Grade 3 - Week 8

Week 8 - Still in Canada

We are continuing to study Canada.  This is our final week in North America and both girls know the countries, including most of the islands, in North and Central America.  They also know major physical features (Rockies, Applachians, Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, Great Plains, Great Basin, Mississippi River, Rio Grande River, Florida Peninsula, Yucatan Peninsula, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, Carribean, Gulf of Mexico).  We have a game we play to learn the countries and I created a laminated file folder to learn the other physical features.  This way they could reuse it many times as we used a dry erase marker to label things.

We had a "high" tea one day when the girls had some friends over.  I served fancy sandwiches (what can you do with PB and J), fruit kabobs, and veggie sticks.  And, of course we had tea (the chai variety).  They had a lot of fun. 

Of course I forgot to take a picture until after they had started eating so the fruit kabobs looked like this:

The girls made a couple of crafts:  an igloo (on paper) and we carved a bear out of soap.  Somehow this was much more difficult than I anticipated.  I need to take pictures of these and add them.

Another week over.  The time is going so fast.