StArt – Angelina of Italy

As I wrote in my geography post yesterday, we have decided to travel to various famous landmarks of the world. Anna’s first pick was Tower of Pisa. It was perfect, because I happened to have a great book for it – Angelina of Italy. The book takes readers to Pisa where little Angelina, a pizza lover, discovers that Tower of Pisa is not made out of pizza, but made out of stone instead. I also talked to Anna a little about actual history of this tower, and how Italian engineers managed to stabilize it for the time being.

Lately Anna expresses more interest in making 3D projects. I like how she brainstorms the ways of making something. She decided that she wants to make a Tower of Pisa with playdoh. We had a package of Crayola Model Magic, and finally the moment came to try it out. Both of us loved playing with it. What you see in the foreground is my version of Tower of Pisa – sorry if it looks more than you-know-what, I did my best :). Anna had terrific time trying to stabilize her towers all the time explaining to me how she is going to dig under it the way Italian engineers did. Eventually, however, she had a change of heart, and both our towers ended up as a furniture set for Pooh and Piglet. At least both of them got mini Pisa Towers for “cuddle friends”. Anna thought that it’s very important to have plenty of bookshelves with books (stones) in Pooh and Piglet’s bedroom.

Reading the book motivated me to do a pizza-from-scratch again. Certainly, it takes a lot more time, but it’s also so much tastier than frozen pizza from a box that we normally eat. Anna loved to help out, and I can count it towards my July goal of baking once… maybe twice :)

Come and share your books and story stretchers in StArt at A Mommy’s Adventures. I also link this post to Geography Exchange at Children Grow, Children Explore, Children Learn.