Mommy School

The morning that we flew out to Oregon, a door to door salesperson came and sold us some books and computer games (totally unlike us). In an effort to make the most of our purchase, I have been trying to do mommy school. So far, we have learned about continents, landscapes, and rocks/gems/volcanoes.

I don't have a picture of our continent project, but we blew up blue balloons and put colored cut outs of the continents on our "globes."

We learned about mountains, rivers, lakes, hills, plains, and valleys. We made 3-D topography maps of our own islands with colored keys to navigate the landscape.

McKenna's island is called "Collowattle."


Hunter names his island "Saunum."

We talked about rocks, gems and precious stones. We all made a crown with our birthstones in them. McKenna chose several "stones" for her crown. We also made a volcano.

McKenna is painting it for me. Hunter was too busy playing outside with his friends. I won't be giving out grades. If they live through "mommy school," they pass.

Hunter is helping our volcano erupt.

At the bottom of the moutain are houses (made by the kids out of clay). The lava would have covered the houses of the poor residents living near volcano Reeve.