fun times

Hi there,
Just wanted to say thanks to the two awesome students who made it to the Lincoln exhibit. What a fun day!
This week: we begin the war with shots fired on Fort Sumpter. What will your character say to that?

A real (fake) Civil War battle, here in Oregon!

So, I found this funny Lincoln picture and it inspired me to blog. These are obviously Lincoln impersonators. If you want to see some more impersonators, check this out - it is a Civil War reenactment. It will be May 17 and 18 in Lebanon, OR. I don't know if I will make it to this event, but, you might like it. There will be a lot of "living history" and you can watch a fake battle. Maybe there will be some gross out fake blood, who knows. But really, reenactors take these events pretty seriously, and they try to be as accurate and true to the history as possible, so it could be quite cool.

a field trip?

On Saturday, April 26th, I will be heading down to the Oregon Historical Society for the Lincoln exhibit! Very timely - we are beginning the Civil War. You are invited to join in, if you bring your own money and adult. (One adult for every 4 or 5 kids, or whatever your adult is comfortable with) Lets meet at the corner of SW Madison and Park Ave. at 10:15 am. Please, let me know if you are planning to be there, that way we won't start without you. Click on the yellow links for more info!

CW - What do you want to know about?

We are about to begin our study of the Civil War. This topic is quite huge, and really, we could study it for years and still never get it all.

Please let me know if there is something specific you want to learn about during our Civil War study - people, places, battles, inventions, songs, leaders, poems, or gruesome statistics, or something I forgot to mention.

Next week: we will choose sides and examine the causes of the war.