http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org xoxSilver Thu, 31 May 2007 01:39:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, here is a list of the top 5 things to do that will help me learn: 5. Mix things up. Even doing the way I learn best, if done ALL the time, will get boring, and boredom leads to zoning out, which obviously leads to a lack of learning! 4. Computers are ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/05/30/how-i-learn-best/ Victory! I finally know what semi-colons, colons, and clauses! This, is a semi-colon ----> ; It is used when you want to put two things together that COULD be separate sentences, but you want them to be the SAME sentence. For example: I like pink shirts; my brother likes blue shirts. ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/05/24/super-easy-mini-grammar-lesson/ One of my goals was to put my horse on a training program and complete it. I definantly did just that. I went to the barn 5-7 days a week and worked my butt off (as my poor mother who had to drive me there, stay there, and then bring ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/05/24/personal-curriculum-the-evil-pony/ This year went by the fastest of any year in my life. School was amazing. Yes, I just said that school was amazing. I got to try so many things I had never done before like blogging. I got so into projects that couldn't wait to work on them at ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/05/24/looking-back-on-the-good-times-a-reflection/ You make a mistake, and in less time than it takes to say "guilty" you hear the iron door to your jail cell close. GROUNDED. The very WORD sounds cruddy. It makes it seemed like you are going to be chained to the floor while somethign torturous like Algebra equations ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/04/08/and-the-iron-door-clangs-closed/ The goverment has finally devised the ultimate plan to suck up all our $$ into a superficial economy, while really using this $$ for evil purposes. Not hard to believe. What IS hard to believe is that they are doing it in the form of giant, disguised, $$ sucking vacums! ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/03/29/the-governments-evil-plan/ I am so sick of people judging each-other. Everyone in this school has an opinion of everyone else whether they have met them or not! You say something to a friend about someone, like, 'I really liked her skirt today...' and they go, yah, but shes a bitch/slut/you fill in ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/03/20/argh/ If I hear one more (not to be racist but...) skinny little white boy trying to be a black gangster I will SCREAM *screams* What is up with everyone wanting to be a black (or even a white) pimp/gangster? What is so great about it? Do you all really buy into ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/03/05/trippin/ CSAP. You either hate it or you love it. I definantly love it! No homework, shortened classes, breakfast and juice, and games when were not taking a test (in some of our cases) two years below our level. Could going to school be any easier? We get to watch a ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/03/05/csap/ You want a cookie, but you don't need it. But because YOU can't eat it yourself, you don't want anyone else to have it either (even though having them eat it has nothing to do with your own personal eating enjoyment.) Your just being selfish. Why can't they have it if you can't? Plus, ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/24/that-stupid-cookie/ For a horse, survival is their #1 priority. So, in order to survive, horses spook at a LOT of things and don't calm down until they are convinced whatever they spooked at is harmless (the convincing process could take HOURS). Horses spook at... dumpsters trash cans porta pottys judges umbrellas blankets at times other horses flags flowery fences treew blowing ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/21/what-do-horses-consider-to-be-horse-eating-things/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/14/a-kinda-sorta-bleep-peoples-oppinions-post/ ok, so i was attempting to learn something about grammar (because on the CSAP last year mine was awefull) and i hit a roadblock. the definition explaining how to USE a certain part of grammar is more confusing then the dictionary!!! here is whaty i got when searching for how ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/06/what-were-the-smart-people-thinking/ Mrs. Chenoweth was yelling at us this morning for being the worst behaved, loudest, and generaly worst core of science this morning. Not that I disagree, but we could have been much, much, worse. Like if we have a shopping cart. http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/31/if-core-1-science-ever-got-ahold-of-a-shopping-cart/ I was thinking about how I had nothing to write and then started wondering how often a truly original idea appears. Is anything at all original or are all our thoughts and ideas based upon someone else's thoughts and ideas? It that's true then they aren't really original anymore. But ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/26/is-any-idea-original/ I disagree with the statement that one parent wrote in response to this question. They said "Parents should protect their children at all times from hurting themselves or others (safety)." Now I'm sure this parent has much more experience than me, and that they will possibly regard this as poorly ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/23/how-much-is-to-muchi-object/ There is a song for every moment. Have you ever really thought about it? There are songs about everything from keying cars to buying things compulsively. There are even songs making fun of other songs! If the song doesnt have words, then there is music for that 'moment.' There is squirrel ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/19/a-song-for-every-moment/ 1. Learn about 3 punctuation marks in grammar, and understand how to use them. Then, write a shot story incorperating them correctly. 2. Write two pieces in a format or genre I have never used before (or one that I am not vey good at). 3. Study a training program for my ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/03/personal-curriculum/ ok, so this started out as an AMAZINGLY original post. i decided i would type out whatever i was thinking, nomatter what it was. i would share with you everything going through my mind at the moment. i had seriously been off on fantastical tangents too. then, i re-read what ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2006/11/01/did-i-just-waste-20-minutes-of-my-life/ note: i still need to do the links, but my computer is being stupid. and this story depressed me, i didnt start it that way but it ended up like this. next post will definantly have to be happier...  She stares at the wall. It was more than she could have ever ... http://silverlining.learnerblogs.org/2006/10/18/scavenger-hunt/