Africa

The boys and I have been studying all about Africa. We read books, worked on some notebooking pages, and played a really fun game that I put together. The game helped us learn the different countries in Africa.

We learned about The Empires of Ghana, Mali, and Kushi. We also watched some documentries about ancient Africa, salt minning, and gold minning. We also learned about trade caravans.

Panning for Gold

For my little ones (6 and 4) we read Magic Treehouse books Lions at Lunchtime and Good Morning, Gorillas. We read about different animals in Africa and they also enjoyed playing the map game with their older brothers.

The older boys also practiced drawing Africa using the book Draw Africa. By the end of the unit they were able to draw the continent from memory.

We combined our art and notebooking together. Here the boys drew camels traveling in a trade caravan.

I put this fun game together for the boys and I to play to help us learn all the countries in Africa. You can grab a copy for free just click on the picture above. Instructions on how to play the game are included in the file. I hope you enjoy it just as much as we did.

Water Filtration Project

Hi guys! I hope you had a fabulous week. I wanted to share with you a fun water filtration project the kids and I did. This activity ties into our science and geography units. We followed the instructions in Apologia Exploring Creation with Physics and Chemistry. The boys loved ever minute of this project.

 

We started by going for a nature walk and collecting water from 

our local river. 

Here's the water we collected. 

When we got home we set up our filtration system. I won't go 

into details because it's part of the lesson in the book. 

The boys started pouring the dirty water through the filtration slowly. 

our container was really large so it's hard to see the water

but it was clean. Of course not clean enough to drink because it 

didn't go through the treatment process. 

This was an amazing lesson and the boys got to see first hand how to filter water. I hope you enjoyed seeing this project.

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Read the World: Multicultural Week

Hi guys! I am so excited Read the World summer book club has official started this week. This week is Multicultural week. I grabbed the boys books from the library using the book list suggested in "Give Your Child the World."

1. Whoever You Are
2. All the Colors of the Earth
3. One World, One Day
4. Little Humans
5. Me on the Map
6. Children Just Like Me
7. The Red book

We have loved all the books and the boys have read them over and over again. This week is pretty laid back no worksheets or activities involved just some good old reading.

If you are on Instagram make sure to visit the #Giveyourchildtheworld to see more book suggestions and other families participating in the book club. Make sure to check out Simple Homeschool for the reading schedule.


What are your summer reading plans?

Read and Make: Art Around the World Collection

We have been studying different countries this year in our geography curriculum. I love adding crafts and a good book to all our subjects, and geography was no different.

I wanted to gather all the crafts and books we have enjoyed into one post, I hope this is helpful and that you enjoy the books and crafts as much as we have.

Japan:

Read The Cherry Blossom Festival and make a Cherry Blossom tree with pink popcorn. 

India:

Read T is for Taj Mahal and make a Taj Mahal bleeding tissue paper craft.

China:

Read Grandfather Tang's Story and make a tangram puzzle.
 
Ghana: 

 

Read Kente Colors and make a woven paper kente cloth.  

Kenya:

 Read Honey...Honey...Lion! and make a lion mask. 

 Panama

Read Papagayo: The mischief maker  and make a paper mola parrot craft.

Russia

 Read Babushka's Doll and make a matryoshka patterned doll craft.

 I will be adding to this post as we complete the rest of the countries. Stay tuned for all the fun crafts and wonderful books to come :).

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Anansi the Spider Craft

We are on to ancient Africa in our history curriculum. We were introduced to a wonderful African folk tale "Anansi the Spider."

I checked out a few versions of this popular African folktale, and the boys enjoyed all the versions. I think I read 4 different ones in one sitting.

One of the activities suggested was to make Anansi the spider using some Styrofoam balls. I didn't have any on hand so, I put together a printable craft. It is available for free, for you to download at the end of this post.

I printed ours on black construction paper. You can do the same or just have your child color with a black marker/crayon.

We used oil pastels to add some patterns and color to our spider. 

The boys weaved a spiders web using a paper plate and some yarn.

We attached "Anansi" to her web and our craft was complete. 

Click on image to download your free copy.

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Art Around the World Morocco

Hi guys, today I wanted to share with you another Art Around the World post. This craft comes to you from Morocco.

Material:

• scissors/ x-acto knife
• construction paper
• tissue paper
• contact paper
• lantern template 

Download your template print and cut out the lanterns. I used an x-acto knife to cut out the windows just so I could get clean lines. You could do the cutting or just have your child cut out the larger pattern and you cut out the windows.

Place your contact paper behind the window and have fun adding the colorful tissue paper. Once your child is all done, put it up your beautiful lanterns.

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