Geography Monday: Honduras

This week our travels bring us to Honduras!

Here are some things that we learned this week:

1.  Bananas are very important to the economy of Honduras.  They grow very well here with the hot, humid temperature.

2.  Bananas take 9-12 weeks to ripen.

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

Honduras

by Ellen Frazel

The Good Garden

by Katie Smith Milway

Hondorus DVD

Film Ideas INC

For our adventures in Honduras, we made oven baked sweet plantains.

He cut them evenly and then we put them on a cookie sheet and sprayed them with cooking spray.  We baked them at 450 degrees turning occasionally for 10-15 minutes.

I did put honey on them also and they tasted pretty good!

Lego banana!!

Then he thought it would be a good idea to make it into a banana split!!

Stay tuned for next weeks adventures as we travel to El Salvador!

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Mystery of History Volume 4 Lessons 10-12

Lesson 10 The American Revolution Part 2

Final Years of the American Revolution

by John Hamilton

If you lived at the Time of the American Revolution

by Kay Moore

Lesson 11 Wolfgang Mozart

For this lesson we read from this book about Mozart:

Boys who rock the World.

Lesson 12 The French Revolution

You wouldn't want to be an aristocrat in the French Revolution!

by Jim Pipe

Scratch art Fireworks!!

Blessings!!

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Geography Monday: Belize

The week our travels bring us to Belize.

Here are some things that we learned while in Belize:

1.  They are home to world's second largest barrier reef.

2.  Half of Belize is covered by tropical rain forests.


Here is one of the books we added to our study.  You can go  HERE  to see all of the other books that we add in.

The Night the Moon Fell

by Pat Mora

Travel with Kids Belize DVD



We made bunuelos for Breakfast!

1st you put 1 cup flour, 1 t baking powder, and 1/2 t salt in a bowl and set it aside.

Next, put 1 cup of water and 1/2 c butter in a saucepan until the butter is melted. 

Mix the butter mixture in with the flour mixture.  Then add 3 eggs, mixing well.

Heat oil.  I just used a small saucepan.

I used a cookie scoop to portion it out and a slotted spoon to turn them.

Once the come out drizzle them with honey!!

Very yummy!!

His Lego creations for his barrier reef.

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

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Mystery of History Volume 4 Lessons 7-9

Lesson 7    The French and Indian War

Tomahawks and Trombones

by Barbara Mitchell

The French and Indian War

by Jeremy Thornton

Lesson 8   Catherine the Great

Writing his name in the Cyrillic Alphabet

Lesson 9   American Revolution Part 1

Early Battles of the American Revolution

by John Hamilton

Paul Revere's Ride

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Geography Monday: Guatemala

This weeks travels bring us to Guatemala.  

Here are some fun facts that we learned:

1.  Guatemala has the most population as the other countries of Central America.

2.  Over 50% of the Guatemalan population is of the Mayan empire.

Here are the books that we added to our study.  You can go  HERE  to see the other books that we add in.

Guatemala

by Kari Schuetz

Abuela's Weave

by Omar Castaneda

Guatemala in Colors

by Ann Stalcup


We learned that the ruby-throated hummingbird winters in Guatemala.  We love our hummingbirds in the spring and summer around here.  So, we made this craft using foam.

For our meal from Guatemala, we made Pollo y Pina.  This is from the Eat Your Way Around the World book.  We put it in the crockpot for the day.

That night we made Arroz Guatemalteco to put our Polo y Pico over.  This recipe is found in the New Trip Around the World book.

Yummy!!

Stay tuned next week as we travel to Belize!

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Mystery of History Volume 4 Lessons 4-6

Lesson 4     Fredrick II and the Seven Years War

Fredrick II's army towering over him!

Lesson 5     Voltaire and Rousseau

Writing his name differently like Voltaire did.

Lesson 6    Ben Franklin

Now and Ben  DVD

be Gene Baretta

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Geography Monday: Mexico

     Our next stop on our geography tour brings us to Central America and Mexico.

We found out some crazy things out Mexico:

1.  They eat grasshoppers!!  Well, at least some of them do still.  Yuk!

2.  If you are invited to dinner in Mexico, it is custom to show up 2-3 hours late.  They consider it rude if you are on time.  I am so glad that that is not a custom in the United States!

3.  Cocoa beans were used as money in ancient Mexico.  Could you imagine!  There would be no hot chocolate unless you were really rich!  My kids would not like that at.

Here are the extra books that we added in to our reading:

Mexico

by Megan Kopp

Mexico

by Adele Richardson

Under the Lemon  Moon

by Edith Hope Fine

P is for Pinata

by Tony Johnston

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

We ate some Mexican cuisine!

Enjoying some fried ice cream!

Making tin art.

We put aluminum foil over cardboard and taped it.

He made a design on a separate sheet of paper and then traced over it, over the foil.

I gave him some Sharpie markers and had him color it.

Stay tuned for next month when we visit Greenland!!

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