I know some of you are interested in our Five-in-a-Row (FIAR) studies. We took a break from this for a month and spent a bit longer on History.
I have promised to put up our map of the world, so here it is:
At the time of the photo, we had done 20 books. Each round disk represents a story that we have read this year. The rectangular ones are about animals of the world that we have looked at.
This map is laminated and is at the end of our hallway. The first day that we read a new book, Adam has to go down to the map and place the disk on the story’s location. For some, like How to Make Apple Pie and See the World, there were various choices. We decided to do Sri Lanka from that story as it wasn’t going to be a popular location in other books! Others like The Story of Ping, tell you that the location is the Yangtze River, so it has to go on China.
It’s a fun thing to do and is teaching all of the boys how to find different parts of the world. Often the older boys will help Adam if he gets stuck and their general knowledge is quite good.
We have started Papa Piccolo this week. Adam had to find Italy and then Venice. We might have another entry on that book a bit later!
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