Papa Piccolo

Our book for this past two weeks has been Papa Piccolo,we rowed this one last year too,it was very popular,especially with the yummy Italian food to accompany it.

Here's what we did and our scrapbook pages.

-We learned about Italy's geography in Europe,looked at it in our atlas and talked about the continents,and coloured in the Italian flag.

-I chose some new vocbulary from the manual and we found pictures to illustrate them with.Then Sam wrote the words on the front flaps.He also coloured in a gondola which I stuck in his notebook.

-We read about Marco Polo and traced his route
on a map.We also included an entrry

about him in our timeline notebook.

-We read 'The Fox and the Sour Grapes' and dicussed 'sour grapes'.

-Everyone had great fun learning about the colour wheel,Sam played some online quizzes and games and the we did some colour experiments with markers,food colouring and water.

-Sam and Rose painted masks and did a little bit of roleplay as Piccolo and Sophia(left).

-We learned about 'Nocturnal' animals and I printed out sheets of some different types which Sam painted and stuck in.For his background he used watercolours to make a night sky and then put some gold flecks on it to look like stars.

-Sam stuck the correct pictures of how a kitten grows on the table from HSS.

-I typed out Sam's narration of the story and stuck it in,and I also added some photos from 'Our Italian Dinner' and also of dc making Biscotti,yum!

Here are the Photos closer up;

Here are some pictures of Rose's notebook also.She did some of the same things as Sam,and she learned a little rhyme and learned about the letter 'C'.