MFW ECC Week 5 - Mexico & Deserts

My little explorers received their passports and plane tickets today.   Our first stop - Mexico.   We exchanged money, danced, sang songs, and made tissue flowers.  

                                           

Directions for Mexican Tissue Flower Here
Hello to all the Children of the World
(From We Sing Around the World)

Every time I answer the phone and say "hello," in the background I hear,
"Bon Jour, Buenos Dias! g'day, Guten-Tag, Konichiwa."  Fun times!!!!

Tingalayo (From We Sing Around the World)

In addition to MFW we downloaded this lapbook to work on.  (download here)

What We Learned:

• Geography
  
  
• Passports and Airline Tickets for our Journey To Mexico
• Pesos & exchange rate
• The name & location of Central American Countries (geography game)
• Puerto Rico (is a commonwealth of the United States) - not an independent country.  
  

• Science


• Characteristic of a desert ecosytem - receives less than 10 inches or rain per year
• Desert plants store lots of water.  Some have needles so no water is lost by transpiration.
• Most desert animals are nocturnal and some estivate (sleep during the summer)
• Book of Animals - otter, wild turkey


• Bible


• Memory Verse - Matthew 1:23
• The Kingdom of Heaven is near. Our citizenship is in heaven.
  
• Harriet Tubman - Hero Tales
• "Compassion is bearing someone els's burden as if it were your own."
• "Perserveramce is continuing to do what is right even when you get tired or run into problems.


• Book Basket/ Read-Aloud
  
    


 
• Curriculum for Exploring Countries & Cultures




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Middle America	Mexican Geographic Regions	Make Airline Tickets