Just as I knew it would be, Day 1 of rowing Roxaboxen was GREAT.  We had a grand time.  We learned where AZ is on the map and placed our story disc there.  We learned the four corner states.  We learned the State Bird, Flower and Flag for AZ.   We also made our folder for this book. 

The most fun was pretending in our own little Roxaboxen town.  The children love playing doll house and they had it all set up so we played our town was Roxaboxen -- in our case because everyone's last name was Roxaboxen.    In our town, we had an emergency.  Baby Roxaboxen was missing.  The Mayor had an immediate emergency on his hands.  He had to assign a search committee etc..  We had some great lessons along the way.  The mother that had lost Baby Roxaboxen had yet another good lesson in putting things where they belong.    She spent some time thinking about all the trouble she had caused all the citizens of the town all because she forgot where she put her baby. 

Our Mayor, Sam, didn't want to work at first.  He wanted to do all the telling but no working himself. 

The children came up with a list of rules for our town and talked about what makes a good mayor.  Our rules were:

no fighting

do not drive too fast

obey commandments

do not hit

do not say "my house is the best" and we talked about that is called pride.  Then Rebekah said "¹⁸ Pride goes before destruction,  And a haughty spirit before a fall.  " Proverbs 16:18

Of course, I, as the mother, was very pleased w/ this bible verse being brought about during our town meeting.   

They also decided that a mayor should:

be a good leader

hard worker

treat others the way he would want to be treated

lead by example.

We truly had a great time with this.