These posts are a little late, but here we go. In Sept we studied the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies. It was fun to look back through pictures of our vacation from last year to the east coast which you can look at by clicking on the vacation label to the right. The boys really like it when Emily takes time to play with them outside. So, here they made 3 legged stand to hold kettles on over a fire. A closer shot below shows how they tied it at the top.

Then, then moved on around to the other side of the garage and pretended they were clearing the fields and planting a garden.

They also pretended that they had to get water from the “river” – the ditch in front of our house.
In co-op Emily and her class worked on making a quilt out of beans.

Emily finished hers at home and then went on to make several other beans art things.

This is the finished product as displayed at our end of unit party.

This is the timeline that Josh made in class… it covers the entire first unit not just the colonial study that we did, but I’m still going to post it here even though it doesn’t really “fit.”

Here are the backs of all 3 flap books he made. These were started at co-op and then finished at home.

The front of each flap book looks like the one above except the others say Northern and Southern colonies. Below is the inside of the Northern Colonies flap book.

Here is a closer picture of his hunting drawing which is on the right side shown above.

I won’t show every little flap book inside, but I’ll show a few so you can have an idea what they are like. This is the orange one at the right center above…. the fishing industry of the Northern Colonies.

The first fold opens to this printout of a lobster followed by a paragraph Josh dictated to me about lobsters.

It opens again and shows 2 pictures of whales that he found as well as a drawing and labeled parts of a whale and information he dictated to me about whales.

It opens one more time to a full sheet of paper where he drew a picture of some fishermen.

Here he is working on some of the cuts and folds at co-op.

Josh and Nathan both made hex signs when we studied the Middle Colonies. Here Emily is helping Nathan with his hex sign.

This is the inside of the Middle Colonies flap book. Note Josh’s hex sign at the bottom center right.

The hex sign flap book opens to a description of hex signs and an example.

Then it opens again to show the following colors and what they mean.

and again to full page size with samples of hex sign symbols and what they mean.

This flap book also features Benjamin Franklin. Josh made his own version of Franklin’s almanac and called it Josh’s:

He included 3 of his favorite Benjamin Franklin maxims from our studies that week.

Each of the 3 colonial flap books included a map section with piece of paper with enough cuts to name each of the colonies in that region.

The map is revealed underneath when you lift up the flaps.

Nathan is always doing something funny while we are trying to read. I think he was pretending to sing here (LOL). I don’t let him talk or be loud while we are reading, but he can still be quite distracting with all of his hilarious and animated facial expressions.

Emily’s co-op class made a newspaper for one of their writing assignments. Here some of the girls are working on it… figuring out the layout of things.

The called their newspaper The White Pages Press after the “white pages” in our TOG manual which they read each week (LOL).

Here is the front:

Here is the back:

and here is Emily’s entry: