Michael Curry's Puppets

Just yesterday we went to the Oregon Historical Society Museum to see the puppets. There are great puppets. If you like puppets, I bet you would like that museum. There was a place where you could play with some of them. They were huge. Some of them were like backpacks that you would wear. There were handle bar breaks for bikes that would open eyes and mouths. He designed them for all sorts of puppet places. He designed the horses from the Olympics in Salt Lake City. He designed the puppets from The Lion King too. They had a design for the wall of china with a dragon head puppet. They had this huge bear for the Olympics in Salt Lake City. It was as bigger than a door. Michael Curry's puppets are here in Portland. They were all pretty cool puppets.

My First Slumber Party

As you can see from the picture, there were five kids that came. The two twins with curly hair are named Evelyn and Lily. The girl up close is Isabel and she lives three houses away. The girl next to her is Maretta and she's my best friend. Henry has the brown shirt with red sleeves and he's the brother the the twins. It was a great slumber party except for at night. Everybody kept talking when we were trying to go to sleep. We had hot dogs. We played in a really cool fort. We played legos. We wrote messages on paper and folded them up into airplanes and sent them to eachother. We had chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting and m&m's. We played with glo sticks.

Transforming a bike into a Family Van

This is our new family bike. It can hold four people. This bike takes up a lot less room then a tagalong and a bike trailer. We got this bike and sold the tagalong and bike trailer. It's called a Kona Ute cargo bike. I haven't seen one before except ours.

One night a whole bunch of squirrels opened our garage door. They all jumped on our new bike. They rode the bike to their home in a tree on Mt. Hood. But the squirrels wanted to go to Legoland. So the squirrels packed sandwiches and carrots for the big journey. They even had some cucumbers. So they rode their new stolen bike to Legoland. They rode on every single ride. They had a good time. Then they went back home. They went back to our house and put it back in our garage. (by Phelan Dopp)

The Little Vampire

If you found this book in the library, you would probably think it is about a scary little vampire, but it's not. It's actually about a vampire that wants to make friends. He wants to go to school not like a vampire would do. There are three stories in it. It is a graphic novel which is a comic book. I like this book because it is a book you can read over and over again without getting bored.

OMSI the Best

If you like science and machines, come visit OMSI. It is a great place. It's got robots, machines, computers that are taken apart so you can see what is inside, animals, dinosaur skeletons and it even has its own cafeteria.

They also have great classes for homeschool kids. Last year I went to Lego Robotics for a year. I learned to program a lego robot to go on a table and do these things like make an elevator go up, make a ball drop down and take something from one side of the table to the other. This year, I am taking a science class. Last week we dissected an own pellet. This week we separated out animals into groups like snakes in one pile, grasshoppers in another. We were supposed to learn what animals live with others.

I like the homeschool classes because they are only for homeschoolers. After all the classes, we get to play at OMSI which is the most fun.

The Weekly Pictures

Not Back to School Camping Trip

A couple of days ago we went on a camping trip with a whole bunch of other homeschoolers besides me. It is called the not back to school camping trip because it was the week that school started. We went to Oxbow Park which was next to the Sandy River in the woods.

On our trip we found a bear footprint on the beach, we saw some deer, we learned of some plants we could eat like oxalic that tastes like sour apples.

There was a field next to our campsite that had lots of different animal poops in it such as deer, bear, rabbit and bird.

One of the kids brought walkie talkies which was fun to play with in the woods. We also played capture the flag in one of the fields. We had lots of campfires and made sun prints, pet rocks and god's eyes.

There were 34 people that came. We are going to do it again next year.