WW2 on the Homefront
Our American history studies had reached World War two when the government shutdown occurred, so we decided to learn about WW2 rationing and "victory gardens". When the shutdown ended would be VE Day and if the government remained open past Feb. 15, that would be VJ Day.
Our previous raised garden bed had been made of old drawers, with the bottoms removed, but they had not survived the weather. Aidan built the new raised garden structure out of boards from an Ikea futon frame that a neighbor threw away.
Creating potash to put on the garden:
The seed program at the public library 2/2/19:
Aidan repotted a tomato plant to take home.
Each patron was able to choose three packs of free seeds. These are the packs we chose:
Finishing up the raised bed:
Rationing:
Some of the packaged foods available in the 1940s that are still available today:
Processed foods, meats, some dairy, and fats were sold on a points system. Each person received 48 points per month, so our family would have had 144 points to use for a month's worth of these foods. Fresh produce was not rationed.
We finished out January with only 5 points left.
Baking Hawaiian dinner rolls:
To give our history video watching more of a 1940s at the movies feel, we started by watching a short cartoon from the period, followed by 3 or 4 newsreels, before starting each featured video.
Not all of the newsreels covered stories about the war, but it certainly is mentioned in all of them:
Some of our video lessons that dealt with rationing:
Our previous raised garden bed had been made of old drawers, with the bottoms removed, but they had not survived the weather. Aidan built the new raised garden structure out of boards from an Ikea futon frame that a neighbor threw away.
Creating potash to put on the garden:
The seed program at the public library 2/2/19:
Aidan repotted a tomato plant to take home.
Each patron was able to choose three packs of free seeds. These are the packs we chose:
Finishing up the raised bed:
Rationing:
Some of the packaged foods available in the 1940s that are still available today:
Processed foods, meats, some dairy, and fats were sold on a points system. Each person received 48 points per month, so our family would have had 144 points to use for a month's worth of these foods. Fresh produce was not rationed.
We finished out January with only 5 points left.
Baking Hawaiian dinner rolls:
To give our history video watching more of a 1940s at the movies feel, we started by watching a short cartoon from the period, followed by 3 or 4 newsreels, before starting each featured video.
Not all of the newsreels covered stories about the war, but it certainly is mentioned in all of them:
Some of our video lessons that dealt with rationing:
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