Inquiry Fun!!

We have been trying to make working on our 'inquiries' as fun as possible. Just thought we'd share a couple that have been lots of fun for us. This is 13 Colonies Twister. We (Mom) drew a very lame map of the 13 Colonies on our driveway. Mom had made a card with the name of each colony on it as well as a card for each hand and foot. To play, Mom would read which body part and then the name of a colony, and the player had to try to reach them without falling over. Hannah gets the award for the person most able to contort her body in strange positions and still stay in the game. This was a highly requested game and in fact, it became Math Facts Twister later in the week. We drew a grid on the driveway and numbered it to 24. Then Mom would roll two dice and pick a body part card and the player had to add the numbers together and put the correct body part on the correct number. We only did addition, but will probably do a subtraction one in the future. This is a 13 Colony quilt that the girls made from paper squares. They made a square for each colony and wrote on them the name and how the name was chosen. Then they had to figure out a pattern for the quilt and how many other colored squares they needed to complete the pattern and then tied it all together. This will hang in our History Museum at the end of the year.