This afternoon Ethan
wanted to do something "crafty." My play suggestions kept being
shot down until I consented to getting out the pipe cleaners. It wasn't
even five minutes later that he had this volcano built and was telling me all
about it. I told him to wait so I could get out my computer and write
down his description. These are his exact words, unedited.
A Diagram of a Volcano
By Ethan Currier
The things at the bottom
that are wiggly, those are the veins which go to the molten rock in the core of
the earth. The core of the earth is the molten rock. The
molten rock proceeds its way through that funnel besieging its way up to the
volcano top. Once its there, there’s lots of fire, and the molten
rock spills out of the volcano. Once it’s there the volcano makes a
huge circle with a dip. When it’s almost at the top it’s very
hot. The ashes are the cloud. The lava flows down from
the volcano.
The color blue is the
ash. The color green is the veins from the molten rock. The
brown is the mountain.
I think that’s it!
That's great! I love that he got besiege in there! Are you reading about volcanoes, or did this come out of nowhere?
ReplyDeleteWe have gotten volcano books from the library a few times, but not recently. It never ceases to amaze me how much children sponge up the information around them.
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