Disney School - Pinocchio

It is day 3 of our home school and day 2 of our Disney school.  Today we focused on the movie Pinocchio.  I will admit, this is not one of my favorite movies.  When I was little I couldn't understand why the boys were so naughty, and I was terrified of the whale.  But it did offer some good inspiration for school today.

We started, as usual, with math sheets from school.  If you are looking for inspiration that is more on theme, maybe make some word problems with how many fish monstro will eat, how many of Gipetto's clocks are working or not working, or how many boys were turned into donkeys.

We then watched videos about Italy.  I will be honest, the history ones we watched were a little boring.  I finished it up with a Ultra HD tour of Florence.

Animated history of Italy part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y16QLJOVP6s

Tour of Florence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfW-Tn231Sk

Next we moved to science.  I took my inspiration off of Monstro the whale.  We did this whale blubber experiment to show how animals can keep warm even in freezing water.

https://sciencekiddo.com/how-arctic-animals-stay-warm/

I thought that I had some crisco at home, however I was mistaken.  Instead we used some play-doh.  It worked pretty well, except my daughter's nails kept ripping a hole in her play-doh.  My son's however, worked perfectly.  He went from holding his finger in the water for 18 seconds to holding it in the water for over a minute.

My daughter really wanted to work on our craft next, so instead of spelling we did art.  Of course we made marionettes.

https://www.doodlecraftblog.com/2013/04/easy-silly-bird-marionette-diy-tutorial.html

My daughter chose a pink body and head with white feet.








My son went with all yellow. 

This was a fun craft, even though there was a lot they couldn't do in terms of the gluing.   But once they were done, the kids loved playing with them.

By this time we all needed a break, so they had recess in the basement, followed by lunch.  We started watching the movie Pinocchio on Disney +.

After lunch, the kids did their assigned spelling and English work.  My daughter is able to do her work on the computer, and my son enjoys the cutting and pasting project he got from school.

Writing was next.  My son was asked if he could have an animal conscience, what would his be and why.  He chose a dragon because it could protect him and they could play together.  My daughter was given the choice between this assignment or writing a short puppet show.  She chose a puppet show and wrote a fun show involving frogs and candy.   We finished the day by reading a bit of the original Pinocchio story.

I hope you enjoyed this installment of our Disney School. We will be taking the weekend off, but will start back up with Bambi on Monday.  Thank you for following along!