I started off rather excited about learning about Italy, since there were so many areas we could explore! But the week was a tough one with Junior J not eating or sleeping well, so we ended up doing only a couple of activities related to the books we read, but had loads of free play instead.
We did:
:: Watch videos of Vivaldi's Four Seasons (get the videos here), as well as a couple of videos of the group Stomp (like this one) to get across the idea of finding music in everyday sounds, and making music with everyday objects.
:: Have pasta parties, where Junior J had the happy problem of trying to be fair to his dinosaurs and giving them the same amount of pasta (a sort of introduction to division):
:: Make pizzas, both the play-food versions...
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| Junior J glued on various shapes cut out from construction paper. These were then laminated and cut out as play food! |
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| I smudged some brown ink at the edges to give it an "oven-baked" appearance... and we cut them into half, thirds and quarters, to introduce fractions to the boy. The dinosaurs ate them all! |
... as well as real edible ones:
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| Junior J kneading the dough with Papa. He was waiting for his turn to do his own mini-pizza! |
And of course, we also built our mini Venice which was promptly overrun by dinosaurs!
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