Getting Settled In November

November involved a lot of unpacking and settling in.  You know you are a home school parent when after you move the first room unpacked and set up is the school room!  With so much unpacking and getting things back on track it was a rather quiet month relatively speaking.  We finished up our unit on history and family history with making some timelines and collecting the rest of the surveys that people had done for us.  Then we started on a new unit on Communication.  We learned about sound and how it travels, listened to star pulses online, learned about Helen Keller and about sign language and Braille, made tin can phones, read about Koko the Gorilla and how she learned sign language, watched a documentary on bats and talked about how technology has aided in communication.   I am going to have to fully admit I have NO photos of any of that!

We had two fun Cubscout events in November though.  With Veteran's Day falling in that month the Cubscouts were asked to do the flag ceremony for the Veteran's Day Ceremony at the local school.  It was the first time I have been in the new gym building at the school there and let me tell you, it is huge and impressive.  The ceremony was in one of the smaller gyms off the main one and it was a nice ceremony where all local Veteran's were invited and there were speeches and songs and videos honoring them.  The kids enjoyed it and after the ceremony they went and shook hands with each and every Veteran there.  In a similar event, not long after that, the Cubscouts and Girlscouts joined together and put on a dinner for the local police, firefighters, and EMT departments.  We helped make Fall themed decorations and we helped serve the food and clean up.  They boys did the opening flag ceremony for it again and did a few skits and dances for entertainment during the dinner.