Ten Years of Homeschool Completed!!!

Ten Years?!?

Wow I'm getting old. I'm in my 40th year of life, and I even googled "Hair cuts that make you look young," Yep. I'm getting to that point.

Ten years ago I taught Maxwell kindergarten. I was so naive. I was so arrogant. I didn't know what I was doing. But I had the best of intentions, and I was doing my best.

Cute tiny Maxwell at the beginning all of this!

I've realized that's all I can expect of myself: good intentions and doing my best.

If my kids turn out horrible and/or hate me, I can rest assured that I was doing what I truly believed was the best for my family, and that I did all I could.

Sometimes I worry I do too much for my kids and don't make them work. Evidence of this:

Sometimes I think I'm too lazy and don't get my family doing every thing I think they should, but at the end of it all, I've done what I could.

I've done little and big things, and tried to use the principles of the slight edge. Like reading to my kids almost every night:

Sooooo, how did this year go?

Well, dad has made mornings productive. He wakes us up at 7am and we do exercises and scripture study and often meditations. Then I get my video devotionals going, and since COVID we've been doing history right after devotionals, which ensures that we actually get it done.

I'm SOO glad that we did every opportunity that Cardston presented itself. All of the running around town wasn't too bad, specifically because of the carpool "mom buses" that happened, and since it all stopped with COVID, that time was truly a blessing.

I LOVE my Cardston homeschool mom friends and their families. Truly.

No judgement, no drama, no frustration, no weirdness. Tons of support, tons of understanding, tons of resources, tons of fun, tons of genuine love.

This is why I live in Cardston.

This was us at the beginning of the year:

I forgot to get a photo of us a couple of nights ago. Yes, that's right, we got together under "COVID" friendly regulations. We all were outside in my backyard, all in our own chairs, discussing the year and our lives.

It's been a long time since we were able to do that. It was sooo good for us.

They were all asking me about what I did with a 9th grader, and what I planned on doing with a 10th grader (Maxwell is one of the oldest of our group.) I honestly don't know what is going to happen. I have plans for him, but it's scary to think that Maxwell's homeschool experiment is heading towards completion. In just a couple years, he's going to go out into the real world. Will he be prepared?

We'll find out I guess.

One cool thing that happened at the end of this school year is this photo:

That is Daniel picking up a chapter book of his own accord and reading it just for fun. Every mom-of-dyslexic's dream come true.

I now have three of these photos. One for Maxwell, Hyrum, and now Daniel.  I have faith it will happen for William and Abraham as well.

The crazy thing about this photo is that it really was the first time I saw Daniel reading a chapter book just for fun, but it just so happened to be during the Westwind Alt Zoom year end call!  Talk about evidence of learning! LOL

I guess the main reason I feel like school is over, is because I'm done with Rightstart math for the year. William and Abraham got done with their books. Here's William's end of the year test:

This is grade three math even though he's only in grade 1!!! He even completed all of times tables, my youngest child ever to get to this point!

However, it is very evident to me that he will need to go through them again next year to get them firmly and comfortably in his mind.

One thing I love about Rightstart, is that the first few lessons and the last few lessons are pretty easy peasy. One of the last lessons in level A had Abraham finding out what quarters were by separating water into four containers.

Abraham also got through his Handwriting without tears book

And we are not done with everything I had wanted to do with science. Maybe we'll have a few lessons during summer once COVID has really calmed down. I don't know, but I'm not too worried either. I think the main thing we didn't get to was the PH scale.

We'll get to that someday I'm sure. I also feel like we never did simple machines from last year. Hummm....well see what happens.

As for history, I feel good about what we were able to do. We probably wouldn't have gotten to do so many history lessons if it wasn't for COVID, so there's a silver lining in everything I suppose.

We learned a bit about Czar Ivan the Great and made Russian Easter eggs as our activity.

We used the shrinkydink egg covers which my kids thought were magical. A hit.

Then we studied Guttenberg's printing press, which I feel like is the most important invention in history. (Have you ever felt like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were the modern Guttenbergs? Because I have.) We printed our own words using this awesome kit that I have. I think I would like another one so we can have more that one of each letter.

