War and Witches

Yesterday was a homeschool day with just my son and I.  No daycare.  No grandbabies.  We slept in, a little later than intended, and got started with our much awaited American Revolution unit.  This son, son #2, is all about battles, so in learning American History, wars are high on his list of interesting things to learn about.  We watched a video called Great Americans:  The Revolutionary War and heard some cool things about a few people we had heard of already and then several people that played a lesser known, although no less important part in the war.  We then worked on Vocabulary Soldiers for our bulletin board while we watched 10 Things I Didn't Know About:  The American Revolution.  We really enjoyed that and are now going to record that series so we can watch some more of those shows about different historical things.

After our videos we put together our bulletin board and made a Cause and Effect domino cover for our unit that we will be adding to.   I think they turned out very well!

For lunch we made some stir fried rice and chicken.  Dakota liked making it, but not eating it.  After lunch we decorated for Halloween outside, putting lights in our milk jug ghosts that Dakota made last week and putting up the last of our outdoor things.  It was a crisp, cool beautiful day!  Trying to get him back on track proved to be very tough, however, and the last thing I got him to do was read a few chapters of his novella from the Copernicus series.  Later that evening he got to go play with the neighborhood kids for awhile and gave him the chance to burn off some of that endless energy he always seems to have and by 7:30 he was ready to come in and relax.  He decided  to watch a new series premier on TV called Supergirl and decided he loved it and set up a series recording.  This is his first regular TV series he has shown interest in that wasn't Disney Channel or Nick or some kids' show.  Ah, my boy is growing up.