For the month of November, the children chose to learn about a country of their choice. This is a bit of a long post but wanted to put everything in one post.
R chose Brazil. Z chose Canada. Y chose Antarctica.
They all began by doing some flag work. Antarctica doesn’t have a flag so Y designed his own with lots of snow everywhere!
For R’s project, I let her decide how she wanted to learn about her chosen country.
R mapped Brazil and used a key to identify mountains, rainforest etc.
She was reading about the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere of the world and that the southern hemisphere have their summer whilst the northern have their winter. She’s not sure but she thinks Brazil may have two different seasons in one country as the equator runs through Brazil? Anyone know if this is true?
She then researched what the Brazilian flag represents. .
She then decided to research and compare the life of a city child and rainforest child in Brazil and wrote about it. .
She chose the Squirrel monkey to research. .
We fortunately know a sister who is Brazilian living in Brazil. I had my first marriage meeting in her house many years ago mashaAllah. So R compiled some interview questions, typed them up and we emailed them over. MashaAllah the sister’s daughter went to great length and really put in effort to answer her questions in great detail. R asked questions like ‘what does it feel like to be a Muslim girl living in Brazil?’
The girl sent R some photos and one that amazed R were some Capybaras crossing the street as though they were tiny mice or rats that cross the street at night in the UK. Capybaras are huge rodents. . can you imagine catching one in your kitchen!!
R made some traditional food and made Pao de Queijo which are Brazilian cheese breads. They bring back memories of my above friend making them for me when I was pregnant with R as I was addicted to them.How time flies. .now R is making them for me.
We used cornflour as we couldn’t find tapioca flour.
R decided to create a poster to put it all together.
Onto the boys. I kept it very simple with the boys. ..
Z wrote Canada and Y stamped Antarctica with the alphabet stamps.
They then coloured their country on a world map.
The boys made igloos using sugar cubes.
We watched some videos about igloos and Eskimos on YouTube.
We then looked at a great Usborne book we have which is perfect for younger children and they chose an animal from their country.
They coloured the animal and did some light copy work. We looked at pictures online and watched more videos and read some books about the animals in their country.
Z decided to make a Canadian aeroplane..
I was telling a sister that unlike his brother and sister, he really doesn’t like to do math, phonics etc. But he loves this kind of stuff.
We also discussed the time difference and different sports that are played such as ice hockey. Z also spoke to his uncle who has been living in Canada for the last few years.
Both boys were very proud when we put their little books together. .
And that’s the end of another project for November alhamdulillah. I wanted to do more for both our wind project and country project but as we were going to Forest school every week there wasn’t enough time. But it goes to show you don’t need to cover everything when learning about a topic. Today I’m planning our next project inshaAllah. . Science experiments for science and climate and weather also for science/nature.
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