Emily-Sr. Speech Presentation

This year Emily and J.Michael participated in a new speech class through our church. Throughout the year they prepared and presented a series of speeches and then chose one to present at the final Homeschool Support Group meeting through our Church. Here is Emily's speech. We are very proud of Emily's hard work to present this speech. You may notice the video is a little shaky at times...well let's just say I had a little helper. :)

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J.Michael-Jr. Speech Presentation

J.Michael is in his 3rd year of speech presentations and this year he chose a topic close to his mother's heart...the Benefits of Chocolate. J.Michael you did a great job researching, writing, memorizing, and presenting this very important topic. Your Father and I are so proud of you. You are growing into a young man so quickly and we are so thankful you are developing your talents to use for the glory of God.
Andrew was always ready to listen to big brother's speech. Especially since J.Michael would give out chocolate to his audience each time he presented it. Andrew memorized almost half of J.Michael's speech from listening and encouraging his brother. Only Andrew would say it was the Benefits of Shoc-o-lot. Also, a topic close to Andrew's heart!
Great Job! J.Michael keep up the good work.

We love you, Mom and Dad

An Introspection--An Interview with Andrew & Kathlena

Here's a slide-show I made of Andrew and Kathlena, complete with subtitles and Deleted Scenes!
-ha, ha, so much for deleted scenes! And yes, the subtitles are in English! :D

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Enjoy!!!!

Future Senator?

Emily and J.Michael for the past few years have been involved in speech tournaments. This has been a wonderful experience for them and has given them a greater confidence to write and articulate their beliefs on a given subject. This year they are part of a speech class from our church and hope to be able to take the speeches they are working on and compete in NCFCA tournaments this spring.

Tonight Emily and J.Michael were both presenting their speeches to their Dad, Andrew and I (Kathlena was already in bed). Andrew has been sitting in on the speech classes with me for Emily and J.Michael and really likes to listen to the speeches. After J.Michael gave his speech we turned to Andrew and asked him if he would like to give a speech. He said, "Yes!" We asked what he would like to give his speech on and he told us, "Rrrrobots!" We recently checked out a book from the library called "Can you see what I see?" which is similar to the "I Spy" books. In this book it has a whole 2 page spread of robots made from recycled materials. This book was all Andrew had in front of him to give his speech from. We had not gone over anything with him about speaking so what you will see in the video is from what he has picked up from watching his brother and sister and listening in on 3 speech classes.

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I think we may have a senator on our hands...16 minutes of speaking impromptu on a subject. I think he is filibuster material for sure! Notice the intentional eye contact. Great Job! Andrew. I think this is only the beginning of your public speaking opportunities. Oh, ya and did I mention he has only been speaking English for 5 months now! Andrew is now working on a persuasive speech entitled "Why I Need a Police Car Sleepy Bag Tent" special edition for the grandparents!