| Learning About Non-Western Cultures and the Eastern Hemisphere |
| For Meagan's 6th grade year, we chose to utilize the Sonlight Non-Western Cultures program. Again, we didn't follow their schedule (we utilize other aspects of their IG) and we added in many extra readers, read-alouds, and resources. We also incorporated foods and cooking from the cultures studied I didn't do a very good job of keeping track of the recipes but I'll share some of the ones that I can remember. For each of the books we read, I had Meagan fill out a sheet that includes the book title, author, date, book summary, and her thoughts on the book. These have been really fun to look back at. She also filled out a sheet for each country that included basic facts about the country as well as a drawing of the flag, information on climate, a description of the land and bodies of water, and any other interesting information. |
| Instead of just reading Seabird, we used the Beautiful Feet study of Seabird and started it a week or so before actually getting started with the rest of the material. We had already done all of the other books and mapping for the Beautiful Feet "Geography Through Literature" program. I had saved Seabird to use now. We also used the Trail Guide to World Geography (Geography Matters) as well as Uncle Josh's Outline Map Book. I wanted to focus a bit more on geography. These fit in very well with what we were studying. We primarily used the mapping assignments and the questions (Geography Trails). Here is the "key" to some of the books we used: MW = Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel CG = Circling the Globe (Kingfisher) (GREAT resource!) BG = Book of Goddeses Geo Thru Art = Geography Through Art (Geography Matters) |
| SUMMER Great Science Adventures - "Space" Beautiful Feet "Seabird" by Holling WEEK 1 Pacific Islands Reader: Call It Courage by Sperry (Polynesian Islands; Tahiti) MW: 170-175 Western Samoa CG: 518-521 (Papua New Guinea) DK Geography: 254, 259, 264-265 GSA: Earth’s Landforms - Earth in Space Trail Guide to World Geo - World 1 Geo Thru Art - Read pg. 12 Usborne Round the World Cookbook Ships, Sailors, and the Seas (Usborne) Jungles & Rainforests (Science Nature Guide) p. 30-38 Scrub Fire by -Ann De Roo FILM: Stranded FILM: Moby Dick - library FILM: Other Side of Heaven (Tonga) MENU: Chamarro Chicken South Pacific Pork Kabobs Pineapple Salad Dressing Kalua Pork Balinese Rice Salad Hawaiian Baked Bananas Virgin Pina Coladas |
| WEEK 2 Pacific Islands Reader: Island of the Blue Dolphins by O'Dell(Santa Barbara, CA; Russia) CG: 539-547 GSA: Earth’s Landforms (Physical features) Trail Guide to World Geo - World 2 Geo Thru Art - read pg. 12 Earthquakes & Volcanoes (Science Nature Guide) One Small Square: Coral Reef Silver, Donald FILM: Island of the Blue Dolphins FILM: South Pacific MENU: Frozen Mango Pie Chili Chicken (Fiji) Crispy Coconut Chicken Fingers Coconut Lime Sours |
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| WEEK 3 Pacific Islands Reader: Kaiulani, People’s Princess of Hawaii (Royal Diary) RA: Zia by O'Dell CG: 548-555 GSA: Earth’s Landforms (lithosphere) Trail Guide to World Geo - Pacific Islands (Oceania Week 25) BG: Pele MENU: Guava Grilled Salmon Haunaula Chicken Polynesian Chicken and Rice |
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| WEEK 4 Australia Reader: Walkabout by Marshall RA: Red Sand, Blue Sky by Applegate MW CG: 522-531 DK Geography: 256-258, 260-261 Children Just Like Me: pgs. 64-65, 76-77 GSA: Earth’s Landforms (faults and folds) Trail Guide to World Geo - Australia and New Zealand (week 24) Geo Thru Art - pg. 36 (boomerang), 37 (bark painting), 38 (Spiny Anteater), 39 (Aborigine Stone Painting), 40 (Sydney) BG: Wawalak Australia Through Time Australian Mammals (Lady Bird Books) Animals in the Wild: Kangaroo Serventy, Vincent Animals in the Wild: Koala Serventy, Vincent Australian Mammals Leigh-Pemberton Koala Lou Fox, Mem Desserts & Dry Lands (Science Nature Guide) One Small Square: Coral Reef Silver, Donald In the Middle of Nowhere by Terry Underwood Angel's Gate--Gary Crew (YA) The Bamboo Flute--Garry Disher (RL5-8) Jonathan Down Under Patricia Beatty Tearaways (short stories) Robin Klein Playing Beattie Bow Ruth Park The Other Side of Family Maureen Pople Shadow Shark Colin Thiele Moon Dark Patricia Wrightson Grace by James Moloney Storm Boy by Colin Thiele FILM: Rabbit Proof Fence FILM: Silver Stallion-King of the Wild Brumbies FILM: Gallipoli - library FILM: Man From Snowy River FILM: Return of Man From Snowy River FILM: Walkabout MENU: Australian Meat Pies Strawberry Pavlova Aussie Sausage Rolls Barbecued Shrimp |
| WEEK 5 New Zealand Reader: Rumour of Otters by Deborah Savage RA: Low Tide by Willam Mayne CG: 532-538 DK Geography: 262-265 Children Just Like Me: 74-75 GSA: Earth’s Landforms (earthquakes) The Moas--Katie Beck (RL3-5) PungaThe Goddess of Ugly--Deborah Lattimore (RL3-5) Flight of the Albatross--Deborah Savage (RL5-8) FILM: Whale Rider |
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