history with brennan

We’ve been reading about the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, and Native Americans these first weeks of school. Every day, as I’d pull out the readers and books, Brennan would beg to start with History first. As I’d sit at the table reading page after page I’d look to see him enthralled — lost in his own thoughts about what it might have been way back then.

He was amazed at how much the little ones worked. Would they really let a boy my age use an ax? he’d ask. We talked about how and why the kids worked – hard and diligently. I think it motivated him.

Last Friday we made these teepees and wigwam {which was much more work — we had to stabilize the bottom with some reed type sticks from my garden} for our history project. Brennan and I looked through our books of teepees and art and decided to paint our teepees this way with colorful designs and stories. The sticks {poles} in the top are shoots from the tops of my massive oregano plant. Perfect, I think.

I love hands on learning and love it even more that Brennan has such an interest in history. For now, those teepees and wigwam art projects {found it in our My Father’s World Adventures Book}of ours sit on the top of my piano. I wonder what will be there next….off to pull out the history books and begin again today. Thankful for the love of reading and the love of history.