Each week brings a new state into the Burke casa, beginning (alphabetically) with Alabama. Since there are 52 weeks in a year, we'll do the 50 states, Washington DC...and probably Puerto Rico.We started with a little reading about the state and a worksheet about the state quarter. Each boy did a state facts worksheet, and Hayden wrote a poem to highlight what we learned ::
A - Alonso Alvarez de Pineda (first Western explorer)
L - Long leaf pine (state tree)
A - Activist (Rosa Parks)
B - Braille (Helen Keller)
A - Airmen (Tuskagee)
M - Mobile
A - Astronauts (space camp)
L - Long leaf pine (state tree)
A - Activist (Rosa Parks)
B - Braille (Helen Keller)
A - Airmen (Tuskagee)
M - Mobile
A - Astronauts (space camp)
Then we started our annual craft project - state pillows!I got this idea from my friend Nicole, who's boys like to create characters with whatever scaps of stuff they find lying about. Felt pillows are the easiest way I know of to teach the sewing basics, so we opted for that.
Who knows, myabe by summer my boys will be turning pillow scraps into imaginary creatures!
4 comments:
Is all of this your dry run for home school?!
that is pretty cool!
You should have at least one meal that is a popular dish from that state, or a paticular food that is grown in the state ex. Iowa corn, Lousiana gumbo:)
Yes...well...I don't relate food and Alabama! And mine won't eat gumbo. But, I am making Derby pie when we do Kentucky. And maybe baked Alaska.
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