Benjamin Franklin

Posted by Coral on June 12, 2009

 

This was the next person in the Value Tales series that we are doing for history. I decided to do them chronologically. Christopher Columbus lived from 1451–1506, Ben Franklin lived from 1706–1790 ect… I just simply looked in the back of the book to find these dates.

Here’s what we did:

Day 1– Pg.7–21      

Day 2– Pg.22–31

Day 3–Pg.40–62

Day 4– (You can read whatever you didn’t get to) Make a piggy bank http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/benjamin%20crafts.html at the bottom of this link  

a lightning experiment  http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/lightning/experiment.html

or my girls asked if they could earn, and save money like Ben. So they did a few chores around the house that were not their usual chores, and I payed them. They also planned a lemonade stand, but we didn’t get to that.

Each day P did copy work from Ben’s famous quotes:

“A penny saved is a penny earned.”

“Early to bed and early to rise, make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”

“Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”

“Haste makes waste.”

“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”

“The early bird gets the worm.”

 

Benjamin Franklin, thanks for the fun!