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

Welcome to Week 3 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!
OR click here for Week 2, our summer camp about Chile!

Now on to Week 3: Oman.

To be honest, I knew nothing about Oman before my sister-in-law took a job there. Now that it’s on our radar, the girls and I really wanted to learn about it!

But this was my HARDEST week to plan. Why? Because it was very difficult to find children’s books about Oman in any of our local libraries! (Which, as you may remember, was one of my goals for this camp – find all the books in our local library system.) So you’ll notice that some of these books are NOT specifically about Oman, but they all tie into learning about it.

So, without further ado, here’s what we came up with:

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

Monday: 
Read: “Juicy Apricots” (page 13 of “Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook” by Karim Alrawi)
Recipe: Make the “Apricot Sheets” from page 18 of “Arab Fairy Tale Feasts” – AND try a date!

Tuesday: 
Read: Portions of “We Visit Oman” by Khadijah Ejaz. This is definitely geared toward older children, so I’m just going to read/summarize parts of it as we look at the pictures together.
Science Experiment: Create a Desert Biome following this tutorial

Wednesday:
Read: “The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle East” by Eric A. Kimmel
Dance: Learn an Omani dance with this YouTube video – it is not specifically a tutorial, but is simple enough that the girls and I can learn a few steps from it

Thursday:
Read: Pages 16-17 (and another story of your choosing) from “Riding a Donkey Backwards: Wise and Foolish Tales of Mulla Nasruddin” by Sean Taylor & the Khayaal Theatre
Craft: Weaving a pot holder on a kids loom like this one

Friday:
Read: “Follow the Moon Home” by Philippe Cousteau (and talk about the thousands of sea turtles who lay their eggs on Omani beaches – learn more here)
Outing: Visit an aquarium with sea turtles

Additional Reading:
“Into the Sea” by Brenda Z. Guiberson
“Swimming with Sea Turtles” by Miriam Coleman
“Nasreddine” by Odile Weulersse

Additional Optional Activity:
Sensory play with sand, while talking about deserts

Shoutout to these fabulous resources:

I had SUCH a hard time finding resources for kids to learn about Oman. But these two websites (Local Passport Family + Kid World Citizen) were VERY helpful and have even more resources if you’d like them!

In the next post, I’ll share Week 4 of the summer camp: THE PHILIPPINES!!

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! 😍

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