Who Owns The Sun? is such a great book and I just found out the author of the book wrote it when she was 14 years old! I can only hope my children find a love for writing and are able to come up with their very own stories. The subject of slavery is the main topic of the story and I was unsure how my kids would react. Surprisingly they did well learning about slavery. I gave them a general idea on how they were captured, how they were sold and treated by their owners. We also read two other books on the topic of slavery: Here's my book cover for our mini book scrapbook: Benjamin chose to draw the starry night scene in the book and they learned what a simile is: Here's my daughters drawing and we pasted a plastic sleeve for their copywork: We also learned about simple machines such as levers, wheel and axel, pulley, wedge, screw and inclined plane. I set up a few simple machine examples to demonstrate how they work. We made a vocabulary pocket to...