Today we had Will over to make two messy crafts that will remind us of the desert. We used SAND, of course! We reviewed where the story of Roxaboxen takes place…what is that type of land called? The desert! What kind of weather does the desert have? What type of land do they have? We discussed how hot and sandy it is there. The first craft we did was to make a sand art decorative bottle. (How do you like that name? I’m not really sure what to call them!) We poured colored sand into our ... Read More about Roxaboxen – Desert Crafts
A Wildflower Walk
I got this wonderful idea from Melissa, who loves to go on wildflower walks with her kids! I was inspired by reading her posts, so I decided to try this today with our kids. We got a bucket and headed out to find some wildflowers! While we were headed down the road, we also remembered to bring a trash bag this time and pick up trash we saw on the side of the road. We see trash everytime we go walking and kept forgetting a trash bag, so today we remembered! I was proud of the kids for working so ... Read More about A Wildflower Walk
Our Cactus
The setting for our book this week, Roxaboxen, is in a desert. So, I thought it might be fun to get a small cactus for us to observe. Here is our cute little cactus! And yes, this little thing is very prickly! We have taken turns just barely touching it, but if you bumped up against this thing it would definitely hurt! I also have a book or two from the library that we will be reading next week to learn a little more about these curious plants. The one I got from walmart was only .97, so ... Read More about Our Cactus
Our own Roxaboxen
For the last hour the kids have been working hard on creating their own little town in the playroom. They are all working together, working happily and using their imaginations! “School” doesn’t get much better than this! We went ahead and started Roxaboxen today, I just couldn’t wait til Monday! ... Read More about Our own Roxaboxen
Roxaboxen
Our next FIAR title will be Roxaboxen. Have you read this wonderful book by Barbara Cooney? What a treasure! I’m so thankful that my attention was brought to this book hrough FIAR. What fun we will have with this one! We will be learning about the desert, desert animals, observing a cactus, making our own roxaboxen with rocks, twigs and other various things we can find…and much more! A few books we have to go along with Roxaboxen are: Other resources and ... Read More about Roxaboxen
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 396
- 397
- 398
- 399
- 400
- …
- 406
- Next Page »