Poland Extravaganza

My daughter is participating in a Geography Fair next week. She is focusing on Poland since we rowed Mrs Katz and Tush during the month of March. ("Mrs. Katz" is a Jewish woman who lived in Poland and immigrated to America.) Because my daughter is in kindergarten, it has taken a full month to complete our display. She does a little at a time.

A few weeks ago she created a map of Poland. The map took 4 days to complete, but we are very pleased with the results.

Day 1 - Making the salt dough, shaping it into the country of Poland and baking it.



Day 2 - Painting the baked Poland.




Day 3 - Painting the rest of the map - Defining water bodies versus land masses.



Day 4 - Labelling the map through copy work.



Now please don't be going and checking the map to scale!

Some of Why I Homeschool ...

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory. ~ C.S. Lewis

I took a piece of living clay
And gently formed it, day by day
And molded with my power and art
A young child's soft and yielding heart.

If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companion of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in. ~ Rachel Carson

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around. ~ Thomas Merton