Skye celebrated her tenth birthday with an Amarican Girl themed party.
The Cake was from the Molly book, and Mom decorated it.
The Ice Cream “Bombs” were from Samantha
Tea party from Felicity!
The food was followed by play, Me (Ivy) and Flora set up the stuff and the girls all picked things to go with their dolls.
The dolls and the clothing.
And last but not least was a pinata for Josephina. They then opened presents and played until five in the evening!
Hello everyone! Our current study has moved into WW2 so we decided to visit a local POW camp in Hearn. We started at the mock guards tower,
Then we moved into a mock barracks which they had set up to look like the original
A map of what the camp originally looked like
The soldier is wearing the coat of one of the men who actually worked there, and Iris is wearing a real helmet.
Then we got to the the excting part, the escape room, our operative was to stop a German escape before it happened.
We were the first group of kids to succeed, and the second to ever finish.
Then we found the old cars, ones that had been used for work on the camp, the tour lady said we could climb on them, and the boys had a blast!
Garrison “repairs the engines.”
Ace finds a “bomb” (an old car part)
Lance and Alexa recreated the camp in rocks while the boys played.
Until next time!
-Ivy
Hello agin everyone! This is Ivy. Our most recent school study has been on the roaring 20’s and the great depression. First we tried “pole sitting”
Baseball with Babe Ruth
And conssecions! popcorn, peanuts!
Then the stockmarket crashed and we moved on into bread lines
and soup kitchens
Followed by Hobo life. We went and visited the local train trestle and had a lot of fun in the creek
Then we had a Hobo cookout with cans of beans over the fire
Finally we got to visit an abandoned boxcar and “ride the rails”
Until next time!
-Ivy
Hi everyone! This is Ivy. Mom was short on time but I have lots of time so I may be doing more posts soon. We have been studying ww1 so mom asked one of the neighbors if we could dig some trenches on their dirt mound. They said yes and we set to work. The older kids (cousins included) did most of the digging while the younger ones anticipated the completion and ran around. While we weren’t digging we made props, I made gas masks for the little boys while Flora and Mom made some grenades. The others made some smoke bombs. The three boys got army uniforms for christmas so they wore those. The other kid scraped together costumes from our dress-up cloths boxes. We had black cats left over from New Years and used those as well as the smoke bombs.The cousins and some friends joined us and we all marched out to the dirt mound to make war.
Trench foot
Skye was in charge of the messenger dogs.
The rat hunters, Kalmar……
And Betsy!
The Yankees!
With gas masks
Man the machine guns!!
A French soldier
The Germans
With gas masks
Germans are cheaters!
A Christmas truce
Victory!
The casualties
Gas victim
Cutest sniper!
Hello subscribers – if I have any left! I have not posted much in the last few years because the platform I used had some issues that made it extrememly time consuming to post. At our Thanksgiving family gathering a brother-in-law put some time in troubleshooting and we may have a fix, so I’m testing it out.
A brief summary of our month:
History unit on Inventors – Wright Flyers
Digging sweet potatoes from the garden.
Getting boxes ready for Operation Christmas Child (OCC).
Church packing party!
Lance lands a temp job with Samaritan’s Purse at the OCC processing center in Dallas. He’ll be gone for a month, working alongside his Grandfather.
Enjoying a build and grow workship with cousins!
‘Twin’ cousins celebrate their 14th birthday with a day of crafting and games.
Visiting the Museum of the American G.I. as a preview for our Winter semester on the World Wars.
Presenting Inventor reports at the “World’s Fair” – Wright brothers.
Demonstrating the Tesla Coil
Eden’s Fall concert.
Jones Thanksgiving gathering!!