We learned about the Spanish Inquisition, but we didn't do any activity. Holy cow was that time period messed up! And it wasn't until our study as a family this year that I realized that Ferdinand and Isabella were the monarchs at the time of its start! Ferdinand and Isabella were the parents of Henry's wife Catherine whom Henry created the church of England to divorce, and they were the grandparents of Bloody Mary as well!  CRAZY!

Then we studied Martin Luther. One of the most important guys in history! And as an activity, I made pictures of someone paying the pope "indulgences" that they coloured and then had them put them on our door. (No hammering on my door, thank you!)

We continued to learn about the reformation, and we learned more about Calvin and Tyndale as well, and we watched this EXCELLENT documentary.

Of course, Henry the 8th is a huge part of the reformation, so we studied him specifically. No activity, but we started watching the video I made about him every day that week during devotionals.

We also watched our home video about when we went to Anne Boleyn's childhood home. My kids have had HANDS ON experience when it comes to learning about Henry the 8th. Is that cool or what?!

Then we learned about Elizabeth the 1st.  I love learning about her. As our activity, we made ruffled collars.

Then we jumped over to the Italian renaissance and studied Leonardo Di Vinci. One of the most fascinating guys who ever lived IMO. As our activity I bought a Di Vinci model, and Maxwell loved putting it together. It worked, but we couldn't figure out the weights to make it tell time properly.

Then we learned about Michelangelo. Okay people: we have studied Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and more, and have very little nudity shown, but I just couldn't teach Michelangelo without nudity. (Well, actually we had recently seen a lot of Di Vinci's Vitruvian man) So we had to go over all the Greek philosophies in art and science to show that this nudity was not trying to be inappropriate.

We watched these Youtube videos by "Artageous with Nate" and it made me remember loving Art History. It's like knowing all these inside scoops about some of the most meaningful representations of our history.

As our activity we made ice sculptures which turned into smashing blocks of ice. Sculpting is HARD! (pun intended)

And our last week of school was spent on Shakespeare! Yet again we had a home video of our time in England to drive home the concept. So cool.

We learned about Romeo and Juliet on Monday, The Tempest on Tuesday, A Midsummer Night's Dream on Wednesday, and Macbeth (or as Daniel said "Macdeath") on Thursday. We were supposed to do Hamlet on Friday, but we were busy getting ready for our camping trip, so maybe next week.

I know that there are plenty of Shakespeare lovers (especially homeschool Shakespeare lovers) who are pulling out their hair and screaming at my lack of time and focus on Shakespeare, but most of my kids are still young, and it was meant as an introduction more than anything.

There are some awesome Shakespeare story books that helped me teach these plays. They make them very simplified and easy for children to understand:

We made puppets as our activity:

Now that I feel like school is officially done, I created a video of our year with random videos I took:

And in other news, a couple of weeks ago we went to Writing on Stone. We NEED to get out of the house these days, and It was sooooo much fun to go to the hoodoos. I had always dreamed of taking my kids to Goblin Valley in Utah, not realizing that we had something so similar only two hours away! I didn't discover this place until we went there for School when learning about First Nations a couple of years ago.

I was nervous, because some of our friends went the same time as us, and then when we got there, Dustin's sister (and her humongous family) were randomly there as well! I thought the COVID police would get us for sure, but then we found out the law had been changed the day before so that 50 people could be together outside!!! WHOO HOOO!!!!

Also, we just got back from camping. You aren't allowed to go camping on provincial land yet, so we went to P.L.U.Z. where we camped for free, but we had to make our own toilet out of a bucket and sawdust because apparently closing public toilets makes it so COVID doesn't spread !@*&#@*.

 It was an absolute blast. Even though our last night had a crazy Lightning rain storm. We had our fill of s'mores, walks, hot dogs, campfire talks, and taking it easy. Love it.


But what about this summer?

Well I have plans.

I'm not going to stop teaching Abraham and William "All About Reading." We're a quarter through the book, so my goal for William is to be at least half way through by the time school starts. I might need to start over from the beginning with Abraham though. He might need more time.

Also, I'm going to actually teach Daniel an Hyrum cursive for real this summer and have them do writing assignments in cursive as well.

And Maxwell will continue to do spelling, writing and ACT prep throughout the summer.

But these shouldn't take too much time, so I should have time to do individual projects with each of my kids. My kids each have a day of the week that is "their day" (mostly for family prayers.) Maxwell/Monday, Hyrum/Tuesday, Daniel/Wednesday etc, and I can do their projects on their day.

