2nd Annual History Party

We had our 2nd annual history party in August. We are so blessed to have such great friends that we do school with and we celebrate when we finish our history program for the year. We home school year round so we finish around August every year. We use The Story of the World and this year we studied The Middle Ages, the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance. I am amazed at all the things I didn't know and didn't learn in school. This year we had a trivia game we played kids vs/ grownups to see who remembered the most. The kids killed us and everyone had so much fun. Thanks for making the game Ashlee! Every year we let the kids dress up in their favorite character they learned about. This year the kids decided to be Henry V and his 6 wives because we had friends staying her and they had one boy and two girls. There is a fun poem that went with Henry V that that the girls liked. It went like this... divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

Here is Henry V with his 6 wives. The girls loved that they got to dress up like queens and had fun making their crowns. We made name plaques for all of them so we could remember who they were.

Queen number one!

Sydney loved that she got to be Queen Elizabeth's mother so she carried around a doll all evening. Notice the red line on her throat to show she was beheaded:) She thought that was awesome.

Delaney had to have a way to show she died so we put gray makeup around her eyes. The girls thought she was the best dead girl because she is already so pale. They are so funny. Delaney just loved it because any time she gets to wear makeup is the best in her world.

Sassy Audrey need I say more:)

Here is the whole gang all dressed up. Not a super picture but what do you expect with 13 kids under the age of 10:) Such a fun night! Thanks Meechams and Joneses.