setting & bays

Drew contrasted the setting of Sarah Whitcher's Story to our home in a picture today after listening to a few more pages of the story. He drew our home on the left and the earmuff-looking thing at the top left is a telephone, he also drew Jim on the roof fixing it...with his water bottle on top of the red ladder. The cabin on the right is the actual setting of the story that's situated in the middle of a forest years ago (no electricity). Notice he drew a telephone with an "X" through it along with the sun/sky as it was in the middle of a forest where not much light came through the trees (in his mind)?!?! I love seeing what he creates!

For history we read about the pilgrim men who had gone to shore to look for a place to settle who were attacked by Indians one day. The Mayflower was anchored in a bay and so we talked about what a bay is, pointed out a few in Massachusetts using a large map. Then drew sketched the outline of the land, the bays and labeled the bays, Plymouth (where the pilgrims eventually settled) and Boston. Sorry you can't really see his sketch very well in the picture...he did it really light. :o( I feel like the pilgrims are never going to get to shore to settle...they will it's just that we take 1 story a day right now and it's moving so slowly! But I know why HOD does it...it makes history come alive to the kids and they remember it rather than spend 1 day on it and move on. :o) I'll be patient...