Update week of 4/8/2013

The month of April is flying by.  Last week we had Spring Break and we went to Conner Prairie Farm. It tied in so well with Rev to Rev. It had a Lenape Indian Village complete with a man who is a Lenape Indian who told us all about his people and which years they were forced to move to which states.  After reading "Only Their Names Remain" this had quite an impact on N.

 There was an 1836 Prairietown where we were able to visit a fur trading post, several houses, a quilt being spun on a loom, candles being made, dinner being cooked and this man turning pottery to get it ready fire on the huge outdoor kiln.

We went up in a Hot Air Balloon.  N. wasn't too thrilled with this, but I think he did enjoy it.  S. loved it.  It was very cold!

There is a re-enactment of Colonel Morgan's Raid on Dupont Indiana.  It is pretty high tech and really gave us a feel for how it would be to have Confederate Raiders come in to your town.  This tied in well with "Gabriel's Horses".  There was also a telegraph station set up and they had the telegraph hooked up to a computer so he could see what letters he was tapping out.  He had just finished reading about Samuel Morse so this was perfect.

This week it was back to Rev to Rev.  We finished up week 30.  He has almost all of his components for his Composer Study lapbook done.  Here he is with his Orchestra.

We finished reading the book "Shipwrecked".  He really enjoyed this book.  He commented several times about how interesting it was.  For his history project he made a Japaneses fan.  The decorations were supposed to be Cherry blossoms, but they didn't quite turn out looking that way.

He did a fantastic narration in science this week.  It was his longest yet and required very little editing from me.  He really has improved in his writing skills through the practice of written narration.

The other exciting thing this week is that we brought home a foster dog for N. to take care of.  She was hit by a car and wasn't healing very fast at the animal shelter.  He has done a great job taking over responsibility for her.