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Adventures in U.S. History Week 19

We had a short week of school this week.  Hubby was home from work Thursday and Friday, so I did a bit of rearranging of our schedule: dropped 2 days of math & reorganized our science and history to fit in three days.  I figured out that we're going to be done with math before we're done with the rest of our lessons anyway. In Bible we reviewed the story of the Passover from last week and talked about what it meant for the Israelites to put the blood of the lamb on the frames of their doors.  I gave Miss M some strips of red construction paper to put around the frame of her bedroom door.  This activity wasn't part of our curriculum, but I think it helped her understand what happened at the first Passover a little better. In history we learned about Johnny Appleseed and I gave the kids each a cup of tomato juice, the state drink of Ohio.  They were both pretty disgusted. Ha! Little Guy wanted to do a little scientific investigation of his own whi...