Homer Price

Wow! This book was so much fun!! My boys loved the antics of the people in Centerburg, and so did I!

First, we studied pulleys. We learned how pulleys help us by trying to lift one another up just using our own strength (the kids, not me!) We found that it was a lot easier using a pulley!
Then we built model pulleys out of Tinker Toys....

We also built an AM radio, just like Homer did (well, ours was different- we used SNAP CIRCUITS which are just AWESOME!!)

When Homer Price talked about the "Super Duper," we drew our own cartoon cats-

and created our monograms using software-- they came out pretty cool!

The third chapter was entitled "Doughnuts" and guess what! DD & I made chocolate iced donuts for breakfast!

After lunch, we went to Krispy Kreme and watched them make donuts with all their "labor-saving devices"!! The best part was eating them!

We even made sandwich boards like Mr. Gabby...

Finally, we learned about Habitat for Humanity, and how we should help our neighbors... We read The President Builds a House by Tom Shachtman. DS#2 thinks it would be cool to work on one of their houses some day...