We have had a very relaxing and fun weekend. Lots of entertaining and lazy time with or without friends around. Today we're putting everything together for the time capsule and burying it if the weather allows.
The kids did a great job gathering items for the time capsule. We had one problem and lost all of our data while trying to save, but I've found everything again and we're ready to go. They had to find things to represent several different areas of our culture including jobs, homes, entertainment, transportation, food, and something personal. They found pictures of everyone's ipods, found lists of top selling books, music singles, movies, and tv shows to represent entertainment in our culture. For homes they decided to use a blueprint of our house. For food we got a menu from our favorite place to eat (McGurk's), and put in copies of some of our favorite recipes. They also found pictures of the cars we drive, and have all taken a picture by "the Hamlet tree" to include to show how both they and the tree grow over the years. Both the kids had to write a letter to include talking about what was going on in our world now, and make some predictions about what things will be like in the future. Zoë did an excellent job of summarizing many current events such as housing foreclosures, job loss, poor economy, wars. I'm amazed at how much they must pick things up just from having npr on in the car or listening to dinner conversations. Well, that and I really do include them in our conversations and make sure they understand what is being discussed.
Now I just need to work on something to include!
I think you should print a copy of your first blog post. I would also love to see you include that bucket list you have on the fridge... you know see how many you have knocked off that list. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh...good ideas! I'll do that.
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