Vacation Prep

Aaron has become Clark Griswold and dreamed up an epic summer road trip for our family. I have a million reservations about this, but am settling into my role of helping everyone maintain realistic expectations. There is also a lot of anxiety in our home about viditing new, unknown places. The more I involve the children in trip prep, the less nervous they are. So, I’m squeezing every learning opportunity out of this, and being the mother that I am, every trip to the library includes a haul of books about one of our travel stops. 

Corbin has become particularly excited about the book we are creating and has been writing “reports” to add to each “chapter”.  

Here is our Statue of Liberty Chapter: 

Corbin-

Reese-


Everyone contributed 


I offered $0.25 (to go toward a special treat just for them at Levain bakery in Manhattan) for every line of this poem that the children memorize. They gave it a 2 minute attempt to memorize the whole thing then gave up, but Corbin held strong and came back to recite it about 30 minutes later. Now the other kids are giving it a try. 


Soren-

Soren wrote this adorable report after we read a couple books during naptime this week. 


“There was a war against these flags. Then Bartholdi scetched a picture of the Statue of Liberty. Since they fighted so much, he wanted to make this place Liberty. They started to build the Statue of Liberty in 1871. [next page] They started with the torch. In 1876 they were trying to get enough money for the torch. Soon they had enough money then they did the same thing they had, then they finished the Statue of Liberty. But it was so heavy that they broke it.” 

More to come! This week, they added “chapters” aboutbthe Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Bldg, Flat Iron Building, Twin Towers, Chrysler Building, and Niagara Falls, so far, to our family research book/binder. I love every page.