We are enjoying our adventures through U.S. History! The past couple of weeks we finished up our in-depth study of the Revolutionary War. Ethan especially enjoyed learning about the spies during the war. We learned how to read secret codes and wrote our own message in invisible ink. We also continue to make our way through the states, learning some history and basic information about each one.

We made a bird feeder during science. We’ve hung it up but since our neighbor has had a bird feeder in his yard for a long time, I doubt the birds will want to try something new. Ethan read a book about the SandHill cranes which are everywhere in our neighborhood. We also made edible birds nests. Any excuse to use chocolate is good for me!

In language arts, we’ve been studying nouns, pronouns and verbs. He enjoyed coming up with a list of verbs. He’s started learning a new poem as well.

We are really enjoying reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book, Farmer Boy. The main character talked about putting popcorn into a glass of milk and we tried it. None of the milk overflowed:) Since then, he’s come up with other ideas from the book he wants to try out. I continue to search for books for Ethan to read on his own. He reads at a very advanced level but he’s not mature enough to read books at that level. This week we tried the old-fashioned Hardy Boys series (as a huge Nancy Drew fan I was excited!) and he loves them. This is good because there are plenty of them!

Lastly in my list of updates, since we’ve been talking about the Scottish Covenanter’s during our morning devotions, we decided to make Scottish shortbread this week. So easy to make and all the ingredients we had on hand. And yum!