The Priestly family found a very creative way to hide the gold so they could get it to the Continental Army safely. Where would you hide it?
Julia (11): "I would hide it how the Mom suggested while joking with a soldier. I'd make braids and hide the gold inside my braids."
Gabe (9): "My mouth! Well...maybe not."
Evy (6): "In my shirt."
Mom's Notes: We weren't finding a lot of time for this read-aloud after our history lessons, and I almost gave up on it and figured we were reading enough anecdotes from the unit. But we had an impromptu read-a-thon one snowy March morning, and grabbed this book to read a few chapters. We ended up reading for hours! The story picked up and we just had to finish it. (It helped a lot that the buddies were playing at Couisn Ross's house for the morning. The house was quiet and cozy.) We did take a break for lunch, for which we tried to make cornbread muffins inspired from the book, but ended up missing ingredients and made blueberry scones instead. These unit-themed books add so much to our understanding of history. It is just so fascinating to see what we're learning be applied to a story and characters. This is learning at its finest! Well, a field trip to Philadelphia to top off the unit would be education at its very finest...
