Homeschool and Ants

In History, we’ve been learning all about when Columbus discovered America and about the different types of people living there at that time. The boys have been loving history. Especially when the get to make a project.

Here are a couple of the projects they got to make.

Teepees…They each picked their own Indian Name and designs for their teepees. I don’t remember what Riah’s Indian Name was but his teepee told stories about all the animals he has seen growing up.

Zion’s Indian Name was “Animal Killer” and his teepee told stories of all the Animals he has killed.

In a later lesson, we learned about the Indian’s that lived in “dried mud, stone-like” houses. So the boys made their own stone houses out of cardboard.

Riah’s even had some furniture in it.

Zion is drawing a tall ladder from the bottom to the top so that the people can get in. The doors were on the tops of the houses, so they the people could hide from enemies by climbing up and pulling the ladders in after them.

Peeking inside the window of one of Zion’s houses.

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In other news…Some ants have decided to make there very large home, in our front yard. I’ve never seen an ant hill this big before. The kids were all quite fascinated by it. We watched the ants bring dirt from the inside of the hole to the outside. It was very cool and made for a great “science” lesson.

The ant hill lasted for about 4 days while i waited for Trevor to kill them. The boys beat him to it. …On the days when its been hot enough to play in the water…but not hot enough for the pool, since the nights have been cooler and the water in the pool is very cold…the boys have been playing the sprinkler in the front yard. They weren’t really paying attention to where they put the sprinkler and ended up putting it right on top of the ant hill. It is now a smashed ant hill and the ants are back to work trying to rebuild. I guess if we’re going to get rid of them for good, we need to spray.