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Showing posts with label continents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label continents. Show all posts

Continent Study of South America

Sunday, August 30, 2015

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Map and Flags. Whenever we worked a geography lesson at home(for elementary only!), I always start with maps and flags because I wanted him to memorize the location and flags of certain cities from that continent.  We travel a lot, crossing countries and continents almost every year and so knowing all these is really important.  The Montessori Continent Puzzle is from Tower High Learning.

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Pinning flags in the map is an activity Mavi loves since we started geography year ago.   I printed the map from Super Teacher and used our pin maps from South American Flags (pin maps, 3 part cards, mini flags and all).

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Landmarks.  We identified the famous landmarks of South America and their location on the map.  I also showed Mavi some photos of my Dad (Mavi’s grandfather) in Brazil when he visited Christ  the Redeemer.  Mavi was fascinated that his grandfather reached South America during his travels!

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Galapagos Islands and its animals.  Using the Safari Toobs Galapagos, we talked about the unique animals that inhabit the islands.  I created identification cards (as reading materials for Mavi) so he will learn what makes those animals unique.DSC_0137

 

Animals and their Habitats. I love talking about animals and their habitats. My Mavi has always been fascinated with at different animals living in each continent. To start off, we review the different animals living in South America, these cards are from my South American Animals.  There’s so much information from these cards, like it indicates the class of the animal (mammal, reptile, bird etc), the habitat in which they thrive and the kind of foods they eat.  We also matched them with our animal figures from Safari Toob Rainforest.

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We also talked about the colourful animal coverings and patterns of the South American animals and compared them to those in Africa.  Just by looking at the animals’ coverings, you will know in which habitat they thrive.  Most colourful animals like that of Macaw birds and poisonous frogs lives in rainforests, while those that are grayish, thrives in deserts.

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Because we looked into the animals of South America, we examined the green iguana which mostly lives in that continent.  We haven’t worked on reptiles before, so this was a good start of learning the different parts of a reptile and differentiate it from birds,  fish, frogs and mammals.

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Plants.  Talking about habitats led us to discuss plants of South America.  These plants mostly grow in the tropical areas of the continent and the cold mountains of Andes.  These cards are from the Plant Atlas.DSC_0808

 

Culture.  I’ve collected important fact about South America and included it in our learning  cards for our South America in a Nutshell.  These cards are for older children who love to read and learn about the culture, lifestyle and religion of the people of South America. DSC_0714

The cards provide information how people dress up, what foods they eat, the products they export to other countries and the richness of each South American countries. 

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Because South America has brought us dances like Tango and Samba, Mavi and I watched a few videos online to see how these dances are being performed.

 

We also watched the festivals celebrated in South America, like the Tango Festival and the Carnaval in Brazil.

Other materials that we used are the following:

Natural Resources of the World – information about the different natural resources found in each continent.

Animal Habitats – contains collection of animals that thrive in the different biomes of the world. 

Major Rivers of the World – pictures and facts cards of the longest and most important rivers of each continent.

Another fantastic geography lesson we had early this year was the study of Africa. Click here or the image below for ideas and list of activitiesafrica copy

And don’t forget to pin this for later! You will definitely be needing this!

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Learning materials used:

  • South America in a Nutshell.  More about it here.
  • Animals of South America
  • Landmarks of South America
  • Flags of South America
  • Plant Atlas
  • Animal Habitats
  • Major Rivers Around the World
  • Safari Toobs Rainforest
  • Continent Map from Tower High Learning or from Amazon
  • Safari Toobs Galapagos
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    South America in a Nutshell

    Monday, July 20, 2015

    If you have been following my blog, you know that we love studying geography!  This month, I am happy to share my South America in a Nutshell learning material.  And just like its predecessors (Asia in a Nutshell and Africa in a Nutshell), this is packed with lots of information about South America, its flora and fauna, culture and people.   Here’s a walkthrough of the file.

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    1.  MAPS!  The file contains the South America map, and nomenclature cards of its countries.

     

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    2.  Festivals.  This continent is known for its colorful festivities. Learn more it from here!

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    3.  South American animals and their skin patterns. Children loves learning about animals and the exploring animal skin patterns.  A matching activity will add spice to learning!

