A horse is a mammal. They have pointed ears, manes, and long tails.

Horses have one toe on each foot. A horse's hoof is like its toenail.
  
The Spanish brought horses to Mexico. It had been a long time since horses had been there.

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Note from mom: This was a report written from reading three encyclopedia articles on horses. Amelia picked out the information she felt was important. The actual date of this writing is November 15, 2004.

The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War
by Emily Little

There was a wall around Troy. The wall was impossible to climb. The wall was to save the gold from Greeks.

The Greeks and Trojans fought a war. Nobody won.

The Greeks made a wooden horse. They got it in front of the wall. In the horse, were warriors.

The Trojans took the horse in Troy. At night the Greeks attacked.

A man named Homer wrote about the war.

Report by Amelia Holloway

My cat had kittens. She is a good mom. She had them yesterday. Three are gray and white and one is black and white.

She had five kittens before. We kept two of the five kittens. One is a boy and the other is a girl.The girl's name is Princess the boy's name is Meowser.

(A note from Amelia's Mom: The above was a writing assignment.)

Water is H20. The H is hydrogen, and the O is oxygen.

Some things live in the water. Water animals live in water. Plants live in water too.

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(From Amelia's mother: This was a science essay written from reading encyclopedia articles.)

I do not have any other classmates. It is not fun at recess.

I love math. I think math is the best subject. It's easy. Phonics is my other favorite subject. It is the easiest.

I love homeschool because I get to be with my mother. I don't have to get up early. I like that.

I went fishing with my father in his boat.  I caught the first fish.  It was smaller than my father's. My dad kept catching sticks, and then he finally caught a fish.

There was a pretty white bird that was there all day, till we got too close and scared it away. Then we went all the way around the fishing hole.

We were gone most of the day. We lost a whole lot of lures. I lost a lot of fish too.  My father said they might have been crappie, whatever that is.

Today was the first day of school, and I woke up right on time.

I did spelling and then math at home. Then we went to the museum. At the musem, I did everything that I had to do before lunch. After lunch, I did the rest of my work.

We went to the store across the street, and I got a pretty dolphin mobile. I'm getting anouther one on Friday.

I can't wait to start school on Monday. I think it will be fun homeschooling. I will study spelling, math, writing, geography, phonics, science, reading, and will get to read different books.

I like to read Mary Kate and Ashley Mysteries, Fright Time, Goosebumps, Fear Street, and books about animals.

I got a new bed. My old bed was too big. Now I have more room in my room. I have my own computer, and I play CD games.

I have 5 animals. Their names are Precious, Princess, Meowser, Flea Bite, and  Chili Dog. The first 4 are cats. Can you guess what the last one is?

I played with my kittens and their mother. Their mother is a very pretty cat. Our other cat is named Flea Bite. She might be related to Precious and her kittens.

I went to church on Sunday. We also rode our bikes, and I got a scrape.

On Friday afternoon, my mom and I rode our bikes to the dog pound. There were two dogs. They cried to be let out. My mom really liked one with fuzzy eybrows. She was black and tan. The other dog was all brown. I liked both dogs.

After we saw the dogs we rode home.

Saturday I got a new bed, but it's not put together yet.

 This looks like Flea Bite.