Today I’m going to help you make a grilled cheese sandwich. You will need bread, and cheese, and the sandwich press, and a knife. Plug in the sandwich press so it warms up. Cut a thin piece of cheese off the big block of cheese. Then take a slice of bread and put the slice of cheese on the bread. Then take another slice of bread and put it on the cheese. That’s called a sandwich. You put the sandwich in the sandwich press and close the press and open it up again when the green light turns on. Now you take it out and it’s a grilled cheese sandwich. You can have ketchup with it, if you want.
Week 6 – Instructions (Cooking Rice)
You will need a rice cooker and two rice cooker cups of uncooked rice grains.
1. Put the two cups of rice in the pot that goes in the rice cooker.
2. Cover the rice with water, up to the 3 line.
3. Stir the rice with your hands to get all the dirt off.
4. When the water gets murky, dump out the water slowly so you don’t lose any grains.
5. Repeat steps 2-4 until the water stays clear.
6. Fill the pot with water, a little bit past the 2 line.
7. Put the pot in the rice cooker and close the lid. Make sure the lid is locked.
8. Plug it in and press the switch to cook the rice.
9. Wait until the switch goes back to “keep warm” and then your rice is done.
Week 4 – Recollecting the Military Museum
I went to the Military Museum and it was fun. We saw statues of army men. We saw big green and beige tanks that were real. We saw airplanes with their wings folded up so they wouldn’t hit each other. There were displays of army men, they were big with grass on them with pretend explosions and lots of army men on them. In between the airplanes there were statues of army men. I like the Military Museum and I want to go back one day.
Week 4 – Arriving
We drove up to the parking lot of Johnston Canyon, but there were no parking spaces left, so Daddy parked on the side of the road. There were lots of people coming and going on the path. The mountain air smelled fresh. I could see the tree line on the mountain in front of me. I tried out my hiking shoes on a slippery log – I didn’t fall.
Week 3 – Dialog
“I wish I had a million dollars,” said Gabe.
And Grandpa said, “Why?”
“To buy that cool car!”
“Why do you think it looks so cool?”
Gabe answered, “Because there are flames on the side and spikes on the top.”
And Grandpa said, “I like that car, too. I wish I had a million dollars, too!”
Week 2 – Family Portrait
Our family loves to play with Lego. We make huge spaceships and build our own Lego guys. Abigail and Emily love to wreck our creations. Sophia likes to eat the Lego. Mommy and Daddy like to clean it up. Lego is fun for the whole family!
Week 1 – Pat the Rat
Once upon a time there was a fat rat. The fat rat’s name was Pat. Pat was a nice rat. Pat was so fat because he ate so many marshmallows. He couldn’t stop eating them because he liked them so much. He got so fat that his tummy popped.
Week 36 – I’m An Animal
I am an elephant. I like to have a big trunk to drink water and wrap up hay so I can eat it. I walk slowly and have big huge ears. I go “ooouuuunng” and when I’m thirsty I suck water up my trunk. I have a big family of other elephants and we hold on to each others tails. Our tails are short. I am grey but can change colors by putting stuff from the ground onto me. And I am very heavy and walk slow. I don’t eat meat, and when it’s hot outside I drink cold water and go in the shade.
Week 35 – How Does This Work?
Playing Osmo Newton is easy.
You start by taking it out of the box. You put the iPad in and you put the red thing on the top of the iPad. There is a picture on the side of the box that shows you how to do it. Then you put paper in front of the Osmo and then you turn on the iPad. You press the button on the bottom of the iPad to turn it on. Then you go to Osmo Newton. You switch it with your finger and press the button thing that says Osmo Newton at the top.
Then when the balls fall from the top of the iPad and then you try to draw and get it into the target. You draw on the paper to get the balls into the target. Then if you are really good at it you get to move on to another one and it gets harder and harder and harder.
That’s how you play it.
Week 36 – Budding Playwright
BETH: (looking around) Where are we?
PATRICK: I think we’re at the bottom of an ocean!
BETH: What are we doing here? I thought we were supposed to go to Ancient Rome.
PATRICK: (tap Beth on the shoulder, then point to a black shape in the water) Beth, I think you should look over there.
BETH: I remember that shape from dinosaur movies… it’s a Lysaedon!
PATRICK: Run, Beth! I mean, swim, Beth!
(Patrick dodges behind some coral)
(Beth goes into a crevice)
(Lysaedon swims by)
PATRICK: Beth! Where are you?
BETH: (looking confused) I’m right here.
PATRICK: What’s that humming noise. Where’s the Lysaedon?
BETH: I don’t know about the Lysaedon, but that humming noise is the Imagination Station!
(Beth and Patrick get into the Imagination Station)
(They are back in their regular time where it is raining)
PATRICK: Mr. Whitaker, why did we go to a dinosaur ocean? I thought we were going to Ancient Rome!
MR. WHITAKER: A lighting bolt struck the generator that controls the Imagination Station. It must have caused something to go wrong.
BETH: (sighing) Oh! So that’s what happened. Can we still go to Rome?