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    4.  South America Fact Cards.  Everything you need to know on South America is all here in the 40 fact cards.   If you want to learn further, use these cards as your guide for research on the internet. 

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    5. Green Iguana and Giant Anteater Nomenclature Cards. Learn about the these two unique animals of South America!

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    A Continent Study of AFRICA for Kids

    Monday, February 16, 2015

    It’s a month of Africa Continent study in the house.  Mavi enjoyed learning about this beautiful continent, its geography, exploring the different places and landmarks, the wildlife and habitats and of course the different culture and traditions that make Africa unique!

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    Europe Study Part III (FREE Volcano Cards)

    Monday, March 31, 2014

    And this is the last part of our European Study series. You can read Part I and Part II here.

    So first we had Major Rivers of Europe.  We used this printable Major Rivers of the World to look at the longest rivers in Europe, traced how long they are and how does it affect the economy of the people.

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    Here Mavi is plotting the location of the rivers.  We are also identifying the countries that some of these rivers flow through.  The map seen on the picture was randomly "googled".

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    We also talked about the active volcanoes in Europe.  My son was really really interested on this one as they were having lessons about it in school too.   To avail the FREE file of Volcanoes in Europe please click the image below.

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    We used a map again to plot the location of the volcanoes.  He discovered that were a number of active volcanoes in Italy and got a little bit scared that we used to live near it.

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    We also did a few math activities one of which is relating Euro to Montessori Golden Beads.  We talked about how each Euro bill corresponds to Golden Beads and using the currency we played pretend shopping :)  Of course the little guy was the cashier to practice simple mathematics like addition.

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    Here he is counting the total cost of Mommy's purchases.

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    And lastly, the subject that I've been wanting to revisit for the longest time, Artist Study.  Using the books and cards that we have we talked about the famous painters in Europe.  We did a couple of Artist Study a few years back and worked on Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Picasso and Degas.

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    I've always wanted to try Monet.  My initial plan was to bring him to the park so we could paint the flowers there in the field, but lately the weather has been really really bad so I guess that has to wait.  Instead, we painted the Poppy Fields of Monet using a  picture card as a guide.

    I told him that Monet is an impressionist, that his paintings look like blobs or blurry and that it doesn't give you an exact detail of the subject but just an impression.

    And here's our first try of painting like Monet :)

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    And here's Mavi's rendition of Monet's The Poppy Field.  What do you think?

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    And that concludes our Europe Study series.  Hope all of the series of post I have for this lesson have given you enough idea to start your Europe Study as well.

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    Europe Study Part I

    Tuesday, March 18, 2014

    My son has specifically requested that we have Europe Study this month.  I guess the interest was brought about by the celebration of St. Patrick's Day this month in which they created the Irish flag in school and were plotting Ireland in the Europe map.

    WARNING, this post is flooded with photos, as I would rather describe the activities we did in pictures rather than writing a novel about :)

    Before anything else, if you are interested to read about our 2013 Europe Unit Study, please click this link.

    For the resources and materials:

       - Flags of Europe (includes all materials used here except the puzzle flags)

       - European countries outline / solid black

    Now for this years unit we started working with mapping and flags.  I printed the large flag from here.  The site allows you to print the maps in different sizes you.  I chose a bigger version so we can label the countries clearly.

     

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    Oh and Mavi has an audience while working :)

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    Next we work on the flags.  Here on the pictures below Mavi is identifying the countries and their flags.  DSC_0758

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    I also created these flag puzzles for Mavi to worked on.  I just printed these flags in big sizes and cut them to pieces for him to assemble.

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    Of course, the 3 part cards of the European flags is a must :)

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    Mavi also worked on these flag matching activity.  Here he's matching the flag to the name of the country and the capital city.

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    Identifying the country's flag was a breeze but he is still new to identifying the capital city (except for the countries we've visited and stayed).  We'll be working on this a little more.

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    And last activity for the flag works is assembling European flags using pre-cut craft papers.  Early on I selected a few flags that he will work with.  I cut out the pieces needed and mix them together.  The challenge here is for him to look for the pieces that goes together to assemble a certain flag.  So you can see in the picture below he was able to make the flag of Ireland and Spain, and about to assemble the flag of Germany.

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    More activities coming up next!

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