Busy Day!!

Wow!! What a week! And yesterday was the busiest day we've had in a while. We had a co-op in the morning in which yours truly taught about colonial culture during the time of the American Revolutionary War. That was fun!! At least for me! I had the kids play the neatest game called Skin the Snake in which the kids form a line, holding hands between their legs. The last one in line lies down on the ground and the others have to back over him while not letting their hands go. As each one in line becomes the last one in line, he has to lie down on the ground. You end up with a line of kids lying down on the ground in a line while holding hands. What fun!! I divided them up into boys and girls. The boys were especially fun to watch because they were falling down on each other and sitting on each other!! I think much of it was intentional. The girls did much better. They also played Blind Man's Bluff and Hen, Hen, Fox (which is basically Duck, Duck, Goose with different animals). I also gave them a Revolutionary Vocabulary matching game in which they had to match colonial vocabulary words with their definitions. Here's an example of just a few of the words: slump, House of Necessity, limner, cooper, cobbler, peel, and syllabub (a foamy colonial drink). I don't know how much the kids took away from my teaching, but I learned a whole lot!!

After lunch, we went to our other co-op for art class and history presentations. I was so proud of my kids!! Matt 's project was about D-Day, and I was amazed by how much he had learned. He had black and white pictures against a black posterboard, which looked cool. And the title on the posterboard was made up of holes punched through it with a screwdriver so it looked like bullet holes. Tom talked about the U.S. pilots and planes in WWII. I didn't realize that women flew planes in WWII, but apparently they did, moving planes from one place to another. They were not allowed to fly combat, but if they were attacked, they were able to fire back. One woman actually had 3 kills, which was halfway to being an ace. Emily's project was about the Amazon Rainforest. She put it on green posterboard and stapled a fake vine around the outside which gave it a jungle look. Rachel has been studying geography this year, so she made a poster about the Arctic with pictures of her favorite Arctic animals on a black posterboard with twinkly stars all over it (representing the clear sky over the Arctic circle). She also had a picture of the northern lights and Robert Peary, who was believed to be the first guy to make it to the geographic north pole. All in all, it was a good experience for my kids, and we had a good time.

After we got home from the co-op, Rachel had 3 friends over for a birthday slumber party. Yaaaaayyy, hot dogs!! Not. But she wanted them, so we had them, and root beer float popsicles for dessert. There were girls running around everywhere, but all seemed to have a good time.
Not another birthday until next month, when my hubby has his!! I wonder if he'll want a slumber party?!? Naaaahhhh.

Blessings.