After Big Woods , we took two weeks off of school for our off week and a bonus spring break. It was much needed. I was originally planning to work on mapping the U.S.A by heart on our off week, and planned to map the Northern Border of the United States ou…

I'm cleaning up old blog posts and deleting announcements that are no longer relevant, but I couldn't delete this one because I adored this cup. Unfortunately, it broke, but it still makes me happy looking at it in this picture. :)

This week we learned about the California Gold Rush and ended our week with a Gold Rush Party. Since we are done reading Little House in the Big Woods, I did some extra reading to catch up on American History - up to the time of the Gold Rush.  Books fro…