Saturday
Feb032007
Tour the World
Sat, February 3, 2007 at 04:57PM Care to tour the world? Gather the children, a few home educating families, and go into all the world!
Organize your own country fair! (And no, not the kind of country fair that we farmers normally attend ~warm smile~.) Each homeschool family will research a country of their choosing, and gather to present an evening of touring the world.
Crack open the books, surf the web, dig in the library stacks: explore a single country, prepare an interesting, informative hands-on exhibit of that particular country, as well as an optional 5 - 10 minute oral presentation on the country. Once the exhibits are set up, family, friends, and other home educators will "travel the world", visiting each exhibit. Be available to share interesting tales and facts from your country, perhaps offering samples of national foods, music, or crafts. Following the whirlwind world tour, a sit-down program may take place, where each family will have the opportunity of giving a speech, an oral adventure around the landscape of their country, introducing culture, people, and prayer needs. Consider slide shows, video clips, letters from missionaries, or sharing postcards from personal travels!
You may also choose to have "A Gathering of the World": Have participating families search their homes for money carried home from certain countries, music from distant places, objects, materials and food found in your home that were imported from around God's globe. Discover how much of the world has come to find a place in your own home! Gather all of these momentos from the world and collectively share. You may be surprised how much of the world you have brushed in your daily travels. Consider marking on a world map all of your finds!
A practical, fun way to go into all the world! Happy trails to you all! Have fun making your homeschool a WORLDschool! Go into all the world!
(I think the Voskamp children have selected the country of Peru for our local country fair, so we are headed south! ~smile~)
Let's go into all the world--and invite our children to come too!
Ann Voskamp for A Child's Geography
"The world is a book and those who don't travel read only a page." ~St. Augustine
"...For I am a sojourner with You...." ~Ps. 39:12
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