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The Beatitudes in Koine Greek

Hello:

Here is Octavio telling the Beatitudes ( Matt 5:1-10) in Greek.

This is by no means an example to follow in pronunciation ;) We just have some fun doing the video, also, memorizing fragments in other language helps to learn the grammar.

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Seven Lies about Homeschoolers

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One minute in a homeschooling morning

This morning, I was playing with my new camera’s lens while Octavio was doing his copywork. He was copying The Ten Commandments in Hebrew.

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Nine Times Table…with the fingers!

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Happy New Year :)

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Merry Christmas

May the Lord bless you in this Christmas.

Octavio prepared the next video as a Christmas gift:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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Preparing young Gentlemen

I am happy I found these books (pictures below) now that my son is still very young. The first should be read by the boys, it covers all the basics aspects of manners and etiquette (Older boys could beneficiate from How to be Gentleman). The second books is to be read by the parents, it cover courtesy, and how to teach the boys to be sensitive and considerate to others people feelings.

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how-to-raise-a-gentleman

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Carota, Flos and Cepe delira

Octavio loves Visual Latin, especially, he likes the jokes that sometimes, Mr. Thomas tells in the lessons.

He decided to send a new joke to Mr. Thomas. With the help of an online dictionary and the grammar he has learned so far, Octavio was able to write a short letter, here it is.

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The translation:

Hello Mr. Thomas:

I am Octavio, your student, I live in Saudi Arabia, I love your jokes.

I have a joke:

One day, the carrot, the flower and the onion are in the market. A man comes to the market, he touches the carrot, the carrot shouts “carrot”. The man touches the flower, the flower shouts “flower”. Next, the man touches the onion, the onion shouts “carrot, flower, carrot, flower” because the onion is crazy.

Bye, bye

oops: There is a “typo” at the end of the letter, It should say “cepe delira” no “carota delira”. He made a mistake when copy the letter in clean paper. He likes the word carota ;)

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Stickman hitting a wall

This is Octavio’s First Animation Movie. He did it in Adoble Flash Professional.

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My Cookies in Pinterest

This is not a post about Homeschooling; this is a post about my persona hobby: Bake and decorate cookies. Also, I like to investigate about artisan bread and others oven goodies.

I want to inform you that I open one account in Pinterest to display my decoration cookies experiments. I started to learn this art in January 2010. Still, I am a beginner.

In my Pinterest account is a folder call Beautiful Cookies, those are cookies made by other ladies that have reach a high level in this ability, those picture are for my inspiration.

If you like Cookies, you are welcome to have a look,

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