Ending WWI and starting the Jazz Age

Another great week of school!  We finished up our 4 week mini-unit on the Great War, World War I, last week and this week, moved into the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties.  In the first few pictures, you'll see our "wrap-up" art project, where I had the children use any art medium they wanted to depict what their "favorite" or "most memorable" thing was about the past month of study...

Sissi loves to paint, so she got all the colors out and painted about the countries coming together in France to do the treaty that would hopefully "end all wars...."  On the top of the paper, not seen here, she drew the poppy flower made famous through the poem written by John McCrae, "In Flanders Field."

Krypto and Gwangi love to do cartoons, so Krypto here is working on a political cartoon and he wanted to color it in with chalk pastels.  I think he ended up using more of the markers though.

Here is Gwangi making a variety of cartoons about what he remembered...in markers.  It showed the trench warfare in the top left corner, then the next block is women going to work in the factory and working with big machines.  The picture at the right was about a battle scene and then the one on the bottom right was the different country leaders working on the treaty in France and our own Congress telling Wilson, "No, we won't join the League of Nations."  The final picture is of the Influenza Pandemic of 1919 and all the people getting sick, the wind blowing the sickness from house to house.

Krypto, trying to figure out how to finish up his political cartoon.

The kids have started doing Awana at the local Calvary Baptist Church.  Sissi earned her vest last week and was so excited this week to wear it to club on Wednesday that she wore it all day, during school.

We also got some Organizing Utility Totes from Thirty-One and the kids can now "haul" their school books around with them to work in their own "special quiet places" when they need to just have some peace to get their work done.  Here is Krypto, working on his narrative writing from Tapestry of Grace's Writing Aids...he's writing a piece called, "A Day in the Life of James P. Corgan, During the Red Scare."

Gwangi and his tote bag, he is in the "Book Nook" working on his Math-U-See Gamma book, it is all about multiplication.

We are also reading a book about Eric Liddell, Louis Armstrong, The Wind in the Willows, and Harlem Stomp!  which is all about the African American Renaissance period in the early 20th Century.