Update

Sorry I haven't posted in a while..... its been very busy with school, after school activities. (etc.)

                                                   After School Activities 
               After school activities have definitely made it harder to blog monthly. Recently I started playing the trombone. I enjoy it a lot because the last instrument I played was the piano, but that was on the Cape, so I thought I would start playing the trombone. I'm very excited because there is a concert coming up..... the clarinets, trumpets, snare drums, saxophones and trombones all play Jingle Bells, Lightly Row, and 1 more song. 
              Also, there was a invitational club I was offered to go to. The club is called Future problem Solvers, and its six of us kids and one volunteer mom. Every 2  or 3 months, we start a new problem. For instance, the problem that we're working on right now is Disappearing Languages. All of the problems are based in the future, so its fine to think creatively and think of things that you would never think of now.You also get a "Future Scene'' that has a specific event going on but its still about trying to revive  disappearing languages. First, you attempt to think of 16 problems under the category disappearing languages, but for every problem you do, you need what is called a scene fact. The scene fact has to go with and support your problem, but it has to be from the future scene.and, you also have to jot down why those problems could be problems in the future. that is step 1,so now you need step two: So next, you have to choose 1 problem that you have already thought of,(one of the 16) and gather as many solutions to that problem as possible. After that, you write down the scene fact from that problem, but in your own words. Then you write how might we: increase, reduce, maximize, minimize etc. the amount of linguists traveling the world to helps save dying languages for example. After, you record the key verb phrase you used. For example: increase, decrease, minimize, maximize etc. Finally, after that, you address why you would need to increase/decrease that situation. That is how you fully and successfully complete a booklet on the given topic.
              I'm thrilled to be a part of this FPS club and soar above and beyond in creativity! There are also competitions that are held. First, its city-wide, then state-wide, and if  you  win both of those, its country/international-wide. In those competitions, you are in a room for 2 hours with an adult, (who can't tell you anything, just supervising) and you can be an individual, or with with 1 or 2 people, and I don't know what problem scheme they have you do.
             I'll try my best to blog more often this winter!!:)