RICHARDSON ACADEMY

MAPS BRING LEARNING TO LIFE

DAD'S MAPS

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Dad has been dreaming about these big wall maps for many, many years.

He finally ordered them!! Each map is made up of 3 panels that we hung with wall paper paste. Thanks to my experience of helping my brother-in-law, Joel, hang wallpaper, I was able to help us successfully secure the maps to the wall and even line up the panels fairly well!

We did laugh a bit about the Lucy episode where she and Ethel were trying to hang wallpaper!!! We hoped we didn't recreate that hilarious episode!

We have the USA map on one wall and the World Map in our family room!

We love them!!!! It was a great investment!

We moved our big family picture to the sitting room so that it could be a focal point there and the map went in the family room.

Preparing to hang the world map! Not sure what dad is doing, but ......

FAYETTEVILLE, AR CIVIL WAR HISTORY

HEADQUARTERS HOUSE TOUR

JANUARY 28, 2013

We had a treat and were given a "personal" tour of the famous Headquarters House. We gathered several families together and met for a tour by a local woman who works to get youth involved in the history of Fayetteville and has started a "Heritage School" workshop week in the summer. One of the gals in our Young Women is a part of it so she helped out with the tour, too!!

We heard some neat stories about the Tibbetts Family and their courage to stand up for this beliefs in freedom and support of the North. Ultimately, they had to leave their home for their safety during the Civil War.

Annaliece is our friend!

Benjamin, Analiece, Bethany in front and Rachel and Rebecca in back.

INDIAN LORE NIGHT

INDIAN LORE NIGHT -- JANUARY 11, 2013

We took a leap of faith and decided to home school all of our kiddos this semester. The last 6 months + have been very challenging as we have worked to help Matthew work though his deep emotional issues. Vernon and I felt very strongly that we needed to bring everyone home this semester to have more focused time, work to heal hearts and to simply slow down our pace of life and regroup and strengthen our family.

We started off with a fun "Indian Lore" project that we based off of the Boy Scout "Indian Lore" merit badge. We took a trip to the Native American Museum in Bentonville, AR and then started our home school studying an Indian Tribe.

We completed our big study with an "Indian Lore Night" where ate foods that were fairly "Native American" in nature, everyone showed their "dwelling" that they made, everyone read their reports, and we played a few Indian games.

We had so much fun!!

Our Native American dinner

"Navajo Tacos," blueberries, and corn on the cob

David dressed up for the event, of course!

Rachel and Bethany

Mason and David start out on the stick pull

NATIVE AMERICAN DWELLING MODELS

Rachel studied the "Inuit Tribe" (Eskimos)

Obviously, some got into their projects a little more than others -- Rachel spent hours on her igloo and Benjamin quickly pulled together a nice "long house" for his tribe.