This week we completed a fun fortnight on exploration from the ancient civilisations to the most recent ocean exploration.
After completing our day on James Cook...
...we spent a morning on David Livingstone. What a kind-hearted man he was!
We briefly covered Arctic and Antarctic exploration...
...blue for the Arctic which is actually just sea ice and green for Antarctica which is a land mass.
Moving on to ocean exploration, we talked a little about underwater volcanoes...
...and had a science morning making convection currents with hot water and ice cold water lowered into room temperature water.
The hot water rose to the top.
The ice cold water stayed in its container at the bottom.
Experimenters.
We concluded with a morning of various types of fun explorer work, consolidating our two weeks of study on the subject.
The Boy did these cute puzzles.
And made a cute ship.
The girls performed a play about Christopher Columbus, starring King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, as well as some crew and a few Native Americans.
The Boy made a treasure map.
As did Panda Girl
...while Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl read through summaries of Tudor explorers' journeys...
...and located them on our whiteboard map.
Pirates by my two littlies.
All in a day's work.
