Trinity has been learning about Earth’s features and land-forms in science. I simply had to post our most recent project because I have ZERO ‘crafty’ or artistic skills and am so excited about how it turned it out! No really. Zero. If the girls need something sewn, they give it to Andy or set it aside until we will be seeing one of their grandmothers. But salt-dough is like cooking. I figured THAT I could handle. Trinity built and painted a model featuring many of the things she has been learning about.
Below you can find: Mountains, rivers, a lake, plains, deserts, a valley, a plateau, a mesa, and a butte (full disclosure…I only learned the difference between those last three land forms two days ago! I think I’m learning as much as she is.). She also included an archipelago, a peninsula, ocean, coastal lands. Oh…and a volcano. That was improvised after Lilly had to “check” if the salt dough was dry yet and broke off the top of one of the mountains. Since Trin has also been reading about volcanos, magma, and tectonic plates etc. that worked out well!
We gave it a Utah touch with all those red-rocks. She decided to call her creation Trinland (like Finland). Maybe it’s time we read ‘Weslandia’ and come up with some more fun details about her country.
Lilly, of course, made her own. But there was a lot more pink and purple involved:
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Oh my, Trinland looks like someplace I’d like to visit. Well done, ladies. And kudos to the teacher!
Thanks Linda!!
Now you can talk about the best place for someone to live (habitats) and why that would be a good place to live. Then move on Weslandia, and have Trin create a history for Trinland, and a flag, and a government–oh wait, maybe that happens in 7th or 8th grade! Guess I’m getting ahead of myself! Love the relief map. She did an awesome job. And Lilly’s map looks like a really fun place to visit too. Is it called Lillandia?
Haha! I think I am going to find a place to keep it and come back to it several times throughout the year as we study different things. She can create more details about it as we go. I smell some writing assignments. We do talk about governments a little this year when we study some Greek history (and what the U.S. borrowed from them) around the time of the Winter Olympics. 🙂 Lilly hadn’t thought of a name for her country but when I suggested it (just now) she liked Lillandia. I’m thinking, with all that purple, her country specializes in crops of eggplant and Fuschias. 😀
I hope she likes eggplant fritters!