Patriot's Day

Every year, our 5TH grade have a Patriot's day at the elementary. The students dress up in that time period. The entire day is dedicated to learning and doing the activities that took place during the 1700's. Nathaniel had so much fun, he said he wanted to have another day like this at school. I was able to be one of the mom's who volunteered, and I spent the day at the school, teaching the kids how to make butter. Here is Nathaniel with his friend Braden Farrell.

Here is my darling boy, making butter. The kids actually shook a little bit of cream with some salt added in a baby food jar. Then got to sample their wares with some bread..

Nathaniel also got to make his own candle. The kids got to dip a wick into hot wax, then into cold water and back into hot wax. Repeating the process until they had a candle. Nathaniel even burned his hand made candle when he got home.
The kids were separated into boys and girls, the girls attended a girls school while the boys went to a boy school to learn some of the basics of marching with the military. We had a very fun day!