Bears Like Muffins Too!

Exciting news for Black Bear! He won first place in a muffin baking contest recently with Traditional Pumpkin Muffins with Raisins! Congratulations, Black Bear.


To make Black Bear's Traditional Pumpkin Muffins, you'll need:

Ingredients:1  cup all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour 
1/2 cup lightly packed brown sugar 
1 tbsp baking powder 
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon 
1/2 tsp nutmeg 
2 egg whites 
1/2 cup milk 
1 cup canned pumpkin 
1/4 cup oil 
1/2 tsp vanilla 
3/4 cup raisins 

Directions:
■Preheat oven to 400° 
■ 12-cup muffin tin, greased or paper-lined 

 1. In a bowl combine flours, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg; blend well. Make a well in the center. 
 2. In another bowl beat egg whites. Add milk, pumpkin, oil and vanilla; blend well. Add to the dry ingredients; stir just until moist. Add raisins. 
 3. Spoon batter into prepared muffin tin, filling three-quarters full. Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until browned. 


 Recipe taken from 500 Best Muffin Recipes by Esther Brody.

Say goodbye to Red Fox

That's right, Red Fox is returning to public school (well, if you can say 'returning', since technically, he only completed half a year of kindergarten in public school).

For now, Black Bear will be writing to you about his Homeschooling adventures.

Yep, Red Fox's days of enjoying crafty, nifty, story-themed, school projects in his PJ's are over (for now).

It's Summer Break!~~Poem

School's out!

It's time to play!

Have some fun 

on a summer day!

I've no time to Blog, 

No time to write,

I'm walking this log

And fishing this lake!

I can't stop to Tweet,

I'm running around
And moving my feet.

If you hear a Twitter,

Know it's not me,

I'm baking a fritter!
I'm going to cook!
I'm going to sculpt!
I'm having a look,

at a horse I might ride.

I'll be picking up litter,

At the river clean-up day.

So if you see me out,

Just say "Hey!"

But don't look for me here.

Wait till September.

At the next school year!

~~By Red Fox and Mom

The Odd Zoo

Everyone loves the zoo here at Homeschoop! So we added some new creatures in colorful varieties and with familiar sounding names.  See if you recognize any of them...

AND!  We have three surprise 'pets' at our zoo that are pretty cool.  You'll get a kick out of them.  

Happy Birthday Red Fox

For my birthday, I had a really cool birthday.  I had roller blading, scooter riding and everything.  All my friends were there.  We did lots of exciting stuff.  A science experiment...it was supposed to blow up but it didn't go so well, haha.  Kidding.  We had karaoke and lots of fun as you can tell from the looks on everyone's faces.

Click the words "Science Experiment" to learn how you can do it at home!

If you have anything to say about your fun birthday party, just type into the comments section!  Have fun!

~Red Fox