Benji is working on a report about Matthew Henson, an African-American man who was one of the first Americans to reach the North Pole. We used Benji's globe to figure out some of the places Henson had traveled (before he was an explorer in the Arctic, he worked aboard a ship in his teens and visited China, Japan, the Philippines, and France, during that time). It's exciting to work with Benji and learn some interesting history!
I spent some time reading about Henson to all the kids at dinner time, and they decided to "play Arctic explorer" after dinner. This was aided by the play tent and tunnel that Victoria's parents sent to Tamar and Daniel for their third birthday, which quickly became an igloo. All the stuffed dogs were turned into a sled team and several unlucky stuffed animals were hunted to keep us all fed.
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--Victoria
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