After reading about immigrants and the many inventions and overall progress in science, we celebrated our learning with family and friends.
Haley focused her display board on immigrants. She wrote a report on immigration detailing the causes of emigration, passing through Ellis Island, and life in America for immigrants. She graphed the number of immigrants by decade and found pictures of Ellis Island and immigrant life. She also wrote a report on the Statue of Liberty.
Kevin especially loves science so his display board was all about inventors. He wrote reports on Thomas Edison and the Wright brothers and made a timeline of some of the more important inventions of the day. He also displayed a model he built of the Wright brothers' flyer and all of our scientific experiments from SL4 science. He had everyone vote on the best invention - the electric motor (from SL4 science) won!
We tried to include as many of the larger immigrant nationalities as we could when planning our menu. We started with Meatball soup (Italians), Hungarian Goulash, Perogies (Polish), Challah Bread (Jewish), sweet potatoes (sold on city streets), and ended with Banana Splits, which were invented in 1905 in the USA. While the adults sipped Irish coffees, they watched a street play performed by Haley and Kevin. They acted out poems which included: My Shadow, Ooey Gooey, Roger the Dog, Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore, and Antonio, Antonio.
It was a hit!
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