MFW EX1850: Week Seven

This week we were excited to have a visitor...Grandpa (my dad)!  He brought two chihuahuas with him to add to our already highly energetic home.  The kids love them all...grandpa and his two pups, and although they were quite yippy, they provided entertainment for my little ones and we were all happy for the distraction of waiting for daddy/hubby to come home.

Meanwhile, no break from school was had for Grandpa's visit.

We're now in the time period of the beginning to mid 1600s.  The Catholics and the Protestants were still battling against each other and the "Thirty Years War" was fought.  Maryland became a colony. The plague and fire swept over England.

For our study of fish this week, we pretended to be an archerfish...which spits streams of water at insects above the water to knock them into the water for lunch. We saw how that's not so easy since light bends as it passes though water and where it looks like the bug is (a paper bug in our case), is deceiving.  We used a pencil as our stream of water and looked through the water filled base to try to land our pencil tip on the bug.  It was pretty hard.

I hope your week was great!