Week 23

This week we were focusing on the origins of New York and New Jersey. We also discussed Samuel
History:
Annsley:

Seth:

Together: I finally made the executive decision to ditch Colonial Living. I do not like the way it is written. Although the kids didn't complain about it, I found it rather dull. I have not found very many TOG books that I don't really enjoy, but this was one of them. :-)

Literature:

Bible:

Notebook pages: We added to our colonies book.

Project: We made Indian pudding with corn meal and molasses. We also played games that they would have played in the pre-colonial times. It was surprising how fun the games were and how much kids can do when they don't have toys! We played blind man's bluff, a game with marbles, a game where they take markers and put markings on them and throw them up in the air and count points. It was a fun project.

Week 22

OK, so I skipped posting for a couple of weeks. :-) We were doing our thing, I just didn't quite get around to blogging it.
History:
Annsley:

Seth:

Together:

Literature:

Bible:

Notebook pages: We added to our colonies book.

Project: This week I gave the kids the assignment to design an Indian village and to act out the Jamestown settlement with Playmobile figures. They spent HOURS on this. It was very fun. There are 10 little mini-segments, but I'll spare you and just put the first segment.

OK, I decided to do the second segment too, so you could actually see the village!