Monday, April 4, 2011

Ahhh, Life With Boys #6

We are "traveling" around the world giving this curriculum a whirl. When we found ourselves knee deep in Italy. Europe, in general, makes my heart beat a little faster and add my bit of Italian heritage and I'm hooked. But what caught my boys attention out of all of it, you ask?

It wasn't testing out Michealangilo's upside down painting methods or being exposed to great works of art like the statue of David (although many giggles were had when they realized the dude was naked). It wasn't paying a fortune for imported goods to create an authentic Italian feast for the family. It wasn't using new materials and creating a replica of the Roman Coloseeum (although their lego men DID enjoy being gladiators for the day).

Nope...a little clay volcano was their height of interest. After learning about Mt. Versuvius and it's explosion over Pompeii, I mentioned as a side note that we would give our modeling clay volcanoes a shot at exploding on Friday after they had time to dry. EVERY DAY, little hands tested those volcanoes, eyes inspected, pitiful pleas were heard to give them a try just a little early.

It was torture but Friday finally came...


Ahhh, Life With Boys!

2 comments:

Confessions Of A Homeschooler said...

I LOVE IT! Great post too! My kids were hooked on the volcanoes too, I figure its just one of those things you HAVE to do as homeschoolers LOL! :o) Glad they had fun! Thanks for sharing!

Darth Weasel said...

getting to make stuff explode...who WOULDN'T love it? (with the possible exception of whoever got to clean it up...)