Homeschooling Samantha

We pulled Samantha off her school at Q-Dees because wanna prepare her for American curriculum, Alpha Omega Publications, AOP.

Her subjects include:

History and Geography
Language Arts
Bible
Mathematics
Science.

After school, when I come home, I spend time teaching her.

Her first ever Lifepac test was History and Geography and she got this score. 

 

 Yep, she got 100% for her first ever LIFEPAC Test.

Barking Up a Wrong Tree

Barking up a wrong tree

It is an idiomatic expression in English, which is used to suggest a mistaken emphasis in a specific context. The phrase is an allusion to the mistake made by dogs when they believe that have chased a prey up a tree, but the game may have escaped by leaping from one tree to another. The phrase means to mistake one's object, or to pursue the wrong course to obtain it.
In other words, "if you are barking up the wrong tree, it means that you have completely misunderstood something or are totally wrong." (source: wikipedia)

So yeah, girl... I think you're barking up a wrong tree. Beware. It can choke you up...

Transference

Transference, as coined by sigmund freud, is a phenomenon whereby we unconsciously transfer feelings and attitude from a person or situation in the past on to a person or situation in the present.

It is a redirection of feelings and desires and especially of those unconscously retained from childhood toward a new object.

Another definition of trransference is, it is a reproduction of emotions relating to repressed experiences especially of childhood and the substitution of another person... For the original object of the repressed impulses.

Iktsuarpok

There comes a time in your life when you've become very complacent -no- hmmm... contented. Then something happens -like a strong urge to do something.

Then you start working on it and later find yourself in confusion.

Is that really what you want to do?

You think it is indeed God's will.

Then again, you feel you're being grilled.

Now you want to see the end point of everything.

You are waiting...

And you find yourself in a state of ... ikstuarpok.

An Inuit word that describes that feeling of anticipation that leads you to keep looking outside to see if anyone is coming.

Can Fish Climb a Tree?

Everybody is a genius.

But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

-Albert Einstein

But think again. There's a certain fish that can climb a tree. They're called climbing perch.

Climbing Perch (also called Climbing Gourami and Walking Fish), a freshwater fish that comes out of the water to breathe air for hours at a time. The fish cannot derive enough oxygen from water because it has very small gills and generally lives in oxygen-poor water. In a cavity above its gills is a respiratory organ that enables the fish to absorb oxygen from the air. The fish is frequently observed moving over land from one body of water to another; it moves by flexing its tail and using its fins as props. It has also been seen climbing sloping tree trunks. It feeds on crustaceans, insects, and vegetation.

So... there really is a fish that can climb trees.

However, if the fish is not a climbing perch, please just leave it to swim in the water and let it be the best as it can be.

Awesome Moment - 1

That tiring and awesome moment when several of your students get a hundred mark on their test papers...

And one of the students say:

That smile, Teacher.

-tiredness gone-

Mamoocher

Welcome to Mamoocher.

My kids call me names. Errr... not the negative type:

Mammox, Momma, Mama, Mummy.... Mamuchi... Mamooch.

And yeah because I am now a teacher (my son goes to the same school and the daughter will join us next year) and my students call me Teacher.

Thus,

Mamoocher.

Journey with me through my teaching moments with my kids and students.