Africa: Making our own Zulu Shields
In typical fashion, taking apart electronics seems to be the highlight of the day!
The difficult part will be the final exam....putting it back together!
Conjugating Spanish verbs, ¿en serio?
After a long, cold winter it was time to get out into the world and have some fun.
Give a kid a paint brush and their imagination runs wild.....
and sometimes, they end up with a new "best friend".
Fun with Finance, an in depth look at investing, paying your bills,
simple and compound interest, credit card chaos
A simple board game with a huge lesson!
New Zealand:
Choose your adventure: Maori Ti Rakau Stick Game
We never quite got this good, but we sure had fun trying.
New Zealand:
Choose your adventure: Pavlova
a wonderful dessert - YUM!
We turned up the heat and traveled to the South Pacific Islands
where we enjoyed a luau and Hawaiian IMU , a fire pit filled with lava stones and banana leaves. A pig is laid into this pit and cooked from the inside-out. Well, O.K. so we used a crock pot...it was delicious!
Our resident dancer taught us how to hula dance.
CAVIAR?! Everyone had to at least taste a smidgen. Someday these kids will be at a fancy reception and remember the first time they tasted this delicacy from the Russian waters of the Black Sea.
"Here, taste this!"
Russian Blini - a pancake type base to which you add sweet jams or savory fillings.
What celebration would be complete without a (non-alcoholic) bottle of champagne.
Look Out! that cork is going to fly!!!!
Writing Assignment: Create a Comic Strip
A snack of gummy worms for "bookworms"..















