Italia Giorno! (or something like that)

Today was Italy day... We learned all about where Italy is and a few pieces of history too.

First up we made clay plates and decorated them in a Roman style with some simple tools:

Followed by a look at mosaics.  We've done paper mosaics a few times before, but this one was with coloured pasta... J chose to make a scene rather than a pattern - and plumped for a Star Wars battle scene (of course), with explosions and a crumbling building:

We did this at a local group, but I definitely think we can do this again at home: pick a country and learn bits about it for the day, even incorporating some of the language and food.  

Our project for this term has been all about Australia, which are are doing much more in-depth - choosing a different animal to look at each time, drawing it, finding out it's habits etc.. and later on we will be making boomerangs and some sort of montage of all things Oz...