Yesterday turned out to be unseasonably cool, so we did school outside! It was really nice. We also went for a long bike ride in the park. We worked some more on the castle, but still haven't finished it. Maybe I'll work on it some more tonight...
Besides Ireland, we are also studying about Harriet Tubman, slavery, and the Underground Railroad. Today we came across a National Geographic Site (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html) that lets you pretend you are a slave who is thinking about running away. If you decide to run away, you may get caught! (We did) But, you can always go back and try again. We also looked at this site - http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.htmlIt is for second grade. We looked at their timeline, did their quiz, and a wordsearch. We've also been singing "Follow the Drinking Gourd" and watched the Reading Rainbow movie about the book which we borrowed from the library.
The best part of the day was when I tucked her in and she asked why we'd done "so little school" that day. :-)
cute idea... how did you decide what date you were going to start with, and what dates you are going to put up. (are you using a format, or a book, or just random dates.)
ReplyDeleteI have 4 boys 2nd, 4, 5, and 7th (but my oldest has already done the high school exit exam. I thought maybe this would be a project he would enjoy doing with the little ones)???