Showing posts with label Around the World.... Show all posts
Showing posts with label Around the World.... Show all posts

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Happy Earth Day!

Today we are headed to the park for a nature scavenger hunt and BBQ with our homeschool group to celebrate Earth day. Noah and I will be picking up any and all trash that we spot today!

Our robin's nest.
Speaking of the earth...
Our Around the World lessons has taken us to Russia, China and now we've stopped in to visit Korea. We started with this sweet story called Peacebound Trains about a Korean girl and her grandmother. The grandmother tells about how her family had to leave the northern part of South Korea and head further south to Puson on top of a train roof during the war and leave everything behind. This was a really great book!
We discussed the war and how sad it was for the people there. I've told Noah of my Uncle Leo who fought in the Korean war and how our blog friend Wendy and her family are stationed in South Korea right now because the tensions between the North and South is still going on.
We learned a little Korean in this book;
harabujy=grandfather
harmuny=grandmother
oppa=father/dad
umma=mother/mom
yuh-bo=a term of endearment husbands and wives use for each other.

Speaking of sweet...

I found this in the window when I got home from work yesterday. I just love that kid!
Happy Earth Day! = Hang bok han ji gu ui nal dae se yo! (Korean 2)

Monday, February 15, 2010

Around the World...

Credit: istock

The rest of our school year we will focus on traveling around the world... first stop, Russia!
We've watched a few great documentaries so far; A 3 part series of Wild Russia on the Animal Planet channel and Ian Wright's Out of Bounds/ Siberia on the Travel Channel.
Noah is taking a Pysansky egg class from an artist/homeschool mom at our homeschool group's classes this spring.
We will be studying the people, history, art, music, and cuisine of Russia.
We've discovered that Russia spans two continents and has 11 times zones.
Russia is by far the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the earth's land area. We've learned about the Siberian Tigers, raccoon dogs and the bears that live in the wilderness. Hope you'll join us in our travels around the world!


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