Book Report On Sarah Whitcher By: Sis Age: 8

~Sarah Whitcher~


I am writing a little book report about Sarah Whitcher. We read her book and it was great! (It's a true story too!) My three favorite parts of this book are the family's faith, the adventure in this story, and the fact that it is in my state.


First, I think that it is amazing how they could have faith even when they couldn't find their little girl after five days.

Second, I think it's neat that this story has all sorts of adventure in it. For example, when she found that little cave and found a bear inside it and thought that the bear was her own big dog, Ollie.

Third, the story was put in my state. I haven't read any books that are in my area before this.

I think that kids should read this book in school!

Book Report On Sarah Whitcher
By: Sis Age: 8

Easter By: Sis Age: 8

WOW! What a fun time we've had for our Easter celabration!
It's hard to believe that it's Spring either!
We still have so much snow!
The first Easter celabration we had was the one with our extended family!
It was the day before Easter . . .

The celebration was in the evening! It was at Grandma's house! We had lots of fun!
So in the evening we set off (Mom, Buddy, Aidan, and I) with a ham to bring that we got at Shaw's! When we got there Grandma was all ready for us! We just quickly moved the table and then everything was ready! Grandma got out the Easter Egg set and then we got out the eggs! We had 15 eggs. So we started making them! Once they were all made we got out the stickers. Then we put a little border around them!
We had lots of fun! Then our cousins came! All the girls told stories. Then we had a dinner of squash, ham, cucumbers, lemonade, little plastic Easter eggs filled with jelly beans and little Hershey Kisses, and best of all Mint Icecream and cake!
(It was Grandpa's B-day!) Happy Birthday Grandpa!
Then we played games and then we thought that it would be cool if we could watch a LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRE!
So we watched it and when we finished everybody got ready to go home!


The following day was Easter!
We got up and got little gifts for each of us!
Bubblegum crayons, candy dispensers, glow-worms and more . . .
For supper we got . . .

Artichokes, squash, ham, broccoli casserole, strawberries with cool whip and angel food-cake!

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!
By: Sis Age: 8

"Mommy, Can we Pop the Baby?"

Baby Boy made this suggestion, offering to put me out of my misery by popping my tummy like a big balloon.  Will I survive 3 more weeks of hugeness?

This week marked the grand completion of our bean and corn study. A few weeks ago, the kids covered some leaves with Vaseline (one on the top and one on the bottom) to see where the stomata (breathing holes) are located. Turns out that they are on the bottom. We also covered a leaf with foil, blocking the sun and preventing photosynthesis. You can see that it shriveled up and died.

It was so neat to see the eagerness with which the kids tackled these experiments. Each time grandparents would come for a visit, they'd run for their science journals and update them on their diagrams and notes.

Going to Michael's By: Sis Age: 8

Mom, Buddy, and I were going out on some errands!
The most exciting thing was that we had heard that once a year at Michael's they have a free family craft day!
We decided that we'd find out more about it!
We got a March Newsletter from Michael's and Mom put the stuff that looked most fun on the calender!
So we decided that we'd try it!
(Last year we found out about it and decided we'd go to that!)
So as I'm going to write that's the 1st most exciting thing!
(We have a 2nd) . . .
So we hopped into the car and drove off!
The first errand we had to do was go get out oil changed!
It was surprisingly quick so we decided we'd go to the mall!
We got a little something there for Grandma!
Then we were off to Michael's . . .

When we got there we immediately found Station 1.
There we got a special kind of clay!
(We bought the same product!)
This is how I made my wand . . .
I took a wooden stick and I took some white clay and covered the stick from 1 end!
(I left about 2" and I'll tell you why in just 1 sec.)
After I took some purple clay and put a little bit 1'' apart.
Then with the extra room I took a pipe cleaner and wrapped it around the stick into a heart shape! Then i simply just mixed purple and white clay together and I left it to dry for 3 days!
CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THAT CRAFT I MADE WAS?
ANSWER: A MAGIC WAND!
Station 2:

At the next station we made a card for a friend!
I decided to make mine for Grandma as a thank you for all of her help scraping our walls!
There we bought some crayons with paint inside them!
They don't make any mess!
If you want to use them you simply tap them on a piece of paper and then you can draw!
Station 3:

We made doorhangers here! There were special markers that we colored on paper with,
(the doorhangers) the paper had bumpy edges and a big hole so that we could hang them on the door!
I made 4 doorhangers for my fam. and Buddy made 3 for Grandpa's B-day!
Shh! Don't tell!!!!
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That's the best I can do writing about Michael's but then we had the 2nd best part . . .

