8 July 2010
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Read aloud: Galimoto Art activity: Make your own galimoto with different grade wires from the hardware store. More ideas here. Read and narrate: Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. (3rd grade and up) Continue to work on African Saints today. … Continue reading
6 July 2010
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Fun Read Alouds or for Beginning Readers: What’s Cooking, Jamela? Fun Read for Older Kids: King Solomon’s Mines (Mom, pre-read please). For discussion: Should fiction be included in a serious study of history? Why or why not? In reading King … Continue reading
6 July 2010
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Mom and older kids: Saints of Africa. Can also read aloud certain sections. Pick 12 saints to include in our Africa scrapbook. (Note about this book: It is a worthy compilation of well-known, lesser-known and obscure African saints. What bothers … Continue reading
21 June 2010
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Read Aloud: A is for Africa. Add notes to the Nigeria page. Read Aloud: Moja Means One. Copy and illustrate the numbers in the book. Older kids: Read African Fractals. Take note of interesting information and include in the Math … Continue reading
11 June 2010
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FIFA.com The oldest boy is reading Cry, the Beloved Country. Here’s a set of questions from LoveToLearn.net if you want to go that route. I’ve watched the movie and highly recommend for late teens to adults. The younger ones are … Continue reading
4 June 2010
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Read Aloud: Chidi Only Likes Blue. Make a color wheel. You can use this blank wheel if you like. In each section of the wheel, write down your notes or draw the items Chidi and Nneka like. Put this page … Continue reading
4 June 2010
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This is my list of what *not* to include in our study. For various reasons. The White Giraffe The Slave Dancer Africa for Kids The Power of One — ugh. couldn’t even get past the first few pages. I borrowed … Continue reading
3 June 2010
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How timely (and ironic, but more on that later) that we’re doing our Africa unit study and today is the feast day of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions! I’m keeping it simple (everyone’s still recovering, bad coughs all around) so … Continue reading
1 June 2010
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Where did Mogo live? What is the mundo-mugo? What is the legend of the 9 Kikuyu tribes? If you were Kikuyu like Mogo, how would you answer the question, “What is your name?” Based on what the author tells about … Continue reading
29 May 2010
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All Ye Lands, pp. 273-278. Take notes and make entries into Book of Centuries/Adventure: Africa scrapbook. Read Aloud: For You Are A Kenyan Child Tea Party!!! For an African Princess, from Princess Tea Continue working on mural/Flora/Fauna.
29 May 2010
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Read aloud: Beatrice’s Goat. Start a collection box for Heifer International-Uganda. Play Mancala. Read the Wikipedia entry about it and take notes for the scrapbook. Compare it to our Filipino sungka. Mom and older kids: Read Our Lady of Kibeho. … Continue reading
20 May 2010
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Read Kingfisher History Encyclopedia, pages 243, 270-273. Make entries into Book of Centuries/Adventure: Africa scrapbook. Read Aloud: Honey… Honey… Lion! by Jan Brett. Print out animals and plants/trees to color. You can either a) make a mural or b) put … Continue reading
18 May 2010
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Pick an African country (we will do at least 3 each) for inclusion in our Adventure: Africa scrapbook. Use flags from Usborne Flags Sticker Book and choose facts and figures to copy. Work on these for the next 3 days. … Continue reading
18 May 2010
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Mom and Older Kids (15 and up): Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust Discuss at dinner table. Make journal entries into Africa scrapbook. Read Kingfisher History Encyclopedia, pages 212, 213, 216-217. Make entries into Book of Centuries/youngers … Continue reading
18 May 2010
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Read DK Eyewitness: Africa. Share what you have learned at the dinner table. Take notes on areas you want to explore further. Read (older kids): Mogo’s Flute. Study questions here. You can take up to 3 days to answer these … Continue reading