Charles' Story 1

I was very surprised to find out that Charles actually enjoys writing! He asks constantly if he can write in his book when it's not writing time.  What am I going to say?  No?! Absolutely not.  If he is willing to write, I'm all for it.  HOWEVER, he loves to write with dialog and I'm not really looking forward to typing that out, but I will of course. I'm going to type it as he wrote it.  Punctuation and all.

The night he got his puppy, Scout.

3-8-16

"Come on Jamie get in the car" said Dad.  While Dad and I were in the car I asked "Where are we going Dad?" "I can't tell you it's a suprise" said Dad.  The next few minutes were silent.  I looked out the window. When they got there I totally thought that we were going on a camping trip.  We started walking toward the huge cabin.  

Once we got in a tall strong man greeted Dad "You ready for this Craig?" Craig is my Dad's name.  But what was this?  "OK son we are going on a..." Bang!!  The door swung open and a man came in.  he said his name was Dan the other man's name is Nick.  Dad, Nick and Dan went to the car and pulled out big gun cases.  ARE WE GOING HUNTING!? "Yep we are" said Dan. Come on lets go get ready. So I went to the bathroom to get ready.  

Later I came outside with a camoflauge coat and pants.  A Blaze orange hat and a black gun case over my shoulder.  He was thirteen he was old enough to go hunting.  In a few minutes Nick Dad and Dan came out. "Are you ready to go" said Dad. "yep" I said Then lets go.  As they were walking to the hunting stand Jamie heard raccoons , deer, squirrills, and birds.  When they got to the hunting stand they set all their stuff down and rested for a little big.  Eventually Jamie got bored and asked "Can we go now?' "Lets go." said Dad  Once they got all set up Jamie looked out the stand and watched for a long time. He started to fall asleep because he was up early that day.  But just then his Dad wispered "Hey theres one." "Jamie, you can do this one." So Jamie Aimed but suddenly the deer heard Jamie cock the gun so the deer started to run. So Jamie just shot whithout even knowing where it would go or what it would hit.  BANG!! Jamie flew back but thankfully Dad was there to catch him.  He wasn't sure if he hit the deer or not but he couldn't see it.  So they went to look for it.  After looking a while Nick called out "Hey, I found him!" It was a huge ten point buck. Jamie was so exited he forgot to help load it into the truck.  

While they were driving Jamie couldn't stop talking about it.  They finally got home it felt like two hours but it was only five minutes.  When they got to the cabin Jamie wanted to get a picture for his mom.  So after they got the picture Jamie couldn't decide if he wanted to have a knife handle out of deer antler, lots of jerky, and a blanket out of deer fur or to have deer head hanging on the wall, still some jerky but not as much and to still have a blanket made out of deer fur.  After a long time of thinking he decided to have lots of jerky, a blanket and a knife handle out of antler.  He wanted to hunt a rabbit for dinner while he was waiting for Nick to get his knife handle done and his blanket and his jerky.  Nick was a skilled guy he did all the gutting and the making of the jerky.  

That night they had jerky for dinner and and rabbit stew.  Jamie lay awake that night thinking about what he would do tomorrow morning.  He could learn how to set traps.  Or learn how to clean a gun.  Over breakfast he tried to decide. They had eggs and bacon.  He finally decided on learn how to set traps.  So after breakfast he went with Dan to learn how to set traps.  Dan started to set traps Jamie watched intently.  Suddenly out of nowhere came a bear.  Dan said "Hurry get up the tree!" Jamie started to get up the tree.  When Jamie got up Dan was already half way up the tree. While Jamie was catching his breath the branch broke and Jamie fell.  When he hit the gbround he was to scared to move or to notice the sharp pain in his arm thankfully the bear didn't notice him.  BANG!!  Dad came running down the hill shooting in the air.  The bear ran and Dan was already down the tree helping Jamie up.  "Ow!  I think my arm is broken." said Jamie.  Lets go to the doctor.  Dan said "Nick will stay here and I will go with you and Jamie.

Holy Moly!  Granted he did not write that in the 15 minutes a day we do this class.  This was writing that he added to all day. It's interesting that each of the kids' writings show me what needs to be worked on.  A few spelling issues, punctuation, and we need to talk about first and second person.  I'm still impressed for a 10-year-old!

Charlotte Imagination

This time, I tried to direct her narration just slightly by interjecting exclamations of my own and asking things like, "And then what happened to the ......?" or "Why did it do that?" etc.  But I won't do that again because it seemed to stress her out more and she didn't want to cooperate with the process.

Just because she's adorable. Oh the trouble she can get into!

3-16-16

Last week, I didn't need clean up my room because there wasn't anything on the floor.  Things don't supposed to be on the floor.

This week, people are not dead! People went in caves-es.  People went in one cave, nobody else.  Just one guy went in the cave because there was a big, huge dinosaur out there.  The big huge dinosaur was gone in his gate and people were in the gate and the dinosaur ate the people again.  The dinosaur got eaten by a tiny, little dinosaur.  Him got eaten all up.  I proved the little one did it.  it's a boy dinosaur......  A little one........  Tiny......

Somebody went squishing with me all in the van.  Every kid wants in the van and all big people want in the van.  The whole van explodd!  Then we maked it again and it was okay.  Then there was a little, tiny dot on the street. Then people was off the street.  None cars were on the street eever (either).