Maxwell is working on a novel, or maybe he'll want help on his 3D printing jobs he does, like the "Square sushi pooper" he made:

And Abraham and I want to make a book out of his "Front Flipping Dinosaur" pictures he's made.

And I'm not sure what the others want to do.

I know I personally want to work on the book about my mom's life, and to work on videos that make it easy to learn Arbinger Institute ideas and other homeschool videos.

We'll see....maybe well just take it easy or go on an adventure.

Here comes SUMMER!

Checklists 2020

When I'm living practically next-door to Westwind Alt, I usually don't do a checklist post, but since COVID has put a wrench in everything, I figured that I would do a checklist because it's truly distance learning right now.

For math I used ExamBank and I know that doesn't prove all-year-work, but I think I have some examples throughout my blog, and if that's not enough, I give you (John) permission to record our upcoming zoom call and I'll show you their math workbooks.

So here we go:

William:

MATH:

He took an ExamBank test, and I believe it was a Grade 3 level, so obviously he's proficient in grade 1.

LANGUAGE ARTS:

Here's a video showing him passing off the reading checklist:

As for the writing checklist, we've been creating stories together. He dictates it to me, and then he copies my writing. What do you expect from a severely to profound dyslexic. (By the way, I want him tested by Conrad....just a reminder.)

SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE

For both social studies and science, there should be ample on this blog and from the art class (with colour knowledge and drawing about seasons.) Also, all the classes he's done with you guys.

Whoo hoo, that was easy. Moving on.

Daniel:

MATH:

Daniel took an ExamBank.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Reading:
Experience quality literature-Daniel and Hyrum have read
Secret Garden
Little Britches: Father and I were Ranchers
Rules For a Knight
Fablehaven Grip of the Shadow Plague
Fablehaven Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
Fablehaven Keys to the Demon Prison
Dragonwatch
Dragonwatch Wrath of the Dragon King
Dragonwatch Master of the Phantom Isle
The Cay
Anne of Green Gables
The Bronze Bow
The Hardy Boys While the Clock Ticks
And quite a few Usborne Young Reader history books, which I've mentioned on this blog.

He has read "novels" silently and aloud, they have been Magic Tree House books, Minecraft Choose Your Own Adventure books, and books by Cigdem Knebel which are specifically designed for dyslexic readers.

As for identify main problem and Imagery, theme and figurative language, he did Brainpops that were sent to you.

Writing:
In addition to all the writing he did with Barton, He also dictates to me and writes stories, but in addition to this, here are some other things that should be enough examples to check off the writing needed.

A Brainstorm and Finished draft of a book report on The Bronze Bow.

 Imagine you’re walking along, and you see a bunch of people gathered around a person preaching. You ask a man what’s going on, and he tells you the preacher is a carpenter named Jesus.  The book, “The Bronze Bow,” tells you what it feels like to be back in the time of Jesus. 

Daniel, the main character, had his parents die because of Roman soldiers, and is now full of hatred and revenge towards them. He meets Jesus who teaches him that love and understanding are more powerful than hate. It will take the whole book for Daniel to understand how love and understanding overcome fear and violence.

At the beginning of the book, Daniel was living with this person named Rosh and Rosh’s gang. They were getting an army to defeat the Romans. They were stealing to get all their food and supplies. They didn’t care about the people they stole from. 

Later, Daniel had to live in the village to take care of his sister, Leah, who is afraid of everything. Daniel met all the people that Rosh was stealing from. He realized that Rosh wasn’t helping the country, but just making it weaker. Jesus had said everyone was a child of God, and the people that Rosh was stealing from, mattered just as much as anyone else.

While Daniel was in a city, a Roman asked for water for his horse. Daniel got water for the horse because not only was it the law, Daniel felt bad for the horse. The Roman asked for water for himself, and Daniel gives him the same water as the horse, which makes the Roman kick him, so Daniel threw the water at the Roman’s face. Daniel quickly runs away but the Roman gets him with his spear.

Daniel runs to Thacia’s house even though he had been kicked out of their house earlier. Thacia heals Daniel. 

Daniel’s friend Joel helps Rosh steal from rich important people that were helping the Romans. But then Joel got caught, and Rosh wouldn’t help Joel. The Romans were taking Joel away to the city to execute him.

