Expedition Earth- Germany

We are moving along in our Expedition Earth study.  We only have a few countries left before we head to Disney World and “visit” the countries in Epcot that we have learned about while doing Expedition Earth.

This week we learned all about Germany.

Hailey colored the flag.

We learned about and looked at pictures of the many castles in Germany.  Then Hailey built her own castle.

Hailey ate a pretzel.

She read about Germany.

A definite favorite activity was eating some Nutella.

We wrapped up the week with a German meal.  I made bratwurst, potato pancakes and sauerkraut.  The sauerkraut was not a hit hahaha, but we liked everything else.

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Poppins Book Nook- Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

The theme this month for Poppins Book Nook was “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles!”

We have had a super busy and crazy month with lots of sickness thrown in the mix.  So, we ran out of time to do anything new for this topic.  But, I decided to share some of the activities we have done from one of our favorite books.

We used “The Polar Express” by Chris Van Allsburg back in December to do a bunch of fun activities.  I hope you don’t mind me sharing Christmas related activities in April 🙂  Hopefully you can just pin these ideas and use them at Christmas time.

Of course, we read the book- actually we listened to the CD of the book.  Then we had a great time making some Polar Express trains.

Hunter made a train using different shapes.  He also sprinkled glitter on his paper.  While that was not exactly planned (ha!) it looked like falling snow.

Hunter’s finished train.

Hailey used oil pastels to draw a train.

She colored it in using Christmas colors.

Hailey’s finished train.  She also sprinkled glitter on her paper to look like snow.  She didn’t use glue, she just sprinkled it on and it looks great.

To finish off our Polar Express theme we had a party at the end of the week.

I used painter’s tape to make a railroad track on the floor.  We used some cardboard boxes from some of my online shopping to build a train.

Hunter and Hailey sitting in the train.

Hunter and Hailey made some snow globes.  (Of course, they had to wear their pajamas for a Polar Express party.)

Hailey decided to make her snowman look like Olaf from Frozen.  They turned out cute.

Then they made a little graham cracker train.

It only lasted a few minutes before they started eating it 🙂

Then it was movie time!  Hunter and Hailey took their seats in our train.

I punched their tickets

They also had little jingle bells, which we could all hear 😉

Then I passed out hot chocolate and popcorn while they watched the movie.  It was a super fun day!

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Tot School

Hunter is 28 months old.

Letter Q Activities:

(Printables for the letter Q are from 1+1+1=1 and Confessions of a Homeschooler.)

Hunter colored his Q paper.

 Hunter used colored pencils to color the quilt.

He stamped the letter Q onto the queen paper.  (He kept asking where the boy was to go with the queen.)

He filled up the letter Q with sequence.

Hunter loves using his do-a-dot markers.

We made a Q is for queen.  When he finished making the queen he asked if we could make a boy for her.

Sensory:

Hunter had a bin of buttons this week.  He spent a while looking over all over the buttons.

He also had a bin with bottle caps.

I put some shampoo in a ziploc bag and Hunter enjoyed playing with it.

Other:

Playing a matching game with a quilt.

Some shape practice.  Hunter really surprised me and wanted to do this activity several times.

ABC puzzle with some help from Hailey.

Hailey read “No, David” to Hunter.

Hunter wanted to color a picture of a boy to go with the Q for queen we made.  He thought for sure she needed to have someone.

Hunter’s Lego people did some traveling around the world.

Stop by 1+1+1=1 to see what the other tots were up to this week.

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Expedition Earth- Italy

Our latest adventure in Expedition Earth was our trip to Italy.

Of course, we read several books (we just looked through some of them, they are all pretty long) about Italy.

Hailey stamped her passport (and I am obviously a few weeks behind in my posting).

We learned about Roman Numerals.  Hailey wanted me to test her and see if she could get them all correct- which she did.

We talked about Mt. Vesuvius and watched some Youtube videos of volcanos.  Then, of course, we had to make our own volcano.  Hailey was obviously more impressed than Hunter.

Hailey built her own version of the Roman Colosseum.

We learned about Michelangelo, and watched a BrainPop show about him.  Then, I taped paper under Hunter’s table so that Hailey and Hunter could pretend to be Michelangelo.

Of course, we ended our study of Italy by going out for some Italian food.  Yummy!

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