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Camp Mother Goose Time

We just completed our first week of the July Mother Goose Time Camping theme. This week was all about being at the campsite. We learned so much about camping and the supplies needed to go camping. I have been inspired to actually go on a real camping trip, I've never been camping and now we are planning on taking a trip next year since we are to late and don't have the supplies we need to go this year.

So far we have learned about backpacks and what to pack to go on a camping trip or even a long hike. We also talked about tents and problems that can come about while camping. We played a fun game called Tent Troubles. We put cards that listed scenarios of possible camping troubles in our pocket cube and then we rolled the cube and came up with solutions. It was so fun to hear their ideas on how to solve the problems. We also built a little blanket fort that we are keeping up this month to be our tent. We imagined that it was our tent that we were trying to keep safe while playing the game.



We also talked about sleeping bags and learned that there are different kinds of sleeping bags you can get depending on the weather and time of year you go camping. We learned about fire safety on the day we talked about campfires and we built some cute fire sticks that we are putting by our living room campsite.




The last day of the week was wrapped up with camp music, a fun guitar craft and a hilarious game of Sing a Song. The game used the pocket cube again and came with a spinner. The cube had songs to sing and the spinner told us how we were to sing the songs. It was a lot of fun.




Another fun thing we are adding to the camping theme is a weekly camping themed treat and some poetry reading. This is something we do weekly in our homeschool but I thought it would be fun to stick with the camping theme. So this week we made Pan De Campo which is a camping bread that can be easily made at the campsite over a fire. We used a stove but still had fun making it. It was just like a big biscuit and we had it with honey. I also picked up a great camping poems book at a used book store so we plan on working through that book this month.

  
I am planning a themed snack for each week this month. Week 2 is called In the Night and we will be learning about camping at night time. So when thinking about a snack for this week I figured it would have to be s'mores! I plan on making s'mores cereal bars to have with our poetry reading. I also want to try to make a solar oven and cook some s'mores with the power of the sun. Week 3 is called On The Trail and I plan on having a make your own trail mix station to go along with the poetry reading for this week. The fourth week is called Down the River and I will probably make some blue jello and have some Swedish Fish with it.



*Mother Goose Time has generously provided this curriculum to us in exchange for our stories and honest opinions*




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