School History Fair

The last friday of Oct Alex's school has a half day and has a history fair. Last year the time period was the middle ages, this year they studied Native American and French voyager culture. The 6-8 kids work very hard and play host to the younger grades. This year they built an entire (very historically accurate from what I've heard!) Indian village in the woods and the younger kids' "tribe" went out and visited their tribe and was treated to games, crafts, and food. Normally Maya and I would have gone and I'd have pictures of everything, however Maya woke up with a fever (Alex had one randomly for a few days earlier in the week) so we had to just take the one pic of Alex's costume and miss the rest.

A friend and I had been lamenting earlier in the month how so many schools don't do Halloween parties anymore......... but after watching how proud the 6th grader we carpool with was about their village and how much fun the other kids had PLUS how they used the weeks leading up to this week to all learn a lot about history.....well I have to admit this is pretty cool too.