Disney School - Snow White

So just like everyone else, my kids are home for the next few weeks.  We are huge Disney fans, so we've decided to go to Disney school.  What does this mean, you may ask?  Well, each day, or activities are based on a different Disney movie.  Today was day 1, so we are doing Snow White.

We started our day with math.  The kids already have math sheets that the school sent home, so I have them do one a day.  If you are looking for ideas, do some counting with apples, dwarves, diamond shapes, basically anything that has a snow white vibe.  My daughter is currently working on units of measure, so we could have done some interesting conversions of weight for the jewels, or distances to get to the mine.

We followed this up by watching a few videos on YouTube about the black forest.  We enjoyed this one that follows a family around the black forest area.  It doesn't cover the importance of the fairy tales, but it still made my kids want to visit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5HE94YtjBU

Next was our craft time.  We made caramel apples in honor of the poisoned apples of the evil queen.  We melted caramels on the stove.  I removed the stems and put a stick in each apple.  The kids then rolled the apples around in the caramel.  We tried adding chocolate, but it didn't work that well.  Finally the kids added M&Ms to the outsides.  We let them cool and then ate them for our lunch dessert.  They may not have been very pretty, but they were very yummy.

We went back to school sanctioned work and had the kids do their assigned English and spelling work.

We then took our recess and lunch break.  The kids got to eat their apples.  As I said, they were very yummy. During lunch we watched the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.  We've seen it a ton of times, but since we were dedicating the day to it, I thought it was important to watch the movie.

Science was next on our list. I took inspiration off of the queen making her poison.  We followed this web page to make our own baking soda potions. My son really liked this one.

https://www.messylittlemonster.com/2018/09/baking-soda-magic-potion-science-experiment-kids.html

Next was creative writing.  This is one of my favorite lessons.  My children are in kindergarten and fourth grade, so they each have different needs.  For my son, I had him write about his favorite dwarf, and what his favorite things were.  My daughter got the harder, but more fun assignment of writing the story from the evil queen's point of view.

Our last activity of the day was reading.  We read the original Brothers Grimm version of Snow White.  It's a little darker than the cartoon, but I honestly believe the kids need to see where the movies originated.

Overall, the day went pretty well.  I am planning on doing a movie a day as long as the kids are in lock down.  Feel free to follow along on our adventures and hopefully get inspired for your own "Disney school."