Last summer, RJ and I bought these expensive books from a door to door salesperson with the intent of doing "mommy school" all summer. I started strong but had a hard time wrangling the kids in from playing outside with their friends. This year, I created a lesson plan utilizing these books along with "My First Encycopedia of History" book from Grandma and Grandpa Reeve. We have 15 minutes of spanish, 15 minutes of history and 1 hour of science. Our first field trip was to the flour mill in downtown Minneapolis.
We got to ride a freight elevator and learn about life in a factory.
This is the mighty Mississippi which use to power the mills.
The kids loved getting their hands in the water and manipulating the water flow to get the logs to the correct building.
Hunter built this arch and is pointing at the "keystone." I told him that the Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion.
On our way out, this girl stopped us to see if we wanted to learn how to make flour. We got to grind the wheat and sift it. In the end, there was about 1 teaspoon of white flour.
We met up with RJ and a squirrel infested park and ate a picnic lunch. It was lots of fun.
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