Mystery Trip

Over the summer, we went to the Louisville Zoo and we got season passes because it isn't much more to add to the admission price.  Lucas hasn't stopped talking about going back there so Rebecca and I planned a trip there over Fall Break.  She had the idea to make it a mystery trip and she created clues and put together a cute packet for them to try and figure out where we were going.  They thought we were going shopping and running errands for the day so they were pleasantly surprised. 

We’ve got a little secret,

We’re going on a trip!

We are leaving right now,

If we told you where you’d flip!

The destination is a mystery,

The location soon you will see!

Throughout the journey you will get clues,

Each with information you can use!

You must all join together and use your mind

So the location you can find!

Your next clue will come later. Listen for the special clue sound!

 She made them little detective badges to wear.

 

We had Landon and Brandon record these clues for them to listen to along the way to figure out where we were going.  Rebecca is quite the poet.

 

Clue #1

Alright kids the fun has begun

So listen close here’s clue #1

We’re leaving White County

And heading on our way

We will be at our destination

Within four hours of this day.

 

Clue #2

Its time for clue number 2

Listen up so you will know what to do

Each tell a place that you love to go

And the answer to this mystery may show!

 

Clue #3

Its time for clue number three

This mystery trip doesn’t end in Tennessee.

 

Clue #4

Its time for the 4th clue

A little more information for you

The mystery destination is in a neighboring state

The city has so much to do we know it will be great.

 

Clue #5

Its time for clue number five

Here is something to think about as you enjoy the drive

The city that we are going to is named after a king

And Lucas and Logan went there the season after Spring.

 

Clue #6

Now that you now the city where our journey ends

Its time to figure out where the fun begins

We are going to a place that rhymes with Boo

Its Lucas’ favorite thing to do.

 

It was a perfect day to go to the zoo!



 

Clue #7

Now you must be hungry and ready to eat

The place we are going is super neat

They serve food we know you all like

It was what Lady and the tramp ate on that romantic night.

 

We used to have our family reunion in Louisville every year on Labor Day Weekend.  We would always eat at the Old Spaghetti Factory downtown as a large group.  We were planning on going there to eat, however they weren't open for dinner when we got there.  bummer

 

Clue #8

The zoo was so much fun

But what are we going to do after the setting of the sun?

There is a bag for you in the back of the car

Open it up, this is the best clue so far!

They opened up Halloween costumes to wear to go Trick-or-Treating back at the zoo.

 

Lucas LOVES candy!

 

The snow leopard was sleeping when we were there earlier.  We got to see him up close in the evening.

The boys didn't want to see the girly characters.

 

Clue #9

Yesterday was full of fun

But don’t be sad we aren’t done!

One more place we want to see

Before we go back to Tennessee

There is a sport all three boys play

It has something to do with our stop today.

The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory

 

 

Rebecca had to make up some extra clues on the spot.  They chanted "More Mysteries" several times so she had to come up with some new ones.

 

 

Madeline & France

Last week in our Five in a Row study, we read Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans.  This week we did unit study on France by Amanda Bennett.  I love doing these studies because we get to watch lots of videos of places I can only dream of getting to visit.  I am definitely adding France to the bucket list.

I didn't do this one with Logan when he was in Kindergarten because I thought it would be too girly.  He wouldn't even go down the girl aisle in Wal-Mart then because there was pink everywhere so I didn't think he would enjoy a book about a girl.  I would have been able to do more with this book if I had girls though. 

Madeline is a short children's story about a young girl who lives with eleven other girls in a home in Paris.  She has to go to the hospital to have her appendix removed.  It is such a cute story and the illustrations are so adorably whimsical.  It's a classic. 

This was Lucas' favorite page.  He laughed every time.  He kept asking me to repeat it over and over.  I seriously read this page at least twenty times the first time we read it. 

We learned about symmetry with action figures.  He lined them up like they walked everywhere in the book. 

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Food:

I'm no Julia Child, but we made a few French recipes.

I made crepes for breakfast one morning.

Croque-Monsieur for dinner.  This will be a repeat.

This was a fun project...

It was hard to keep them from eating the wafers as we were building them.

He was coloring the flags for to put on the tops of the Eiffel Towers.

They weren't all well constructed.

We learned about cheese and how it is made.  I bought some French cheeses as well as some others to do a taste-test.  Some of them tasted like butt. 

The roquefort was gross.

Their favorites:

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Art:

We learned about Claude Monet and took a visual tour of some of the Louvre.

Logan's art.

Mom also came over to do an art lesson with them.  She showed them how to use pastels.

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Training for the Tour de France.

Learning about Braille.

Here's our lapbook we created...

Next week, onto Storm in the Night by Mary Stolz and weather.