The 1600’s Week 2: The Dutch, Africa, Germany, & the Americas April 21, 2014

Hello dear ones! How are you? Last month we began our Pilgrims, Patriots, and Pirates study with Draw and Write Through History. We also started Book 3 of Story of the World.  Here’s how we did week 2 of the 1600’s a.k.a 17th century.

• We read about New Amsterdam which later became New York. It was a Dutch colony in the New World. Peter Stuyvesant was the Dutch governor until the English took it over. Michael colored two Dutch children and we made a tp roll windmill.
• We read poetry by Alexander Pope. We also learned about Thomas Savery, the inventor of the steam engine. Trains use steam engines so we made a thumbprint train and a candy train.
• We listened to Bach. I found musical games online. I’ll include links at the bottom of this post.
• We read about slavery in Africa and the African Queen Nzinga. She held back the slave traders in her area for awhile. She was a fierce warrior. Michael made an African mask and necklaces. We read about the colonies and the Mayflower. Michael drew a pilgrim (not pictured). We read about Abbas I, Shah of Persia.
• We made a salt dough map of the Americas and painted the territories. Michael read “Who Was Magellan?”
• We learned about the 30 years war between the Catholic King Ferdinand II and the Protestant German princes. It later became a fight with Denmark, Sweden, and then France. King Ferdinand riled everyone up when he started persecuting the protestants. Everything worked out in the end but only after years of bloodshed. Michael tried the German art of paper cutting and made beautiful Easter rabbits.
• Meanwhile, Japan closed it’s doors to Christianity and the rest of the world. Christians were persecuted and Buddhidsm became prominent. The Manchu took over in China causing the Han Chinese much frustration. I had planned on doing a Bonsai tree craft but we never got to it.

Well, God bless & remember the High King lives! ~Amber Dover

Links:

Africa Pinterest

Europe

The 1600’s etc…

Music lessons

My Posts:

The 1600’s Week 1: 

https://amberdover.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/the-1600s-week-1-the-flying-dutchman-sumo-wrestling/

The 1600’s Week 3:

https://amberdover.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/the-1600s-week-3-india-cristofori-voltaire-handel-the-iroquois-ben-and-me/

Exploring the Americas April 4, 2014

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/