Daniel got his small group of warriors to save Joel, but the Romans were too strong. Then Sampson and Nathan gave their lives to save Joel.

Daniel met a young Roman who kept on needing repairs with his tools, and Daniel was a blacksmith. Daniel didn’t like him because he was a Roman. Daniel finds out that the Roman, whose name is Marcus, has been talking to his sister. That made Daniel want to kill Marcus.

Leah, Daniel’s sister, knew Marcus and asked Daniel to not kill him, but then she got a fever. Jesus healed Leah, and showed Daniel how love was stronger than hate. Then Daniel let Marcus into his house.

Daniel saw that stealing’s wrong because everyone’s a child of God. Thacia was kind enough to heal Daniel even after being kicked out. Sampson and Nathan gave their lives for Joel and Daniel. Leah and Jesus showed Daniel how to love his enemies. All of these things showed love and understanding, and that can overcame fear and violence.

Now here's a research paper about raining fish (seriously.....raining fish) the brainstorm, bibliography, and final draft.

Raining Fish Bibliography

Brain Time. “Fish Rain. The Most Unbelievable Types of Rain on the Planet.” YouTube, 23 May 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM9mAdKmH6w

Cleaton, Steve. “Fish rain down Sri Lanka Village.” BBC News, 6 May 2014, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27298939

Dwyer, Colin.”It Rained Fish In Mexico, Officials Say. No, It's Not The End Times (We Think)” N.P.R. 28 September 2017. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/28/554242564/it-rained-fish-in-mexico-authorities-say-no-its-not-the-end-times-we-think

John Downer Productions Ltd. “BBC Supernatural (raining fish!!!!)” BBC,  Narration by Andrew Sachs, season 1, episode 1, 1 Jan 1999, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKWfNSFXzqw

Imagine while you’re walking down the street, fish start falling from the sky. Raining Fish are real. Fish, newts, eels, frogs, and prawns have all fallen from the sky. Some fish that haven rained down are three to five inches long. Sometimes they’re frozen, and sometimes the fish are alive when they land. 

Stories since ancient civilizations tell us about raining fish. There have been over 600 accounts of raining fish in this century. It usually happens near ponds and oceans. All over the world, there have been raining fish, including in the countries of  Australia, Japan, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Serbia, and the United States.

Lots of scientists think that strong whirlwinds turn into waterspouts when they go over shallow water. Low pressure sucks up the water, and along with the water, comes the fish. They are carried long distances by buffeting clouds. Sometimes fish get frozen from being so high up in the air.

There’s usually only one species of animal that rains down, maybe because of its weight, and waterspouts sucking up the fish have never been witnessed. This proves that raining fish is still a mystery. We still have a lot to learn about it. 

I really hope I’ll be able to witness raining fish sometime, because it sounds really cool.

Daniel's poetry, first and final draft:

SOCIAL STUDIES:

Mapping of Canada-so he did a couple Brainpops, but also there's this video

Canada Histories and Stories: He made an incredible Canadian history video last year, but because Alberta doesn't understand how homeschool in large families works, what he did last year doesn't count. So here's a video proving he still remembers what he did in that video THIS year.

SCIENCE
Well since my science classes don't cover every single science subject every single year, you can look at the brain pops Daniel did.

Hyrum

MATH:
He did the ExamBank, and if I'm right, I think he did grade 7 math, even though he's in grade 6.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Reading
Experience quality literature-Daniel and Hyrum have read
Secret Garden
Little Britches: Father and I were Ranchers
Rules For a Knight
Fablehaven Grip of the Shadow Plague
Fablehaven Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
Fablehaven Keys to the Demon Prison
Dragonwatch
Dragonwatch Wrath of the Dragon King
Dragonwatch Master of the Phantom Isle
The Cay
Anne of Green Gables
The Bronze Bow
The Hardy Boys While the Clock Ticks
And quite a few Usborne Young Reader history books, which I've mentioned on this blog.

He's also read
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior From Seeds to Swords
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior Crafting Alliances
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior Path of the Diamond
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior Quest Mode
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior Forging Destiny
Tales of an 8-Bit Kitten: Lost in the Nether
The Book of Mormon (I'm serious. He read the entire thing all my himself!!!)

