14 November 2008

Acorn Harvesting

We are studying the Native American part of California History. Today we collected and pounded and "leached" acorns. We used abalone shells (the ones from our camping trip in Hendy woods - thanks to Dan and Leo) as our bowls.


Working together, everybody took turns gathering, pounding, and picking out the nuts.


Elijah looking at his stash.


Sam smashing the acorn. If you look hard you can see it on the deck.


Joe picking out the meat.


Silas guarding the acorn meat from the dogs and Titus.


I'm not sure what Luke is doing but he looks happy.


Here's mom leaching acorns.

2 comments:

Megan @ SimplyThrifty said...

You guys have such a cool family. I want to leach some acorns! I can't believe Titus can not only stand on the skateboard but do tricks as well! Tell him he's amazing.

Sarah Kuhner said...

You have such fun and inventive ways of teaching your kids.