Weekly Baking Project: Vanilla Butterball Cookies

The little pastry chefs helped make the dough, roll the dough into balls, match the cookies together and pipe the frosting.

Little Whistle Books

We recently found these Little Whistle books at the library. They are about a guinea pig who lives in a toy store and has adventures with toys who come to life at night.

Elephant and Piggie

We love all of the Elephant and Piggie books! They are so funny. The boys delight in having reading marathons and will take turns reading for the different characters. I love that they will read these to each other, by themselves and with me.

Airplanes

Minecraft Airplane Created by Sage

Interior of Airplane

 Sage's love of airplanes and the recent trip to the Seafair led us to learn more about airplanes. Here are some of the things we did this month.

- Built and rebuilt the lego airplane
- Played with die cast airplanes
- Sage created a Minecraft airplane
- Read books about aircraft
- Watched a Bill Nye the Science Guy episode on flight
- Made paper airplanes
- Watched videos of the Blue Angels
- Watched videos of airplanes being built

Hive Climbing Gym

Country of the Month- England

Strawberry English Scones

UK Flag by Dagan

Great Fire of London by Sage

London Underground Train and Station by Sage

Made English Nectarine Cobbler

Our London Bulletin Board

This month we studied London. Here are some of the things we did.

- Watched videos of the Queen's changing of the guards

- Mom played Beatles piano music

- Listened to "God Save the Queen"

- Watched video of a tour of Buckingham Palace

- Watched video on the history of the London Underground

- Baked strawberry English scones

- Created Minecraft Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, London Underground, and Great Fire of London.

- Read books on London

- Sang "London Bridge"

- Read magazine article and learned facts about Buckingham Palace

- Studied the Queen of England

Spanish Banks Beach Picnic

Israa organized a beach picnic to celebrate the beautiful summer weather. The boys had fun collecting large sticks, digging in the sand and eating lots of jello.  It was so nice to relax, watch the sunset and chat with friends.

Weekly Baking Project: Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cookies

Seattle Seafair and Museum of Flight

Seattle Seafair

 

 Museum of Flight with Uncle Matt

 Blue Angels

  It was our first time driving across the border to Seattle. We stayed with Uncle Kevin, Aunt Jen, Cindy and Baby Ellie. We went to the Seafair and saw the Blue Angels perform acrobatic plane maneuvers. We watched the hydro boat races, ate ice cream and bounced in the bouncy house and obstacle course. The next day we visited the Museum of Flight and got to watch the Blue Angels take off and land right outside. We got to see many planes, helicopters and military vehicles up close both inside and outside the museum.