Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Awesome American History: 1885-1892

 This covered Skyscrapers, the Johnstown Flood, and Ellis Island, pages 163-172 in The American Story by Jennifer Armstrong.

We started out making construction paper skyscrapers as our art activity.  Some people got fancy and made cars and garages.  The kids got really into it!

Then , for the active activity, we set up all out buildings as a "city"in an underbed box, and had a flood!










For our snack, each family brought in a food from our immigrant ancestors.  It was so delicious, I forgot to take pictures, but our Irish family brought soda bread, our Swiss, German, Mexican, Cape Viridian family brought Mexican breads, and we made German Apple Fritters.

We are Prussian, Scotch-Irish, (and Scottish, and Irish), Bohemian, English, and French with some Scandinavian and Italian if you go back far enough, so we had options.  I opted for the apple fritters I was going to make anyway!

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