Geography

We haven't posted for a couple of weeks because the family
came down with a pretty awful gastro bug. Elora had it the
worst (and the longest), with Delenn, Logan and Daddy all
suffering for a couple of days as well. Mom didn't feel well
(after everyone else had it), but somehow escaped the worst
of it.

I had been meaning to talk about our geography work lately, but
obviously didn't get around to it. Logan learned about the
seven continent briefly earlier this year. We've been delving into
geography again lately. These pictures were from back in mid-May.

We got some beautiful 3-part continent cards and have been using
them in conjunction with this map I had from teaching days (it's
from world history, the age of exploration and the kids just love the
fact that people believed in sea monsters (on the map if you look
closely).

Anyway, we've learned the continent song (to the tune of Frere
Jacque):

Europe, Asia, Af-ri-ca...
North America
South America
Then there is Antarctica
Don't forget Australia
Seven continents
Seven continents


We match the continents on the cards with the world map.

Then we've been talking about the animals that live on each
continent.

We started with plastic animals -- and then moved on to photos (in
the next set of pictures).