Lighthouses Week #3 (and North Carolina Study)

Tot School – 33 months

Boat Stamps

Building a Flashlight (one of many great Montessori activities found in the Montessori at Home ebook)

Sailboat Pattern Cards

Sailboat Magnet Page (printed in color)

Letter B box

Do-a-dot Boat Page (printed in black and white)

5yo – K

Tangram Lighthouses

Lighthouse Word Search

Lighthouse dot-to-dot

We also did week #3 from Amanda Bennett’s Lighthouse Unit Study

Lighthouse Science (These activities were taken from the book Lighthouses for Kids: History, Science, and Lore with 21 Activities (For Kids series)

Making our own polish and polishing pieces of copper pipes (in place of brass)

Fresnel Lenses and how prisms bend light

How ball bearings helped to turn lenses

Experimenting with the density of liquids (Fresnel lenses were floated in mercury to help them turn faster), Float or sink?


Building a working lighthouse

North Carolina Study

North Carolina 3 Part Cards

Making Chocolatey Pudding Surprise (North Carolina is the leading US Sweet Potato producer, at 40% of all US Sweet Potato production)

The baby liked it best!

And my Awesome Aunt Jackie sent me a ton of North Carolina Lighthouse Postcards!!

Books we read

Other Lighthouse Units:
Week 1 - Massachusetts
Week 2 - Oregon

Week 3 - North Carolina

Week 4 - Maine

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