The first two weeks have just flown by! Here's what you may have missed:
In American Girl Today we finished up McKenna and are moving on to Lea, Girl of the Year 2016, for week 3 and 4. Lea loves adventure and photography and will journey to Brazil, where her brother is studying the rain forest.
Last week, the American Girl Forever character was Felicity, a free-spirited girl who loved horses and was dealing with the tense times leading up to the Revolutionary War. This week will be Samantha Parkington, a girl growing up at the turn of the 20th century. Samantha fought for the rights of child laborers and her Aunt Cordelia for women's voting rights.
In Hogwarts, students visited Diagon Alley, where Mr. Ollivander provided them with wands. There were Rowan, mahogany, ebony and holly wood wands with one of the following cores: Phoenix feather, dragon heartstring, veela hair, thestral tail hair or unicorn hair. On their train journey, they learned about famous witches and wizards through chocolate frog cards. They finally made their way to the castle and have been sorted! Everyone is enjoying sending Owl Post to their friends and participating in potions class with other houses. Next week promises to be full of even more surprises!
In the land of Chewandswallow, we have been making apple pies and cheeseburger sliders, not to mention trying candy making with chocolate dipped marshmallows. We even made a s'more inspired marshmallow, dipped in chocolate and graham cracker crumbs.
Finally, in the American Girl Kitchen, we tried (and failed!) to make benne candy. The recipe we got from American Girl omitted butter, which we are sure was a major ingredient! We'll try that again at a later date. We also made Kirsten's apple tarts, Coney Island hot dogs like Rebecca would have eaten, and French toast (invented to use up leftover bread and popular during the rationing era of WWII).
We hope you are enjoying the Independence Day holiday and we'll see you Tuesday!
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