A new year brings about continuing homeschool studies after , for most, is an extended holiday break. Back to the good ‘ole daily school routine. Before our Christmas break the kids and I studied the winter holiday customs of Russia, Japan and India. To continue studying about other countries around the world and how our celebrations compare to them, we will do a webquest titled New Year’s Celebrations Around the world.
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The webquest is hosted on zunal.com, and includes all elements of what makes a good webquest.
During the webquest we will be referring back to The Seven Continents of the World Jigsaw Puzzle Books. (affiliate link) This beautiful puzzle book helped Mikky learn the continents and we have continued using it to re-enforce where particular countries are located. Monkey has already been using the book just for the puzzles so it he will now begin to learn what all those puzzle pieces are for.
For this unit the kids will work together.They will pick a country from the list on the task webpage.
- Shiugatsu (Japan)
- New Year (America)
- Yuan Tan (China)
- Rosh Hashanah (Israel)
Mikky will read and point to the information on the screen.
I will write down the countries on the list on strips of paper and one of them draw from a jar. This will give Monkey time to practice his mouse moving and left clicking skills. Mikky will be in charge of jotting down the information they need for later.
After all of their information has been gathered they will work together to create drawings, or graphics. The pictures will be used to create a travel brochure of the location they researched. I’m sure they will both love this part because both of them love getting creative with art supplies.
Their next step will be to create the brochure inside of Google Docs and print. During this time Monkey will be learning how the scanner of our printer works. He has already been introduced to Google Docs so this exercise will serve as practice using the skills he has already learned.
As a fun end of unit task they will each pick a recipe from the country they studied and we will cook whatever the kids choose. I love having my little chefs in the kitchen.
During this unit will also included information obtained from history.com. I love using the History Channel’s website for Geography, and history unit studies.