Social Studies Fair

We have been studying early American history this year and George Washington has been pretty prominent there.  He was an easy choice for us as we participated in the Homeschool Social Studies Fair in Feb.  It was fun to see the kids proudly show off their hard work, do a little public speaking and learn about the people that the other students chose.  If you're studying that photo above, Spiderman made a Lego replica of Fort Duchesne and we made George's favorite food, hoecakes.  For the record, no one really cared for these and our chickens got to eat most of them. :)

I was pretty impressed with the work the various families put into their subject matter and the highlight for my kids was The Salter's presentation of Harriet Tubman (also someone we're currently reading about), complete with giant cardboard Underground Railroad station and a "dramatic" speech from "Harriet" herself. :)  Great fun!    Below you can see that Goose was proud to dress up as Washington's granddaughter, Nellie.  There was just no convincing my boys to put on a powdered wig.....