Land Forms

Our children are fascinated by geography. They really enjoy learning the terminology of land forms...lake, island, gulf, peninsula, strait, isthmus, cape, bay.

I used oven baked clay to shape the land forms in small bread pans.

A vinyl mat for work, laminated cards for labels, a pitcher for water, eye dropper of blue food coloring to color water, a sponge and rag for clean up.

A Couple Of Quick Art Projects For Spring

Tracing, cutting, gluing...Butterfly Puppets! Gluing circles on a line to make an inchworm...

Bought some photo coasters on sale and used impressionist stickers to make a matching work...

Updating The Practical Life Area For Spring

Embroidery...Sewing with yarn on mesh...

Clipping small clothespins on small buckets...

Cracking pistachios for snack...

Egg matching and sorting...

Sorting and opening a jar with lid...

Tonging...

Smaller tonging...

Spooning...

Flower arranging...

Maple Moon

The full moon on March 10th is know as the Maple Moon.

We are lucky enough to have six beautiful sugar maple trees in the front of our school who generously share their sap with us each year. When the nights are still very cool and the days are warm the sap flows freely and sweetly.

The children love collecting the "sweet water" and together we boil it down into a rich syrup. The older children have researched the business of syrup making. They have designed labels for our bottles, determined the pricing, and will market their product this spring.