Saturday, June 12, 2010

Nathaniel's Open House

Nathaniel's class had an end of the year open house so we could see all the art and projects they worked on. 4th grade is California state history year. This year we learned about indians, Spanish Missions, and Stage Coach robbers in the San Francisco area - selected because we thought we'd be moving there. (What? Well, that's a subject for another post.) Behind Nathaniel on the desk you can see the California Poppy art project they did.
Here is Nathaniel and his awesome teacher. 4th Grade was a great year.
The kids all made models of buildings of a California gold rush town. Nathaniel made the boot and hat store.



Nathaniel and his Black Bart wanted poster. Black Bart was a stage coach robber who held a grudge against Wells Fargo. I learn a lot about California when my boys are in 4th grade.

4 comments:

Bethany said...

Did he get to read "By the Great Horn Spoon?" Have you read it?

That's one of my favorite books (but I love all Sid Fleischman's books) and it's all about the CA gold rush.

Read it -- you'll love it.

holly said...

I kept checking your blog to see when the move was happening...so are you staying put then? Samantha will be happy to hear it. she feels better when everything remains just as she left it in CA.

California Garners said...

Bethany,
We listened to "By the Great Horn Spoon" this week on CD in the car - so fun! Thanks for the recommendation.

Holly,
We have had yet another change of plans with Chris' job (but you wouldn't be able to relate to that...) We will be moving out to Ventura County in July. Chris is still with B of A, but started working in a new group in June. He moved back from San Francisco on Memorial Day weekend (Yay!)

Anonymous said...

thank you