United States--Massachusetts

Massachusetts has a lot history--the home of the Salem Witch Trials, home of the first Thanksgiving, home of the Boston Tea Party and many other Revolution events. 

We determined that there was a witch in our midst and held our own witch trials.  I secretly gave each of the kids a "character".  One was a towns person whose chickens died, another was person who got sick, another was the witch, another was the judge and another was the mob of angry townspeople.  Corbin drew the witch card so after a short, unfair trial where all the bad deeds were blamed on him, he as burned at the stake.  The kids had fun with the activity, but we had to remember our recent reading of Witch of Blackbird Pond--how unfairly the people treated the "witch" just because she was different. 

We also made some mini-Boston creme cakes.  I combined 2 recipes (so that I wouldn't have to go to the store for more ingredients).   We made the mini-cakes from a cake mix and we used the cream from the first recipe instead of pudding from the second, but it didn't really set--it was too runny.  We followed the first recipe on how to create the cream cakes.  They weren't very pretty, but they were yummy.