President's Day

I've decided to try and do a sort of

Mommy School with my daughters (ages 3 and 0).

Obviously, the younger will not

be doing much in the beginning.

Although she is really good at being cute and talkative,

and screamy!

I tried to do this last fall, but we only did a couple of things before we decided to

move across the country (again).

So I started today.  We talked briefly about president's, 

mainly George Washington & Abraham Lincoln.

We made a few crafts (shown below), and tried to clean money.

Tried being the key word.

Picture 1, the money before the cleaning.

Picture 2, after.  The pennies are a little more shiny, but the nickels and quarter didn't change much.

We soaked the pennies in a small amount of lime juice with a couple drops of water, then rinsed.  The silver ones were cleaned with a cotton ball and baking soda/water paste.  The paste didn't work too well, BUT the cotton balls did get a little dirty.

Here's pictures of our crafts:

Lincoln's log cabins (we didn't have brown construction paper, so we used black)

Washington's cherry tree (drew a pic of a tree & dropped hole-punch cherries on glue)

And the other small one are coin rubbings.  We taped some coins

on the table and rubbed over with crayons.

And we also did silhouettes - but I think it makes our baby look like she's

a 2-year-old boy.  

Daddy & I also did those, but they are on the back.  And not as cute as the kids!