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.