Bowling Buddies

This week we spent part of our family day at the bowling alley.  All three girls loved bowling, though the little ones sometimes forgot to watch to see if they knocked down any pins.

Amid the sounds of the pins falling over we talked about cheering for each other, and what we can say when someone doesn't do as well as they had hoped. 

The place was lively because the high schoolers had walked over for their gym class.

During our studies we *finally* finished our pilgrim book.  It had moved on to cover King Phillip's War, so we watched youtube documentaries about that and talked about why the Wampanaog people would have felt betrayed by the pilgrim's descendents. 

Now we'll move into discussing Jamestown. I read some pretty horrible things about John Smith, so Pearl is already aware that the romantic story about Pocahonta is hogwash.

We're just about done the Kaya American Girl books.

We watched the Disney Hercules and talked about the differences between that version and the Greek myth.

We used this week to review many ideas: reviewing addition/subtraction facts, coins, Books of the Bible, and simple fractions.


Sapphire had a very high fever over the weekend, so she sucked up the tylenol and tv time.  It peaked at 104 degrees, but came down by Monday morning, thankfully.  

If you are enjoying Downton Abbey and haven't read the story that quotes someone dear to our hearts, you can view that here.