Student and Staff Blogs

Hullo, here it is again in 2010. Most people here now just use Facebook for telling their friends about the details of their lives. a broken mold is definitely still active, though. I'm also designing a new Blogger template for Joella, so hopefully she'll post new stuff after that.

Students


Anna - Becoming Whole
Ashley - The Bravest Thing of All is Always Hope
Elliot - EJSmurf - Notes From a Neophyte Longboarder
LeeAnna - make up your mind
Joella - Can't Keep Quiet - Awakening
Joseph - Joe_sofat
Nathaniel - a broken mold

Alumni

Joy - crazed_joyful
Matthew - a broken mold

Teachers

Mrs. Vernam - applechexx
Mrs. Bomberger - Tanabu_Girl
Mr. Tollefson- tollyt

Got any more defunct (or not so defunct) blogs to add? Drop a comment.

We need new markers

Continuously. And since we’re a poor homeschool co-op we don’t always get shiny, cool new equipment. Arg. At least I don’t have to write stuff on the board all the time.

Leeann's Moscow photos

Summarily hotlinked from Leeann's Facebook album. Thanks, Leeann.

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Late January Update

Hello, all you devoted PAN followers. I know you're out there.

Well, anyway, I have a few things to update you all on what's going on (considering the last post was in September!). First of all, during the aforementioned interval, a plan was proposed by Mr. Buck for the Government class (and others? I'm not sure) to raise a bunch of money and take a week-long-ish trip to Washington, D.C (bear in mind that Mr. Tollefson teaches government, not Mr. B.). So we did a little fundraising. A little. Way slower than we should have been raising money. And today it got called off. Instead the plan is to go to Salem, here in Oregon. I had decided quite a while ago not to go along because I didn't want to commit to the crazy fundraising and wasn't even sure that I wanted to go to D.C. in this manner. Well, maybe I'll go to Salem. I could stand that. Seems like a spasm of field trips this year...

Which of course leads me to another topic. We went to Moscow two weeks ago (I'm thinkin'). We

• had lunch at Bucers in Moscow (totally yummy)
  
• went to NSA
• went to some other building
• came back to NSA and watched Collision there with Doug Wilson (and had coffee)
• had a Q and A period with Mr. Wilson
• had a Q and A period with Gordon Wilson about the unpublished first part of a biology textbook he wrote that we've been using in Biology class here at Providence/CHC (taught by Mrs. McDonald)
• went up to his office and talked about and looked at a turtle and two snakes

So that was pretty fun. I think Leeann has some pics; don't know think she's posted them anywhere yet so I just asked her to. Pressure's on, Leeann!

And... yeah. That's all I can really think of right now besides the wrap up. And that is: even if the school format this year isn't so hot, I think we're all pretty used to it by now, and it's running fairly well, and IMHO I don't mind it too much even though it is definitely different.

Hello, alive and well

Just wanted to check in and say "Hello, we are alive and well." Therefore…

Hello, we are alive and well.

Now to elaborate. The cooperation started off well enough. It was weird having a half day -- made me feel like a real homeschooler. Which reminds me, the official, suitably generic sounding name for the shebang is CHC - Christian Homeschool Co-op.

So anyway, we've gotten through two weeks of it already. The whole 1 half day, 1 off day, one half day on the other side of the day, 1 half day, weekend schedule is throwing me for a bit of a loop, but I can adapt. I just need to learn to manage my time right.

So anyway, if you read this post, pray for us. We could always use it.

school Monday; what will you miss?

I'll miss:

• Mr. Buck
• Isaiah
• lunch break
• study hall
• Rhetoric

What about you? Leave some comments; you need either a Blogger account or an OpenID (easy!) for that.

Alright alright

So this blog is pretty much abandoned. Given.

Abandoned forever? Probably not. See, here's what's going on:

• The school is actually going to be closed next year…
• …so a bunch of the people involved and some others are doing a homeschool co-op somewhat like the school…
• …and hopefully the co-op will be able to use the building for free because enough money will be coming into the school from certain sources to cover utilities…
• …and this is coming along fairly well, praise be to God.
• It's somewhat harder to blog about school during summer…
• …because there is no school during summer.
• Not to mention I've been using it more like the old Providence Academy News…
• …a journal of events at Providence, not covering everything, but giving us a slice of life view.
• ….And that's pretty much all I have to say right now.
• Catch you later.

Nathaniel