We have friends who visited South Africa a few years ago, so the girls remembered hearing about some of the different places that they had visited and also seeing pictures of their trip ~ making this a fun country to review and study.
Along the way we learned that South Africa is bigger than Texas and California combined, practiced a little Zulu, got confused with the three different capitals {Cape Town, Pretoria, and Bloemfontein}, and discovered that South Africa actually has another country within its borders {Lesotho}.
You can view the other countries that we’ve studied from Africa on my geography page.
Week 1 Layout
Monday
- Introduce new song about Morocco from Geography Songs
- Use atlas and globe to locate South Africa
- Read one of our books from our bookshelf about South Africa
Tuesday
- Review geography song
- Learn {and review} some terms: grasslands, plateaus and cape
- Independent reading from bookshelf
- Filled out the map of South Africa using our notebooking page
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Wednesday
- Review geography song
- Tried speaking a little Zulu
- Talked about South Africa’s Big Five: buffalo, elephants, leopards, lions and rhinoceroses.
- Independent reading
Thursday
- Review geography song
- Time for Kids website
- Reading together book on South Africa {from our bookshelf}
Week 2 Layout
Monday
- Review geography song
- Put together our Africa GeoPuzzle
- Learned about the flag of South Africa
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Tuesday
- Review geography song
- Read together one of books from bookshelf
- Listened to the South African National Anthem
Wednesday
- Review geography song
- Story from Around the World in 80 Tales ~ The Cheetah’s Cubs
- Explored National Geographic Kids site
Thursday
- Review geography song
- Summarized one of our reading books and copy summary/dication
- Added our notebooking pages to our binder and stamped our passports!
Books We Used
- National Geographic Kids ~ South Africa
- Time for Kids ~ South Africa
- PBS Kids ~ My World South Africa
- Mr. Donn’s page on South Africa ~ lesson plans and links
- PBS Kids Go ~ South Africa page
- Africa Kid’s Page ~ games played in Africa along with some great links for recipes and other information
- South African children’s page from the President {interactive} ~ has downloads and links to places in South Africa along with historical information about the country
- I am an African ~ You Tube video
- SouthAfrica.net tourism page
- Make a mask and see a Dogon dance
- Photos of South Africa
- Wildlife of South Africa
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