Last week we went to Baltimore to tour the ships on display for Fleet Week. It happened to be a very hot day.
We enjoyed looking around the real battleships (tight security to get onboard these) and the replicas that reminded us of pirate ships.
After awhile we got too hot and used our membership to the Science museum to go in and cool off.
They have made some improvements since our last visit. The kids really enjoyed the new water tables. Benefits of being home schoolers -- our buddies and we were the only ones in there most of the time.
The kids and I are really enjoying their art class. The teacher is enthusiastic and patient.
She does a great job asking questions and hearing her young artists ideas.
Miss L was shy the first week of her ballet class, but now she enjoys it. She is running around with her friend before class in these pictures.
The lunch room is wild! So many kids all eating together.
Brother S and Miss L's brainy games and puzzles class has busy interesting moments and quiet thoughtful moments... which is nice for the assistant teachers, like me.
Maryland Historical Society had one of their homeschool days this week. The theme was "Maryland Through the Arts". I appreciated how they divided the kids into age groups and gave them age appropriate tours and activities.
Miss L and I followed brother M and S's group around. Brother S loved the Mastodon bones. Brother M kept talking about this strip representing one stripe of the "Star Spangled Banner" that hung over Fort McHenry in 1814. He loved seeing a tangible representation of how big that flag was.
They learned about early photography and how their used to be MANY steps to taking a single photograph.
Here is brother S taking his turn looking through the camera.
The guide showed them all the different chemicals involved in the process of developing a glass plate photograph.
He showed pictures of immigrants coming into Baltimore Harbor at the turn of the century. He told the kids about the art forms that immigrants brought with them. One was this German paper cutting.
They also looked at some quilts, which is an art form they are pretty familiar with.
For part of our home studies this week we did a fun science lesson on anatomy.
We also made a quick jaunt up to Lancaster to go to an Amish produce auction. It was a lot of fun with our buddies as usual. I bought 6 bushels of apples to make applesauce -- only 60$ for about 250 lbs. of apples. That price definitely makes homemade applesauce worth the work. I have 50 quarts canned so far and still about 100 lbs to go.
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