Puzzling & Killing Two Birds With One Stone

Another thrift store puzzle; another puzzle missing just one piece.

Our homemade weather vane.

We've been studying about weather recently and so we made a couple of weather vanes and a rain gauge.  They were fun little activities.  I think we'll keep track of the amount of rain in a graph and turn it into a math lesson too.  Two birds, one stone. Yes!

Here's our rain gauge. 

The kids are very excited to see it rain now.  Logan keeps asking if he can go check the rain gauge.

We also have started reading "Story of the World" for history.  We read about the Byzantine Empire and their great domed church the Hagia Sophia, with it's mosaics.  

So we decided to make our own mosaics too.

The kids enjoyed it and it's art too.  Two birds, one stone. Love it!