This week we made butter and ate it on Johnny cakes made by Taria.  We started work on machine collage books by studying Romare Bearden’s art work.  We are also writing books, Tools and Machines the Pioneers Used, using multimedia.  During our writing workshop, we are very involved in writing cartoons and cartoon books.  We finished reading Jesse Adams’ journal, How I Survived the Oregon Trail.  We started building a shoebox wagon train.  Look for it in the entrance hall.  We went to Stone Mountain and saw lots of antebellum homes with period furnishings.  In art with Ana we primed the chair we are going to paint for the auction.

Next week we’re going to keep working on these projects and we will read Dandelions, a book of Sabrina’s about two little girls traveling West in a covered wagon.

Don’t forget next Thursday we will spend the day at Max’s woods.

Joy and Mindy