We stirred the cookies and the chocolate.


LOL!  I'm not sure where the cookies part came from, but you never know with her.

Charlotte Imagination

WHERE does she come up with this stuff?!

This is from when she decided to completely cover herself in diaper rash cream.

3-15-16
This week I saw a lined-ess (no idea). That is a thing that you go and push really hard with your arms and legs and it's really big like a tunnel.  You go through it and knit.  That's a thing where you turn and roll like in the slide.  

Then this week Grandpa made up a trophy for me.  This week all this paper went by my trophy and Charles made up a different trophy because the trophy that my Grandpa made, Charles didn't like it so he made golden trophy. I winned the game of the motorcycle game.  I was a very good rider. I dropped my rag in my car.  Yeah, it's a motorcycle car.  Then people was running around in the race because they didn't have cars and they were going really slowly.

There was a tiger in my's life.  He was really bad.  He big me so hard.  

This week Norquah was gone.  She was a big momma.  A momma beaver! She did a backflip all by herself but the pups helped her.

Then this week one more girl was gone.  Then all the boys and girls were gone.  They went at Chaumers, the beaver's race.


Oh my wonderful, imaginative child!  Don't ever lose this amazing gift!

Charlotte's Imagination

All the kids are excited about our writing program, which is blowing me away.  Even Wesley who fights writing at every turn asks when we are going to have writing class.  But Charlotte still remains the silly comic and it's fun to listen where her mind goes.  Here is Episode 2.

Trying to get diaper rash cream out of her hair.  Pretty crazy!

"3-14-16
This day, Grandpa and me went crazy.  We was going crazy like.... (she did a silly movement with her head and hands and gibberish) Then he was laughin' and laughin' all by himself.  Then there was a funny name named Carmen.  I found her in a store.  I was walking on the road with Grandma last night and I found her.  

This week, Nookey was gone.  Then storm was coming with glasses in the storm. Then Carmen was gone again. Norah gone.  Then horses was gone in my ride.  They all goed to the horse park.  They was runnin' with people on them.  It was a horse park and a man park.  Then Carmen was comin'.  She was at our home.  She was going back to her house.  Nobody saw anything.  So this guy was going church and he didn't know him's wayout because it was dark.  All the lights were off and no one was in there.  Hims was in there.  Then the church was closed up.  Then he knowed his way out because the lights were on.  That's a commercial.  Commercials are really bad.

The glasses went out of the storm.  Then somebody went out there to get the glasses.  Orange glasses.  When they found them, he put them on.  he opened them and put them on like that.  Then the story was over.  Goodbye. Charlotte.

This is gonna be a long, long, long story.  This week all the people that was here was gone.  The goed back home.  They went home with the guns.  Guns are dangerous."


The commercials part cracked us all up!  I'm not even sure how she knows about commercials because we don't have cable.  We have Netflix and a Blu-ray player.  I'm not sure when she would see them.  LOL!  Too fun!

Charlotte's Imagination

Charlotte is a very imaginative three-year-old.  She adds quite a flair to our homeschool day.  The other kids, and me I must admit, can't wait to hear what she has dictated to me for writing class.  Here is her first story from March 8th, 2016.  It's  little gruesome at first, but laugh-out-loud funny.  It's best if you read it out loud in your normal adult voice....it makes it that much funnier.  I will include my own comments in parenthesis. Of course I tried to spell everything as phonetically as I could since I wrote exactly the words she told me.  I didn't add anything to it except the parenthesis.  Charlotte really likes to make up her own words so there is quite a bit of creativity.  Here goes!



3-8-16
"My story was the pirates gonna kill me in five orders.  The pirate was gonna kill me in half with a knife.  Then he tried cutting my head open wide.  Cut my neck and my arms and my tummy and my eyes and my feet and my nose and my butt.  And all that.  The end.

We like-ted Mommy.  The kids like-ted Mommy. Oh, we like her. (in a sing-song voice) Nothing else.

Then there was a big storm and huge.  And with glasses outside in the storm. Then there was a big storm just a little bit.  Then the truth was all over.  

Ken comed over to our house.  He's my best friend.

I was killed by "wybers".  It's a place where you live.

Do you have friends?

The boy who lived in Uctual Lively, cuz his name is Oakya. He was havin' a mom and a dad and a grandma and his kids.  He was gonna go then he lied-ed to Mommy.  He said, " I lied-ed about the truth that the Bible said."  He sent his Mommy at home.  His home is pink and purple.  It was five chair in the other room like ours.  He lied-ed to Mommy again.  That was when he got cutted by pirates.  He was pretending to be a mommy while hims mommy was a baby.  God loved him.  He's talkin' like a girl.  He wasn't asking everything to his mommy, he was asking somethin' to his brothers. Then he said, "Look!" to his brothers.  He was looking with 'nocklars (binoculars) at the pirates, cuz the pirates saw him.  He didn't have a knife. He lost his knife.  The wind blowd-ed his knife out of his hand."



LOL!  This is coming from an adorable, three-year-old mind.  My mom says that this story really does come full-circle ending with those violent pirates so it all makes sense.

Can't wait for the next installment!