In this post: Come hang out as we learn about famous explorers & the Americas. We also learn about the Mayans, the Incans, and the Aztecs.
Hello dear ones! I am several weeks behind on these crafty posts. You may have noticed but I’m not labeling my posts in the title anymore. I’m just posting them on whatever day I can. But I’m still tagging them in the right category. So you can still find all the crafty posts under Crafty Mondays.
Well, we took a week long vacation to explore historic sites from Savannah to D.C. When we got back we were ready to jump into (more) learning (well, I was :P). We had fun with the Middle ages. Now we are off to explore the New World. Here’s how we did it:
- We began Pilgrims, Pirates, & Patriots, our Draw & Write Through History book. This is actually what guides us. Story of the World is extra.
- I hung up an Explorers in the New World banner across our room.
- Michael colored and put together a Columbus hat, and spyglass with a map of Columbus’ explorations on it. Then we headed to the park to be explorers ourselves.
- We had a picnic by the water (a big rock was our ship), and I read about Columbus & Amerigo Vespucci (America’s namesake) in Story of the World Book 3.
- I found this great lapbook on explorers and Native Americans (South & Central). I’ll provide links at the end. It had us mark Columbus and Magellan’s routes. We also marked out how many men died on Magellan’s voyage. A lot of people died in the search for the New World. We compared Columbus and the conquistadors.
- Michael started reading “Who Was Columbus?”
- We put together a ship in a bottle. We ended the day with ice cream and we conquered the world ;).
- The next couple of days we read about the Mayans, the Incans, and the Aztecs.
- We watched a video on Netflix about the Mayans and the conquistadors.
- We both made a Mayan eye of God craft. Then Michael put together a tp roll quetzal, an important bird to all of the Central/South Americans.
- We learned about Montezuma and the Aztecs. Michael made a clay Aztec sun.
- We talked about the Incans, watched The Emperor’s New Groove, and I made a stuffed llama for Michael.
- We ended our week by learning about Walter Raleigh and the lost colony. We also learned about Jacque Cartiers and his “discovery” of Canada.
Links after the picture…
Here’s the Pinterest link we’ll be using through April:
Llama pattern:
Quetzal:
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mquetzal.html
God’s Eyes craft
http://www.caron-net.com/kidfiles/kidsapr.html
Ship in a bottle:
http://www.nogginsandnonsense.blogspot.com/2010/10/tutorial-ships-in-bottle-christopher.html
Lapbook & Aztec Sun idea:
http://www.123homeschool4me.com/2012/02/explorers-part-4magellan-conquistadors.html
Columbus hat and spyglass :
http://www.layers-of-learning.com/columbus-hat-spyglass-craft/
God bless & remember the High King lives! ~Amber Dover
The Renaissance (start here):
https://amberdover.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/the-renaissance-week-1-the-reformation-great-artists/
The Middle Ages (start here):
https://amberdover.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/middle-ages-week-1-celts-anglo-saxons-king-arthur/
Rome (start here):
https://amberdover.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/crafty-monday-our-julius-caesar-party-rome-week-1/
Greece (start here):
https://amberdover.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/crafty-monday-greece-week-1-down-at-the-farm/
Egypt
https://amberdover.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/crafty-monday-part-1-ancient-egypt/
All our History lessons:
https://amberdover.wordpress.com/category/crafty-mondays/geographyhistory/
The 1600’s Week 1: https://amberdover.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/the-1600s-week-1-the-flying-dutchman-sumo-wrestling/
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