Homeschooling: The Old Florida Museum

   There are many reasons for homeschooling besides sleeping in, and staying in your pajamas all day. It's the great week day field trips, the field trips when you and your family are the only one's there. We had one of those today we visited for the first time The old Florida museum. We had gotten a groupon for super cheap so you can not go wrong there. We arrived and of course just the cannon outside got Jacobs attention! We had a personal tour guide Senoir Dorito. First we had to pick jobs for our journey to the new land Jacob was a soldier and got a cool sphere, Lu and I were the cooks and David was a builder. We got to earn denaro's also on our journey for the work we did.

       Our first stop was making fire Jacob  had to pull on the rope to blow on the fire he did great and earned his denaro. 

David and Jacob in time out. 

We got to tour the kings house, and then the soldiers living corridors. We were mostly impressed with the sugar cane weaving as we as a family weaved it through to make a wall. 

We also made candles as it was such a way of life for them. We dipped them and let them dry and got to bring them home.

Jacob was the soldier who had to watch over the kings house. Notice the chair it only has two legs to make sure you stay awake during watch!

We even learned how they drilled holes!!

We also played lots of games.

Emily was our cook in the new land. It was perfect for her crushing corn and scooping it for all of us.

Sphere throwing.

Finally we got to meet the tribe leader Sr. Shrinksalot.

Making a fishing net.

                                   Our Tribe tattoos

What a great family day! Not only did the kids learn a lot but so did we. The kids got to each buy a little something with the Denaro's they earned. We ended the afternoon with a picnic on the bay in front of the fort.