Geography Travels to Spain

Here’s another one…I’m on a roll…enjoy!

Week 1

Monday: Stamped passport with flag sticker, located Spain on world map and globe, located capital, bordering countries and water bodies, looked up Spain in Pocket Atlas and Family Picture Atlas, looked at Kids Konnect website on Spain, listened to Southern Europe Song.

Tuesday: Map page (Homeschool Creations), Geography from A to Z: peninsula, mountains, strait, bay, sea, plateau, coast, islands, plains; National Geographic for Kids website, listened to Southern Europe Song.

Wednesday: Notebook page (printable from Homeschool Creations), Kids Culture Corner (Spain) website, learned about Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon (and others), listened to Southern Europe Song.

Thursday: Flag page (Homeschool Creations printable), discussed Government & Religion, Time for Kids and Travel for Kids websites, listened to Southern Europe Song.

Friday: Learned about Spanish music and dance (including opera), played with castanets, danced to Spanish music, YouTube videos on flamenco dance and opera.

(He was really getting into the dancing…lol!)

Week 2

Monday: Oxfam website (Spain), Spanish games (Culture Quest World Tour website), Imperial Splendours video (The Alhambra).

Tuesday: First Fun With Spanish DVD, practiced speaking and writing in Spanish.  Read Isabel Saves the Prince:  Based on a True Story of Isabel I of Spain.

Wednesday: Spanish art—Picasso focus: Picasso faces art project, Mr. Picasso Head website, Youtube video collage of Picasso.  Read Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail.

Let me just say here that Isaac LOVED doing the Picasso faces project and also the Mr. Picasso Head site where you can create your own online Picasso art (and print it out if you like).  Out of all the artists we’ve studied and done art projects with, this has been the only one he’s really enjoyed!  Thanks to Jolanthe at Homeschool Creations for recommending these!

Thursday: Learned about Bullfighting/Bull Running, Youtube videos, read The Story of Ferdinand, DLTK bull craft.  Discussed other Spanish artists; read Dali and the Path of Dreams and Katie and the Spanish Princess.

Friday: Learned about Spanish food (though we didn’t make any) and Spanish costume, watched The Story of Ferdinand on youtube, read the Spanish tale from Around the World in 80 Tales.

P.S.  Some of the books I ordered for this unit were late, so I’ve inserted them into the above schedule where I would have read them if I’d had them at the time.  Isaac still enjoyed the books later!

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