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This being Election Week, we again deviated from the FIAR booklist and used a HomeschoolShare unit, The Ballot Box Battle. Our go-alongs included Duck for President by Cronin and We the Kids by Catrow. We marked our map and timeline with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and of course the kids went with me to vote. (We were more careful marking our ballot this time!) Our chosen candidates ended up not winning, but it was still good to be a part of the process.In Scouts, the boys made pine cone bird feeders. That involves smearing a mix of peanut butter and shortening all over the pine cones (with a string already tied to them) and then rolling the whole thing in a bag of birdseed. Then you can hang this from a tree and let the birds go to town … unless, of course, it happens to rain before they find it. Oh well. It was still fun. (I do suggest, if you do this other than at home, that you take a bag or bowl to transport the feeders home in, as they leak birdseed like mad.)
Wednesday was a special treat for Ted. He’d earned his October BookIt! certificate, so Daddy took him out to lunch to claim his pizza prize.
We collected leaves outside and did more leaf rubbings, for part of science as we’re now reading about forests. We also started letting Teddy dictate his Nano … he’s already halfway to his goal of 2,000 words.
Jennifer came on Friday, and Saturday was a Lowe’s day, building trucks. Daddy took the kids. Several other Cub Scouts came too, that day.
