Week 7 started with President's Day. Instead of taking a day off of school, I went with my sister to a Junior Rangers camp about what life was like for our founding Presidents. We made white-powdered wigs (but really it was just white yarn), log cabins, and quill pens, and played games that the presidents would have played as kids. I earned my fox badge by attending the camp. I took the next day - Tuesday - off of school.
My mom and I have been reading a lot of books about our Founding Fathers - George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.
We discovered that you can go on a virtual tour of George Washington's home - Mt. Vernon. You can see a 360 degree view of his estate and each room in the house. There are tidbits of information and videos with tour guides. I highly recommend you take a minute to visit this site.
George Washington's Mt. Vernon Virtual Tour
Later in the week I attended my homeschool nature club. We focused on chemistry and made slime, putty, and elephant toothpaste.
My mom and I finished reading Sign of the Beaver, and now I'm working on creating a stop motion animated movie preview of the book. I'll share that soon - I hope.
I also continued to work on fractions and grammar, and I watched the second to the last John Adams episode on HBO.
Until next week -
Ollie and Mom - out
2 comments:
Sounds like so much fun! I'm taking history right now too and I'm learning so much from you and your posts! Looks like a great week. Love you!
p.s. I love your signing out phrases, their awesome.
Mallory-out ;)
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