Jacob Van Antwerp                                                                                                   9/25/2013


My Blog About the Fall and Making New Cookies 

First, I'm going to tell about the fall. Ahhh! I love the chilly fall air, but I always need to put on some clothes so I don't get cold! First, I need to put something on my chest and arms. For instance, my sweatshirt, my jacket with lots of pockets, and my flannel shirt. I love plaid! Next, I need to wear something on my legs. For instance, my favorite jeans, my cargo pants with big pockets to put things in, and my corduroys. I like the sound they make when I walk: zip, zip, zip, zip! He-he! I'd still not be ready yet; I still need to wear something on my feet and head. For instance, a baseball cap and my sneakers, a warming hat and my brown shoes, and my hiking boots and hat. I could play all day wearing any of them! I could go for a hayride with Dad and Sierra around Grand Rapids, go apple picking, and going for a hike! Yay! If it's a beautiful fall day where you are, you should dress warmly and go play outside too, like me! Every fall day would be a beautiful fall day! I'd have fun outside! You know, sometimes on crisp fall days, people would love racing leaves down a stream. Sometimes for leaf races you can use alike-looking leaves, and sometimes for leaf races, you can use different-looking leaves! When using alike-looking leaves, look REALLY closely at YOUR leaf. If you don't look at your leaf closely, you'd think your OPPONENT's leaf is YOURS; be careful! Now I'm gonna tell you about making shaped and colored cookies! The shapes and colors are: yellow moon, orange star, purple circle, red square, blue music note, pink flower, brown triangle, and green man. Stir the batter, roll the cookie batter with a rolling pin, pick out five cookies, put them in the oven, close the door, bake the cookies for 10 minutes, then open the door, take them out,--Be careful; they will be hot!--and eat them when they completely cool! Yay! Well, that's my blog!

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Jacob Van Antwerp                                                                                 9-19-13



 My Blog About Christmas and Colors in Holidays and Seasons

This is about my favorite thing for a blog. Christmas is my favorite holiday that starts on December 25, because the real colors are red and green! Also, I love the snow and Christmas trees and Santa Claus and Gingerbread cookies and Gingerbread houses and carols and reindeer at Santa's sliegh and presents! I love spring that starts on March 21 because I love flowers and trees and the birdies singing, the wormies squirming, and guess what? People can help the flowers grow! Plants in spring are green, yellow, red, pink, and purple! There are other colors and flowers like roses, petunias, violets, daisies, marigolds, cherry blossoms, sunflowers, and dandelions! Also orange and blue flowers! The holidays in spring are St. Patrick's Day, Easter,--Easter starts every first Sunday of April.-- and April Fools Day! Trees will grow new leaves! I love the spring! It'd rain in spring and the other seasons. After spring, it's summer. It gets really warm out, and guess what? We can play all day long! It'd start on June 21. It'd be warm and sunny, and the grass would be so high! You know why? Because people would mow the lawns. The times in summer are when we'd go swimming at the pool or the beach, playing outside, having summer anniversaries, light fireworks, and riding boats out to water! Guess what? On the 4th of July, other people light fireworks, and see their explosions, depending on the colors, and how loud they'd be when the explode! Guess what? When summer is over, it gets colder out, and the leaves fall off the trees! That's why they call it fall, which starts on September 21! And will you also look at all the leaves on the ground!? That means people can rake up all those dead leaves. Then they can rake them all into a big pile of leaves to jump in! BURST! go the leaves in the pile when we jump in! The leaves will be turning pretty colors, the air will be chilly, and we'll be wearing warm jackets in the cool weather! We can also wear warming hats to keep our heads nice and toasty all day playing outside in the leaves! Some big leaves could turn red and orange and gold, you name it! We'll love fall/autumn! The leaves will turn green, yellow, red, orange, and gold! The green leaves are very floppy in the wind, but the red, orange, and gold leaves are pretty stiff in the wind! The holidays in fall are Halloween and Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is a peaceful holiday! You know, in the winter it gets colder. But hey, it also snows! Woohh! It'd be wonderful winter days, and will you look at all the snow?! Do you think people can shovel snow shaping it, building and playing with the snow? I know it's cold. People can do lots of stuff in the winter like going sledding, building snowmen, having snowball fights, and building snow mazes and igloos! An igloo may be cold, but it's a comfortable place to rest! You can put your own stuff with you and bring them to your igloo, and sleeping equipment. Now you're ready to sleep in your igloo on a cold winter night! You can zoooooooooom and sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide down a hill by sledding down a hill, like a hill in Richmond Park, Richmond Hill. Sometimes you can call it [deep voice] Snow Hill! [normal voice] You really CAN sometimes call it Snow Hill. We can even make our own snow/ice forts, and we can stay "cool" in them when hanging out in them! We can even make ice sculptures of ourselves! The holidays in winter are Christmas, New Year's Day, and Valentine's Day! Valentine's Day is a lovely loving holiday! Guess what? After winter comes to spring. Yaaay! I love the spring! I love all the seasons because of the weather chilly, warm, hot, and cold, it's GREAT!