As part of our “travels” around the world we map out the countries with cookie dough. My boys and I made a batch of cookie dough for our cookie cake of China. Baking is a great educational tool especially when you double the recipe. Exposure to fractions, adding fractions, reading…
We are visiting Asia this school year and stopping by China, India, and Thailand. Our first stop has been China and we have enjoyed our stay thus far. This is an in depth look at China using books, DVDs, and activities. We typically read books aloud, but they can be…
We said good-bye to Europe with an Italian feast. We will spend the rest of the school year on history and resume our trip around the world next school year when we visit Asia. We had a pretty big pasta menu for our Italian feast. While I made most of…
When we first started unit studies of different countries I thought it was important to make a 3d map of the country and its topography. We started our study in the Arctic where we made a salt map of Greenland. It was a fun activity and we enjoyed painting the…
As we study various countries in Europe we have also been learning about where countries are located in Europe. Besides having fun with the game 10 Days in Europe we learn about the geography of Europe with a Europe Framed Continent Puzzle. My boys have probably put together the Europe…
Last school year I purchased Professor Noggin Geography of Canada Card Game for our unit study on Canada. We played it nearly every school day while we were studying Canada. By the end of our unit study the boys were getting most of the easy level questions correct. The card…
Today we assembled a flag of Ukraine. Ukraine’s flag was rather simple to put together. It is two solid colors so I cut a piece of construction paper in half and the boys glued it onto another piece. We will hang up their flags in our schoolroom. So far we…
We completed a cookie cake of Ukraine today in our study of the country. Last year when we started studying countries in depth we made a salt map. At the end of our study we had a salt map hanging around taking up space. So I decided to make something…
