Our Week in Review

I am starting off this version of Our Week in Review by showing a partial stack of the books Little Man and I read together this week. I so often describe what the other children are reading, and I don't give time to Little Man's "reading". So this was his "reading" this week. :-)



He also listened to some of the Civil War reading his older brothers and I did. We used these books for our history reading this past week, and learned about the early life of Abraham Lincoln, the early battles of the Civil War, what it would have been like to have been a child during the Civil War, and more about the Underground Railroad.


It was a fascinating week! My husband and I are currently previewing the movies Gettysburg, and Gods and Generals to see if/how much we can show the children. So every night this past week after the children have gone to bed, we have hunkered down with our history book and the tv, pausing frequently to discuss things or to run into the other room and look something up on the computer. We feel we are getting such an excellent education too!



On Monday, a local museum was offering free admission in honor of President's Day, so we decided to ditch the books and take a field trip! We met up with some friends from co-op and had a great time!


At the museum we were able to see THE actual chair that Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot. Not a replica, the actual one. The children were fascinated by this. You can still see dark colored stains on it from his blood.


We were able to eat our lunch while listening to an 1860's era band play period music.


Little Man was feelin' the music!!



Back at home, we found time for playdough.....


....and a matching game with homemade food cards.


After Little Man and I read Blueberries for Sal (one of my all-time favorite children's books) we dropped real blueberries into a tin pail to see if they would make the sound "kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk". They sortof did!


My husband had a good first day at his new part-time job. It will be an interesting project because it's something he has never done before, but he doubts it will work into a full time job. It does not appear to be the work environment he is really hoping for, nor are they able to pay the compensation he needs. We will be grateful in the short term and continue praying for a permanent job that he loves.

I am feeling MUCH better since getting on antibiotics. We are all mostly healthy now. I am looking forward to putting all the sickness behind us!