Activities
Types of ocean floor cut and paste worksheet
A great way to visualize the types of ocean floor!
Ocean floor sand and water sensory play
My high-sensory-needs little one especially enjoyed this one! We used a simple storage container, Kinetic sand (this stuff is amazing!!!), some seashells and mini ocean animals to set the scene. I asked my bigger boy to try and create a continental shelf, abyssal plain, mid-ocean ridge and trench by molding the sand different ways.
Ocean floor playdough invitation
Another great sensory play activity.
Crafts
Mound builders and pizza dough
I gave the boys a chunk of pizza dough and we tried to replicate the structures of the early mound-building civilizations. Afterwards, we stuffed our mounds with cheese and pepperoni and ate them! #calzonesforlife
Picture Books
This week, our picture books focused on Black History Month and President’s Day.
*Make sure you read through these first before reading to your children, if they are very young. There were some heavy topics in these, so I’d encourage you make sure they are age appropriate first.
**You can probably find most of these at your local library, but we try to add our favorites to the shelf, because ALWAYS more books!
Martin’s Big Words, by Brian Collier
(This one is our favorite!)
Songs of Freedom, by Bryan Marshall and David Marshall
Two Friends, by Dean Robbins
Be a King, by Carole Boston Weatherford
Those Rebels, John and Tom, by Barbara Kerley
Lincoln Tells a Joke, How Laughter Saved the President (and the Country), by Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer
Nature Study this Week
We follow the Exploring Nature with Children nature study curriculum and this week is field trip week! Our nature study day is Friday, so I’ve got nothing to show yet. 😉
But we will be taking a little trip up to Table Mountain, about 20 minutes away, to do some exploring of animal tracks, birds and plants. We will bring along our nature journals to record what we see, and of course bring back some “treasures” for our nature box.
Tell me what fun activities you are doing with your tribe this week!
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