A OREO FROSTY!

By: Sis Age: 8

The Creative Juices are Flowing...

Jack and the Beanstock...

Wow!!! We're on our last week of TOPS Green Thumbs Experiments. The bean plants have grown like crazy on our windowsill. The kids are keeping up with their daily diagrams and journal entries. Today we learned about how plants cells stretch and grow (using a rubber band with lines to illustrate). We had marked our plant stems 2weeks ago and discovered today that bean plants grow from the top while corn plants grow from the bottom. Is that cool or what?

Saturday Fun

Yesterday morning, the big kids and I took off to run some errands while Daddy and Baby Boy worked on the construction site (a.k.a. Home Sweet Home). Lately I've been searching for any excuse to escape the smell of wet paint, plaster dust and splintery plywood floors."

Sis and Buddy were delighted when I told them that I'd bring them to Michae's Craft Store's annual Crayola Craft day. We attended last year, and it was a blast. Once again, the kids went from station to station, experimenting with all of the latest and greatest art products and creating their own magical clay wands, painted cards and bedroom door hangers. I couldn't resist picking up a few fun, mess-free items for Baby Boy. (That's one great thing about homeschooling. You can rationalize some of these splurges as "school supply expenses." He's going to love the chunky, crayon-shaped paints and the bright papers with markers that look as though they are "popping" out of the page.

In case this snow hangs around, we will be armed and ready to occupy ourselves cheerfully with the treats I found. Stay tuned for pictures...

9th Anniversary (Megan)

Stephen and I just celebrated our 9th Wedding Anniversary. I had hoped to dig out our ancient wedding photos, scan them and put together a neat slide show, but there have been other projects stealing my attention. In the meantime, I wanted to include my favorite wedding photo and a picture of the gorgeous, 9 roses he surprised me with on our special day.

Grandma and Grandpa come! By: Sis Age: 8

Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle Ron came to our house March 2!
We had lots of fun!
Here's the story . . .
Dad and I were out on the driveway making sure all of the shoveling was done so that Grandma's and Grandpa's car would fit!
They came and they could not even believe how much snow we had gotten because they live in MA so they had less snow there!
(Also they have a little dog named Kirby!)
They came and when they got in they gave Mom and Dad beautiful flowers for there anniversary.
They were very pretty!
Then they gave Buddy some Moon-Sand that later I will tell you what it is!
Grandma has always had beautiful dolls!
She gave me 3 of them!
I love them!
I was very excited!
At this time Mama's Baby was napping but then just this moment he woke up and Mom got him!
Then Grandma gave him a little puppy which he named Dodger-Kirby!
(My other Grandma has a little dog named Dodger and then Kirby is my other Grandma's dog!)
He thought those would be good names!
(Grandpa had come to fix our plumbing so that we could have a shower!)
He started right away and when he told everybody he was going to turn the water off everybody HAD to go to the bathroom!
Then after that we were brave enough to try MOON-SAND!
As you will see in the pics. MOON-SAND=Big Mess!
We first kneaded it then shaped it and then we scraped off the extras and it appeared that Buddy had done the best job but then we had a test and we made a little ball and Buddy dropped his shape on it but it broke I tryed it mine didn't!
I wonder why?
We then realized we had made a mess and I said "Well by the end of this month all of the Moon Sand will be in the vaccumm!"
We cleaned up talked a while and then Grandma and I went down to the basement because she wanted to see my Webkinz room!
Then she showed me hers and when we went upstairs Buddy gave Grandma and Grandpa a letter!
We then had a delicious supper and chocolate cake with cookies for desert!
Then Grandpa said that he had fixed our plumbing and were we happy!
Then he cleaned up all his stuff and good-byes were said!
WE HAD LOTS OF FUN!
By: Sis Age: 8