Abacus: Mountain – Creative Curriculum List for January
Read all about how to use this list and our heart behind this project here.
And, here is a sweet pinterest board I put together with lots of project ideas and inspiration
“Mountain”
Movies:
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Sound of Music
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Mountains from Planet Earth
Music:
In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg
Rocky Mountain High by John Denver
America the Beautiful
Crescendos
Yodeling
Sciences:
Rock Collecting/ identifying rock-types
Breaking Geodes
Volcano Making
Elevation Maps
Examining rocks under a microscope- sugar vs salt, etc.
Art & Craft:
Plastic wrap and tape mountain paintings
Painting mountains
Torn Paper mountain Range Stencils
Carving rock stamps
In the Kitchen:
Haystack cookies (we’ll call them Mountain cookies!)
Books:
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Online:
Listen to our Mountain spotify mix
Download our January desktop wallpaper
Writing:
Mountain Shaped Poems
Journal Keeping/Adventure Logs
Here is a printable pdf of our little chart we made for ourselves:
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