Sunday, December 19, 2010

The US Government

This week we made pomander balls, Even Daniel liked making them and it was very cute how Maxwell made the orange into a little man with faces and hair of spices.  




We also talked about the government and  made government mobiles with the white house, congress, and supreme court.



For our field trip, Dustin (daddy) became a US citizen!  Could there be a better field trip for learning about the US?


We are overly busy, and I think that this post will be it until after the holidays, so...
MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Back in the groove of things

Our vacation lasted a little longer then planned, but we are back and Maxwell is asking "when are we going to begin our day?" When I want to start our schedule in the morning...since I don't always do it right after breakfast....I say "It's time to begin our day" so in other words, Maxwell was really asking "when are you going to start school?"

This week we talked about George Washington and how he started our government.  Don't I have the cutest Washington wigged boys ever?



We learned how they needed to make a lot of new laws for the new country, so we decided to make our own laws.  These are Maxwell's laws:

-You can't steal (after Maxwell said this I said..."this is for fun you can make up silly fun laws if you want"....these are the laws he then made....)
-You have to jump in the ocean
-You have to give presents that are yours to somebody else
-boys and girls both have to wear dresses when they are small but dads can't wear dresses (I think this one originated when we talked about what the colonists wore, and I told him that little babies all wore dresses...)
-You must clean the kitchen every day
-There must be lights on the outside of the house every night so the thieves don't come in that are on the bad team
-you shouldn't take apart things that are not yours
-you have to brush your teeth with your finger every night
-you must love people
-if there are poor people you must give them money

This month we are talking about service in our devotionals and we all washed each other's feet like Jesus did.  It was cute.

Well, we are not completely in the swing of things again, but we are on our way.  And we weren't completely brain dead for our vacation either.  We went to a few science museums and zoos.  Nothing like hands on learning.  Right?