Yesterday, we read this book:
To my surprise it went along with our WW II studies because it was about a man from Japan. It was recommended in our, "Caldecott Winners" workbook by Evan Moore.
The book suggested an activity of a watercolor picture of a place the children had lived or visited in their past.
I was impressed by the fact that each child picked a different location that was special to them.
Among their paintings were: the beach, our old home, a campground, and the mountains of Vermont.
They really seemed to enjoy reminiscing on their special trips and the spoke about the memories they had of each destination.
Another activity the book suggested was to make an origami boat. After we folded our paper creations we decided to give them a try in the bathtub.
To our surprise they began to float and glide on the water awakening our imagination as if we were sailing and relaxing on a beautiful sunny day!
Since we were already experimenting with origami and I had practiced making the paper crane from Sadako last week, I thought I would try to teach it to the kids. Although I couldn't remember all of the steps and had to consult a tutorial on youtube, we were able to complete our birds.
Here are our flying beauties. I always like when our school day is filled with awe and creativity: reading a good story, remembering good times, doing an activity or two, and making our imaginations come to life by Flying Cranes and Floating boats makes an afternoon complete!
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