This was two weeks squashed together since we had a family sick the first week.  This covered pages 49-68 in The American Story .  The topic...

For the Gospel Dessert, we made Lazarus's tomb out of brownies.  Easy peasy and very chocolatey - thank you, Klenda! I'm ...

The Crucifixion By John Greenleaf Whittier     S UNLIGHT upon Judæa’s hills!   And on the waves of Galilee; On Jordan’s s...

Somehow we got interested in pollen, probably because a number of us have allergies, and I thought it would be interesting to see under t...

 This was a tricky one, and we nearly made tapioca (it reminds me of eyes).  Fortunately, we went with the slightly less weird "mud ...

Brier: Good Friday Because, dear Christ, your tender, wounded arm       Bends back the brier that edges life's long way,   That...

Unfortunately, this makes my kids think of the Bon Jovi song "Living on a Prayer," probably because it goes: "Whooaaaaooooo...

These were pages 27-37 in The American Story , covering 1752-1776. Our active activity was "The Minutemen," a game we made up ...