Mystery of History Volume 4 Lessons 52-54

Lesson 52 Joseph Stalin

10 things about Stalin

Lesson 53 The Great Depression

Kit's World

by Harriet Brown

Potato:  A Tale from the Great Depression

by Kate Lied

Lesson 54 Mohandas Gandhi

Grandfather Gandhi

by Arun Gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi

by Rae Bains

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Geography Monday: Puerto Rico

This week our travels bring us to Puerto Rico !

Here are some things that we learned this week:

1.  The average temperature is 82 degrees!  That would be awesome!!

2.  The Caribbean National Forest is here and has 28,000 acres of rainforest.  It receives more than 100 billion gallons of rain a year!


We also added these books and DVD to our study.  You can go HERE to see the other books that we use.

Puerto Rico

by Jim Ollhoff

The Golden Flower

by Enrique Sanchez

Coqui frog

This frog is named for the sound that it makes.  There are 13-16 different species of this frog in Puerto Rico.

Stay tuned for next weeks adventures as we travel to Jamaica!

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Mystery of History Volume 4 Lessons 49-51

Lesson 49 Vladimir Lenin

You Tube video on The Red Army Chior

Lesson 50 The Irish Civil War

Video on Ireland

Lesson 51 Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

by Bob Italia

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Geography Monday: Panama

This week our travels bring us to Panama!

Here are some things that we learned this week:

1.  The Panama Canal took 10 years and $380,000,000 to build.  39 ships pass through the canal daily with an average cost of $54,000.

2.  Panama is an isthmus.  Meaning it is a narrow strip of land that is bordered on both sides with water, that connect 2 larger bodies of land.



We also added these books to our study.

Conejito

by Margaret Read MacDonald

Welcome to Panama

by Ronald Tan

Lego Panama Canal.

You can go HERE to see the other books that we use.

Stay tuned for next weeks adventures as we travel to Puerto Rico!

Blessings!!

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Mystery of History Volume 4 Lessons 46-48

Lesson 46 Excursions to the South Pole

Lost in the Antarctic

by Kevin Blake

Lesson 47 & 48 World War 1

Lego World War 1 plane

Rags: Hero Dog of WWI

by Margot Theis Raven

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Geography Monday: The Dominican Republic

This week our travels bring us to The Dominican Republic!

Here are some things that we learned this week:

1.  4,000 humpback whales from North America come to the northern coast to have their babies!!

2.  Sugarcane is the main crop of the Dominican Republic.



We also added these books to our study.

The Dominican Republic

by Walter Simmons

A Gift of Gracias

by Julia Alvarez

Humpback whale!

You can go HERE to see the other books that we use.

Stay tuned for next weeks adventures as we travel to Panama!

Blessings!!

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Mystery of History Volume 4 Lessons 43-45

Lesson 43 Wilber and Orville Wright 

Wright Brothers

by Sarah Tieck

Lego wright plane!

Lesson 44 Helen Keller

Nest Entertainment

Lesson 45 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

by Mike Venzia

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Geography Monday: Haiti

This week our travels bring us to Haiti!

Here are some things that we learned this week:

1.  Haiti is the poorest country in North and South America.

2.  Many Haitians practice voodoo.



We also added these books to our study.

Haiti

by Jim Bartell

Bouki Dances the Kokioko

by Diane Wolkstein

Lego rendition of the "Le Negro Marron"  The Black Maroon in Port-au-Prince.

Instead of fried plantains that we really didn't like, I fixed fried bananas with butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon!!

You can go HERE to see the other books that we use.

Stay tuned for next weeks adventures as we travel to Dominican Republic!

Blessings!!

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Mystery of History Volume 4 Lessons 40-42

Lesson 40 The Worldwide Fight for Women's Suffrage

Marching with Aunt Susan

by Claire Rudolf Murphy

Lesson 41 The Impressionists

Here is a link to our study on Claude Monet.

Lesson 42 Charles Eastman & Chief Joseph

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Geography Monday: Cuba

This week our travels bring us to Cuba!

Here are some things that we learned this week:

1.  Baseball is Cuba's national sport and they have on of the best teams in the world.

2.  There are over 200 rivers in Cuba which is the largest of the Caribbean islands.



We also added these books to our study.

Cuba

by Julie Murray

A Mango in the Hand

by Antonio Sacre

Cuba flag out of Legos!

We made Cuban Bread French Toast!!

I did not use Cuban bread, but whole wheat.  Still turned out amazingly!!

You can go HERE to see the other books that we use.

Stay tuned for next weeks adventures as we travel to Haiti!

Blessings!!

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