Five In A Row does not have Columbus Day in their holiday supplement, so we found some things to do on our own today!

We began our day as usual with a lesson from Leading Little Ones To God.

Then, we decided to learn a little bit about Christopher Columbus and his journey.  We went to this website to learn the basics.  This was fun because DS could "flip" through the pages, and some of the pages had "clickable" pictures for further learning!

Then, we took the quiz at the end.  He got them all right!

Then, DS did a Columbus Day word find that we found here.

We made the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria out of apples, cheese, and cucumbers (crow's nest), then ate them for a snack!  This idea came from here.

We made these "sailor hats" out of newspaper, very easy!  Directions were found here.

For penmanship, I found a coloring sheet with an open scroll on it where DS wrote:

"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue."

We also did math today, although it didn't have anything to do with Columbus Day.  We did a couple of lessons from our Saxon K book.  We are starting to learn about the value of money, starting with pennies, so I set up a "store" in our living room with items marked up to 10 cents.  DS got to shop with his 10 pennies to see which combinations of items he could "buy" from the store.  Then, I had him order them in value from lowest to highest.  He had so much fun, I couldn't get him to stop "shopping"!

DS also did his practice reading out of Friends Old And New and I read a chapter to him at bedtime out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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