HOME SCHOOL BLOG: Rocks and Reading Activity

SHOW and Share interesting rocks:  The rocks can be sparkly quartz, agates, petrified wood, and rocks with unusual colors, textures or shapes.
  
READ a book about rocks or nature:  


PAINT a rock.  Find smooth rocks to paint.   Use tempura paints and markers. Small stones can be glued to the rocks with permanent glue to make small critters.   

LIBRARY HOUR:  ROCKS PAINTED and embellished.

SHOW AND SHARE the children's creations.

READ stories about nature.  


(SWEET SHORT SIMPLE STORIES-  The Adventures of the mole sisters arefun for young and old.   Moles and little critters like gophers dig up rocks!    Sometimes by mole hills and gopher mounds,  there are  rocks to be found.
My husband likes to pick up rocks where ever he walks.  Sometimes he carries one or two in his pocket and after a time, the stones look shiny and polished, as if they have come from the  river bottom.

Thoughts on Rocks

In the parking lot  at the care center, rocks have been  touched by an artist's paintbrush. Left there,  to be found by those who come and go. Community Art.

DOC'S ROCKS IN THE CARE CENTER PARKING LOT

"Come to Him, (then, to that) Living Stone which men tried and throw away, but which is chosen  and precious in God's sight." 

1 Peter 2:5 Amplified Bible

"A time to cast away  stones, and a time to gather stones together." Ecclesiates 3:5

CRAFT PROJECTS rock!
Stones gathered to make a pebble picture, and stones cast away in  a game of hop scotch. (Clean shiny rocks can be purchased at a nearby dollar store if large amounts are needed for a group. Or find them on the beach.)

To make Pebble Pictures,  arrange  the stones to make  critterS,  flowerS,  or wordS.  Glue the stones onto wood or chipboard with tacky glue.  Paint embellishments with acrylic craft paint. 
 

To make Chalk Rocks,  paint a rock with flat acrylic craft paint.  Write on it with chalk.