Everyone was back this week, healthy and ready to learn! The Upper Grammar kids compared two influential men, George Washington Carver and W.E.B Dubois. They had differing political views in relation to how blacks were treated in post-Civil War America. They also made a group collage of pictures showing what they learned this week. The Lower Grammar boys also discussed the life of George Washington Carver. They made a poster, with one side showing facts about his life and the other side showing the various products that he discovered could be made with peanuts, sweet potatoes and other agricultural products. After this, the Lower and Upper Grammar classes combined for a game of "Friendly Feud", with review questions from all of Unit 4. Finally, they played a guessing game where the kids had to guess when various items were invented, such as eyeglasses, pencils, batteries, Velcro, Popsicles, and Kool-aid. Downstairs, the younger kids were also having a great time. The Five in a Row boys read "The Duchess Bakes A Cake." It's a hilarious story of a Duchess who goes about baking a cake, without knowing at all what she is doing! She uses WAY too much yeast, and bakes a cake that rises and takes her high above the kingdom. The army and family come together to eat the cake and rescue the Duchess. Afterwards, they made a knight paper craft and then made their own "lovely, light, luscious, delectable cakes" (okay, cupcakes!) and shared them with all the other kids! The littlest group, Before Five in a Row, read "The Big Green Pocketbook." They filled Mrs. Nail's pocketbook up with toys. Then they colored and made their very own pocketbooks! It was a great day!
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