Friday, March 7, 2008

The Hurricane

Well of course I have been forgetting to blog about what we have been doing so I will have to sum up two days. We watched "Hurricane" this became a subject after Jonathan was wondering about the Bob Dylan song. We read through the lyrics then watched the movie. We did some indepth talking about our judicial system. "Are we really innocent until proven guilty" or is it really "guilty until proven innocent" I asked him if he would rather put someone in jail that he "thought" commited a crime or let them go free. That is a really tough question and he answered it suprisingly well. I have been relying on this website http://www.awesomestories.com/ for a lot of our information about the facts and fiction in the movies we watch.

Yesterday we wound up talking about the Constitution. This came from the School House Rock America video Drew has been watching over and over and over again. Jonathan was wondering about the signers of the Constitution especially Benjamin Franklin. We went through some interesting facts about the Constitution in general then Jonathan took off on the subject of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. We used two great websites....

http://www.constitutionfacts.com/index.cfm?section=constitution&page=aboutTheSigners.cfm

http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln75.html

Both of these gave us a ton of information that we were able to use.

This weekend Jonathan and two friends (also homeschoolers) will be visiting a bee keeper to get some first hand information about Colony Collapse Disease in the Honeybee for the contest they are entering. They are really excited about going. The bad weather has been delaying this trip so hopefully the snow holds off tomorrow.

Drew knows his alphabet letters. We were so surprised! Huh...never worked with him on them and one day we were sitting there are he started pointing to them on a piece of paper and started naming them...you go Drew :)

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