Once upon a time I was focused and in my good mom groove. I was even doing monthly learning projects with my kids.
July was awesome. In July we learned about the United States. We made American flag crafts. We learned the pledge of allegiance. We read tons of books about American history.
Marian set up the "USA Cafe" in the play room. She greeted every visitor with,
"WHAT would.you.like?"
She served fries, hamburgers, and lots and lots of desserts. God Bless America.
We learned about George Washington. We saw his statue in the Public Gardens. We hung out in front of our town's public library where this marker stands to let everyone know that General Washington "passed this place" on his way to free Boston from the British army. This picture could almost be captioned: "do no evil, hear no evil and see no evil" If only I could teach Lucy to cover her ears. Really I just think Marian was done posing for pictures.
July was awesome. In July we learned about the United States. We made American flag crafts. We learned the pledge of allegiance. We read tons of books about American history.
Marian set up the "USA Cafe" in the play room. She greeted every visitor with,
"WHAT would.you.like?"
She served fries, hamburgers, and lots and lots of desserts. God Bless America.
We learned about George Washington. We saw his statue in the Public Gardens. We hung out in front of our town's public library where this marker stands to let everyone know that General Washington "passed this place" on his way to free Boston from the British army. This picture could almost be captioned: "do no evil, hear no evil and see no evil" If only I could teach Lucy to cover her ears. Really I just think Marian was done posing for pictures.
We learned about Louisa May Alcott. (Little Women is perhaps my favorite book ever)
We went to her home and took a children's tour of the Orchard house. It was awesome.
Even though it was a tour meant for kids I couldn't have done it without my mom!
We listened to all songs Americana. Jack decided that "Coming to America" is the most amazing song ever. Being the non-Neil Diamond fan that I am (that is an understatement) I gave myself major mom kudos for tolerating Mr. Diamond's talk singing over and over AND OVER every day. The song actually grew on me and I'm not ashamed to admit I came up with some pretty killer choreography to it...but I am too ashamed to share that with you so you'll have to settle for Jack's.
But like a said...that was once upon a time. In August we learned that mom gets worn out after all that so we learned about spending the day at the __________ (insert beach, water park, lake, couch in front of PBS etc...)
August was awesome.