All the rest of reading checks should be on BrainPOP.

Writing.
I'm going to do IEW soon. In addition to all the writing he did with Barton, he also dictates to me to writes stories, he's done some oral presentations with you (person of eminence and paper bag swap,) ALSO don't for get all the Class craft stuff he sent you, but also here are some other things that should be enough examples to check off the writing needed.

Here's a research paper he did on warts. Yes warts. Don't ask me why.

Have you ever had a huge lump of skin on your hand and wondered how it got there and what it was? Well, that’s a wart, my friend. Warts are firm rough skin on you that is called human papillomavirus, or for short, HPV. There are over 100 different types of warts. Different warts like different parts of your body. 

If a wart gets too big, it will make more of its type. That big wart is what we call a “mother wart.” You can spread warts by touching other skin. The wart lives in the top layer of the skin (the epidermis,) and gets there through cracks in your skin. It can also spread by you touching something that a wart has touch, like a dirty sock. When a wart infects you, it takes two to six months before you can see it pop out.

We don’t know the exact reason, but meat handlers get more warts than other people. Adults don’t get as many warts as children do, because they have a better immune system. Also, if your parents had a lot of warts, you have a greater chance of having warts too.

As the wart is growing, they redirect blood vessels to them, to get food and oxygen to them. You can see the blood vessels as tiny black specs. The virus, when it gets in the cell, tells the cell to make more of the virus. This creates keratin-protien on top of the skin.

Now, it’s important to talk about how to get rid of these ugly lumps that remind you of ogres. Most of the time, warts will go away naturally in two or more years. If that doesn’t happen, you can try salicylic acid, cryotherapy which is “freezing,” laser treatment, or if all else fails, “snip” or cut them off. Warts are a virus, so your immune system should get rid of them, and if it doesn’t then Candida antigen shot or chemotherapy medicine can boost your immune system to help fight the virus. Although, in the past they say if you rub a dusty dry toad, your warts will go away.

Now you can be wart free. You’re welcome ogres.

Warts Bibliography 

AmerraMedical. “Skin Warts-3D Medical Animation.” YouTube, Viroxis. 24 Jun 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guJ1J7rRs1w

Brazier, Yvette. “How to Treat a Wart.” Medical News Today, Reviewed By SarahTaylor, MD FAAD. 28 Nov 2017, https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155039

JJ Medicine. “Overview of Skin Warts (Verrucae) | What Causes Them? Who Gets Them? | Subtypes and Treatment.” YouTube, 7 Jun 2019,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBbujl8k33Q

Parker, Hilary. “What Causes Common Skin Warts?” WebMD, Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario MD. 14 May 2009, https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/features/viruses-cause-skin-warts#1

SciShow. “What’s the Deal with Warts?” YouTube. Hosted by Michael Aranda. 22 Aug 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSWVBP2YXM

Here's a News article he wrote:

Minecraft Gets Defeated By It’s Own Server

Minecraft: a beautiful world where you can build anything, beat monsters, tame animals, and last but not least, join with your friends on servers. Minecraft was originally created by Mojang as a computer generated sandbox game. Minecraft is the bestselling game of all time. Once people buy it, people don’t seem to stop playing it. Recently, Minecraft was bought by Microsoft for 2.5 billion dollars.

The creators of Minecraft are not the only ones to make money off of the game. People who don’t work for Minecraft, sell maps to use in the Minecraft worlds. These can contain quests, modded games, and more. Inside Minecraft’s “Market Place,” companies have virtual stores where you can buy things like maps that change the Minecraft world.

Hypixel is one of the main servers not owned by Minecraft. It has different maps, mods, and mini games. They even have their own successful Youtube channel. However, they are shutting down on 30 of June, 2020. 

In 2016, soon after Microsoft bought Minecraft, Microsoft made it so independent companies were allowed to do less things, like not allowing branded partnerships. They also kick out sellers in the Market Place and took more control of how money was made off of maps.

Hypixel now had less power. Microsoft was taking over their business. This would change Hypixel forever.

Hypixel decided to make their own video game called Hytale. It is also a sandbox computer generated game just like Minecraft. It’s even has blocky art like Minecraft. But Hytale has RPG combat, more detailed animation, different skins, different mods, yet still has community servers and mini games. 

