Air Rockets: An Afternoon of Fun

Step One: Make Rockets

Step Two: Count Down

Step Three: Watch the Rocket Fly

Step Four: Find the Rocket

The rockets landed in the neighbors yards across the street, behind the house and next to us. The rockets were all launched just outside the back door.  All the rockets landed on the roof at least once.   After a while Lucy got tired of the rockets being launched and hid under the grill.

The boys are very proud of their rockets and are excited to make more.

Dobby

The boys are all about being Dobby, so nothing even comes close to matching.

Getting 3 Boys to Smile for a Camera

Not likely to happen at the same time.

They would perfer to be animals and other such things.

Happy 6th Birthday Micah

Mario Man is 6 years old. Micah is in love with Mario and Legos.  Now if we could combine these to things I don't think we would be able to get him off the ceiling. He loved to be able to celebrate his birthday with all of his family.  He loves all of his presents.  His joy is contagious. Happy 6th Birthday Micah, this will be a great year.

Pinewood Derby #2

The boys are in different Cub Scout Packs this year, so this is "Micah's Pinewood."  The boys had so much fun racing thier cars.  PopPop, David, has been going to Lion Cubs with Micah as his adult partner.  He helped Micah make his Mario Kart car and made a golden snitch car for himself.  Derek made a Horton car for Matthew and Bryce raced his dog bone. The Bernard's had fun racing and watching. 

A Rainy Sunday at Chuck E Cheese

On Sunday March 20, we were bored and needed to get out of the house. We took the boys to Chuck E Cheese for lunch.  It was a really fun day. The crowd started to really show up as we were finishing up.  The boys had a blast. They won enough tickets to come home with clay, some candy, and little frogs. We all also had our pictures drawn in the picture booth. Derek and I were pleasantly suprised at how well they turned out.

Kingdom Legos

 Our house is turning into knight battle ground.

The boys and I are going to spend the next few weeks studying the age of Knights and Castles. Many battles will be fought as they play out this high interest era of history.

To start the adventure, we read the book Adventures in the Middle Age. This helped the boys get an overview of the age of knights and castles.  They were also able to pull out 3 major themes that we will be learning about more in depth over the next few months.  Knights, castles and peasants are the big themes.  Both boys will read many books, create word webs and many art projects. Bryce is very excited about making costumes to hopefully wear to the Renaissance Festival in the fall.



All three boys, loved that we were able to read Defend the Castle. Then start building.  For three days, they worked hard and built the entire Lion Kingdom and the Dark Dragon Wizard kingdom.  Bryce added up all the pieces, 1749 legos were assembled by the boys. I put together the medieval village.  The plan is for the boys to use these legos to show what they are learning through out this adventure.

Building is hard work.

Lion Kingdom

The knights seem to be enjoying the jester show.

The Dragon Wizard army is ready to attack.

Medieval Village