Did you know that Sept. 17th - Sept 23 is Constitution Week?  Our town celebrates in a great way.  All week they have volunteers that go into the schools dressed in period clothes and educate the students on the Constitution.  We had a wonderful lady visit our co-op and do a presentation.  We found out she was a homeschool mom and Christian.  On Saturday, they hold a big festival with games, music, food, campaigning, characters dressed in historic attire, replicas of some of the buildings in Washington, fireworks...and the list goes on and on... I am planning to volunteer at this event next year! 

Maybe I can dress as Betsy Ross!  We took our girls and two of their friends.  We also made it a mini birthday celebration for one of our daughters!  It was so much fun!  We have been to this several times before and it always such a wonderful patriotic experience.  We had hamburgers, hotdogs (which they only get on rare occasions) and apple pie!  Yummy!  Later that night we stopped by Sonic and got mini banana splits and sang "Happy Birthday" in the car!

I also met a very good contact for the DAR (to join DAR is on my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days) and the Children of the American Revolution.  I am very excited about that! The Children of the American Revolution has a wonderful program here in our area that I wasn't even aware of!  www.dar.org

The website is www.constitutionweekusa.com.  It has specific details for the event in AZ but it also has a great family lesson plan that you can download for free and some other really good resources. 

We are studying the presidents and the election over Sept. and Oct. in our co-op so this just fit in perfect with their learning.  We are working on a lapbook in co-op.  Some of the sites we are using are... www.whitehouse.gov , www.notebooklearning.com (a great free downloadable lap book on elections) and www.handsofachild.com .

 Here is another good site: http://www.usconstitution.net/constkidsK.html and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TXJRZ4CFc