Best of Summer Part 1

Jacob has journal writing twice a week now. One of his topics he chose to write about was "Summer Bests" and I thought I would share his list.

Best food pomegranate seeds.
Best clothing Star Wars shirt.
Best song Dog Train.
Best movie Star Wars.
Best place home.
Best camp science camp.
Best gift ipod.
Best days Saturday and Sunday.
Best Neighbor Linda.
Best room my room.

Best of Summer Part 2

The staff at Smart Space take pictures during camp and then share with the parents on their website. Here are some highlights from Jacob's 4 weeks of summer art camp.

Assembling surrealist dream box.

Jacob said he won the dirtiest hands contest.

I am so happy the staff got a picture of the t-shirt print that Jacob made since he has now ruined his shirt.

Yoga with dirty art hands.

Jacob's outer space alien.

Who doesn't love duct tape.

One of Jacob's favorite projects this summer, tie-dye using natural dyes made from vegetables, cherries, flowers and tea.

Art work inspired by Georges Seurat and his technique of pointillism.

Before

During

After


Now I need to put all this artwork into another photo book as my house has piles of art.

My Big Second Grader

Second grade, here I come! So far Jacob has enjoyed his first 2 days of school. He says second grade is more fun than first. He knows almost everyone in his class. All the kids get a hug or handshake before leaving class for the day. What's not to like? I think it will be a good year:)

The Bread Man

For those of you that don't know, my husband has turned into the bread man. Very often on weekends bread is baking in the oven. Sometimes he has varying degrees of success but this week he made the perfect challah. Jacob even helped, he braided the bread. Next weeks assignment, raisin bread.

Birthday Party

We had a space themed birthday party for Jacob's 7th.

Making Origami rockets. Jacob led the group and did a great job.
Origami

Planets. We are all holding fruit representing the relative size of plants.


Stomp rockets.


The big kids liked it even more than the little ones.

The space shuttle cake.

Space shuttle cake.

Jacob received a Zhu Zhu pet and he was very excited.

Jacob received an Ant farm. We generally try and keep ants out of the house so we will see how this one works out.

Lego Star Wars Visual Dictionary. Cool book.

Look Who's Seven

Jacob enjoying his birthday presents. Wearing his Silly Bandz, Mickey watch and making origami.
Who doesn't love a Sundae, he couldn't finish it.

Happy Birthday Jacob!

Happy Birthday Michael and Jacob

The ice cream pie turned out great.

Origami paper.

Clock for the movie room.

Mickey Mouse watch.

Silly Bandz.

Playing with his ipod nano.

Learning how to play solitaire on the ipod nano.

One more party to go and a cake decorating assignment:)