One day a week we have history day, when we spend the morning going through a chapter of our history book, doing coloring and map work, and doing activities that go along with the chapter. Last month we had a Chinese Day as we studied Genghis Khan and his grandson Kublai. The kids made Chinese lanterns.

We made Chinese chicken with peanut sauce. The first graders cut up all the cucumbers. Isaiah made the peanut sauce. Becca stir fried the chicken. We ate under our lanterns with chopsticks and drank raspberry leaf tea. Isaiah’s comment on the meal: “I thought it would just be fun to make, but it was fun to make and good to eat!”

Anna and Clara are enjoying 1st grade. They are memorizing Christina G Rosetti’s poem – The Caterpillar – so we did some face painting.