We have been doing earth studies this year. Mostly that means we have been picking up a book about a different planet or the moon about every two weeks and going through it or letting Dad read geology books to get the kids to go to sleep at night. We finally did a week review though and had some fun.
Boiled eggs for a snack one day and talked about the inner core (yolk) outer core (dark ring around yolk) mantle (white) and crust (eggshell). Let the kids roll the eggs to make cracks and talked about the crust being unstable. They had been studying this earlier but I think the visual really helped.
Eliora has memorized the seven continents so we made templates and cut them out. Pasted them on a basketball and found the four oceans. We then shined a flashlight on the ball for the sun and talked about how it rotates and when the light is on one area it is day. Talked about the time zones. Then I let the kids take off the continents and try to make a puzzle of Pangea.
Making our earth cake
Our fondant continents.
Our Pangea earth cake complete with volcano. The girls did it all themselves and were very proud.
2 comments:
For kinders you can teach them songs-that's what we are doing in music right now.
Or watch a movie on Handel.
They learn these really silly and stupid songs that all sound like they have the same tune. But-they kdis like it.
... so um... no sKoOL since April? ;)
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