Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Around the World in 10 Weeks: England

I have found that as we went along it does seem like less and less pictures were taken!
But we did have a lot of fun on our day learning about England. 
We first talked about the country and how it is connected to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. 
We did this in the middle our family Beatrix Potter week (her birthday was that week) so we watched a bit of Peter Rabbit. 
 

Once again, a lot of coloring. 


We learned about some of the landmarks and did some matching. 


We tried some Dairy Milk Buttons from our London Market. 


We read lots of Beatrix Potter books and did a Peter Rabbit puzzle. 


Around the World in 10 Weeks: Canada

We used the day that we learned about Canada to also learn about the Arctic. 
Once again, I find that I didn't take many pictures. 
we colored. We painted Canadian flags with their hands, learned about Canada, learned about the Arctic, and made magic snow. 
 



Around the World in 10 Weeks: Australia

We had fun on Australia day. 
This was our Australia continent box. 
 

We picked up some Australian style liquorice at the dollar spot in Target. They thought it was really good. 


For some reason I don't have a lot of pictures from this day but we did a lot of coloring, made up stories, and learned a lot. 


The bulletin board after Australia. 


Around the World in 10 Weeks: Antarctica

Antarctica day was another really fun day. 
We did a lot of coloring and animal match ups. 
 

They made mosaic penguins with cut up construction paper. 



They watched March of the Penguins. 


While they watched that they were playing in some homemade kinetic sand that was supposed to be snow and some plastic penguins. 




They loved it and we had that sand all over the house for days. 

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Around the World in 10 Weeks: United States of America

We learned about the United States of America in the week leading up to the 4th of July. 
We talked about our history, our landmarks, animals, and did a lot of coloring. 
 

One of our favorite things to use with Geography is the Highlights subscriptions where you travel to different countries and solve mysteries. 
They have another series now that is Which Way USA where you learn about different states through activities. While we don't like it as much as the Top Secret Adventures, they were still fun. 
We did quite a few of these this week. 






Monday, August 31, 2015

Around the World in Ten Weeks: Egypt

Egypt was one of my favorite Geography days this summer! 
We used the kinetic sand that the girls already had for dinosaur play. I took some little Egypt landmarks from a TOOB set and buried them in the sand. 
The girls had to play archaeologist and dig them out. 
(This was especially fun for Maddy because as of right now that is what she wants to be when she grows up!)
 


A few of our supplies. 


The girls colored paper pyramids which they later cut out and taped into pyramid shapes. 


Then we used some dolls (similar to Barbie but from the dollar store) and made some papier mache to make the dolls into mummies. 


This is the only shot I have of Abi making them because she did a few strips and then was done. 
She hates feeling slimy things. So I had to finish hers.


Maddy really enjoyed it. 


The finished wrapped mummies. It took a few days for them to dry. 


That afternoon we used some hieroglyph pages to figure out codes, make cartouches, and make up our own languages with pictures. 








We read a story. 


We colored some pictures. 


These are some of our books that were used...


For a snack we made some Egyptian cookies. I got the recipe on Pinterest. 
These looked good. But they really weren't. 
They tasted like a bite of flour with a cashew in it. 


Thursday, August 27, 2015

Around the World in 10 Weeks: Introduction to Africa

I'm going to lump some of our week activities together here. Before going to the zoo we did our introduction to Africa. 
This is looking into the Africa Continent Box...
 

We talked about South Africa and Kenya and a few other countries were mentioned. 
We did a lot with safari animals. 
Matching...



Coloring the Kenya flag...


Africa mazes...


Coloring wooden safari animals...


Learning about Nelson Mandela...


The girls made safari dioramas. 


We played a little hangman. 
That is my really pathetic attempt at a hippo. 


Here is our board after Russia and these parts of Africa.... 


Their cute dioramas...