Birthday Field Trip

Today is my husbands birthday so we took a break.  We should have been cleaning, packing, unpacking and doing other productive things.  Instead we loaded up into the car and went to the "Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum."

A nice lady took our picture in front of the Spruce Goose, so you can see I was there too.

She was very nice and told us the tale of Charlie Brown, an American pilot who was helped by a German during the war.  The girls listened well, which was a relief for me, and Merry was fascinated by the patches and pins on the gal's vest.

We made sure to go look at the type of plane plane Brown was flying.

We then began exploring the many other displays. 

I did my best to get good photo opts.

  My favorites were definitely the lunar landing and simulated rocket launch. 

I feel the most patriotic when I hear of the brave men and women who were a part of the space race.  Probably because in school "Astronaut" was my #2 career choice (right behind being a mom.)  A little piece of me would love to see the world from the moon.

 Charry really liked the GPS maze.  It was something new I hadn't seen before

 and we learned about Geocaching.  I don't think we'll try the real thing any time soon but the mini maze experience was fun.

 Merry loved anything that was "hands on."

 I think she got a little tired of being told "don't touch."

Charry liked the "hands on stuff, too.   She tried not to worry about it being "educational."  No one wants to learn while on break.

Merry managed to grab a block, she was pretty proud of herself.

Jon spent most of the time showing and explaining just out of camera range.

Jon's favorite parts were the black bird and video game, he may be getting older but he hasn't grown up yet.

I think he had a good birthday.  Now back to packing, unpacking, cleaning, and Christmas Fun.

Fabulous Fifty Days of School

Last week (or so) we celebrated our 50th day of school!  This was a big deal for two reasons, first this is the first year I've kept track of how many days we did school.  And second it is our first major theme school day.  We have various theme days but always instead of school.  So for the fiftieth I had to balance school and fun.  Step one was to look the part.

I found a poodle printout which I had the girls cut out.  We then hot glued it to simple felt skirts.  The skirts were just slightly more than half circles no sewing involved, we kept them on with safety pins.

 Once the dogs were on the skirts they glued on cotton balls for fur, well actually I was out of cotton balls so they used torn batting but its close enough.

 While the glue dried we had some 50's themed worksheets from Teachers Pay Teachers

 We dreamed of life with 50... Merry picked pink poodles.

 Then we made records of life in the 50's.

 Charry was very focused and wanted to make sure she had her facts right.

 Then it was time to dress up fifties style, neck scarfs and pony tails.

 Charry managed to look extra grown up.

 Here are the complete sock-hop outfits minus the socks.

It was a fun day of learning and crafts now I have to start planning for 100 days.