Argentina and Chile Week

  Our next country in our Around the World Homeschool curriculum was Argentina and Chile. Because we still focused on the rainforest biome for science, there are not a lot of books and activities listed here.

Books:

All out books were spines or related to the rainforest (rainforest resources here). 

Activities:

Flags from Little Passports

Recipe:

We went all out this week and had Argentinian Beef Stew in Roasted Pumpkin Shell. It was novel and fun, but we were kind of surprised that it didn't have stronger flavors, given the ingredients.

Read Aloud:

This week we started The Boxcar Children Great Adventure: The Khipu and the Final Key. It starts in Argentina and ends in Peru, which was perfect for our schedule.

Art:

We did two art projects this week. The first was a handprint collage inspired by Cueva de las Manos in Argentina. We used art paper and chalk pastels.

Second, Archer used air dry clay to make his own little Moai statue like those from Easter Island.

Videos:

See other South American Country Weeks here:

Peru Week

  Our next country in our Around the World Homeschool curriculum was Peru. I know that Build Your Library and Torch Light skip it, but my mom was born there, so we decided to take a week on it.

Books:

Festival of the Sun

Maria had a Little Llama

Alma and How She Got her Name

Zonia's Rainforest

Let's Look at Peru

Sharuko: Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello

Puzzle Adventure Stories: The Inca Adventure 

Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains

VÁMONOS: Lima (board book)

The Sky Fox: A Peruvian Graphic Folktale

Activities:

Coloring the Peruvian flag from Little Passports

Archer colored a map of Peru. He decided to use the colors from his wooden Peru map puzzle, which he also did.

Andean mountain maze from Around the World Mazes

Recipe:

We tend to eat Peruvian Roast Chicken and rice with egg and avocado pretty often, so I thought I'd try a new Peruvian recipe. We did a classic Lomo Saltado served over rice. Everyone in the family liked it, especially the French fries after they soaked up the drippings from the beef and veggies.

Read Aloud:

This week we continued reading The Boxcar Children Great Adventure: The Khipu and the Final Key. It starts in Argentina and ends in Peru, which was perfect for our schedule.

Art:

For art, he decorated a fancy llama. I printed an outline on cardstock and he cut it out and wrapped yarn around it. Then he bedazzled it.

Videos:

See other South American Country Weeks here:

Biome Units: Tropical Forests

As we tour the world, we are also learning about various biomes around the world. We spent a couple of weeks focused on tropical rain forests. While we did this unit while studying Brazil, we also included resources about the African and Asian rainforests.

Books:

We read a TON of books for this unit.

24 Hours in the Jungle

What is a Jungle

Turn and Learn Our World

Over and Under the Rainforest

The Leaf Detective

Amazon Alphabet

Explore the Tropical Rain Forest (just skimmed together)

Amazon Sun Amazon Rain

Secrets of the Rainforest Shine a Light

The Salamander Room

The Great Kapok Tree

Chameleons are Cool

Going to the Rainforest

The Wild Life of Animals (pertinent animals)

Red-Eyed Tree Frog vs Wood Frog

Who Would Win? Ultimate Jungle Rumble

Rain Forest Homes

These were a couple of pages (I think there were six total) from The Wonder Garden.

The rainforest page from What's Below

Activities:

Activity Books

Jungle Sticker Facts

Animal Poems from the Iguazu (not exactly an activity, but we read poetry every week so it worked)

Puzzle Jungle

Jungle Picture Puzzle Book

A couple of pages from Jungle Sticker Facts. I think this was the favorite of the activity books

Amazon page from Adventures Around the Globe Activity Book

Amazon maze from Around the World Mazes

Reusable stickers

Rainforest search and find puzzle.

Every week I'm trying to get in at least one logic puzzle game and one board game. This week he played One in a Chameleon and we played Hiss, which I felt both fit the theme.

Rainforest Toob animals and vocabulary card matching

Rainforest Sensory Bin - I used various shades of green rice and then some brightly colored pasta for "flowers" and "butterflies." I gave them the South American and Rain Forest Animals to play. Sensory bins are always a hit with both kids.

Climbing tree frog - He painted some art paper and then we traced a frog outline onto it. He used a hole punch on each hand and we put in little suction cups to let it climb the window.

Chameleon bean bag toss 

Rainforest Play Dough Tray - I gave him a dried out coconut shell, some leaf cookie cutters, some gems and leaves and Rain Forest Toob Animals.

He drew a Toucan from Draw Write Now 7

Sloth Mini Puzzle

Other Biome Resources here:

 

Rainforest Theme Tot School

 Since we are studying different biomes of the world for big brother's homeschool, I thought it might be fun to take a week to do rainforests with him. She's only 16 months, so obviously, I don't really expect her to learn anything about the rainforest. Instead, it was just a fun theme and excuse to read our rainforest related books.

Rain Forest Related Books:

In the Jungle

See and Slide Animals

Who's Playing in the Jungle

Jungle Sounds

Chameleon Can

What is a Sloth

A Color of His Own

Snake Slide - little coils of pipe cleaners down a tube. We started with a plastic jar, but eventually switched to a square one to catch them. Big brother thought it was fun, too!

Reusable puffy stickers.

Leaves on Trees - I stole the rings from Otrio and had her practice sliding them on a pasta drying rack. It was a lot harder for her than I expected.

Frog Pond - I put little frog stickers on clothespins and then put them on a container for her to take off.

Juniper has been enjoying our South American animals that I got out for her brother (regular size, not Toob size). We have a spider monkey, mama tapir and baby tapir, a sloth and tree, llamas and alpacas, a jaguar and a capybara (similar). She keeps putting the llamas in her shirt.

Coloring a chameleon (and side eyeing brother's cooler art project).

Feed the Monkey - I put a monkey face on a cereal box and had her feed him little Toob Food.

Rainforest Sensory Bin - I used various shades of green rice and then some brightly colored pasta for "flowers" and "butterflies." I gave them the South American and Rain Forest Animals to play. Sensory bins are always a hit.

Chameleon bean bag toss (or walk over and put it in the hole 😂)

Some other Rain Forest Ideas: