We have galloped into France and will be ending our stay there tomorrow. We will be taking a break from our traveling next week to do an Easter Resurrection Lapbook. Then it will be our week off or not...I am still contemplating that.
So...what did we do in France this week? I have to remind myself...this is just introducing them to the world around us and it isn't important that we cover everything or person...just a few highlights and where it is in our world.
We started off the week as usual-reading about France by reading a book called Focus on France. We colored the flag and learned that much of their flag they based off our American flag. Interesting. We learned the capital was Paris and that it was a very famous city. We talked about the kind of food they ate and named a few like french bread and wine. We learned that the Seine river ran through Paris.
We also learned about many famous people: Napoleon Bonapartem, a very famous general that changed the way the government was run, Louis Pasteur, Joan of Arc, Claude Monet, the impressionist (we've been reading Linnea in Monet's garden-a great book for introducing children to Monet), Louis Braille-inventor of our Braille, and Marie Curie-scientist who discovered radium for treating cancer patients. Several of these people we read about and then followed using the Library's Nest Video collection of biographies.
We learned that after the Eiffel Tower was built for the World's Fair in Paris, France, they wanted to tear it down. It was the tallest building in the world until the building of the Empire State Building forty years later.
We studied trees and leaves this week as the science portion of Galloping. We read a book about trees and tomorrow we will be doing more activities related to trees and their growth process. We are also watching our seeds grow that we planted on Friday. Although, we are down one, as Autumn has found our hiding spot.
We will finish up our study of France tomorrow and then after our break we will be going to Italy. Tomorrow I hope to have the girls outside to do their own version of Impressionist painting like our Monet did.
We also learned about many famous people: Napoleon Bonapartem, a very famous general that changed the way the government was run, Louis Pasteur, Joan of Arc, Claude Monet, the impressionist (we've been reading Linnea in Monet's garden-a great book for introducing children to Monet), Louis Braille-inventor of our Braille, and Marie Curie-scientist who discovered radium for treating cancer patients. Several of these people we read about and then followed using the Library's Nest Video collection of biographies.
We learned that after the Eiffel Tower was built for the World's Fair in Paris, France, they wanted to tear it down. It was the tallest building in the world until the building of the Empire State Building forty years later.
We studied trees and leaves this week as the science portion of Galloping. We read a book about trees and tomorrow we will be doing more activities related to trees and their growth process. We are also watching our seeds grow that we planted on Friday. Although, we are down one, as Autumn has found our hiding spot.
We will finish up our study of France tomorrow and then after our break we will be going to Italy. Tomorrow I hope to have the girls outside to do their own version of Impressionist painting like our Monet did.
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