Cultivating Childhood

Overview: Window on the World : New Zealand New Zealand Fact Sheet Flag from Expedition Earth Workbook Map Worksheet Coloring Page People Maori Coloring Page Children Just Like Me book Travel Kids: Maori Haka Travel Kids: Kiwi Videos Tourism Video National Anthem Crafts Weaving Necklace Poi Craft Video Science  Seasons - NZ is in the Southern Hemisphere, so we learned about why they celebrate Christmas in the summer! Crash Course Kids Seasons and the Sun Earth's Rotation and Revolution Seasons Interactive on the Computer Animals Kiwi  Dot-to-Dot Video of one hatching Sheep  Craft Video of them herding Math Skip-Counting by 10s Skip-Counting Maze Bible Verse: I Corinthians 10:31 Some things we didn't do, but might be fun for at home: Various NZ crafts

Overview of South Africa: Videos Top 10 Amazing Facts about South Africa   (we skipped #1) Beautiful Cape Town Flag Worksheet Make out of Legos Map Mini-Unit Study Science: Talked about why shipwrecks happened at the bottom of continents South Africa's Big Five Animals Other things we did this week (unrelated to South Africa) Art We finished talking about Edgar Degas  and did a coloring page Math Skip-counting by Nines  Learned Nines tricks here and here Skip-Counting Mazes for Nines ( Other tricks that we didn't teach for multiplication  and here ) Science Magic School Bus "Takes Flight" Other Resources (we didn't get to): Nelson Mandela's speech " I Am An African " Learn more about The Big Five