For Brazil, the kids had just watched Rio, so they made these cool 3D parrot gliders. Our active activity was "Cinco Marias,...

After watching Geography Now , we had our snack. I had bought some "Incan Corn" from Peru (by way of Trader Joe's) for our s...

Besides the Geography now videos, we watched a beautiful documentary on Patagonia Our active activity was lassoing like the gauchos in t...

This was a fun one! I wanted to do an art project based on icebergs, but I wasn't sure how to do it.  Finally, I hit in the idea ...

I am way falling behind on my geography posting, so this post will cover two weeks of classes. My interest in geography actually stems f...

We do a lot of things involving Japan, not least because Mxyl speaks Japanese, has been to Japan , and does "fan subbing" for J...

Following along Geography Now Nepal Our art activity was this torn paper mountain scene.  We tore light and dark gray construction pap...

 China is one of those study topics that's hard because you're spoiled for choice.  We chose to watch Geography Now's China e...

We're finishing up Awesome Geography on our own this semester because our little three family Friday morning co-op got excited about ...

 For our last class for the semester we did Russia and a May Crowning and a party! For our art activity, we did this lovely icon craft f...

 We had a good time with Turkey.  We did a lot with Istanbul ( Constantinople ), the Hagia Sophia , and some great travel videos before...

 Our art activity was a desert camel scene,  The background is torn paper, and the camel was formed around a handprint. I love doing han...

Madagascar is such a strange and unique place, it was super fun to learn about! Our art project centered on baobab trees.  I had cut a bu...