Continent ~ Africa [3] (Flags and Landmarks with Printable)

The last part of our Africa unit is learning about countries of Africa, the flags and famous landmarks.  Our map works can be found here and animal studies on this link.

NOTE:  All the flag cards used in this activity can be accessed from my Flags of Africa file. It contains the pin flags, nomenclature cards, flag cards for matching with landmarks and matching cards of country and capital for a price of 0.99cents (USD) only.

We started with pin flags.

Followed by 3 part cards of Flags of Africa.

We worked on the landmarks and match the country flag of its location.

I have a set of African Landmarks available for only 0.99cents (USD) and you can download it from here.  It contains 29 landmarks around Africa and includes a title card as well.

 

We also checked the landmarks in YouTube to see the ‘real thing’.

            

Matching country flag, name and capital was a little bit advanced so I selected a few of his favorite countries and worked on the matching activity. 

            

            

Flaglets using art papers.

          

 

Map works and landmarks again, this time locating the landmarks in the Africa map.

           

And that concludes our Continent Study of Africa, and we’ll revisit this once again next year! Hoping that I was able to share something significant that could add up to your activities in the future.

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Washing Dishes

I let him wash the plastic dishes.  It’s not that I asked him to, it’s just that everytime he sees me working… he would say “Mom, can I help?” Because at the moment he loves to offer a helping hand and enjoys responsibilities I am grabbing the opportunity to teach him how to “work” on some simple things around the house.  

 

And yes, I don’t stack plastic dishes in the dishwasher anymore :) 

Do you let your kids work or help as well?

Continent ~ Africa [2]

We also worked on animal skin prints.  It was fortunate that I couldn’t find printable skin prints that we could work on, and it resulted to an even more exciting activity:  we made the skin prints all by ourselves!  

I gathered a few African animal figures with interesting skins and we draw the skin print of each.  As seen here, we’re doing the Hyena’s spotty skin.

And the zebra as well.

Then we check out the books I borrowed from our library.  We discuss the culture, traditions and lifestyle of African people using the images in the book.  Such as seen below, most women are wearing bead necklaces.

He was amazed of this wooden scooter! 

We also worked on African animals using our animal figures and the cards which I got from Montessori Print Shop.     

Books I got from the library.  We were able to learn how to count in Swahili using one of the books below.

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Continent – Africa [1] (Map Works)

As promised, I’d like to share how we go about our Continent study of Africa.  The first part is all about maps. 

Map of Africa DIY Puzzle

Since I don’t own a Puzzle Map of Africa, I decided to make my own out of papers :).  I printed two copies of the African map in a cardstock.  One copy for the control and the other one is for the puzzle.  I colored the countries using crayons (or you can use colored pens) then cut it in different shapes. 

He immediately spot Madagascar (his favorite African country LOL).

  And finished the rest all by himself with a little assistance from me. 

 

He loooved this activity! He enjoyed working map puzzle and it was a big hit!  I will definitely do the same with the other continents!

And of course, he couldn’t resist putting the African animals on the map :)  It’s just cute how he placed the dinosaur in the water.  He said that they’re long dead now so they belong in the deep ocean. 

Map of Africa and Pin Flags

Again my objective here is point out that each country is represented by a flag.  So here as seen, he worked on the pin flags which I made. 

 

        

More Africa updates coming… please stay tuned.

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