I went away to college.

I’d like to think I’ll be that source of calm for Eliana when she’s ready to go to kindergarten. And I hope that you feel a little bit of calm here as we share some of our thinking with one another. I’m grateful my dad has found the courage to face the box in the closet. He keeps taking pictures of some of this favorites with his phone and texting them to me, signs that maybe he’s enjoying this difficult project and maybe healing a little bit too.

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Hannah Townsend