the education of henry

Bread & Pizza & LEGO

2025-11-23

This week we did all the usual school stuff, plus baking bread and making homemade pizza. I was able to see a bunch of my friends and get in a lot of time building LEGO.

Time for Bread Lab.

Mise en place

Mixing dough.

Working the dough.

Forming the loaves. I had to ditch the coat - it was too hot.

Looking good coming out of the pan...

Time for the real test...

Smells good! It tasted good too!

Mom got a pizza stone and peel, so we made pizza this week. Twice actually, because it was so good!

Getting the dough ready.

Into the oven...

Beautiful results!

Jonathan came over this week to work on some LEGO.

He built a ballista.

And a catapult.

I worked on some siege towers, and refined them through the week.

Anthony came over on Saturday to play Skywalker Saga.

We got a little rowdy (not pictured).

Sunday I met Jonathan, Nick, Kellan, and Annika at the park. It was a nice day for November.

All of us on the swings.

Moms: Caroline, Jill, and Jessica.

And Sunday night we started watching the new Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution, and I worked some more on my siege tower.

And here are Mom's puzzles for the week:

Mom won all four types of victories on King level.

Just one regular puzzle.

This week for reading, I started Lord of the Flies by William Golding. So far it is not my favorite book I've read for school. Dad and I finished listening to All Quiet on the Western Front which was one of the goriest books I have ever listened to or read - but I did like it. We also read a few more chapters of Discipline Is Destiny for philosophy class.

For viewing, we watched the documentary Trekkies, about Star Trek fans, and the fictional film Fanboys, about some crazy Star Wars fans. We also watched Anthony Bourdain in Paris and Andrew Zimmern in Spain for food class. For fun, we watched a History Hit documentary on the Battle of Shrewsbury with Michael Livingston and Dan Jones (who wrote the biography of Henry V that I just read), and for history class we started watching The American Revolution by Ken Burns, as mentioned already. It's really good, and we have already seen several places we went to on our trip two years ago. We also managed to get in a few episodes of Big Bang Theory and Battlestar Galactica, as well.

And that was my week - take care!