Northern Europe Week

This week as we continue our Around the World Homeschool Units, we did Northern Europe, so Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. We tried to read a little about each country, mostly in our Spines, but then also focused on the Northern Lights. Since we were leading into Thanksgiving and I had to be out of town for a day, it was a lighter week.

Books:

Here is what we read in addition to our spines: 

The Lights that Dance in the Night

A Search for the Northern Lights

The Tomten

Oaken's Invention

The Magpie's Tail

Activities:

I didn't catch a picture, but we do use our learning globe every week.

Mazes from Around the World Mazes

Recipe:

I had happened to make a trip to IKEA this week, so I brought back some Swedish meatballs, jam and soda to try. Everyone but Archer liked the meatballs.

We also made Icelandic Plokkfiskur, which is a fish stew. I didn't really expect the kids to like it, but they all did. We decided it will be a recipe we keep.

Read Aloud:

This week we read The Children of Noisy Village. It is a story about children living on a farm in Sweden. While a lot of the story is universal issues like sibling rivalry, I will say the story is a bit dated. On the one hand, it was a good glimpse into how children lived, but I also did have to change a few words and terms now and then.

Art:

Since we were focusing on the northern lights, Archer used some chalk pastels to make a landscape. He drew some mountains in white and then used cotton balls to blur some streaks of color in the background.

Videos:

 

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