Our Expedition to South Korea

Annyong hase-yo! Hello from South Korea! We are having a good time with our geography study this year. The boys and I are learning so much. We're only 2 countries in (well plus the continents and oceans study we did) but we're enjoying it ... and that does make a difference! : )

I don't have as many pictures as I wanted of our week ... the camera needed batteries & we just didn't get any until our study was all but finished. So I took pictures of the completed project. This is something the boys are enjoying too. They love posing for pictures and help me decide which pictures end up on the blog.

So what did we do this week? Find out below:

• First we reviewed things we learned about China
• Added the South Korea flag to our passports and stamped the date we started
• Located the country on the world map
• Completed the Mapping Activity - which also teaches us the capital city, population, major religion, language, currency, and what kind of government they have
• Learned how to say hello in Korean - Wow! This is a hard one for sure!
• Painted hello on paper in Korean characters
• Read fun facts about the country - the boys' favorite fact was that in South Korea #4 is the unlucky number ... it's like the #13 in the US
• Learned about the flag and completed the activity for it
• Completed the Animals mini-book - that's 6 more animals for our Classification Wall
• Prayed for the people of South Korea
• Completed the lapbook activity
• Completed the binder & stamped the passports with our finish date

Here are a few pictures of the finished work.

After finishing the work we made a Koren dinner. After looking at all the different dishes out there we decided to go with the Korean BBQ Beef dinner that was included with the study. It was really very good & everyone, except Walter, liked it ... even Nick (who doesn't like to try new foods!). Sammy really loved it cause we had rice with it ... that boy likes his rice!!! : )

Here is how our dinner turned out. We served it with rice, peas, and bread.

Well I hope you enjoyed learning about our South Korea study. Hope you'll come back & see our next adventure!

Our Expedition to China

We are using Confessions of a Homeschooler's Expediton Earth: A Journey Through God's World as the core to our geography curriculum.  I say core because with some of the countries that we will be exploring we'll add to it.

That what I did with our visit to China. You're meant to spend a week on each county, but with China we spent 2 weeks.  I added in aspects of Amanda Bennett's Expediton China DNG unit, an Evan Moor book on China, printables from around the web, and books from the library.

We started off by filling out our passports, adding our China flag sticker, and stamping the date that we started. Then we located China on our world map and learned how to say hello in Mandarin Chinese.  This is a picture of the boys writing hello in traditional Chinese writing.



Some things we learned: 

• China's capital city Beijing
• Population
• Language
• Religion
• Currency
• Government
• Inventions
• Great Wall of China
• Terracotta Warriors
• Silk
• Holidays/Traditions
• Animals
• Geographical Features

The boys liked learning about the animals and putting them up on our Animals of the World Classification wall chart (I'll get a picture of it next time ... I thought I had one in this bunch but must have forgotten it).

I think the best thing for them was the Great Wall of China craft we did.

These are pictures over several days.  No way we completed all that in a day! :)  We used floral moss for our greenery ($2 @ Walmart) ... that stuff is messy and dirty ... be warned!!! :)

Walter loved playing with the blocks between buildings on the wall!

Here are pictures I got of the boys while doing their China study:

Working on worksheets.

Chinese Lanterns for when we talked about the Lantern Festival. 

Animal book. 

Chinese Fan Craft 

Binder with lapbook components in it. 

Sammy & Walter with their Expedition Earth Binders 

Well that's it for Our China Expedition.  Hope you enjoyed seeing what our boys did.  We had grand ole time with this study!