Projects and fun

We had 2 great projects recently that I wanted to share.

First is the Thanksgiving menu planning project.  April's assignment was to plan a Thanksgiving menu and she had to keep the cost of the food for her whole family under $125 dollars.  So, we got out the store ads and she picked all the items we would need for dinner.  She cut them out and put it on a large piece of construction paper.  Then we added all the items up for the total, and if more than one item was needed she took that into account too.  For example, she had 3 bags of rolls, because she thought we'd go through 3 bags of rolls (she really likes rolls!). 

Her grand total was:  $96

Then she found out how much money was left over.  Thanksgiving dinner is expensive!  She couldn't believe that one whole dinner would cost as much as an American girl doll. (of course it's quite shocking to some that a doll would even cost that much, but we won't go into that)

A close up of some of the items she chose, and this is a pretty close guess to what we will be actually shopping for:


And finally, our second project, a preschool project:  To get him excited for his snowman boxes, the night before, we put a snowman puzzle together and drank hot chocolate with mini marshmallows in it. 



Home schooling one day at a time--as long as it takes

Desiree