Learning About CHILE: An At-Home, Pre-K Summer Camp

Welcome to Week 2 of the “Moms Keep Their Sanity While Their Kids Learn About The World” summer camp!!😂🙌

If you missed Week 1, click here for our summer camp about Iceland!

My goals for this summer camp?
Stay sane while home all day with two small children. (Obviously that was the main goal.😂)
Make it FUN for my 2yo and 4yo!!!😍
Read one book a day about that week’s country, and find all those books in the library. (Aka, save money.)
Keep it simple so I don’t get overwhelmed.
And set up the week’s activity schedule like this:

Monday: Make a RECIPE from that country (that’s allergy-friendly!)
Tuesday: Do a SCIENCE EXPERIMENT based on that country
Wednesday: Learn a DANCE from that country
Thursday: Make a CRAFT based on that country
Friday: Go on an OUTING based on what we learned

So, without further ado, here is week 2!

Kids Learn About Chile: 
A 1-Week, At-Home, Pre-K Summer Camp

Monday: 
Read: Portions of “Exploring Countries: Chile” by Lisa Owings
Recipe: Make Chilean Sopaipillas with Pumpkin

Tuesday: 
Read: “A Pen Pal for Max” by Gloria Rand
Science Experiment: Volcanic Action – see directions on page 44 of “Geology Lab for Kids” by Garret Romaine (also found at our local library!)

Wednesday:
Read: “Pepe and the Parade: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage” by Tracey Kyle
Dance: Learn a Chilean dance with this YouTube video

Thursday:
Read: “20 Fun Facts About Easter Island” by Heather Moore Never
Craft: 3 options: (1) Make a rain stick with this tutorial OR (2) Make an Easter Island clay replica with this tutorial OR (3) Make a fish clapper (directions on page 15 of “Chile: A portrait of the country through its festivals and traditions,” which was also in our local library!)

Friday:
Read: “Mariana and the Merchild: A Folk Tale from Chile” by Caroline Pitcher & Jackie Morris
Outing: Visit a beach and collect sea shells

Additional Reading:
“The Atacama Desert” by Lynn Peppas
“Littlebit: A story from Chile” (page 121 in the book “A Bedtime Full of Stories: Folk Tales and Legends from Around the World” by Angela McAllister)

Additional Optional Activity:
Science Experiment about Earthquakes with this tutorial

In the next post, I’ll share Week 3 of the summer camp: OMAN!!

If you do this summer camp, I want to hear how it went for you! And I’ll update this post with photos after we actually DO this week of summer camp ourselves! 😍