Awesome American History: 1925-1927

Awesome History is back with semester three out of three for American History!  This week we did the Iditerod, the Scopes Trial, and Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight: pages 235-245 in The American Story by Jennifer Armstrong.


We had a great active activity planned: we were going to do a dog sled activity using Shelli's very large, very affable dog and a wagon.  Unfortunately, it rained! 

The art activity, although more time intensive than we had planned, was a huge hit!

They made husky faces from a template and a mosaic of torn paper.  This was one of those projects that hits the sweet spot of things kids like to do that look fabulous, even with little kids.

 I don't think I've mentioned it it, but quite often, when we have an intensive project like this, we do half the kids at a time.  Most often, the boys have run off to talk Legos and Nerf weapons, and we start with the girls.  Then the girls go play while the boys work on it.



Leena decided to cut out her template in fine detail, and then spray painted it in layers.

The result was very cool, and the process was mesmerizing to the younger girls.

 Everything worked out perfectly:  the art project was long enough that no one really missed having an active activity.

The snack was hot pretzel "doggie bones."

I think if I do it again, and don't have a dog available, I would do paper airplanes as the active activity.  But as it happened, it was a great start to the semester!