History Days -- 2

Last week we gathered for our second WW II study. I just can't tell you how much fun we are having. Remember the passports we made last time? You had to have one to get in.

(Who said boys can't have as much fun dressing up as girls?)

First we made timelines. When they are opened up they are 4 ft. long. The timelines are accordion books, really simple to make and they don't take up a lot of room. We added a few "beginning of the war" dates with pictures and will continue adding information as we study at home.

This time the kids each gave reports. Abbey talked about hobos in the US prior to our entering the war. This was fascinating. Did you know that hobos were not tramps, they were willing to work. They had a secret code that they used to mark your home to indicate whether you were friendly, had work, a vicious dog or had a place to sleep etc?


Anna helped. They served us Mulligan stew for lunch. It's kind of like stone soup. The hobos would put in whatever each of them had----- to come up with a meal.

Robby gave us a history of the war's beginning and told about the planes. Kids made hundreds of thousands of model planes so that those folks who were spotters could practice identifying them.

So the kids put together model planes.

Matthew's was a Spitfire!

Matthew's report was on spys and their equipment.

He had, for each of the kids, a secret message that could have been hidden in a regular deck of cards.

They had to assemble that message.

I believe it said something like: "Time to consume our daily ration of sugar". (snack time)

We had a wonderful time. I learned a lot and look forward to our next event. {October's gathering is going to be a doosey!}


PS I'm still trying to catch up with posts from our trip.