In Sept 2019, Hytale was nominated in the 37th Golden Joystick Awards for “Most Wanted Game.” In 2021, Hytale will be released. Who knows, maybe Hytale will be more famous Minecraft, and Minecraft ’s dominance of the sandbox world will be taken down my one of its own.

Sorces:

Wikipedia. “Hypixel,” Wikipedia, 5 May 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypixel

Wikipedia. “Hytale,” Wikipedia, 1 May 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hytale

Wikipedia. “Minecraft,” Wikipedia, 4 May 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft

SOCIAL STUDIES

BrainPOP also, there's some proof of Ancient Greece on the blog, and Iroquois was on last year's blog.

SCIENCE
BrainPOP

Maxwell

MATH
He did examBank and you can see all the work he's done on Khan academy, right?

LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading
variety of literature:Oh heavens I can't even keep track
About a million "Warrior" books by Erin Hunt
Hunger Games Series (again)
Secret Garden
Micheal Vey series
Five Kingdoms series
7 Habits for Highly Effective Teens
Redwall
The Bronze Bow


So for the rest, you should find it in BrainPOP and included/mixed up in the writing

Writing
Okay, so I'm just going to show you his final draft "Compare and contrast book to movie" and business letter that he typed up himself. Typing them should check off a couple things. (Then I'll take photos of all the other writing that I have in front of me at this exact moment. We've been pretty diligent with IEW but I couldn't find a lot of it.)

     Bullies were pushing Percy Jackson’s head closer to the toilet, when suddenly toilet water sprayed out, drenching the bullies, but leaving Percy perfectly dry. This is just one event in "Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief,” which was a best selling book that movie producers made into a movie. In my opinion, ”Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief” the book is way better than the movie. There are big differences between the two. In the movie, Percy's quest is not to find the lightning blot, the camp leader is different, and the way they get the pearls has changed.

     The quest that Percy goes on in the movie is to find his mom, while in the book, it's to find the lighting bolt. In the movie, Percy thinks that if he can prove himself innocent, that Hades will give him his mom back. While in the book, finding the lighting bolt will save the world. The book made him a greater hero, because in saving the world, he also saved his mom, which made me like the book better. 

     At Camp Half Blood, the camp leader from the book, Dionysus, is not in the movie. Instead it’s Chiron, a centaur. Dionysus makes the book way more entertaining. Dionysus makes the story funnier because of things he's always doing. Like how he threatened Percy to turn him into a dolphin. In my opinion, Dionysus just makes every thing better. I was disappointed not to meet him in the movie.

      In the movie, Percy had to find the pearls that would save him from the under world. In the book, the pearls were given to him by Poseidon. Also, in the book they stumbled into Medusa in a bus crash instead of going to her lair to get a pearl. In my opinion, Percy getting the pearls from Poseidon makes sense because Poseidon is Percy's father. The God of the ocean helping his teenage son makes me like the book way better than the movie. 

     In the book, Percy saves the world not just his mom, the reader meets Dionysus, who is a unforgettable character, and there is a greater connection between Percy and his father, Poseidon. All this makes me not like the movie as much as the book. I suggest reading the book and watching the movie, so you can decide for yourself.

PO Box 1873

Cardston AB T0K0K0

CANADA

Microsoft Minecraft Dept.

4200 150th Ave NE,

Redmond, WA 98052,

United States

To whom this may concern,

I am writing to you because I think that Minecraft should add more dog types because it can be boring to just see white wolves and dogs. I think that having different dog types, even if it is just different skin colours would be great. But if Minecraft could make it so some dogs have more health or can run faster, then it would make the game better. Minecraft could even make it so dogs could find specific blocks for the player. If the player showed a special rare dog a specific block, the dog could smell the block and then go to the nearest block of that kind. Maybe that’s too O.P., so maybe the dogs could come in different sizes or different breeds. I think it would be such a good idea. Just look at the different breeds of horses and cats you have. They have had success. Would it be too hard to make different breeds of dogs? It would be also cool if you could breed dogs and foxes together to get a dog that could find the player spawn eggs.

sincerely yours 

Maxwell McKay

Presentation Skills should be from person of eminence and paper bag swap.

SOCIAL STUDIES and SCIENCE
BrainPOP