Europe Unit Study (Elementary)

Saturday, November 14, 2015

We are revisiting our Europe study, this time I’ve decided to take it by regions. But before we delve into that, we reviewed some of the things we’ve learned in the past years.

European Regions. Here’s a new study for this year, learning Europe through each regions. Here I was showing Mavi the divisions and the boundaries in the map. I bought this map years ago at Montessori Print Shop. So we’re doing a color code here based on our map in Europe in a Nutshell. Blue for northern Europe, red for western Europe, green for eastern Europe and orange for southern Europe.

Flags. The same goes to the flags. To be able to remember the countries easily, we just limit to 3-4 countries per region. You can get these mini-flags from my Flags of Europe printable.

We always worked the pin flags because Mavi enjoys this activity. The pin flags are included in my Flags of Europe file. My pin flags are really old and has been used so many times. I shall make a new set for Xavi when he needs it.

Animals of Europe. Mavi is sometimes confused of the animal list between North America and Europe so we always review this. The fact cards seen here are from my Animals of Europe printable (includes 3-part cards as well).

New activity this year is examining and matching European animals with their covers. This was a hit! My animal figures matches the printable. How cool is that? The animal covers are part of my Europe in a Nutshell and the animal figures are from Schleich.

Here’s a closer look.

Landmarks. Beautiful and historical landmarks in Europe are too many to mention, so in this study we’re only picking a few based on the regions. My aunt who visited us early this year brought me a few Safari Toobs and one of which is the landmark toob that includes the Stonehenge in UK and the Colosseo in Rome. You can get the World Landmarks and Around the World Toob from Amazon and the cards are from Europe Landmarks file.