Handwriting With Cool Wood Pieces!

We are using a handwriting curriculum called "Handwriting Without Tears" and get to learn letters with really cool blocks - big lines, little lines, big curves, little curves. . . We practice with the wood pieces and then on the big chalkboard. We each have a little chalkboard too.

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Today we practiced Capital F and Capital B. Capital B is a big line with two little curves. And Capital F is a big line with two little lines.

Here's Selah's Capital B:

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Here's Shepard's Capital F:

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Selah is also learning how to write her own name!

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- Selah & Shepard

Spiced Hermits

Selah: Home Economics is learning about doing things around the house like laundry and cooking. I like to do the dishes. Today we made Hermits (Recipe at The Goossen Kitchen.) Cracking eggs is messy. I did two of them.
Shepard: I like to lick the beaters and mix spices in flour. We shape dough like play-doh. And make them flat like pancake. Home Ec. does things in the kitchen. We learn about house chores and rules.

Selah: You should hold on the the bowl with one hand when you use the mixer. We lick the batter off of the beaters before we do the dishes. It tastes good.

Shepard: We bake the Hermits in the oven. We have to wait for them to cool. We put chocolate chips in these ones. They smelled good while they cook.

Find the recipe for our Spiced Hermits at The Goossen Kitchen.

Today I learned. . .

Shepard:

I want to say, "I spell S-h-e-p-a-r-d. Shepard Goossen. An 'S' looks like a snake. It swirls everywhere like snake. Today I learned how to put it on [my fingers on the pencil the right way]. I think that homeschool is fun. My favorite book is "Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature."


Today I learned about weather: What to do when there is snow. Wear mittens. We learned about things that happen during winter months - like Valentine's Day. We make card for people. We make some Valentine decorations. Mom says we wait a few months from now.

My favorite thing today was learning the letter "B."

- Shepard

Selah:

I learned about making a letter "B." It's a long line and two curves and we learned things that start with letter "B". . . like bed, and boxes, and butterflies, books, and baskets.

My favorite reading book today was "A Treasury of Mother Goose"

We read about two sticks in a straight line and a chicken :

"1,2,

Buckle my shoe.

3,4,

Knock at the door.

5,6,

Pick up sticks.

7,8,

Lay them straight.

9,10,

A big fat hen.

11,12,

Dig and delve.

13,14,

Maids a-courting.

15,16,

Maids in the kitchen.

17,18,

Maids a-waiting.

19,20,

My plate's empty.

My favorite thing about today was learning how to hold the pencil right.

-Selah

Picture Book Narration. . .

Bob The Builder

As Told by Shepard Goossen

Bob Builder makes cake for you. He likes to make cake. He made a sidewalk cake. They all help make a sidewalk cake. They work on a farm sometime.

One is sidewalk cake and there's another one too.

It's Bob Builder's birthday!

And he brings eggs and he makes another cake. And he goes back to the farm with the cake.

There are other ones too.

And he smiled.

The End.

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Moses
As Told by Selah Goossen

Once upon a time there was a mother. And there was a giant trying to kill baby boys. One mother didn't want her baby to get killed so she hid him.

Everyday she went to the pond. And one day princesses found the baby. And then she met a guy. And then there was a woman trying to help and there was the baby's sister. And the girl watched the baby that the mother was trying to hide. The princesses said, "What could be in that basket?" And they opened it and it was a baby!

The girl said, "Who would you like to have take care of him?"

"Her real mother!"

Then, the mother and the princesses take care of the baby everyday.

And then everyday they made food for the baby and they went swimming.

And it's over now.