Nature: Landforms Day 1

Last Friday there is no Fine Motor Friday listed since we repeated a previous activity and she used the clothespins to match the letters.  (See previous post here.)

This week is a new month, so we are going to study nature this month.  I want to focus on major landforms and the seasons.  So this week we are doing a couple of major landforms.  Tues we did mountains and volcanoes.

Letter H:  book, identify the Hs on the path, practice writing Hs.  Then we practiced the number 8, counting to it and drawing them.


For our theme time, we read a non-fiction book about Mountains.  It was awesome since it was VERY simple and perfect for her to understand.  We focused on the pictures and then looked at a few more on the internet.  We then made a mountain out of rice krispie treats.  :)









Our next step was to talk about mountains.  We built a mountain out of legos next and put a cup of baking soda in the middle.  So we of course had to erupt it by pouring in vinegar.  She LOVED it. (And it was an easy mountain to clean and no wasted playdough).

We then watched some youtube videos of real volcanoes and talked about lava.

The best part was after, during quiet time, she chose Ice Age.  I was in the kitchen working on dinner and I hear her shout, "Mom!  I see the fire! Come look!"  And lo and behold, there was a volcano on her movie.  :)  Success!