British Columbia Study

Hi guys, I wanted to share our study of British Columbia. In my opinion one of the most beautiful provinces. Here are some activities we did. We used The Great Canadian Adventure as our primary resources. 

At the beginning of the week I set up our work shelves with books, projects, and pintables to get us in the mood to start our study. 

After learning all about the Rocky Mountains we baked a sugar cookie in the shape of British Columbia. We used chocolate chips for the mountains and blue icing for the two major rivers. 

We learned about the three types of volcanoes (shield, cone, stratovolcano). We of course used baking soda and vinegar to make a volcano. We also tied in some Arabic watching Farashaty video on volcanoes. 

We learned all about salmon and tied our history study of the Pacific Northwest Natives. 

We did a flower dissection and learned all about The Great Bear Rainforest.

We also read a lot of books and watched videos all about British Columbia. I shared a lot on our Instagram page. 

I hope you enjoyed seeing all the different activities. If you enjoyed this post check out our other post all about Nova Scotia. 

Water Cycle Felt Puzzle Plus Book Suggestions (Earth Day)

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Today I wanted to share with you a water cycle felt puzzle I created in honor of Earth Day which is coming up. This felt puzzle was really easy to create and can be a fun hands on lesson. To go along with this puzzle, I have for you book suggestions and free printables from some wonderful bloggers.

Felt Puzzle:

Book Suggestions:

1. A Drop Around the World 
2.  All the Water in the World
3. Magic School Bus Wet All Over
4. Did a Dinosaur Drink this Water?
5. A Drop in the Ocean 
6. The Drop goes Plop 

Free Printables:

1. Water Cycle Lapbook from Homeschool helper Online. 
2. Montessori water cycle activities plus free printables from prek and sharing
3. Water cycle poster, song, and a cut and paste water cycle diagram from Buzzing with Ms. B (scroll all the way to the end of the post to grab her freebie.)
4. Head over to The first grade parade for some fun activities plus a free water cycle diagram. 
5. Water Cycle puzzle from Relentlessly fun, deceptively educational.  
6. Water Cycle Themed Unit and Free Resources from Homeschool Giveaways.

A big thanks to all the wonderful bloggers I mentioned for the free activities and worksheets. Your hard work will be helpful to teachers and parents :).

That's it! I hope all these resources are helpful to you and if you have any book suggestions or printable to share please drop me a comment.

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Layers of The Earth Felt

We are on to our next planet "Earth". To help the kids memorize the layers of the Earth I made them a felt layers of the Earth puzzle. I thought this would be more fun than a worksheet.

I used a sparkly black felt as the base to represent "space". 

I printed some Montessori 3 part cards to use along with this activity.

 

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Sun Prints

Today the boys and I took advantage of the beautiful warm weather and made some sun prints. I had originally bought this and was waiting to use it with our Sun lesson, but the weather was never warm enough.

Click on the picture to go to the full lesson on The Sun.

The boys had a lot of fun making the sun prints. I saved a few sheets to do this again in the spring when we have more pretty things to print.

 I purchased this kit from amazon.

We choose our items to print. As you can see we didn't have many natural items because its winter here. But we worked with what we had. We also printed some objects we found around the house.

It took about a a minute or two for the print to show up. 

We rinsed the prints in water and waited for them to dry.

They turned out nice, but I can't wait to try this in the spring with all the lovely flowers.

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