Legos

By Joshua
A Lego is a colorful building block in different shapes and sizes.You can build them on top of each other to make a colorful creation. You can make a skyscraper or a zebra or even a colorful house! You can buy a lot of Lego's at plenty of stores. Even adults build some stuff with Lego's! I build quite a few things! Here is some pictures of stuff I built yesterday with Lego's

On the one with the skyscraper the boy (which is my younger brother) is a little over 3 1/2 feet and its 137 blocks high!

JACK

by Jeremiah

Jack built his own bunk bed once. It was the highest one in the house and it was 100 miles feet tall and 58 miles long. It didn't have sharp corners. It had circular corners. The house had a dead end sign in front of it but it was a circular neighborhood. Their house was planted in the middle of two other houses. They had 2 neighbors. He usually went to baseball sometimes. He only did it on Saturdays. He did every sport that is in the Olympics, except there's one he did that's not in the Olympics. Dodge ball. He also played hockey, basketball, swimming races, swimming on his own, car races. He does all sorts of stuff. He also does football and tag football.
Once he was sent to Mars then he got attacked by aliens but that worked out because the aliens were nice ones. The only ones that were nice on the planets. He got to go to Saturn and he got to go to Mercury without being burned. Then he thought he should go to the moon because it was safer. Once he ran into an asteroid. It broke his space ship. He had to put it back together. Then he saw a shooting star when he was going back home.
When he was going to land, instead of landing where NASA was he landed on the roof of a gas station. His spaceship weighed 100 pounds so he crushed the whole gas station and one of the long lines on his rocket ship sliced the convenience store in half. It sliced the Icee machines too.
Then he started up his rocket ship again. He made sure he landed in the right place. Then he never flew a rocket ship again.

The end.

Dog Years

By Joshua

Here's how you figure out how to convert human years to dog years. It's kind of like square roots but backwards. You multiply the human years by 7.

Example:

Let's say your dog is 2 human years & you want to see how many dog years so...

2 x 7 = 14

Your dog is 14 dog years.

My Favorite Pet

by Jeremiah

My favorite pet is the fish next to the kitchen.
Because they're so active.
I hope we can get a large one soon.
But we only get small ones!

Words

by Joshua

Words, word, words, lots of words.

Words are here, words are there, words are everywhere

But in the jungle there are hardly any words, same thing in the forest

So you should be glad that you speak words

Words are a big part of your life

(Repeat)

I am so happy, very happy that all of us speak words

No matter what language you still speak words

I like words, I love words, I hope you love words word words

What kind of boy we want to be

By Mom, Joshua and Jeremiah

Each school year I have asked the boys to compile a list of words that describe the kind of boys they would like to be. We write those things on the easel in our school room/dinning room and it serves as a reminder as we go about the school year. We use it as a positive reinforcement of behavior instead of having to be so negative all of the time. These are their lists for this school year.

Josh
Helpful
Very Kind
Very Smart
Gentle when needed
Healthy
Pro Video Gamer
Good

Jeremiah
Cool
Good
Helpful
Very Fast
Super Duper Gentle
Very Big
Super Duper Healthy
Pro Video Gamer
Super Duper Smart

Great Grandma June

By Josh

Here are some of my favorite things about my Great Grandma June:

Great Grandma June makes awesome pies! Once she auctioned 1 of her pies & it sold for over $100!
She's better at gaming than I am! (I am good at gaming).
She's very very nice.
She hugs me a lot.


By Jeremiah

She made me bacon, pie and chocolate gravy.
She gave me an Iron Man
She hugs me a lot.
She played video games with me.

We love you, Grandma June!

Joel's Adventures

by Jeremiah
(typed by Mom)

  Joel built a Ferris wheel in his backyard. His Mom told him to put it back away under his very very high bed. It was almost up to the ceiling and his nose could feel the bumps on the ceiling. When his baby sister was born she tried to scream in his ear when she was hungry or poopy or when she was wet. If she spit up she would usually put it on his face. That is why he built an elevator bed so he wouldn't get spit up on. It still got on his mattress and part of his blankets. Her Mom made a roller coaster for her bed so she could say goodnight from her own bed. The baby's bed was next to Joel's bed. The next day he tried to make an invention that would blow out ice cream where everybody could have ice cream (or whatever food they wanted). This is where the adventure comes in.
  He tried to make a roller coaster that would shoot way out of the galaxy into another one or into another one he created. The one he created was full of nature. His favorite food was chicken legs. In the nature galaxy he built a rocket ship that was orange all over with red polka dots. He went back to his home galaxy. When his Mom bought him a telescope for his birthday he still saw his own galaxy that he made.

The End.

School

By Josh

We have been doing well in school.

We do the "with Mom" stuff when Nathaniel's quiet or asleep.

We do the "on My own" stuff  when Nathaniel's fussy or crying.

The "on My own" list is always longer then the "with Mom" list.

My favorite part of school is (as you would have guessed) math. 

An Introduction

by Joshua

We will put some school stuff on this blog.                                                                                                   (The blog website is picklefamilyhomeschool.blogspot.com)
We hope you like the blog!