mazakaal Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I'm going to start hosting a group of home educators fortnightly and I'd love to have some kind of learning focus, but still give lots of time for the kids to play and the moms to socialize. I was speaking with my mom about it and we came up with the idea of learning about a different country every time we meet. The meeting will be for 2 hours, but I'd only like to spend an hour on the geography bit. The kids range in age from infant to 14yrs and most of the moms are fairly new to home educating. Most seem to follow (or are trying to learn more about) the Steiner/Waldorf method. I don't want to follow a curriculum, but would love some suggestions for resources with good, fun ideas to learn about various cultures. I don't want a lot of messy crafts (at least not until the weather improves and we can make the messes outside), but simple crafts would be great, along with recipes, books, etc. Anyone done this sort of thing before? I'd love to hear your suggestions. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazakaal Posted January 17, 2011 Author Share Posted January 17, 2011 Bump Anyone have any ideas? Our first meeting is tomorrow and I was hoping to throw some ideas out to the other ladies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaHadley Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 check out http://homeschoolcreations.blogspot.com/ - she has lots of geography resources listed. she followed galloping the globe, but you could get some good ideas from her. one thing you could do is have a "passport" for each participating child (I ordered a passport with country stickers for $4 from Rainbow Resource) and let the kids earn stickers for each country completed. May be each child could put together a notebook with things that you learn (pictures of crafts/recipes that they make), etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skueppers Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 One thing I did recently was make a big outline map of the US, and give each kid 4 smaller maps showing the position of a river, lake, city, and mountain. They then used stickers, markers, and Play-Doh to mark their items on the map. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazakaal Posted January 17, 2011 Author Share Posted January 17, 2011 Wow! She's got so much on her site. Thanks for sharing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazakaal Posted January 17, 2011 Author Share Posted January 17, 2011 Fun idea. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HS Mom in NC Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Blackline Maps of World History. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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