the backwoods farm

the backwoods farm

something i did for art&music/school

The Texas Ranger: The carriage ride

the Texas ranger was traveling through red water,TX when he heard fight, he broke it up by  firing his gun in the air, it was to teenage kids who got into a fight over a Indian bone knife one of them found in the dirt, the Texas ranger walked up to them through a crowd of people & said "where are your parents" they said " they left 2 weeks ago on a carriage ride to Maud 5 miles SE of here an  said they'll be back in 5 days but they aren't back yet" so the Texas ranger said he'll go check on them and for them & to stay at the shop until he gets back, so he called Jessy James & a stranger named Leroy to go with him & then they left to Maud. they got there at midnight at the house that they where being held hostage, they heard screaming & fighting so they had Jessy go through the back door, Leroy through the window & the Texas ranger through the front door wham!! wham!! shatter!! they broke in to the house there was only 2 of them so they where outnumbered, so they surrendered. so they took everyone home, when they got home they brought the 2 to the sheriff's office. They where 2 WANTED:dead or alive the reward was $3.000 so he got the money & spited it up with the three of them & the Texas ranger  took off after another hard day of work

The Texas ranger

A Patriot's History of the United States Chapter 1

This was a pretty detailed chapter

We read thru a good part of the first few pages when I realized it was too deep for most of the kids

We broke it down and found mini lessons on the topics it discussed what I read in the book.

Trade in the Orient

Trade Routes & New World Exploration  lesson snip

New World Settlements     lesson snip

Slaves, Tobacco and Government     lesson snip 

Colonial Life      lesson snip

Puritans and Pilgrims        lesson snip 

Religious Differences and Freedom    lesson snip 

World Geography

this week was North America.
Quinten  chose Mexico, we watched this little video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXZm_RSTaKQ
Abigail chose Greenland  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjtRQiEluDg
Isaac chose Canada http://www.youtube.com/user/CanadianGeographic#p/u/26/rQKA1ahHgaY

We also used this site. http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/places/find/

Fishy Friends

this was done with Microsoft Paint.