We are nearly ready to embark on our journey around the world! It’s funny how excited I am about our homeschooling unit plans for the coming months! 🙂
For the first week, we will be reading A Child’s Geography‘s first chapter along with having some discussions about the WHOLE world…not really focusing in on our first continent, Africa, until week 2.
Our Bible time for the week will revolve around John 3:16 and Acts 4:24. Sometimes we memorize these verses and say them so often (or hear them) that the impact or meaning of them almost gets lost. I don’t want my children to ever lose the meaning and depth of John 3:16, even after they are grown.
“For God so loved the WORLD that He gave His one and only Son, so that WHOEVER believes in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16.
“Sovereign Lord, you have made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything that is in them.” Acts 4:24.
Jesus loves the little children
ALL the children of the WORLD
Red and yellow, black and white
They are precious in His sight
Jesus loves the little children of the WORLD.
We will be looking through books like Material World and Children Just Like Me at pictures of children from around the world. We will look at pictures of their homes, their foods and their lives, without focusing in on any one specific area. We will talk about how different all the children of the world look, how differently they eat and how differently they live…but that we all have something in common: our desperate need for Jesus and how much He loves each of us, no matter where we live or what we look like.
The first chapter of A Child’s Geography will lead us to discussing things like: what is a home? What is geography? What is a geographer? We will also learn things about this place called Earth that we call home. (You can download the first 3 chapters of A Child’s Geography by going here, if you’d like to check out this excellent resource.)
Here are the girls notebooks that I have ready to go for Monday! (I modge-podged the front and you can tell I got in a hurry and have some wrinkles. But overall I’m pleased with them…they still need another coat of modge podge.) These notebooks will hold all our work from our World Tour – maps, coloring pages, animal facts, copywork, narrations, flags, drawings…we will likely use rubber cement to put in all our pages. The notebooks are simply sketch books I picked up from walmart!
All of these stickers I got for CHEAP at Big Lots! (if you’ve never checked out Big Lots for scrapbooking supplies, it’s a great resource. You can’t bank on certain things always being there, but if you check them out semi-regularly, you’ll find some treasures for sure!)
We will be learning one of these continent songs to help us remember that there are 7 continents and what their names are! Here is a whole page of them if you’d like to choose a different tune! And here is another page with some cute ones!
THE CONTINENT SONG
(Take Me Out to the Ball Game)
Let’s name all of the continents.
There are 7 on earth.
There’s Europe andAsia and Australia,
North and South America.
Now don’t forget about Africa
And Antarctica, too.
For there’s 1…2…3,4,5,6,7 continents!
(Tune to “Did You Ever See a Lassie?”)
Do you know the continents? the continents? the continents?
Do you know the continents. There are seven in all.
There is ASIA and EUROPE and AFRICA and AUSTRALIA
There is NORTH and SOUTH AMERICA and ANTARCTICA, too.
If you have any great ideas to share for our World Tour…please leave me a comment!