Last week, as I was looking over our new school books, the kids wanted to know what we were going to learn, so I read a little from our history text "The Story of The World" and gave them some examples of the kinds of activities that we were planning to do. The first chapter of the history book is about the first nomads. One of the suggested activities is to create a "hut" that could be easily built and torn down. This captured their imagination and they couldn't wait to get started. This morning I was talking to Grant about school and he brought up the hut thing again, wanting to know when we'd get to do that. I told him that there was nothing stopping him and to feel free to get started.
Grant and Julia got started right away. Fortunately, we still have a ton of sticks/logs left in the backyard, so they had a lot of building material.
Once the basic construction was done, Julia decided to decorate.
Grant borrowed a sheet to complete the look.
They spent most of the day building it together with just a little bit of arguing.Cool.
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Well, these 2 stayed busy didn't they? Any supervising from Quincy? I bet she spent the time reading.
again you are the coolest homeschool mom...you are going to kill us in the activity dept...sure you don't want to do the mummified chicken??
MUMMIFIED CHICKEN?! .... Very nice nomad hut julia and grant :) and julia, your decorating was great. I love your hut! and you guys look very proud of it :D
Mummified chicken... not going to happen. This only worked out because we happened to have some logs in the backyard and it didn't require much supervision, mine or Quincy's.
Great work yall! Colleen the kids look great!
Hi, Rachel!!
Rachel, when are you gonna get yourself a blog??? We all would love to know whats going on with you guys down in NC :D
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