Days 17-19 of 180

Day 17
7/2/11

Today we planned a field trip to visit the Cowpens, SC battlefield. This was the first time to visit for all of us, which is a shame since it is not far from our house. There was a whole days worth of events from colonial dress up, to a demonstration of the different guns and a shooting demonstration. There was talk of the reason for the Cowpens battlefield, which was the American Revolution. This is all wonderful since we are also celebrating the fourth of July which was brought about because of the American Revolution! Before we left for the days festivities the girls completed their reading comprehension, writing practice and rounding review. I was relieved they were able to fit this in since we got back waaaay past their bedtime! They also managed to squeeze in a movie from IMAX called Oceans. It was narrated by Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. Very captivating!


Day 18
7/4/11

Today we also took a small time in the morning to practice rounding, reading, and writing. Then we were off to the Scheile museum for their 4th of July activities. They were offering free science experiments for kids! They had several experiments with mixing dofferent items to show acids and bases and also mixing ingredients to make FLUBBER!! Love it! Then we were off to look at the cave exhibits, the native american, and all the animals of various spots in the world! LOVE the schiel museum. All these field trips and the girls wont know how to act tomorrow when we have a regular school day.lol when we got home we have a brief instance of storms. I used this time to turn off the TV and read to the girls more about the American Revolution out of a book we picked up at Cowpens battlefield called "If You lived at the time of the American Revolution" by Kay Moore.

Day 19

7/5/11

Today was our cleaning day so we got started with school around 11:30. We have these bags of letters the girls have been eager to play with so I asked them if they wanted to play a spelling game, AND THEY DID!! YAY  So I put up a barrier between them and had them to use the letters to spell various words! After lunch we practiced reading. Riley read me "My Home" by Joy Cowley and "pop up Sea" by Patrick Watson