Tuesday 21 August 2012

Volcano!








We've (Denver and Sienna) started a little unit study on volcanoes, after visiting Mt Tongariro and going up Ruapehu a couple of weeks ago. Today we looked at the layers of the earth...crust, mantle, liquid and solid core. We made our own 'earths' from playdough to show the layers. The girls also did some handwriting using the letters that make up 'VOLCANO', and Denver did a math worksheet. This afternoon we are watching 'Volcano - The Coast is Toast' (ha, Denver cracks herself up saying that), and making lava cakes.

The Word Party

Loving words clutch crimson roses,
Rude words sniff and pick their noses,
Sly words come dressed as foxes,
Short words stand on cardboard boxes,
Common words tell jokes and gabble,
Complicated words play Scrabble,
Swear words stamp around and shout,
Hard words stare eachother out,
Foreign words look lost and shrug,
Careless words trip on the rug,
Long words slouch with stooping shoulders,
Code words carry secret folders,
Silly words flick rubber bands,
Hyphenated words hold hands,
Strong words show off, bending metal,
Sweet words call each other 'petal',
Small words yawn and suck their thumbs,
Till at last the morning comes,
Kind words give out farewell posies....
Snap! The dictionary closes.

-RICHARD EDWARDS.