Tour the World - Europe

 
 
 
This Week we learned about Ireland, Sweden, and France.

 

I will be talking about these in a different order due to how blogger loaded up the photos (sigh).

 

Friday and Saturday we learned about France.  I planned on making some French cuisine, but we were gone all day Saturday, and all evening on Friday, so it didn't happen.  The food looked good, too, but that's ok.  I didn't have to cook those two days!  Yay!

 

We built towers after learning a little about the Eiffel tower, and we made Freedom Hats after learning about how the French Independence Day is on July 14th. 

 Here are our towers.  I was expecting them to be... bigger... lol.

We learned about Sweden on Wednesday and Thursday.  We painted red construction paper Dala Horses (and Bram was walking around talking about his 'dala horsie' the rest of the day) and learned that their saddle of flowers represents the vine in the story of Jonah.  We also had a 'show and tell' of our 'prized possession' (with kids this young, it changes on a whim, ha ha).  We learned that in Sweden they are also blessed materially as we are.

And on Wednesday we lunched on Swedish Meat Pies.  These things were massive!  We only ate two of the four and froze the other two for a later meal.  They tasted really good, too!

The kids painted their dala horses, and showed them off when they were dry.  Bram decided he wanted his horse to be yellow.

 

Monday and Tuesday we learned about Ireland.  In Ireland they get a lot of rain (called the Emerald Isle, which M liked the sound of... 'Oooooo!  Pretty!').  With all that rain, they probably see a lot of rainbows, so we colored a rainbow and learned about that first rainbow He put into the sky after the flood with Noah and the Ark.  We also played an Irish game called 'Mr. Fox'.  This one is very much like 'Mr. Wolf', a game that I grew up playing... 'What's the time Mr. Wolf... I mean, Fox?'  "LUNCH TIME!" 

What a fun week we've had!  This week we are learning about South America.